An Easy Side-dish Recipe for Christmas or Anytime: Homestyle Green Beans and Potatoes
Looking for an Easy Christmas Side-dish that Also Works at Other Times of the Year?
What you will need to make this easy Christmas, or anytime, side-dish:
1 quart of green beans, fresh, canned, or frozen
6 new, or small, red potatoes
1/4 cup minced onion, white, red, or yellow
3 or 4 strips of bacon, pork or turkey
Salt and pepper to taste
Steps to make this easy side-dish for Christmas, or any time:
Wash hands and all vegetables thoroughly. Cut the potatoes into quarters, leaving skins on. Chop the onions fine (Cowboys don't cry). Place your green beans, and other ingredients into the 3-quart saucepan, and cover with 2 inches of water over all of the veggies. Cut bacon into small pieces to make "bacon ends," and place them in, too. Salt and pepper to taste and stir well. Bring to a soft boil. Reduce heat to medium low. Cook for one hour, or until potatoes are done and liquid is mostly absorbed. Potatoes are done when they slide easily off of a fork stuck into them.
To those of you who don't eat meat and/or don't celebrate Christmas:
Sure, you can skip adding the meat to this side-dish if you like. I wouldn't dream of stopping you. But really, you vegetarians are out-numbered, and the rest of us are hungry. For those of you who don't celebrate Christmas, and find yourself "offended" that I didn't title this "Holidays" or some other bland, flavorless, homogenized title - get over it - and grab a plate. I don't normally celebrate Christmas either. But that doesn't give me the right to try and step on everyone else's fun. Life goes too quick for all of us, so relax. Have some fun! This Christmas, or anytime, side-dish is so good you might not even need an entree.
Source:
Personal experience
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22 Comments
Post a CommentBacon makes everything better. Haha I love your commentary at the end. I don't get how people can be so offended about using the word "Christmas." I don't celebrate jewish holidays, but if someone wished me a Happy Hunukkah, I would smile and say, "Thanks!" Maybe even break into a bad rendition of Adam Sandler's Hannukkah song. Can't we all just get along and eat some beans and potatoes (with or without bacon)? :)
I love this. If you don't happen to have bacon, just use the bacon dripping you have saved. I didn't really write this. That came from the old me not the new No Bacon person.
Ha! I love the commentary at the end of this recipe, and you know I *am* a vegetarian. ;)
My sister makes a dish similar to this one. Thanks for the instructions.
This sounds delicious and I love everything you used in this recipe.
What a renaissance man!
Sounds like a keeper!
Excellent, thanks.... :o)
This seems so simple but really tasty and healthy thanks.
Sounds very tasty. Tweeted