Did you know that haricots vert are GREEN BEANS??
Criminey.
I’m at allrecipes.com, my second favorite place to find recipes (after the Naptime Gourmet) and they are advertising a Bastille Day menu. Humm, I say. I know a couple of chuckleheads who were MARRIED on Bastille Day (that would be Gene and I). One of the recipes was for Haricots Verts Lynnoaise. I was reading a book yesterday (more on that later) and one of the people in the book mentioned these Haricots Verts things and I wondered at the time, what exotic food are haricots verts? I imagined some sort of small exotic goat dish or perhaps tiny potatoes harvested in the mountains of France.
Humm. Green beans. Dang. Actually, I adore green beans – or should I say, J’adore haricots verts! – but the recipe called for icky things such as vinegar. Yeck.