Green beans, string beans, snap beans, haricots verts—whatever you like to call ’em-are the simple, stringy veggies that have graced practically every dinner table. Especially around the holidays.

The difference between a gorgeous, appealing bowl of green beans and an unsavory, mushy mess comes down to how they’re cooked. Learn how to blanch green beans and no one at the dinner table will ever ...

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Fresh green beans done right just scream spring, with their crisp-tender texture and light grassy flavor that serves as the perfect canvas for your favorite spices. Banish those bad memories of ...

When you need to get some veggies on the table, stat, there’s almost no quicker way to cook them than blanching. Simple blanched green beans would be excellent left alone, with nothing more than a ...

My husband is a “texture guy,” meaning lots of foods—vegetables especially—are off-limits if they feel weird in his mouth. As a produce-obsessed home cook, I’m on a perpetual mission to find ways to ...

It’s always green bean season in our Test Kitchen. True, you might just associate the canned kind with holiday casseroles. Or perhaps you think of fresh green beans when they pop up in your vegetable ...

Green bean season is in full swing, and if my friend’s garden is an accurate measure, it is a great crop this year. Many of the romano beans are nearly a foot long, and it has become nearly as hard to ...

“Americans just do not know how to cook green beans,” said Ann, a Bayfield Farmers Market vendor, as she handed me a sack of deep green, plump beans she picked earlier that morning. “When they’re ...