Garlicky Green Beans

Summary

Yield
SourceFood Network
Prep Time20 minutes

Description

great summer recipe with fresh beans from the farm

Ingredients

  • 1 lb green beans
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 6 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
  • 4 strips cooked bacon
  • salt and pepper

Instructions

Steam or blanch beans in water until tender. 5-8 minutes

While green beans are cooking; in a large frying pan, heat the butter, oil, sliced garlic, and chopped bacon gently over medium heat. NOTE: Do not let garlic burn - a light golden brown is as dark as garlic should get. Drain any liquid from the green beans and add to frying pan. Toss to coat beans and season with salt and pepper.

Ingredients

Garlic

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Garlic is an amazing crop that not only adds wonderful flavor to anything you cook, it has many healing properties. I know many people that eat raw garlic to fight away colds and other symptoms. Garlic is also one of the easier crops for us to grow. We plant the seeds in early Fall and store them in the ground under a nice layer of mulch. a few weeks before we harvest the garlic from the ground we pick off the "scapes" which is essentially the flower. We snap this off to cause the plant to produce a larger bulb. The best part is you can eat the scapes. After we havest the garlic we cure it hanging in our barn so that it will store for the rest of the winter and be ready for planting again in the fall. Almost a third of our garlic crop is saved as seed for the next crop.
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