Subject: french

From: "lindafowens" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 12:02:41 -0500

Hi, ever notice the little square grilled thing atop an old fashioned hand-operated potato peeler?  It's a bean frencher.  You stick your home-grown green beans thru the grill and it makes french-style green beans. This is especially helpful if you have slightly older or larger beans that don't taste as tender when merely cut into lengths. Lacking the mini-machine, you can cut the beans lengthwise, but it is more dangerous and time-consuming that way. If the beanpods are really tough, you can discard them but throw the seeds into a pot of soup, keep them as dried beans, or save them for next year's planting.  Linda