Morton's Recipie Book Entry - G.B.C.

Real Green Bean Casserole - Defense for Midwestern Pot-Luck G.B.C. 


I hate green bean casserole. Plain and simple. I hate the smell and the texture and most of all, I hate the way it looks, which is like someone mixed green jello with Ghostbuster slime and put some Funions on top of the mixture, THEN took it to their local Cub/girl Scout pot-luck on a bet that American Mid-Westerners would eat it. LO! They did. I blame THEE Campbell's!!! So a few years ago, I came up with an antidote, a fail safe and made my own Green Bean Casserolle. People ask for this if I don't bring the dish and pack it on when I do. It is tasty and, nutritious. First, you have to have a couple of items. A large heavy metal strainer...the kind you find in an all in one cooking pot. A grill or a fire, or something that has a very high temp. I've not tried this in an oven yet, so I wouldn't know the cooking time, but the thing relies on fire so...I'm sure it can be tasty without fire, but buck up and turn on the grill. You will be glad you did.

(ingredients are approximate)
Get: 

- a bag of fresh long green beans - three hands full, I'd say.destem and let sit.
- un lemon, cut in half
-one each red, yellow and orange pepper slice into inch strips
- two white onions (or if you don't care about your breath RED) also slice into one inch strips 
- seven strips turkey bacon, cooked and really crunchy
-two cups extra virgin olive oil
- onetablespoons either kosher salt or you pick of sal de mer (no table salt please)
-mysterie ingredient - I use cilantro

excepting the oil bacon, salt and lemon, compile the ingredients into the strainer thingee and fire up the grill.
Stir in enough oil to coat the mixture and for a little of the stuff to drip through the strainer thingee
Once the fire is good and hot, place the strainer thingee on the grill.
squeeze one half of lemon onto the mixture.
let the thing sit there for a good ten minutes, stirring occasionally.
Once the initial oil burns off, keep adding, letting the fire flare up and dance, searing your strainer thingee
Add pinches of sal here and there
(if you have made too much mixture for your strainer thingee, you'll find that you'll have room to put more on the fire as you cook)

After a half hour you should be about done.
Squeeze the other half of the lemon
add bacon broken into crumbles
more oil
ten minutes more stirring
making sure you get the stuff from the bottom of the strainer thingee well scraped off and inculcated into the mixture.

your green bean casserole should be served direct from the strainer thingee (with a towel under it to catch drippings) or should be placed in a casserole dish. Can be served with large or tongs.

gut essen.
Nate