Snap beans love the cushioning of mashed potatoes, and the potatoes very much appreciate the podded texture in this very comforting, home-spun pie. The mash is enriched with a few beaten eggs and two ...

Green beans, string beans, snap beans, haricots verts—whatever you like to call ’em-are the simple, stringy veggies that have graced practically every dinner table. Especially around the holidays.

One of my great friends and her family spent a good part of Memorial Day weekend picking, snapping and canning 51 quarts of green beans, also known in the South as “string beans” or “snap beans." She ...

Here are a few tips about preparing green beans. Green beans are generally eaten cooked. Snip off the stem of each bean with a paring knife. The skinny tip end does not need to be cut off. You can ...

Green beans are a classic side dish … and we're not just talking about for Thanksgiving. Sure, it's easy to just steam them and call it a day, but then they often end up bland and a little mushy. We ...

A hot pan and good oil are the keys to quick, flavorful green beans at home.

Green beans with mustard seeds, cashews and coconut in New York on Aug. 18, 2016. This richly spiced recipe has enough protein from the cashews to serve over rice as a main course, but is also ...

They used to be called string beans, but over the 20th century, the strings were bred out of them. You can now bend fresh beans until they snap cleanly, with no de-stringing necessary, so their name ...