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"pfoley" > wrote in message
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> "Wayne Boatwright" <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
> 28.19...
>> Oh pshaw, on Thu 10 Aug 2006 02:18:55p, meant to say...
>>
>> >
>> > JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
>> >> On a related note, I was picking through green beans at the store
>> >> last
>> >> week, and the old lady next to me asked how I was going to cook
>> >> them. I
>> >> told her. Then, she held up some large "all purpose potatoes" and
>> >> said
>> >> "I like to put the beans in the pot and boil them with the potatoes.
>> >> They take about the same time, you know?"
>> >>
>> >> Can you imagine those green beans? :-)
>> >
>> > I don't know about large potatoes but green beans cooked with small
>> > round potatoes are good. Green beans and corn mixed together are
>> > good
>> > too.
>> >
>>
>> Green beans and potatoes is a "standard" southern side dish, in which
>> the
>> green beans are not meant to be "tender-crisp". It's very good if done
> well.
>>
>> --
>> Wayne Boatwright
>> __________________________________________________
>>
>> These shoes look like Frankenstein's hand-me-downs.
> =====================
> I like my green beans cooked to the soft stage also. I can't stand them
> when they are hard; ok for tender crisp in a salad, but not with mashed
> pots.
>>
>
>
That's one of my pet peeves at "good" restaurants. The veggies are
undercooked. I do NOT like cruncy broccoli or carrots or beans.....
Unless they are in a stir fry.

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