1. Get a lot of green beans. I like to start by planting some seeds and hopeing for the best.
2. Harvest the green beans.
3. Collect the green beans and place them in a pretty bowl.
4. Prepare the green beans. I like to rinse them off and snap the ends off and split them in two. This takes a long time, almost as long as waiting for them to grow. It reminds one why people invested in servants back in the day. It also reminded me to ask Santa for one of those those spongy floor mats they sell at Bed Bath and Beyond . After standing there snapping each indiuval bean I decided that one-bean-at-a-time was getting really tedious and that I should try to speed this up a bit. I introduced a knife and a cutting board to the equation and made to cut the ends off of more than one bean at a time - A truley revolutionary idea. I soon discovered that this would be a labor saving miracle if I had beans of uniform length, which I did not. My beans aren't those uniform length bean bots they produce at factory farms, no my beans are all natural free form beans and they are allowed to grow like they want as long or short as they want. Damn it.
Back to hand snapped beans.
Done,
Now you take your beans and add them to a boiling pot of water. FOR THREE MINUTES.
After they sit in the boiling water for THREE MINUTES, remove them from the heat and put the beans in a bowl of ICE WATER for THREE MINUTES
After the THREE MINUTES remove the beans from the ice bath and freeze. You have now successfully blanched your green beans. Go you.
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