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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