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OMG! Haricot Verts!
"Bruce" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 06:01:27 -0700 (PDT), Roy >
> wrote:
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>>On Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 6:35:43 PM UTC-6, Bruce wrote:
>>> On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 12:30:56 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>>> > wrote:
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>>> >
>>> >"notbob" > wrote in message
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>>> >> On 6/6/2018 11:29 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>> >>> The ones I made tonight were sooo good! The best ever. I've been
>>> >>> roasting
>>> >>> them with olive oil, kosher salt and black pepper. But I was in a
>>> >>> hurry
>>> >>> tonight to get dinner ready. I put a little more salt on than I
>>> >>> usually
>>> >>> do, cranked the oven up to 430 instead of 400, threw them on a metal
>>> >>> pizza pan and didn't pay attention to them. They got more brown than
>>> >>> they
>>> >>> do when I follow the recipe to the letter. Now I know why the recipe
>>> >>> reviewers said these are better than French fries. They are crispy
>>> >>> and
>>> >>> salty and...just OMG! Yeah. *sigh*
>>> >>
>>> >> Yes, I've tasted what were sold as "haricot verts" (hari-CO verz). I
>>> >> was
>>> >> roundly chastised --in this newsgroup-- for "loving the French".
>>> >>
>>> >> I was also told I didn't know spit about "green beans", that haricot
>>> >> vert's were simply plain ol' green beans. NOT TRUE! I recall a
>>> >> passage I
>>> >> read, by a young chef in France who was, "staging" and claimed he
>>> >> only
>>> >> wanted to go back to his cheapO domicile and eat some "haricot verts
>>> >> drenched in butter".
>>> >>
>>> >> When I bought 'em, they were kinda expensive, having bought them at
>>> >> an
>>> >> upscale SFBA market. I steamed 'em and then covered them in salted
>>> >> butter. They were sublime (Look it up). 
>>> >
>>> >Yep. I've been told the same. They are not the same.
>>>
>>> (Let's hope Roy has nodded off.)
>>
>>We do know that you are full of beans...the ones that make you bloat and
>>fart.
>>====
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> <quote>
> Definition of full of beans
> informal
> 1 : full of energy and life
>
> We were young and full of beans.
> </quote>
> <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/full%20of%20beans>
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> That's me alright!
Me too.
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