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What's for dinner?

By Tammy Lankford,

Real Estate Broker/Owner with Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668 GREC# 169695

July 21, 2009 03:44 AM

This post is for Elizabeth Weintraub who wanted my recipe for Spicy Green Beans. I love to cook. And I love to eat. Lots of times I go to a new place and try something and think I can make this. This week on Fox News I saw a guy with a book of Secret Recipes, well I don't need the book... I just make up my own. For dinner last night I made Pepsi Pot Roast, Spicy Green Beans and Squash Casserole. It even got my college daughter home for dinner.

Oh and I had a quite difficult time with an actual recipe, because when I cook... I don't really measure. I add some and it is looks like enough I stop. So when I made these last night I really tried to guage how much of what I was putting in so that I could actually write this down for you. So Elizabeth- you asked and here is my "recipe" for SPICY GREEN BEANS.

If you make it let me know how you like them.

Spicy Green Beans:

1 pound (fresh or frozen) Green beans, with ends snapped off.

5 strips of thick cut bacon

1/4 tsp Cayenne Pepper

1 tsp Crushed Red Pepper flakes

1 Jalapeno Pepper

2 tbs. barbecue sauce

2 tbs honey

pinch of salt and pepper

Cut up strips of bacon and cook until browned, remove bacon from pan and set aside, add green beans and cook in bacon fat, add a sprinkle of salt and pepper, you can cook them as long as you want, (I like mine still crispy so about 3 minutes on medium heat) stir often.

Mix Cayenne Pepper, barbecue sauce, red pepper flakes, honey and chopped jalapeno pepper (you can remove seeds and ribs if you want a milder version) And you also do not have to use entire pepper. Mix well in another small bowl and then drizzle over cooked green beans and fold in to coat the green beans. Put in serving bowl and top with bacon.

My favorite place to eat serves spicy green beans and I have no idea what is in their sauce ( I can see the red pepper flakes) But I will say that my version is Good.

Oh and in case you want the "Pepsi Pot Roast" It is so simple and easy. Before you head to work put Roast that has been seasoned with salt and pepper into crock pot with 2 cans of cream of... anything soup. I used 1 can cream of mushroom and 1 can cream of celery (both 99% fat free), 2 cans of diet coke, 1 package of Lipton Onion Soup Mix. Stired just a little and cooked for 10 hours on low or 6 hours on high. Although if you are going to cook it on low I recommend you put it on high until you are ready to walk out the door and then switch to low. The gravy it makes is SOOOOO good.

So there's my contribution to what's for dinner.

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Craig Rutman

Helping people in transition - Cary, NC

Raleigh, Cary, Apex area Realtor

OK, this is just too coincidental. I just bought fresh green beans from my local market and was thinking about how I can make them a little different than the same old way I've been making them. So before I began looking up some recipes, I logged onto AR......And there was my answer!

Tonight it's Tammy's Spicy Green Beans!

Ahhh, the power of ActiveRain strikes again!

Jul 21, 2009 04:05 AM

Team Honeycutt

Allen Tate - Concord, NC

Those look pretty good! I am a big green bean eater but I dont know about the spicy part!

Blake

Jul 21, 2009 04:18 AM

Kathleen Cooper

Kathleen Cooper, Sposato Realty Group - Worcester, MA

Sposato Realty Group - Broker Owner

Thanks for sharing! My husband would love these...too bad I don't like green beans because this dish looks beautiful!

Sincerely,

Kathleen

Jul 21, 2009 04:21 AM

Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker

Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA

Put 40 years of experience to work for you

Wow, thanks, Tammy. I showed the recipe to my husband and he immediately singled out BACON. He says it's too fattening for me to eat. But I think I'll try it anyway. Sounds delicious. And I know we're getting green beans on our bean pole tree soon, even though he doesn't think so. If not, we'll get them from our farm coop.

Thanks, again, for posting this! That was very sweet of you.

Jul 21, 2009 05:42 AM

Jesse Clifton

Jesse Clifton & Associates - Fairbanks, AK

Now that's a southern cook for you. "I don't really measure. I add some and it is looks like enough I stop..." I do the same thing.... and yet things always seem to come out right. :)

Jul 21, 2009 06:58 AM

Tammy Lankford,

Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668 - Eatonton, GA

Broker GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville

Craig- active rain has a way of doing that doesn't it?

Blake- Well I suppose you could leave the spices out and see how that is for you... or cut way back.

Kathleen- I have never met a vegetable I don't like. But then I suppose as I kid, my folks didn't give the option of NOT eating anything.

Elizabeth- My husband LOVES bacon and last night he used his fingers to pick some of the bacon off my serving and Abigails.

Kathy- It does, but that's the trouble with being able to tell someone how to make something if you don't measure you don't have much of a recipe do you? I actually don't measure to make biscuits and that cracks my friends up. I add until it looks like enough and then stop.

Jul 21, 2009 07:14 AM

Mary Douglas

United Country Ponderosa Realty, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado - Red Feather Lakes, CO

REALTOR, Red Feather Lakes, Colorado

Hi Tammy. I can certainly see why your daughter made it home for dinner! It sounds delicious. I have to try the spicy green beans, I love hot spicy food, and what a great way to eat your veggies! Thanks for the recipes, Tammy, I wonder who would have ever thought of putting Coke on a roast??

As for biscuits-- there are those who know how to make them and those that don't, I think it's a conspiracy that the ones that know how , don't have a recipe LOL!

Jul 21, 2009 01:21 PM

Tammy Lankford,

Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668 - Eatonton, GA

Broker GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville

My Grandmother kept a "biscuit bowl" in her pantry. She would pull it out and add buttermilk and shortening and stir with her hand and then flop a ball of dough out on to the floured butcher block and roll it out and cut the biscuits with a glass. Then she'd re-roll just one time and cut again. What was left after that she would use her hands and make me a biscuit snake with a little finger pinched nose. My mom still makes those for me now. I usually hand make out the last biscuit, now that no children are living at home. And yes, I'm sure it is a conspiracy. But you can come over and eat biscuits anytime. LOL

Jul 21, 2009 04:08 PM

C. Bartch

Newark, OH

Morning Tammy, I'm a vegetarian, so I'll try your version of the spicy beans minus the bacon. I love green beans, sadly I didn't grow any of those this year, gotta make my bed bigger next year!

I LOVE your last remark about you sweet Grandmother, sounds like yours & mine were cut from the same cloth. Mine would do the same thing with pie dough. Sigh...I miss her terribly. Thanks for the great memory this morning, I'll be thinking of her all day.

Now you know I'm hungry for biscuits, hey I do eat carbs and lots of them. How else are supposed to keep our strength up for blogging?

Jul 22, 2009 01:59 AM

Tammy Lankford,

Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668 - Eatonton, GA

Broker GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville

I love left over biscuits toasted with cheese on them for breakfast. I think I'm too tired to make any today though. I had duty at the office and it was busy all day. Of course it wasn't the new customer good kind of busy it was more like holding deals together with super glue and bubble gum.

Jul 22, 2009 08:44 AM

Russel Ray, San Diego Business & Marketing Consultant & Photographer

Russel Ray - San Diego State University, CA

Can I just eat the jalapeno pepper and skip all that other stuff? LOL

Jul 22, 2009 06:30 PM

Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker

Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA

Put 40 years of experience to work for you

I've been known to eat jalapeno peppers raw. In fact, sometimes jalapenos are a good excuse to eat other foods.

Jul 23, 2009 02:19 AM

Tammy Lankford,

Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668 - Eatonton, GA

Broker GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville

Russel- don't you eat your veggies??

Elizabeth- When I have plenty of peppers and jalapenos I love to make home made salsa. I've got to learn to "can" it.

Jul 23, 2009 02:35 AM

Terri Visser

Desert Sky Real Estate, LLC - Redmond, OR

CRS - 12 Years Selling Central Oregon Real Estate

Yum! This recipe would get even my husband to eat his veggies! Bacon and butter is our current approach to green beans but yours sounds much tastier. And I will definitely be trying out the pot roast recipe :~)

Jul 23, 2009 02:48 AM

Sheldon Neal

Bergen County, NJ - RE/MAX Real Estate Limited - Maywood, NJ

That British Agent Bergen County NJ

... oh my goodness I can taste how zesty those things are by lookin at 'em !

Jul 24, 2009 02:07 PM

Tammy Lankford,

Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668 - Eatonton, GA

Broker GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville

Terri- I don't think I've ever met a man who doesn't like Bacon. And my husband loves spicy food too. He grew up on some really great mexican in southern California.

Sheldon- you and the misses are invited anytime... so long as you bring those handsome boys.

Jul 24, 2009 03:39 PM

Janna Scharf

Keller Williams Realty Coeur d'Alene - Coeur d'Alene, ID

Coeur d'Alene Idaho Real Estate Expert

Okay, these recipes sound HEAVENLY! After seeing a recipe for baked cucumbers and then Bacon & Tomato Jam, ICK, here are your recipes for REAL comfort food. All is right in the world again!

Aug 31, 2009 06:43 PM

Susan Emo

Sotheby's International Realty Canada - Brokerage - Kingston, ON

Kingston and the 1000 Islands Area

Tammy - I LOVE green beans and your recipe is the way I'm serving them next time. Thanks for sharing.

PS What are 'left-over biscuits"??

Sep 15, 2009 02:19 PM

Tammy Lankford,

Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668 - Eatonton, GA

Broker GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville

Susan- when I make biscuits at my house I fill up the entire cookie sheet with them. I only know how to make them come out "right" by using my family recipe and there are always leftovers now that we are empty nesters. Now when I had three teenagers in the house it was a different story.

Janna- I agree ick on baked cucumbers, but I've had bacon jam and it was wonderful.

Sep 16, 2009 07:11 AM