We all know the one and only way to cook green beans is how your mama made ’em, but here I go where angels fear to tread! Time for fresh green beans picked from the garden and hauled straight to the stove. I also prepare and freeze them raw.I hesitate to venture into the hot bed of controversy over what is the best way to cook up a mess of green beans in the country (what? you didn’t realize this was an issue? where have you been?), but it’s that time of year. I have 6 plants in my front garden at the moment in south wales and I pick a lb. I chuck them in curries omelettes anything. I add to stews towards the end of the cooking time. Please pick them at a foot long run a knife down the sides to remove the strings chop into 1 inch lengths and either boil (5 mins), fry in butter or steam. I cannot believe some people dont eat and they consider them ornamental. Most of the beans grown in the UK are of the scarlet runner variety and in the US of A are known as Stick beans. ![]() Phaseolus coccineus has long been a favourite with gardeners due to its beautiful flowers and fast-growing nature. They were brought to the British Isles in the seventeenth century by John Tradescant (gardener to King Charles I) and were grown as a decorative plant before being used as a food in Britain.Today they are a very popular food in the UK, and have been grown and eaten here for a couple of hundred years. Confusingly, green beans are not always green some varieties you might find at farmers' markets and farm shops are yellow or purple – but all are deliciousĪs for the humble runner bean, Native to the cooler, high-altitude regions of Central America, runner beans have been known as a food crop for well over 2,000 years. ![]() They also include the fatter snap or bobby bean, and the yellow wax bean. Thin green finger-length beans that are also called French beans or haricots verts.
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