Thanksgiving is a time for food and tradition. One tradition among many is the 'Green Bean Casserole'.
It hasn't been a tradition so much for me as I was only introduced to it in the last decade. My first introduction however was at a Thanksgiving dinner at my in-laws. Everyone seemed to love it and one or another always made it or brought it. I think I made it once. My memory of the process includes a bag of green beans, onion, cream of mushroom soup and a can of French fried onions. As I progressed into our 'unprocessed, non-additive', real food lifestyle, 'Green Bean Casserole' kind of fell to the wayside until Joanna came for Thanksgiving this year. Joanna is our daughter, number four of our grown up children, and she loves to cook real food, from scratch. Well, she wanted 'Green Bean Casserole'. " I suppose you can make it real." was my reply. We haven't done this before but now would be an excellent time to try and also to learn a new thing together with my daughter. I jumped at the opportunity.
I referred to www.100daysofrealfood.com for a real food recipe and this is what I learned. Green Bean Casserole can be broken down into 3 recipes. I used lard instead of butter. Butter usually makes things soft and lard makes things crispy. So we went with lard. Pastured pork lard. Old fashioned, no additives.
Joanna loved this so much that when she went home, after Thanksgiving, she made a Thanksgiving dinner of her own complete with Green Bean Casserole.
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| She's actually cooking sausage for the stuffing, but this is Joanna cooking on my stove. |
Cream of Mushroom Soup: make ahead, like the day before.
French Fried Onions: best to make last minute
Putting it all together. Green Bean Casserole
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