October 16, 2006

Recipe News: Garden-fresh-veggie recipes are worth a hill of beans

"I have a bushel of green beans sitting on my kitchen counter (yes, a whole bushel) courtesy of my neighbor, the amateur horticulturalist and mad scientist who obviously has more than her extended family can eat so she’s sharing her freakishly large bounty of tomatoes, zucchini (bags and bags and bags of zucchini) and onions.

Thank goodness I can tap my inner vegetarian and revel in meat-free meals for weeks at a time. In my “I gotta know what I’m eating before I eat it” research, I discovered that fresh beans are classified into two categories: edible pod beans and shell beans. Because I know that green beans, otherwise known as snap or string beans, are the most popular edible pod bean, I figured I’d concentrate on them for this column."

includes recipes for:

Green Bean and Chicken Salad

Hot Szechwan Green Beans

Crazy Green Bean Casserole

Parmesan Green Beans

Full articlehere.