#French Beans

[shadowcherie]

i just made the most perfect potatoes ever

i keep eating them nooo i’m not done making my fooooood

[kitchenmagic3foodforthasoul]

Warm salad

Warm salad ingredients:225 g Baby potatoes or halved if larger,125 g French beans, trimmed,2 eggs,225 g fresh tuna steak (or use canned tuna),90 ml extra-virgin olive oil,4 ripe tomatoes,25 g anchovies in oil, drained,25 g small French capers, drained and washed,15 ml red wine vinegar,30 ml chopped fresh basil,15 ml chopped fresh parsley,50 g olives,salt and freshly ground black pepper,lemon…

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📷 Luh Pressuh

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hello grepre tumblr,,

[rainbowofcrazy]

Velour dwarf French beans ❤️

[healthylivingwithcancer]

Japanese green beans with minced pork

Japanese green beans with minced pork

I love Japanese food especially in the summer as its flavours are light. I have been making this for a long time but realise I haven’t posted the recipe. A great way to use up the plentiful beans at this time of year – and so simple. Serve with plain rice, soba noodle salad or on its own! Continue reading

[justanothercookery]

French beans with mustard and crème fraîche

Grilled salmon with new potatoes and sauced French beans

We have a lot of beans. They are doing well right now, although I am not sure for how much longer. It’s always fun trying to find a new recipe for them. This worked very well with fish. I couldn’t serve it with meat, but I think it would accompany chicken and pork well, too.

Serves 4

400g French beans, trimmed

1/2 red onion, finely chopped

Knob of butter + splash of oil

3 tablespoons crème fraîche

1 1/2 teaspoons Dijon mustard

Salt and pepper

Boil or steam the beans until they are just tender. 

Meanwhile, heat the knob of butter in a large sauté pan with a splash of oil and fry the onion with a sprinkling of salt until it is soft and golden.

Add the mustard and crème fraîche, season it, and cook over a low heat to make into a smooth sauce. Tip in the beans and coat them with the sauce. Serve immediately.

[60thisyear]

Bounty from our veg garden, summer 2021.

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मसाला भात रेसिपी | Masala Bhat Recipe in Hindi

मसाला भात रेसिपी | Masala Bhat Recipe in Hindi #masalabhat #masalabhath #masalabhatrecipe #masalarice

अब से घर में बचे हुए भात से बनाये स्वादिष्ट मसाला भात। मसाला भात महाराष्ट्रीयन शैली की प्रचलित भोजन व्यंजन है जो पूरे देश में लोकप्रिय है। महाराष्ट्रीय शैली का भोजन व्यंजनों को मसालेदार और तीखापन के लिए प्रसिद्धि प्राप्त है। यह व्यंजन तैयार करने के लिए घर में बचा हुआ भात को उपयोग में लाया जाता है। चावल का ताजा भात भी इस्तेमाल किया जा सकता है।बिरयानी या पुलाव जैसा ही स्वादिष्ट व्यंजन है यह, जिसे…

[justanothercookery]

Greek-style beans

Greek-style green beans with fried potatoes on Monday 12 April 2021

I’m told green beans, or French beans, are fasolakia in Greek and that cooking like this, with olive oil is called ladera. It’s very similar to my Lebanese beans, but different. I don’t prefer one or the other, but I have a suspicion that my mother prefers the Greek-style version.

This served three generously. 

6 tablespoons olive oil

1 onion, finely chopped

2 cloves garlic, minced

400g French/ green/ string beans

1 jar (or 1 can) chopped tomatoes

1 pinch dried oregano

1 pinch sugar

Salt and pepper

1 tablespoon chopped dill

1 tablespoon chopped parsley

Squeeze of lemon juice

Heat the oil in a heavy-based pan with a lid. Fry the onion with a sprinkling of salt until it is soft but not coloured and then add the garlic. Cook for a minute so that the raw smell dissipates.

Toss in the beans and coat them in the oil.

Pour in the tomatoes and then season with a little more salt and oregano. Bring to the boil, cover the pan, and reduce to a simmer for 45 minutes. Check periodically to ensure that the liquid does not dry out.

After 45 minutes, remove the lid of the pan. The sauce should be thick, but if it needs reducing a little, cook with the lid off for five or ten minutes.

Add the sugar, pepper, fresh herbs, and a squeeze of lemon juice. Check it does not need any more salt. Stir well, and serve immediately, drizzled with a touch more olive oil.

We had ours with fried potatoes and a dollop of yoghurt. I’m not sure the yoghurt is traditional, but feta cheese is, and we didn’t have any. I’d like to try it with some next time.

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[plattlandtmann]

Imagine French beans for free

[thewatsonplot]

Big tidy up at the plot. Dusted off the petrol strimmer. Gets the job done like nothing else. Everything coming on a treat. Broad beans all done. Runners taking over. Post-strim, it all looks very neat and tidy. Hoping I can keep it this way (or the weeds won't be so energetic from here on in). Do like this bottom pic. Nice the way the focus falls away from the centre.

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French beans with tomato

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Sichuan House

They might as well have called it spicy house as that’s how I initially read the name.

I like houses. A roof over my head is something that I love. 

I like spicy. Something to jolt me out of the mundane is good.  A bit of heat adds a bit of colour to the world.  Much to be preferred to having to resort to reading the political news to add to life’s excitement.  Yet, I would prefer if spiciness does not blow my head off.  Some safe limits are in order.  So I approached Sichuan House with trepidation as that region of China has a well-deserved lethal reputation.

Soup.  A fairly mild chicken and egg broth, this had no real heat.  Yet I forgave them as this was only a warm up for the real meal.

Sea spiced aubergine with minced pork.  This was where the spice was supposed to come.  In the same way that some politicians promise to make everything a great success, I’m still waiting.  The aubergine with minced pork was surprisingly very bland, not something that I would associate with a place in China well known for its fiery dishes.  In a fairly nondescript sauce, it failed to impress like some of the candidates in the conservative race.

  Kung Po diced chicken and rice.  A classic Sichuan dish, the dried chillies promised a pick me up.  Much in the same way that someone has been promising a wall, I was disappointed by the result of much fire and fury.  Shouting at the top of your lungs does not reflect that well when you just don’t deliver.  It was acceptable chicken but missed being anything more than that.  Just as a chicken wire fence is not a wall, neither was this dish a hot blowout.  

Dried French beans on rice.  Slightly better taste although lacking even a hint of searing pain.  At least in a dry form, it was more palatable then being smothered in some mundane sauce.

Fried pork home style on rice.  Perhaps the best of the dishes.  Yet this is maybe because I gave up hoping for something better.  With a lack of expectation, this was actually not bad.  Even if it didn’t tickle my throat, not even a bit…

Spicy Sichuan mouth watering chicken.  I assume that the reference to “watering” might be a warning to the reader.  Tears will stream down your face when you bite into this.  Sadly, only metaphorical ones did for me, as this just lacked heat of any sort despite its dousing in much chilli oil.  I cry for missed chances of greatness.

So perhaps it is apt that this restaurant promised much, delivered little.  Perhaps a timely reminder of the seeming meaninglessness of debates and arguments far above my head.  After all, it is about what you promise (and don’t fulfil) now which matters.  Who cares if you lie, slander and otherwise wheedle your way to power and then drive a bus off the cliff.  Even if the passengers scream on the way down, it will be too late.  Yet, returning to this review, at least if it was this food that led to your demise, it would be cheap.  Unlike other actions of idiocy. 

  A quiet eating 6/10.

Lunch (2 courses) was GBP 8 excluding drinks and service.

  Sichuan House

141-142 Upper St, Islington, London N1 1QY