NEVER Boil Your Green Beans Again - Try My Grandma's Old SOUL FOOD Trick

📖 Get all 305 of Grandma's secrets here: https://earlenetatum.com You bought a bag of green beans, put a pot of water on a full boil, gave them six minutes and pulled them out bright green. And they squeaked on your teeth and tasted like the water. That is a raw bean with the colour cooked off it. A green bean is not a leaf. It is a pod with a wall on it, and that wall has to be cooked through or it fights you. I have never put a green bean in boiling water in my life. This is the pot the way it sat on the back of Callie Mae's wood stove every fifth Sunday: smoked sausage first in a dry iron pot until the fat runs, one onion in the fat, water to the first knuckle and no more, small potatoes on the bottom with the skin on, the beans on top, the lid on and the fire as low as it goes for four hours. And one thing she did to that pot in the last five minutes with the back of a spoon that turned it from a pot of beans into a supper. I have never seen it in a cookbook. It is saved for the end. A bag of beans, a ring of sausage and three potatoes: a supper for six for less than seven dollars, if you give it the time. Here is the afternoon, in order: 0:00 Why six minutes in boiling water gives you a raw bean 2:07 The bag: fat flat beans, skinny ones, frozen, and the can 4:04 What the water actually does to a bean 6:14 The pot, the sausage, and water to the first knuckle 8:05 The porch: how the beans got broken 10:02 Potatoes on the bottom, beans on top, lid on 11:46 The fire and the clock: before nine, back after one 13:49 Salt last, pepper first, a whole pod, one spoon of sugar 15:46 How you know it is done, and why the colour lies 17:32 The three ways I have ruined this pot 19:39 The thing she did in the last five minutes 22:05 Cornbread, rice, and tomorrow 23:07 The whole pot in a few lines, and your Sunday There is a new recipe here every single day. Come back and cook with me. Next time I am doing turkey wings. Most of the ones I have eaten at other tables were dry at the bone, and it was never the wing's fault. I will show you what she did to hers so the meat came off in one piece.