[Sca-cooks] OOP - Green beans was Turkey, again!

[Patricia Collum]

I like canned green beans, can't eat frozen due to the texture, and prefer
home grown/canned. Green beans are the only non-raw veggie, besides fresh
corn on-the cob I can get my kids to eat, and I add bacon, onion and garlic
to fancy them up. I grew up in Washington state with parents whose parents
were immigrants who abandoned just about everything to be American,
including cooking from the old country. Other than the scrambled egg dish I
cooked for the breakfast competition (it went well with the pain perdu!) I
have no other family recipes that date earlier then the fifties. My gift
from the family was a taste for home-canning and homemade jams and jellies.

Cecily
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] OOP - Green beans was Turkey, again!


> Also sprach Pixel, Goddess and Queen:
>
> >Doesn't explain why, in my family, it's always been just plain green
> >beans. Our reason is apparently due to food allergies--Mom couldn't eat
> >corn, so we had to have something else that qualified as a "green
> >vegetable", and peas would have been redundant. Even though there was
only
> >one person eating the Le Sueur Tiny Mushy Nasty Taste-Like-The-Can Peas.
> >If there were toasted almonds scattered atop the beans, Mom could pick
> >them out.
>
> I used to like the Le Seur peas (with pearl onions!) when I was a
> kid, and considered the taste of the can a plus. I can't explain why,
> and wouldn't make any rash promises about choking down a single bite
> of them now.
>
> Re green beans: here's what I tink.
>
> A while back (oh, maybe ten years ago), I was exposed to the concept
> of the green beans with bacon that occasionally turns up, I gather,
> on Southern Thanksgiving menus. I tried them, they were okay, and I
> reached the conclusion that the fact that they had been cooked nearly
> to a mush, more or less the consistency of canned green beans, was
> not so much an indicator of bad quality cooking, as of different
> tastes and expectations, some of them quite reasonable under their
> circumstances.
>
>