"Winters_Lackey" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in
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>
>> I have been trying for years to make green beans with bacon and never
>> really liked the end result. But now? I've got it! I started with
>> perhaps a dozen slices of cooked bacon, cut into small pieces, then
>> added two shallots, also cut in small pieces. Cooked until the
>> shallot was just tender and starting to brown. Added a large can of
>> green beans that I got at Big Lots for 80 cents. Wish I had bought
>> more as they are really good beans and we eat a lot of beans in this
>> house!
>>
>> So it seems for me to like them, I need the canned ones. Perhaps
>> because this is the way my grandma made them. I kept trying with
>> fresh beans and the end result while edible wasn't quite what I
>> wanted.
>>
> No, you don't need the canned ones, you just need the green beans to be
> cooked sufficiently long that that are the texture of the canned ones.
>
> I even like GBwB made with canned GBs, but they don't taste as good as
> fresh--or even frozen--GBs cooked for an hour or more. I don't use onion
> or shallot, but many do. If I had, I think I'd have pulverized the
> shallot
> w/ my garlic press.
>>
>> So I have a big mess of these and a little bit of mashed potatoes on
>> the side. I have perfected those as well. Found a bottle of butter
>> flavored extract in the cupboard and added a few drops. Gave them the
>> rich flavor that I wanted, since I can't use real butter or even milk.
>> Yum!
>>
> Julie, you are diabetic, and eating mashed potatoes is just dumb. Also,
> it's hard to believe that you are so dairy intolerant that you can't have
> butter, or at least clarified butter.
>
No, it's not dumb at all. I also have gastroparesis so I can't eat much in
the way of fiber, fat or protien. And why would you think I could have
butter? Butter is dairy! Trust me, it makes me sick.

> Those extracts are not a bad thing. They're mostly just free short chain
> fatty acids, mostly butyric, but calling canned GBs and butter flavoring
> "Perfect," is just wrong.

Well, they tasted great to me!