This week we nerd out on green beans (available June - November). Most of you reading this post have had beans at least once, perhaps in a burrito, tossed on a salad, with rice, or in a hearty winter stew. I never connected the two, but green beans are immature beans. To get green beans, we harvest them early while the pods that cocoon the beans are tender and the beans inside are still small. Unlike mature beans, which are often dried or canned and sit in our pantries so we can eat them during any season, green beans are great eaten fresh and they’re a summer staple.
Delish green beens! I never realized the delicate haricots verts were thiner than the ones we know here... I have to confess I like them the best... Thanks for this! Also my fave sentence: "Green beans are the quintessential all-American vegetable, continentally speaking." I will steal this expression for sure!!! ;-)
A friend called them "long beans", my grandparents "string beans" and I call them green beans.
Legumes may have an identity crisis! Garbanzo and chickpea is another one... and of course peas in general are a little out of control :D
Delish green beens! I never realized the delicate haricots verts were thiner than the ones we know here... I have to confess I like them the best... Thanks for this! Also my fave sentence: "Green beans are the quintessential all-American vegetable, continentally speaking." I will steal this expression for sure!!! ;-)
You’re so welcome! Please use my made up expression wherever and whenever. 1491 is a great reading companion for that phrase ;)
In Europe they are called "green beans", but I just call them beans