I am a true southern girl and married a man from Phoenix. He had never had southern green beans before but once he did he never wanted them the way his family had always made them. The southern way is better.
Add some little red tators and you have a full meal!! Oh and don’t forget the cornbread ❤Thanks for reminding me how wonderful green beans can be when cooked properly
I like my green beans cooked similar to yours. I just don’t cook them as long. I hate to order green beans at restaurants and they have blanched them and they are hard as a rock!
I do the same. I made them this week. Fresh GBeans, fried bacon with the grease and new red potatoes! Corn bread made in an iron skillet!! Delicious meal for a few days!! ❤❤
Wouldn't they contain salt when canned. Why salt them two additional times as they already are salted and when the water cooked is cooked out they will be even more salty?
I watched your video @ 1 a.m. I got so hungry for green beans, I had to fight myself to not go into the kitchen and start cooking green beans in the middle of the night!! BUT, guess what I had for dinner tonight, meatloaf and GREEN BEANS Tom"s style!! Yummy. Now my tummy is happy! They were soooooo good!! Thanks Tom!!
We do, too! They are so good with so many meals. They were a staple in our homes when we were kids and we had them a lot when we had kids at home, too!
My sister-in-law used to make these beans and I loved them. I thought i had learned to make them by watching her, but mine always ended up the consistency of baby food. Because i was STIRRING them. Thanks for revealing that crucial element of the recipe.
I am 76 years old and was raised up on bacon grease and ham in my green beans learned from my childhood and my grandparents lived to be in their upper 90's
I am from South Africa and the Afrikaans population of our country makes beans the same way but they also add potatoes, cubed. They break down and add a lovely flavor. Thank you this was great!
I grew up in northern Maine, USA on the New Brunswick Canada border… we grew up eating green beans and new baby potatoes and once they were cooked and drained, we’d add some heavy cream and butter. I loved to mash my potatoes and pour the hot cream / butter over them with fresh black pepper and salt.. It’s a way that a lot of French Canadian - Northern Maine people would eat them. You could do with canned but using fresh beans is always so good!! I have a picture of them on my Instagram page page from just a month ago or so! I’d love you to take a look!!
@@lianealbert7728 ..Your comment is the first I've noticed that mentions adding heavy cream & butter to green beans. In the 1960s, my Great Grandmother, who was born "Pennsylvania Dutch" in the 1880s, was the only one I've ever known who did that. I'll try what you say. Thank you...
I cook for this week and freeze for next week. Today and the next two days. I cook alot but i can take a day off, or a week, or a month if need be and food is there ready to go. I really love your videos.
Widowed, child married, living alone. Definitely believe in cooking once; eating "leftovers". And Yes, have recently started saving that bacon grease. Adds flavor!
I’m from Illinois and we love our green beans. We chop up bacon and fry it and then put the cooked bacon and grease in the beans along with a stick of butter too. And yes, we spend hours cooking them also. I guess I’m making green beans tomorrow!
Finally someone who knows how to cook green beans. I really don’t like canned green beans that are just warmed up. They taste like the can. Nor do I like green beans that are still crunchy. Cook those beans to death with bacon grease and or fat back.
Another great video. I am an older man in my 60s. I am from the South near KY. But my parents moved our family North back in the 60s. I was 8 years old. My parents use to make this recipe with home cook fresh from the garden green beans with new potatoes always and fat back bacon. My parents both passed away when I was in my teens and early 20s and I never got these Southern recipes. I have cooked many times this recipe with new potatoes & fatback. But I tried this recipe a week ago with frozen green beans in the slow cooker. It turned out fairly good but it did not taste like it should. I can't wait to try this. ( My wife is a Northern woman so I have to pick & chose my Southern dishes, lol.) Tom, Have you ever heard of Tomato Dumplings? My dad use to cook them when I was a kid. I loved them but I have never met anyone that knows how to cook them. My niece could but sadly she passed away several years ago before I got the recipe. Please do a video on Tomato Dumplings. Thumbs up on your videos. I will look for more of your videos. Stay well & safe.
If you Google "recipe for tomato dumplings" you will find several. Most have pictures, so you can select the one that resembles your memory. Good luck!
Tomato dumplings brings back memories from my childhood. My grandmother always made tomato dumplings. We would sprinkle a spoonful of sugar over the dumplings in our bowl. They were so good! I’m 63 and I wish my grandmother could cook for me again. Sadly, she never went by a recipe for anything! She just did her magic in the kitchen by throwing stuff in a pan or bowl and something delicious came out! I wish I could help you out with a recipe for the tomato dumplings but I don’t have a clue. Haven’t had them since I was a child.
Great video! These beans look delicious, but I have never cooked beans for 3 1/2 hours. My mother-in-law was the best cook in our county. She always told me the less water on your beans the better. She would cook fresh green beans from the garden she would snap them, wash them, and put them in a pan with no water at all. ( I always put a little water in mine) She always put two or three pieces of bacon in her pan and an onion and cook that together, and rendered out the bacon grease. Throw the beans in the pan, salt and pepper and Put a lid on them and cook them on medium until simmering, and then turn them down to low for about an hour and half or so. Believe it or not as the beans cooked they made their own liquid from the steam. (Stirring carefully) Best green beans you ever eat in your life. She is long gone now, but I still remember her wonderful food and I have to say I can cook a lot of her recipes, probably not quite as good as hers but close. As for canned green beans I always drain one can and leave the liquid on the other, three pieces of bacon in a pan and onion fry the bacon with the onion until the bacon grease is rendered, put green beans in a pan along with a little salt and pepper, there again cook them on medium until they start to simmer and then turn them on low and cook them for an hour or so. Just my version of how to cook green beans.
Interesting, because my friend's grandma , from the South, made green beans the same way. If she was making a small amount, she used a cast iron skillet. Melt bacon grease, add diced onions, then the green beans, salt and pepper. I don't know how long she cooked them. She passed away years ago, but I remember the house smelled wonderful!!
@mskay949 I make mine similar to eat u said/wrote at the end of ur comment bt we call ours "hillbilly beans" & we use the shelly beans(which are cans of whole beans with kidney beans or well use a can of whole beans add a can of kidney beans per 2 cans beans) We cook cut up bacon then add onion & "dnt" drain bacon greese unless its alot well pour in grease can (key ingred)...then our beans n kidney beans bt we drain our liquid for our beans....yummy. Im gonna try toms recipe with his brand of beans tho. Also I always keep my bacon brease....like the comment above "liquid gold"
I cook my beans pretty much the same way, low and slow with onions and bacon grease, except I use Allen’s Kentucky Wonder beans. Daddy grew them for a while but I think he switched to Missouri Wonder. He also grew Blue Lake, which he preferred. He always joked that I liked the flat beans better because they didn’t have strings that I had to pull. 😂 I think I just like the green part better than the bean part. Something I learned from several southern cooking vlogs (Farming Pastor’s Wife, Collard Valley Cooks, Mandy in the Making) is to add a pinch of sugar for each can of beans. Not so much that you taste it, but it just adds a little something extra. I can’t figure out why, but they are better with than without it.
Try the method of just putting a piece or 2 of chopped uncooked bacon in instead of the straight bacon grease. You likely can avoid adding extra salt that way too bc canned vegetables are already high in sodium. The bacon pieces will still give it that nice flavor w/o as much fat or added salt. I’ve also been known to just use olive oil when I’m eating clean and they taste fine that way too.
@@Catlady8 I have, on occasion, used pieces of bacon or slices of salt pork. I've found that we like beans with bacon grease, better. Sorry, but they wouldn't be southern country style green beans with olive oil.
@@lizsmith7816 Sorry, that comment was for the person who said they couldn’t use bacon grease bc of their high blood pressure. My comment should have been posted under her comment. It still gives you the southern slow cooked down texture w/o the bacon grease for people who can’t go the usual route.
I am a southern girl too, and I was taught to add a little bit of sugar to some vegetables including green beans to bring out the flavor of the vegetables. Also we used fatback instead of bacon grease sometimes .
I just came across your channel. My Grandmother was from northern Kentucky and she always used a couple of slices of salt pork and if not available then she used the bacon and grease. Of course my mom did the same. But the cooking method was the same. Often they added potatoes and made non-sweet cornbread (ina big iron skillet) with butter and with a slice of tomato on the side. Those were delicious meals and filling too. Thanks for your channel.
Well, this is me again, lol. The one that’s almost 80. I kept thinking about my mothers, cucumbers and onions. She had such a wonderful sauce that she put on them and I did not know what it was. Now that was way before your time.😊😊 but I’m hoping that you can find a way or should I say a recipe so I will know how to make them. Thank you so very very much for all of the wonderful and delicious recipes.❤❤❤
So glad to see I’m not the only one who cooks their green beans this way!!! Nothing better than green beans..raw onion & cornbread!!! This is my first time watching your video… I was recommended by a friend. Thanks 😍
You cooked them to smitherines! Just like my mom, and her mom! I don't usually cook mine that long. We always canned jars and jars every year.bwe had a big garden and litscof green beans. My dad like a touch of vinegar added to each pint jar before we pressure cooked them. I'm not sure how much vinegar. Maybe half a teaspoon in each pint. Tasted pretty goid.😮
G'day from Australia 🇦🇺 Ill never get over how Southern Americans and Appalachians can cook beans for hours and hours ! Any bean in a can to me, oh forget it, I cant talk about how much I cant stand them 😂
My mother took green beans that she had canned put them in a cast iron Dutch oven. Put them out side over the fire pit. When we came in the cotton fields the beans would be ready for supper. Boy were they good. Now I can do it since I grow green beans and can them.
Your recipe sounds delicious. I love green beans. My mom canned alot. Here's a recipe she used with her canned beans. *************** Green Bean Salad 2 pints green beans 1 onion, sliced 1 pint canned tomatoes Salt and Pepper to taste ************ Cut the tomatoes smaller with juices, add to a bowl. Slice the onion, small slices Drain the beans Mix everything together and chill overnight.
Same way. Add water & bacon grease. Cook & add water as needed to have plenty of bean soup. Onions optional. Salt & pepper to taste. I use Luck’s beans 😊
My family some fron Kentucky, some from Texas ,take fresh green beans ,snap them ,. I remember sitting on the front porch snapping beans with my aunt. I use boiling onions and small new potatoes, salt pork or bacon. We cool them down. Soooo good. I made them for pot luck at my work. Every time we had pot luck thay would ask me to make them. I will try using can , beans and doctor them up,,. it would be so much faster
Why is it that we can no longer find the flat Kentucky Wonder beans in the stores? My mom used to cook them and I always thought they had so much more flavor than regular green beans.
These are the green beans I grew up with in Georgia! I fondly recall the metal can of “bacon drippin’s” on the top of the stove. Unfortunately, 50+ years later, we stopped eating bacon for economic reasons, so it has been years since I had those bacon drippin’s to cook with ☹️. And the two of us just don’t eat much anyway. But what a great memory you’ve stirred up! (Oops, I remember my mama didn’t stir her beans either!).
I hardly ever buy bacon.Too fattening for me, I over eat it! I bought smoked turkey tails. They can be sliced and used like bacon, delicious smoked flavor. Fortunately I don't eat whole turkey tails .
This is exactly the way that I’ve always made my green beans. I thought I was the only one in my class. Lol I got to say though I have an electric stove and it’s the only way that I make them and they come out tasting very very good, so I imagine because you have a gas stove so Your green beans must taste amazing because I don’t care what anybody says. There is a big difference in the taste of any kind of food on a gas stove as opposed to an electric!
Oh man I hate cooking on electric stove. Adjusting the temps is a pain. However, I have cooked on both and I don’t see any taste difference at all, you just have to adjust to an electric stove, it’s not a charcoal grill vs gas grill 😅. I have noticed some food cooks faster an some slower between the stoves, but the food comes out just the same
Mmmmm! Green beans are so good. I've never boiled the liquid out (very interesting), but I do everything else you did, though not as much grease because I put chopped bacon in them. I also like cooking new potatoes in them too, so yummy.
I have always used bacon grease and onions in my green beans. However, I have never cooked them for that long. I can not wait to try this method!! Thanks for the instructions! I don't have jars of bacon grease, I use BaconUp, which is a tub of filtered bacon grease that I get at the grocery store. I cook with the grease more than I cook bacon so this works for me.
We’re big fans of BLT sandwiches so we go through a lot of bacon and have a lot of bacon grease left overs. We hope you enjoy the green beans prepared this way. It was a new way for me when I joined the family years ago. I still enjoy the Half Runners prepared like my mom does but I’ve grown to love these as well over the years.
These beans have me salivating. I want to thank you both for inviting me into your kitchen and making me feel at home! Can't wait to make this recipe ❤
I rinse my green beans after I drain them. I use EVO and cook my onions until tender, then add the rinsed beans😊. I add add enough water to come about half way up! Those canned green beans are already cooked. 😊 They cook about 30 minutes and I bring them to a boil to cook the liquid out and if the beans scorch a little it’s good! I like a lot of pepper an garlic powder plus salt to taste. It may take about an hour and sometimes I will add potatoes during the cooking ,, every time I take them to a dinner everybody loves them! My Mom cooked hers with fatback and cooked them a long time, I just don’t like to cook so I try to speed up the process on everything I was taught and I don’t get any complaints, but I love watching your cooking , I think about my Mama, she would take all day to cook and it was so good but she never had to work like me so I had to learn to do fast meals, Thank you for your wonderful cooking videos❤❤ I relax and love to watch everything you do❤
My mom makes green beans this way and I love them the only difference is my mom uses pearl onions. I love your videos keep them coming. God bless you and your family. Sending much love and respect to you all.
Awesome video!!! I use the Hanover green beans too AND definitely bacon grease!!!!🤩 I’m trying these instructions for my Thanksgiving dinner!!! Thanks, Tom & Melissa!!!!💙💛
Watching your video brought me back to my childhood! My Mama and Grandmothers made these Very Beans! They always used either fresh or Canned “pole” beans (Italian if canned!). I got so hungry for beans when watching this, that I had t do a “quick “ version: 2 15 Oz. cans of Italian green beans, 2 heaping TBSP. Of bacon grease ( yes, I Save and Freeze it!), dried onion and salt and pepper! Mine took 2 hours until “shriveled”, but they were delicious!! I’m Now a NEW SUBSCRIBER! Thanks so much! PS: I live in Winter Park Florida, a suburb of Orlando! Love your Channel!!❤😊
I always asked Nana to make wrinkled beans for our vegetable on Sundays when we ate at her house. I never knew it took her hours to make them! They sure were the best. Thanks for the memory❣️
I would start on low to make sure the house won't burn down. I worked one of those jobs where if my relief didn't show up, I was stuck. Then would turn on high if needed. And the liquid will evaporate if cooked long enough. Try it one day when home, I think every slower is different, at least mine are. You have to develop a feel for yours.
Those beers look so delicious. Thank you for all your wonderful videos....I wish I could make them, but I'm bed bound and don't have anyone to make them for me. I'm stuck with tv dinners/frozen food😢 I do like watching your videos it makes me feel like I have some family. God bless you both.❤
That’s exactly how I make my canned green beans. Have been cooking them this way for years. I don’t put in the onions tho because my sister is very allergic to then. They are so delicious. You are right, the longer they cook, the better they are. Bacon grease is a must. Yummy 😋
@r.c.4016 I agree....im ADHD with comprehension prob bt the way tom explains his recipes with details...its so easy for me to understand. He's also soothing n comforting listening to. I luv this channel!
I have cooked this meal in a 6-quart slow cooker several times and it turned out great. I added new potatoes each time. My family loved it. I started it on the low setting about an hour before it was done I set it on high. I added ham pieces and the last time I cooked it I just added extra salt. I could not find that brand of canned green beans so I used Green Jiant Beans. I cooked them for 3 or 4 hours. I just kept an eye on them until they were cooked down. Awesome video & recipe. Many thumbs up. God bless you guys.
I've started cooking my green beans in the pressure cooker (instant pot) for 20 minutes. It works out great !! Sometimes I add large chunks of fresh tomatoes and kielbasa to the mix, then cook. I serve it over rice or quinoa. That's a whole meal in one bowl 😊
@@debslinker8718 His green beans would not have been ready to harvest 4 months ago. He wanted to use a green bean (Hanover's) that most people have access to in the US.
I love green beans. Probably my favorite vegetable besides asparagus. I saute my green beans in extra virgin olive oil. I put in some garlic and they are so delicious.
✍Hello Tom and Melissa...I love green beans of any assortment... Blue Lake Half Runners etc especially the canned green beans my mom, dad and grandma would can every year from their vegetable garden. I like to buy a mess of green beans and cook them low and slow, but hate, absolutely hate frozen green beans and fix them just like you demonstrated tonight. Now my oldest daughter doesn't like that I cook my beans till they're shriveled ha ha ha. I've heard Bacon Grease called "liquid gold" Enjoyed the video and conversation tonight. Good Night😴 God Bless LuvYa! Bye from Ohio🌹
I might finally like green beans thanks to you! I will make them your way and let you know. I live in Central Oregon bit born in Northern Northern Montana Montana, so you see I must just be a Northern girl with a Southern appetite.
That's the way I love my green beans too , "shriveled". I hate green beans straight out of the can like some buffets have. Love everything you cook. I'm from North Carolina originally so I cook country style. Your style of cooking is right up my alley! You guys do a fantastic job and have become my favorite to watch!
I LOVE canned green beans. I have never seen this recipe or way of dealing with green beans. Thanks for this!!! I will make this and some of your mashed potatoes. Since I live by myself, I like that kind of meal. Love to both of you from Dallas!!😇
I made the green beans using your method, but i had a giant size bag of frozen green beans, so i used them. I brought the beans up to a boil by adding 2.5 cups of water. Then i lowered them to a low simmer and added the bacon grease and salt and pepper. I followed through on your method and i was surprised that mine took almost as long as yours did to cook. The one thing that i did was sprinkle about 1\4 t of sugar on top before i did the last fold and i think it gave the beans a superior taste! I couldnt really tell the difference between fresh farm beans. Great recipe! I enjoy watching y’all!!
I always add sugar. I like cooking just an hour if I don’t have the time and just cook down and stir real well at the end I score mine some times on accident and I like that too. Always eat slaw with green beans and cornbread
This is great! People don’t know what they missed not eating southern home cooked fresh vegetables. My granny was the best cook. So happy you showed this video. Now I can fix some southern cooked green beans using the cheaper cans of green beans. I usually buy the expensive “southern” cans because I can’t stand bland green beans!
My grandma was from Virginia and I remember as a child she made the best cooked green beans. She would let them cooked down as well. Not sure what all ingredients she used but the flavor of those beans was so delicious,😋 I sure did learn a lot from this video. Thank you!!
I live in WV but was raised across the Potomac River in Cumb., MD. We had a family of 10 so Mom would always try to extend the meal of green beans by adding potatoes and corn which was from our garden. She used bacon grease but more than that would use a ham bone for seasoning. I'm telling you, butter bread to sop up the juice. YUM!!!!
@Kathy200 I was born and raised in WV. One of my favorite things to eat was green beans cooked using bacon grease and new potatoes cooked in with the beans. That is some very yummy eating!
I would so love to see you show how you home can food. I hope some day you will consider it. I love the way you cook! Thanks so much for sharing all your recipes. You are such a good cook!
I am a true southern girl and married a man from Phoenix. He had never had southern green beans before but once he did he never wanted them the way his family had always made them. The southern way is better.
Try doing this in cast iron sometimes. Oh so good!
Thank you so much for this video.❤ I did not know any of this.
Add some little red tators and you have a full meal!! Oh and don’t forget the cornbread ❤Thanks for reminding me how wonderful green beans can be when cooked properly
I really enjoy your videos, my recipes are very, very close to yours, and we share the idea of cooking in large batches. I love leftovers.
Leftovers make life easier in our opinion! Not everyone appreciates them like we do, though. Tom has always said, "Cook once, eat twice."
"Cook once - Eat twice" - Amen!!
I like my green beans cooked similar to yours. I just don’t cook them as long. I hate to order green beans at restaurants and they have blanched them and they are hard as a rock!
Or no flavor or seasons!
I cook mine the same way, but near the end of cooking time, I cut up a couple of red potatoes and lay on top of the beans to steam. A meal in itself.
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Always even corn, green beans, onions and potatoes. Served with fresh sliced tomatoes and sweet rea. Perfect summer mesl.
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I do the same. I made them this week. Fresh GBeans, fried bacon with the grease and new red potatoes! Corn bread made in an iron skillet!! Delicious meal for a few days!! ❤❤
Wouldn't they contain salt when canned. Why salt them two additional times as they already are salted and when the water cooked is cooked out they will be even more salty?
we always added a little capful of vinegar and a tablespoon of sugar then cooked the liqud out and yum
I watched your video @ 1 a.m. I got so hungry for green beans, I had to fight myself to not go into the kitchen and start cooking green beans in the middle of the night!! BUT, guess what I had for dinner tonight, meatloaf and GREEN BEANS Tom"s style!! Yummy. Now my tummy is happy! They were soooooo good!! Thanks Tom!!
We’re so glad you enjoyed them! Thank you for letting us know they turned out well for you!
Nothing like them!!
I thought you were going to tell us you had them for breakfast 🤣
it was a thought! hahaha@@cathylongstreth5405
I love love love green beans.Your comment was too funny
Going to do your method. Thanks a bunch.
Thankyou sir.❤ green bean.
We do, too! They are so good with so many meals. They were a staple in our homes when we were kids and we had them a lot when we had kids at home, too!
My sister-in-law used to make these beans and I loved them. I thought i had learned to make them by watching her, but mine always ended up the consistency of baby food. Because i was STIRRING them. Thanks for revealing that crucial element of the recipe.
That. And. Cornbread. With. Tea ! All I need.
You know you're in the south when you can get a real sweet tea!
I love eating green beans with a big cast iron skillet full of yellow cornbread! 😋
We have a cornbread video! And you are right, those two are great together!
I can make a meal on fresh green beans and cornbread. Nothing better!!
I guess a lid would not be appropriate?
And a big chuck of onion
I cook mine in chicken broth with bacon grease & onions ! Delicious ❤
The country greenbeans looked very delicious tom gonna have to r try them out jennifer in nebraska
I am 76 years old and was raised up on bacon grease and ham in my green beans learned from my childhood and my grandparents lived to be in their upper 90's
My family also used grease from cooked Italian sausage that my mother always saved.
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Fresh Green beans, onions, salt and pepper, bacon, bacon grease & potatoes. this is how we do in Eastern Kentucky, yum.! Thank y'all!
I so enjoy your calm demeanor whilst cooking. I rush around like a basket case.
You're funny! Thanks so much for watching! We appreciate it.
I bet he’s not calm all the time. He’s a coach isn’t he 😊
I am from South Africa and the Afrikaans population of our country makes beans the same way but they also add potatoes, cubed. They break down and add a lovely flavor. Thank you this was great!
I grew up in northern Maine, USA on the New Brunswick Canada border… we grew up eating green beans and new baby potatoes and once they were cooked and drained, we’d add some heavy cream and butter.
I loved to mash my potatoes and pour the hot cream / butter over them with fresh black pepper and salt..
It’s a way that a lot of French Canadian - Northern Maine people would eat them. You could do with canned but using fresh beans is always so good!! I have a picture of them on my Instagram page page from just a month ago or so! I’d love you to take a look!!
Feed the baby first!!!
Hi I’m from Cape Town originally now in Texas, I still cook my green beans with potatoes and onions and a small chopped tomato, it’s my favorite
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@@lianealbert7728 ..Your comment is the first I've noticed that mentions adding heavy cream & butter to green beans. In the 1960s, my Great Grandmother, who was born "Pennsylvania Dutch" in the 1880s, was the only one I've ever known who did that. I'll try what you say. Thank you...
Canned green beans taste better than frozen. Blue lake green beans are the best.
Bacon grease is gold to me.
Bacon grease is GOLD!!
Those beans look delicious..Love your channel
I cook for this week and freeze for next week. Today and the next two days. I cook alot but i can take a day off, or a week, or a month if need be and food is there ready to go. I really love your videos.
Widowed, child married, living alone. Definitely believe in cooking once; eating "leftovers". And Yes, have recently started saving that bacon grease. Adds flavor!
I’m from Illinois and we love our green beans. We chop up bacon and fry it and then put the cooked bacon and grease in the beans along with a stick of butter too. And yes, we spend hours cooking them also. I guess I’m making green beans tomorrow!
Finally someone who knows how to cook green beans. I really don’t like canned green beans that are just warmed up. They taste like the can. Nor do I like green beans that are still crunchy. Cook those beans to death with bacon grease and or fat back.
Another great video. I am an older man in my 60s. I am from the South near KY. But my parents moved our family North back in the 60s. I was 8 years old. My parents use to make this recipe with home cook fresh from the garden green beans with new potatoes always and fat back bacon. My parents both passed away when I was in my teens and early 20s and I never got these Southern recipes. I have cooked many times this recipe with new potatoes & fatback. But I tried this recipe a week ago with frozen green beans in the slow cooker. It turned out fairly good but it did not taste like it should. I can't wait to try this. ( My wife is a Northern woman so I have to pick & chose my Southern dishes, lol.) Tom, Have you ever heard of Tomato Dumplings? My dad use to cook them when I was a kid. I loved them but I have never met anyone that knows how to cook them. My niece could but sadly she passed away several years ago before I got the recipe. Please do a video on Tomato Dumplings. Thumbs up on your videos. I will look for more of your videos. Stay well & safe.
If you Google "recipe for tomato dumplings" you will find several. Most have pictures, so you can select the one that resembles your memory. Good luck!
Tomato dumplings brings back memories from my childhood. My grandmother always made tomato dumplings. We would sprinkle a spoonful of sugar over the dumplings in our bowl. They were so good! I’m 63 and I wish my grandmother could cook for me again. Sadly, she never went by a recipe for anything! She just did her magic in the kitchen by throwing stuff in a pan or bowl and something delicious came out! I wish I could help you out with a recipe for the tomato dumplings but I don’t have a clue. Haven’t had them since I was a child.
We call them COOKED TO DEATH GREEN BEANS and we love them!
yep we do too
Great video!
These beans look delicious, but I have never cooked beans for 3 1/2 hours. My mother-in-law was the best cook in our county. She always told me the less water on your beans the better. She would cook fresh green beans from the garden she would snap them, wash them, and put them in a pan with no water at all. ( I always put a little water in mine) She always put two or three pieces of bacon in her pan and an onion and cook that together, and rendered out the bacon grease. Throw the beans in the pan, salt and pepper and Put a lid on them and cook them on medium until simmering, and then turn them down to low for about an hour and half or so. Believe it or not as the beans cooked they made their own liquid from the steam. (Stirring carefully) Best green beans you ever eat in your life. She is long gone now, but I still remember her wonderful food and I have to say I can cook a lot of her recipes, probably not quite as good as hers but close. As for canned green beans I always drain one can and leave the liquid on the other, three pieces of bacon in a pan and onion fry the bacon with the onion until the bacon grease is rendered, put green beans in a pan along with a little salt and pepper, there again cook them on medium until they start to simmer and then turn them on low and cook them for an hour or so. Just my version of how to cook green beans.
Interesting, because my friend's grandma , from the South, made green beans the same way. If she was making a small amount, she used a cast iron skillet. Melt bacon grease, add diced onions, then the green beans, salt and pepper. I don't know how long she cooked them. She passed away years ago, but I remember the house smelled wonderful!!
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I make mine similar to eat u said/wrote at the end of ur comment bt we call ours "hillbilly beans" & we use the shelly beans(which are cans of whole beans with kidney beans or well use a can of whole beans add a can of kidney beans per 2 cans beans)
We cook cut up bacon then add onion & "dnt" drain bacon greese unless its alot well pour in grease can (key ingred)...then our beans n kidney beans bt we drain our liquid for our beans....yummy.
Im gonna try toms recipe with his brand of beans tho.
Also I always keep my bacon brease....like the comment above "liquid gold"
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I cook my beans pretty much the same way, low and slow with onions and bacon grease, except I use Allen’s Kentucky Wonder beans. Daddy grew them for a while but I think he switched to Missouri Wonder. He also grew Blue Lake, which he preferred. He always joked that I liked the flat beans better because they didn’t have strings that I had to pull. 😂 I think I just like the green part better than the bean part.
Something I learned from several southern cooking vlogs (Farming Pastor’s Wife, Collard Valley Cooks, Mandy in the Making) is to add a pinch of sugar for each can of beans. Not so much that you taste it, but it just adds a little something extra. I can’t figure out why, but they are better with than without it.
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Try the method of just putting a piece or 2 of chopped uncooked bacon in instead of the straight bacon grease. You likely can avoid adding extra salt that way too bc canned vegetables are already high in sodium. The bacon pieces will still give it that nice flavor w/o as much fat or added salt. I’ve also been known to just use olive oil when I’m eating clean and they taste fine that way too.
@@Catlady8 I have, on occasion, used pieces of bacon or slices of salt pork. I've found that we like beans with bacon grease, better. Sorry, but they wouldn't be southern country style green beans with olive oil.
@@lizsmith7816 Sorry, that comment was for the person who said they couldn’t use bacon grease bc of their high blood pressure. My comment should have been posted under her comment.
It still gives you the southern slow cooked down texture w/o the bacon grease for people who can’t go the usual route.
Great idea!
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I am a southern girl too, and I was taught to add a little bit of sugar to some vegetables including green beans to bring out the flavor of the vegetables. Also we used fatback instead of bacon grease sometimes .
I just came across your channel. My Grandmother was from northern Kentucky and she always used a couple of slices of salt pork and if not available then she used the bacon and grease. Of course my mom did the same. But the cooking method was the same.
Often they added potatoes and made non-sweet cornbread (ina big iron skillet) with butter and with a slice of tomato on the side. Those were delicious meals and filling too.
Thanks for your channel.
Love it
My mom used salt pork when making a pot of pinto beans. I bet it would be great with green beans.
Those beans look good
I love me some fresh picked green beans, freshly dug new potatoes, sliced onion and added to some simmering fall off the bone Ham hock. YUM.
yummy
Well, this is me again, lol. The one that’s almost 80. I kept thinking about my mothers, cucumbers and onions. She had such a wonderful sauce that she put on them and I did not know what it was. Now that was way before your time.😊😊 but I’m hoping that you can find a way or should I say a recipe so I will know how to make them. Thank you so very very much for all of the wonderful and delicious recipes.❤❤❤
My Mother-in-law taught me to Scorch my Green Beans. I love them that way.
That's the only way my mother cooked them. I love green beans no matter how they are cooked but her way is best.
So glad to see I’m not the only one who cooks their green beans this way!!! Nothing better than green beans..raw onion & cornbread!!!
This is my first time watching your video… I was recommended by a friend. Thanks 😍
This has made me very hungry. I love green beans cooked Southern style.
You cooked them to smitherines! Just like my mom, and her mom! I don't usually cook mine that long. We always canned jars and jars every year.bwe had a big garden and litscof green beans. My dad like a touch of vinegar added to each pint jar before we pressure cooked them. I'm not sure how much vinegar. Maybe half a teaspoon in each pint. Tasted pretty goid.😮
It's hard to beat green beans once you know how you like them! Hope you're having a great night.
Awwwww that was so sweet ! You asked your Wife at the end did she want the first bite :)!!!!
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Ill never get over how Southern Americans and Appalachians can cook beans for hours and hours !
Any bean in a can to me, oh forget it, I cant talk about how much I cant stand them 😂
Enjoyed this. As I heard Faith Hill say one time, in the south, we like green beans cooked until you cook all the healthy out, lol.
Mom cooked fresh green beans with bacon grease and salt and pepper, love them!
That's right always save your bacon grease.... I always season my green beans with bacon grease.....love em.....
My mother took green beans that she had canned put them in a cast iron Dutch oven. Put them out side over the fire pit. When we came in the cotton fields the beans would be ready for supper. Boy were they good. Now I can do it since I grow green beans and can them.
Your recipe sounds delicious. I love green beans.
My mom canned alot. Here's a recipe she used with her canned beans.
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Green Bean Salad
2 pints green beans
1 onion, sliced
1 pint canned tomatoes
Salt and Pepper to taste
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Cut the tomatoes smaller
with juices, add to a bowl.
Slice the onion, small slices
Drain the beans
Mix everything together and chill overnight.
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I love this recipe. Now I need to know how to cook canned pinto beans so they have flavor. So happy I found Tom and Melissa.
Me too
Same way. Add water & bacon grease. Cook & add water as needed to have plenty of bean soup. Onions optional. Salt & pepper to taste. I use Luck’s beans 😊
Pinto beans are great cooked in bacon grease and some bacon. Cut some onion and bell pepper up and use water.
My family some fron Kentucky, some from Texas ,take fresh green beans ,snap them ,. I remember sitting on the front porch snapping beans with my aunt.
I use boiling onions and small new potatoes, salt pork or bacon.
We cool them down. Soooo good.
I made them for pot luck at my work. Every time we had pot luck thay would ask me to make them.
I will try using can , beans and doctor them up,,. it would be so much faster
Love your recipes! So happy you give the ingredients and instructions on how to make everything.
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Do you really need that much salt? Or do you use unsalted beans
Why is it that we can no longer find the flat Kentucky Wonder beans in the stores? My mom used to cook them and I always thought they had so much more flavor than regular green beans.
I've always cooked green beans in beef broth. Yours look delicious!
Yup....me too...n add a pk of Lipton onion soup mix with scoops of bacon grease. Im gonna try toms recipe.
Jane’s Krazy Mixed Up Salt is my go to for green beans.
Melissa, Half Runners are the best!
These are the green beans I grew up with in Georgia! I fondly recall the metal can of “bacon drippin’s” on the top of the stove. Unfortunately, 50+ years later, we stopped eating bacon for economic reasons, so it has been years since I had those bacon drippin’s to cook with ☹️. And the two of us just don’t eat much anyway. But what a great memory you’ve stirred up! (Oops, I remember my mama didn’t stir her beans either!).
I hardly ever buy bacon.Too fattening for me, I over eat it! I bought smoked turkey tails. They can be sliced and used like bacon, delicious smoked flavor. Fortunately I don't eat whole turkey tails .
This is exactly the way that I’ve always made my green beans. I thought I was the only one in my class. Lol I got to say though I have an electric stove and it’s the only way that I make them and they come out tasting very very good, so I imagine because you have a gas stove so Your green beans must taste amazing because I don’t care what anybody says. There is a big difference in the taste of any kind of food on a gas stove as opposed to an electric!
We do enjoy cooking on a gas stove. it certainly seems like you can control and manage the heat easier. Thank you for watching our videos.
Oh man I hate cooking on electric stove. Adjusting the temps is a pain. However, I have cooked on both and I don’t see any taste difference at all, you just have to adjust to an electric stove, it’s not a charcoal grill vs gas grill 😅. I have noticed some food cooks faster an some slower between the stoves, but the food comes out just the same
Mmmmm! Green beans are so good. I've never boiled the liquid out (very interesting), but I do everything else you did, though not as much grease because I put chopped bacon in them. I also like cooking new potatoes in them too, so yummy.
Why cook them to shriveled? Why you cooking them so long aren’t they precooked in the can?
@@nelsonerobersonjr7153That is the southern delicious way.
I have always used bacon grease and onions in my green beans. However, I have never cooked them for that long. I can not wait to try this method!! Thanks for the instructions! I don't have jars of bacon grease, I use BaconUp, which is a tub of filtered bacon grease that I get at the grocery store. I cook with the grease more than I cook bacon so this works for me.
We’re big fans of BLT sandwiches so we go through a lot of bacon and have a lot of bacon grease left overs. We hope you enjoy the green beans prepared this way. It was a new way for me when I joined the family years ago. I still enjoy the Half Runners prepared like my mom does but I’ve grown to love these as well over the years.
Cooking down means the flavor of the beans entensifyes 😊
what store do you get the BaconUp from......i have been hoping my whole life that some way i could buy bacon grease premade.....
@@dolocapo5430 Hello! It is available at my local grocery store, which here in Texas is HEB. I do hope you can find Bacon Up it is wonderful!!
@@dolocapo5430I bought bacon up in wal mart in southern Indiana
These beans have me salivating. I want to thank you both for inviting me into your kitchen and making me feel at home! Can't wait to make this recipe ❤
My Mom used a piece of jowl bacon yum.......new potatoes, cornbread ,slice of tomato and green onion . Wish she was here .
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I rinse my green beans after I drain them. I use EVO and cook my onions until tender, then add the rinsed beans😊. I add add enough water to come about half way up! Those canned green beans are already cooked. 😊 They cook about 30 minutes and I bring them to a boil to cook the liquid out and if the beans scorch a little it’s good! I like a lot of pepper an garlic powder plus salt to taste. It may take about an hour and sometimes I will add potatoes during the cooking ,, every time I take them to a dinner everybody loves them! My Mom cooked hers with fatback and cooked them a long time, I just don’t like to cook so I try to speed up the process on everything I was taught and I don’t get any complaints, but I love watching your cooking , I think about my Mama, she would take all day to cook and it was so good but she never had to work like me so I had to learn to do fast meals, Thank you for your wonderful cooking videos❤❤ I relax and love to watch everything you do❤
My mom makes green beans this way and I love them the only difference is my mom uses pearl onions. I love your videos keep them coming. God bless you and your family. Sending much love and respect to you all.
Instead of bacon grease we use cut bacon and onions. Gives us th bacon flavor plus bits. Yummy
Awesome video!!! I use the Hanover green beans too AND definitely bacon grease!!!!🤩 I’m trying these instructions for my Thanksgiving dinner!!! Thanks, Tom & Melissa!!!!💙💛
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Watching your video brought me back to my childhood! My Mama and Grandmothers made these Very Beans! They always used either fresh or Canned “pole” beans (Italian if canned!). I got so hungry for beans when watching this, that I had t do a “quick “ version: 2 15 Oz. cans of Italian green beans, 2 heaping TBSP. Of bacon grease ( yes, I Save and Freeze it!), dried onion and salt and pepper! Mine took 2 hours until “shriveled”, but they were delicious!! I’m Now a NEW SUBSCRIBER! Thanks so much!
PS: I live in Winter Park Florida, a suburb of Orlando! Love your Channel!!❤😊
Thank you for showing how to do these. I’ve always wondered how this was done.
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I always asked Nana to make wrinkled beans for our vegetable on Sundays when we ate at her house. I never knew it took her hours to make them! They sure were the best. Thanks for the memory❣️
When I worked all the time, would put mine in the slow cooker. Works just the same for busy Moms/Pops 🥰
Love any time saver! Our kids are grown and on their own now but we remember what it was like to be rushed to get dinner together.
Does the liquid evaporate in the slow cooker?
Do you cook on high then turn to low?
I would start on low to make sure the house won't burn down. I worked one of those jobs where if my relief didn't show up, I was stuck. Then would turn on high if needed. And the liquid will evaporate if cooked long enough. Try it one day when home, I think every slower is different, at least mine are. You have to develop a feel for yours.
Who does not love southern green beans? Grew up on them. That and greens. Yummy 🤤
Just made this. The first thing out of my mouth was “boy,this is so good”. I sound like Tom😂
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Those beers look so delicious. Thank you for all your wonderful videos....I wish I could make them, but I'm bed bound and don't have anyone to make them for me. I'm stuck with tv dinners/frozen food😢 I do like watching your videos it makes me feel like I have some family. God bless you both.❤
That’s exactly how I make my canned green beans. Have been cooking them this way for years. I don’t put in the onions tho because my sister is very allergic to then. They are so delicious. You are right, the longer they cook, the better they are. Bacon grease is a must. Yummy 😋
Cooked like this video, is how Mom made hers, love them cooked up like that.
Absolutely love this channel. Great recipes and Tom is the best teacher. He makes everything easy to learn.
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I agree....im ADHD with comprehension prob bt the way tom explains his recipes with details...its so easy for me to understand.
He's also soothing n comforting listening to.
I luv this channel!
I love your recipes, also you and Mellissa are fun to listen too, so much home grown character.
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Sometimes we make a meal out of these with light bread. I like mine with chopped raw onion. Sometimes I even cook potatoes with them. Yum😋
I have cooked this meal in a 6-quart slow cooker several times and it turned out great. I added new potatoes each time. My family loved it. I started it on the low setting about an hour before it was done I set it on high.
I added ham pieces and the last time I cooked it I just added extra salt. I could not find that brand of canned green beans so I used Green Jiant Beans. I cooked them for 3 or 4 hours. I just kept an eye on them until they were cooked down. Awesome video & recipe. Many thumbs up. God bless you guys.
I've started cooking my green beans in the pressure cooker (instant pot) for 20 minutes. It works out great !!
Sometimes I add large chunks of fresh tomatoes and kielbasa to the mix, then cook. I serve it over rice or quinoa. That's a whole meal in one bowl 😊
It's so nice to have everything in one dish!
Looks good going to try this l like your easy cooking
I figured you'd use fresh green beans and not canned. I also like enough juice to make my cornbread wet 😋 ❤
@@debslinker8718 His green beans would not have been ready to harvest 4 months ago. He wanted to use a green bean (Hanover's) that most people have access to in the US.
I love green beans. Probably my favorite vegetable besides asparagus. I saute my green beans in extra virgin olive oil. I put in some garlic and they are so delicious.
✍Hello Tom and Melissa...I love green beans of any assortment... Blue Lake Half Runners etc especially the canned green beans my mom, dad and grandma would can every year from their vegetable garden. I like to buy a mess of green beans and cook them low and slow, but hate, absolutely hate frozen green beans and fix them just like you demonstrated tonight. Now my oldest daughter doesn't like that I cook my beans till they're shriveled ha ha ha. I've heard Bacon Grease called "liquid gold" Enjoyed the video and conversation tonight. Good Night😴 God Bless LuvYa! Bye from Ohio🌹
Love green beans that have cooked for hours! I fix mine that way. Now I’ve got to get some beans! Thanks, Tom & Melissa! God bless! 💕🤗🙏🏻
This brings back memories of my MawMaw's green beans..she also put in cubed potatoes...and definitely!! bacon grease. 7:16
My Aunt Vera,cooked green beans like that she added a little sugar and vinegar and cooked them down like that, they are delicious
My grannie always put the WHOLE jar of bacon greese in her green beans. Nothing better!!!!
Was happy to see you making green beans! Awesome video!❤️
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I might finally like green beans thanks to you! I will make them your way and let you know. I live in Central Oregon bit born in Northern Northern Montana Montana, so you see I must just be a Northern girl with a Southern appetite.
Ummmm delicious
Thank you Nana
Always enjoy your videos Tom!❤️
Thank you, Miki! We talk about you often. Hope to see you on our travels soon!
There is nothing better than home canned green beans!
That's the way I love my green beans too , "shriveled". I hate green beans straight out of the can like some buffets have. Love everything you cook. I'm from North Carolina originally so I cook country style. Your style of cooking is right up my alley! You guys do a fantastic job and have become my favorite to watch!
I LOVE canned green beans. I have never seen this recipe or way of dealing with green beans. Thanks for this!!! I will make this and some of your mashed potatoes. Since I live by myself, I like that kind of meal. Love to both of you from Dallas!!😇
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I made the green beans using your method, but i had a giant size bag of frozen green beans, so i used them. I brought the beans up to a boil by adding 2.5 cups of water. Then i lowered them to a low simmer and added the bacon grease and salt and pepper. I followed through on your method and i was surprised that mine took almost as long as yours did to cook. The one thing that i did was sprinkle about 1\4 t of sugar on top before i did the last fold and i think it gave the beans a superior taste! I couldnt really tell the difference between fresh farm beans. Great recipe! I enjoy watching y’all!!
@sherriberge2912
Ive bn cookin 35yrs & ive NVR ever heard of adding sugar until I read it in these comments. Im gonna try tht. 🤔😋😯
I always add sugar. I like cooking just an hour if I don’t have the time and just cook down and stir real well at the end I score mine some times on accident and I like that too. Always eat slaw with green beans and cornbread
Scorch
Wow. This was a real lesson for me. I never knew how this was done. I will take the time and make them your way. They look so good. Thank you.
This is great! People don’t know what they missed not eating southern home cooked fresh vegetables. My granny was the best cook. So happy you showed this video. Now I can fix some southern cooked green beans using the cheaper cans of green beans. I usually buy the expensive “southern” cans because I can’t stand bland green beans!
My grandma was from Virginia and I remember as a child she made the best cooked green beans. She would let them cooked down as well. Not sure what all ingredients she used but the flavor of those beans was so delicious,😋 I sure did learn a lot from this video. Thank you!!
I like the way you fixed your beans-I also like adding baby red potatoes in mine-you did great!
Yes, bacon is good for you, and cooking with the grease - terrific!! Thanks for this recipe!
I live in WV but was raised across the Potomac River in Cumb., MD. We had a family of 10 so Mom would always try to extend the meal of green beans by adding potatoes and corn which was from our garden. She used bacon grease but more than that would use a ham bone for seasoning. I'm telling you, butter bread to sop up the juice. YUM!!!!
@Kathy200 I was born and raised in WV. One of my favorite things to eat was green beans cooked using bacon grease and new potatoes cooked in with the beans. That is some very yummy eating!
I would so love to see you show how you home can food. I hope some day you will consider it. I love the way you cook! Thanks so much for sharing all your recipes. You are such a good cook!