What do you do with fat green beans?

[LAS14]

We go back and forth to our garden, so we often miss perfect timing for harvesting green beans. What do you all do with "fat" green beans? Too fat to be tasty with just butter and salt and optional lemon. Or for successfully cooking the hell out of them with bacon... southern style. Any suggestions?

tia
las

[Funtatlaguy]

1. If they are "pole beans" green beans, Cook them with fatback.

https://www.southernliving.com/what-is-fatback-7090538

[C_U_L8R]

2. Slice them up french style?

Julienned. Either by hand or in a food processor.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. Give them to my dog.

[davsand]

4. Put them on a diet?

Sorry, I just had to say it!

All joking aside, I think I'd snap them, then throw them in a pan with chicken broth, onion, butter, and some kind of smoked pork product--bacon, fatback, a meaty ham bone for example--then let them simmer for a good long time. I know a lot of folks consider this to be a "Southern" or "Soul Food" recipe, but it is a good way to use up the beans that were on the vine too long. Tossing in some new or baby potatoes is always a plus too.

Enjoy!


Laura

[Inkey]

5. Try

Blanching, and freezing for future use in soups
and stews.

[ShepKat]

6. let them go till the pods turn brown...

bring them in till they are dried - when they look dead, the seeds live. plant them next year

as an heirloom seed saver, this is a normal step every year for seed next year. I haven't bought a tomato seed, nor bean, pea, pepper + many more in years

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Shell them.

[Bayard]

8. Throw them to the chickens

Ours are currently getting tons of cukes and cantaloupe that I can't manage to pick in time.