A Life's Pursuit: It's FRIDAY FIXINS'

Friday, April 06, 2007

It's FRIDAY FIXINS'

Great Green Beans





AH yes!!! It's Friday. Here's a great new recipe that I got from Tiny that I call "Tiny's Southern Fried French Green Beans!" I have know Tiny forever; hence I take her opinion as gospel...and she wasnt wrong on this one.

"Tiny's Southern Fried French Green Beans!"
Ingredients:
one small onion
1 tsp of cooking oil
1 tsp of sugar
4 strips of your favorite bacon (I use Wright's Bacon)
2 cans of french style green beans, drained
1 tsp of red wine vinegar

Begin by adding cubed bacon to a hot skillet. As the bacon fries, quarter the small onion and cut one quarter into bits and add to skillet (onion lovers can add more. As the items are frying loudly in the pan, begin to add the green beans in half can increments to maintain the frying temperature, stirring them into the hot bacon grease (smells southern already). After all the green beans have been added, cover and simmer for 5 mins on low heat. Add vinegar, stir, add sugar sprinkled over the top and simmer for another 3 minutes. Stir. Green beans should be a bit duller green with a most delicious aroma. Serve as is or on a bed of crispy battered onions. You can even cook in some fresh mushrooms and/or green peppers and frame a nice steak for the perfect meal.


MMMMMM......mmmmmm; pass the gravy.

!!!
M

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

There's nothing like a good green bean. :-) Of course, I edited the recipe from my sister, Felicia (who made it up from scratch. Everyone's taste buds are different, so you add different ingredients and take away as needed.

In the case of Michael, I knew there would be some mushrooms in there somewhere. :-)