Green Beans for Lunch @ Work

From the Vegetable Box: Green Beans

From the Store: Bacon (any bacon), sliced almonds, dried cranberries

Cleaned and cut green beans, cut bacon in small pieces.

I cooked quinoa in another pot (can be replaced with rice or mashed potatoes or baked potatoes).

Put the bacon pieces in a cold pan and got them slowly brown when the pan got hot  (slow process). Added green beans when the bacon was ½-way brown but far from crisp. Mixed and cooked for another 3-4 minutes, added almond slivers and cranberries, cooked for another 2 minutes. ATTENTION: almond can burn fast.

Add salt if needed, bacon could have enough salt for the mix.

Added 1-2 cups of quinoa into a bowl mixed with green bean-mix.

Green Beans

Green beans, also known as French beans (British English), string beans in the northeastern and western United States, snap beans or squeaky beans, are the unripe fruit of specific cultivated varieties of the common bean.

Green bean varieties have been bred especially for the fleshiness, flavor, or sweetness of their pods. Haricots verts, French for "green beans", may refer to a longer, thinner type of green bean than the typical American green bean. It is known in some parts of the world as the squeaky bean due to the noise it makes on one's teeth whilst eating.

The first "stringless" bean was bred in 1894 by Calvin Keeney, called the "father of the stringless bean", while working in Le Roy, NY.