{"id":695,"date":"2008-06-03T22:18:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T03:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jayandcarissa.com\/carissa\/blog\/?p=695"},"modified":"2008-06-03T22:18:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T03:18:59","slug":"haricot-vert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"haricot vert"},"content":{"rendered":"

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tonight for dinner, i decided to try out a recipe i’d seen on smitten kitchen<\/a> a few days ago.\u00c2\u00a0 last weekend, at the farmer’s market, one of the vendors was selling haricot vert (or is it haricots verts if there is more than one bean?\u00c2\u00a0 i really know zero french, so please forgive me if my french grammar has issues) and beautiful heirloom tomatoes (must have a greenhouse–it’s waaaaay too early for tomatoes up here.).\u00c2\u00a0 then, i saw this great recipe.\u00c2\u00a0 it’s very simple.\u00c2\u00a0 just some of these long french green beans, shallots, a little butter, salt, pepper and a squeeze lemon.\u00c2\u00a0 i added a little canned tuna and a few olives to make it feel more like a meal and less like a side dish, but it would have been just fine without.\u00c2\u00a0 the beans were so long–some were probably 8 or 9 inches!\u00c2\u00a0 and smitten kitchen’s right about the cooking time.\u00c2\u00a0 i boiled mine for 4 minutes (she recommends 3.5 but the timer on my oven doesn’t do fractions of minutes and i like my beans slightly over-cooked*) and they were perfect!\u00c2\u00a0 really quite tasty.\u00c2\u00a0 the lemon adds a really nice touch.\u00c2\u00a0 the best part?\u00c2\u00a0 since beans and tomatoes aren’t even truly in season yet, i have a long time to enjoy this dish all summer long.<\/p>\n

*i don’t know why everyone thinks that green beans need to retain their crispness in order to be good.\u00c2\u00a0 i used to think i didn’t really like green beans (especially when they squeak in your teeth), but then i ate them once at a restaurant in paris.\u00c2\u00a0 they were soft and delicious and perfectly salted and i just loved them and i realized that the key to enjoying green beans (at least for me) is to cook them until they are no longer crisp or squeaky.\u00c2\u00a0 maybe it’s the difference between a green bean and a haricot vert?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

tonight for dinner, i decided to try out a recipe i’d seen on smitten kitchen a few days ago.\u00c2\u00a0 last weekend, at the farmer’s market, one of the vendors was selling haricot vert (or is it haricots verts if there … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}