Fresh green beans done right just scream spring, with their crisp-tender texture and light grassy flavor that serves as the perfect canvas for your favorite spices. Banish those bad memories of ...

There’s nothing better than a simple dish of super-fresh string beans, perfectly cooked, with a little great-quality butter, a touch of lemon and good salt and pepper. The beautiful thing is that you ...

My early experiments in cooking have been creative, if not sometimes quite disastrous. One bad run occurred with a basketful of beautiful, fresh green beans. Forgetting my Foods 101 lessons, I ...

If beans remind you of too many overcooked casseroles, this season’s bounty will inspire you to rethink (and freshen up) this dinner staple. From the Farmer: Beans are fickle and fleeting, meaning ...

Simple elegance embodies what I call the perfect holiday side dish. Any time we cook with premium, fresh ingredients, we can often create the best food out of two or three humble ingredients. During ...

A quick blanch and a bubbly batter turn fresh green beans into crispy, golden fried green beans with a shatteringly light ...

The difference between a gorgeous, appealing bowl of green beans and an unsavory, mushy mess comes down to how they’re cooked. Learn how to blanch green beans and no one at the dinner table will ever ...