{"id":8642,"date":"2009-10-06T09:43:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T13:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=8642"},"modified":"2009-10-06T09:43:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T13:43:49","slug":"tuesday-tip-blanching-green-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/10\/tuesday-tip-blanching-green-beans\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Tip: Blanching green beans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Green<\/a>Green beans happen to be a favorite here at the HQ.\u00a0 Scott and I love them and feel that fresh green beans are just about a perfect food.<\/p>\n

The downside of fresh green beans is that they can turn quickly.\u00a0 Going from bright green to a mottled color in just a few days.<\/p>\n

Yuck.\u00a0 No one wants to eat that.\u00a0 Well except for Rocky, he doesn’t care what the green beans look like, he’ll eat ’em up.<\/p>\n

For me, green beans take a lot of prep time.\u00a0 Going through pounds of beans and trimming them takes a lot of work.\u00a0 See I trim both ends because I don’t like the stringy pointy parts.\u00a0 They must be dealt with!\u00a0 And because processing green beans takes me a good bit of time, I’m not looking to it several times over the course of the week.\u00a0 Once and I’m done.\u00a0 Over and out.<\/p>\n

I have found that if I blanch my whole pile of green beans after washing and trimming them, they are ready to go for the rest of the week.\u00a0 I don’t have to worry about them turning on me getting that mottled color.\u00a0 And if I feel like maybe I’m not going to get to them in a timely fashion once they are blanched, I can just toss them in the freezer for another time.<\/p>\n

Blanching veggies is super easy.\u00a0 A big pot of boiling water and toss the veggies in.\u00a0 Allow to boil for a few minutes (time depends on the type of\u00a0 veggies, cauliflower takes longer than green beans for example).\u00a0 I do not salt my water because I add salt later before I serve them. :)<\/p>\n

Blanching my green beans ahead of time makes later prep work a breeze.\u00a0 All I have to do is drizzle them with a little olive oil and seasonings, then toss in an oven to heat through.\u00a0 Super fast and simple!\u00a0 Especially when you’re dealing with super hungry people who just got done with some intense working out.\u00a0 These can go from fridge to bellah relatively quickly!<\/p>\n

Prep work is a huge factor in helping us make it through the week.\u00a0 Allowing us to put together homemade fresh meals each day fairly quickly.\u00a0 Try blanching some green beans as part of your prep work!\u00a0 And remember they can always be frozen for later as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Green beans happen to be a favorite here at the HQ.\u00a0 Scott and I love them and feel that fresh green beans are just about a perfect food. The downside of fresh green beans is that they can turn quickly.\u00a0 Going from bright green to a mottled color in just a few days. Yuck.\u00a0 No […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-2fo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}