{"id":4049,"date":"2014-12-04T19:56:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T00:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micuisine.com\/lunapiercook\/?p=4049"},"modified":"2014-12-05T20:04:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T01:04:15","slug":"recipe-harvest-sauteed-green-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/micuisine.com\/lunapiercook\/?p=4049","title":{"rendered":"Recipe: Harvest Saut\u00e9ed Green Beans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA serving of Harvest Saut\u00e9ed Green Beans served with deer venison tenderloin medallions.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is one of our go-to side dishes that seems to go with just about everything. It’s particularly good with meats, and game meats seem to suggest it. At that point it also goes very well with the wild rices and other grains that are generally served with game.<\/p>\n

This recipe, however, gained some traction a couple weeks ago. On November 12th Flint Journal Entertainment Reporter Scott Atkinson posted that he was looking for a green bean recipe to include with the MLive Group’s statewide set of Thanksgiving recipes for the year. I submitted this recipe even though I’d never written it down … I was in such a hurry I ended up submitting it as follows:<\/p>\n

Fresh green beans, trimmed and snapped to 2″ lengths
\nToasted almonds
\nDried cranberries
\nTrimmed and chopped green onions
\nUnsalted butter
\nKosher salt
\nFresh-ground black pepper
\nGranulated garlic<\/p>\n

Melt the butter in a skillet. Saut\u00e9 beans, cranberries and green onions 4 minutes, add almonds one more minute. Season to taste. Different amounts give different flavor profiles, experiment at will, for example, using chopped Vidalia onion instead of chopped green onion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There was some discussion in the comments from other submitters that this wasn’t a green bean casserole. But Scott had never specified that’s what it had to be. By that Friday Scott had selected this recipe and asked me for a more complete version. I threw some guesstimates for measurements into a Word version, fleshed out the procedure a bit more, and sent it off.<\/p>\n

The first warm surprise came in the form of the rest of the complete menu<\/a> from across the state:<\/p>\n