green beans

Recipe: Green Beans with Smoked Paprika and Marcona Almonds

September 13, 2011

I’ve created a monster. Or half a dozen monsters to be precise. Seems I’ve become the unofficial pastry chef for potlucks. In the past month alone I’ve made three fruit galettes, two rounds of pavlova, a gigantic chocolate-orange torte, a double batch of ginger cookies, champagne sorbet, and a couple of ask-for-seconds bundt cakes. I’m [...]

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Recipe: Spicy Green Beans

March 17, 2011

You know you’re getting old when St. Patrick’s Day arrives and instead of wondering where you put your green belt and shamrock earrings, you make a mental note not to drive anywhere after 6 PM and place bets on how many drunks are going to stagger by at 3 AM singing Danny Boy at the [...]

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Recipe: Green Bean Fries

November 23, 2010

There is something subversively satisfying about finding a fried vegetable recipe in a healthy eating book. I was thumbing through Clean Start: Inspiring You to Eat Clean and Live Well with 100 New Clean Food Recipes by Terry Walters. Hidden somewhere between the longest title on record and the index chock full of healthy tempeh, [...]

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Spicy Green Beans

January 8, 2010

Wouldn’t you know it? The week I post my culinary resolutions, my gas range rebels. The stovetop works just fine, but the oven fluctuates wildly, making baking a crap shoot with wheat and a roast chicken dinner the poultry equivalent of Russian roulette. And the real kicker? My stove’s so old a replacement thermostat is [...]

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Beans – uncommonly good common ground

May 23, 2006

I’ve always had firm opinions about food. Even as a child you couldn’t trick me into eating tinned corn. Frozen was fine, fresh even better, but it if came from a can, I’d have nothing of it. Peas were just as bad — in any form. Thinking I was clever, I used to slip them [...]

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