It All Starts In The Garden:

This morning I picked fresh garden beans growing in my hügel mound. I planned to cook my personal recipe for southern-style green beans with this harvest of my 2^nd bushel. I chose to pair these southern-style green beans with a rack of ribs to make for a divine supper.

Southern-Style Green Beans Recipe -

• Start by cleaning the green beans.
  
• Snap the beans in half.
  
• Strip one side after snapping in half, and then snap the ends while stripping the other side of the beans.
  
• With all of your snapped green beans in the pot fill the water level just above the beans.
• Add a bit of olive oil (I used cayenne infused olive oil made by a local company).
• Add in your favorite spices (I personally added cracked pepper, minced garlic, jalapeño pepper powder, and turmeric powder).
• Add in sliced bacon cut into small strips.
  
• This step is not necessary, but I wanted to be a bit more adventurous and I had fresh cayenne & jalapeño peppers from the garden.
  
• Bring to a vigorous boil for 1 minute.
  
• Then turn down your stove top burner to a little below medium for a slow and low boil for about 30 minutes with frequent stirring.
  
• Turn the burner to low and cook for another 15 minutes. You should still see a bit of steam.
  
• Turn the burner off and remove the pot from the hot burner to another section of the stove top.
  

Thanks for your time.....after eating, I would implore you to please try this recipe.