Green Beans

Now most people who know me know that I don't work a lot with vegetables. However, I always make an exception for a couple of them. These green beans came from Bernard's Farm on HW 18 towards Willamina. Right now they have a lot of different things such as green beans, awesome corn, cucumbers, and squash. These green beans were very fresh. You can do a U-pick for many of the things they sell there and it comes with a nice discount.

As you can see from the picture above there are a few things you will need. Two years ago I tried to take the lazy way out. I just put the beans in the bag and then tried to cook them in mid-winter. The skin was so tough, they were terrible.

Start boiling water and wash your beans.







This might seem like a lot of work but you will be amazed at how much work this will save you later. All you will need to do is set them in the fridge before you go to work and when you come home you heat the pan add a little butter or oil, salt, and pepper and they will cook super fast.

Snap the ends of the beans. If they are fresh you will not need the knife, I did not. The ends are tough and always need to be removed.



















Cook (par-boil) the beans for about 3 minutes. Remember you are not cooking the beans, you are just cooking their skins. The rest of the cooking will happen later in the year.










Put them in pans, these are pizza pans. I had these in the freezer for a bit to help the beans cool faster but its not necessary.













Then put them in the freezer over night and into zip-log bags the next day.