Cooking Green Beans

We have 3 types of green beans currently coming in from the garden:

• Jade bush beans
• Rattlesnake pole beans
• Garden of Eden pole beans - a flat, Italian variety

I think that cooking green beans under pressure is the ONLY way to go! It's quick and it's energy efficient. I have figured out exactly how long it takes to cook each type of bean in the pressure cooker to a perfectly tender condition that suits our family.

• Italian flat beans:  2 minutes
• Rattlesnale beans:  2-1/2 minutes
• Jade bush beans:  4 minutes

Meantime: Sauté several cloves of garlic in olive oil and butter in a large skillet. Remove the garlic once it starts to brown. Remove the skillet from heat until ready to serve beans. For variety: Try coconut oil.

Just before serving, toss the cooked beans with the seasoned oil in the hot skillet until heated thoroughly, adding salt and freshly ground pepper to taste.

Each bean has its own distinctive flavor and character. I'll leave it to you to figure out which is the "best".