Fear your greens no longer! These smoky green beans go right alongside your smoked meats and make a favorite dish extraordinary.

Prep Time: 15-20 minutes (depending on your green bean prep skills)

Cook Time: 3 Hours

Ingredients:

I'm so happy to share an extraordinary new book with you today! The Iberian Table: Healthy Cooking Secrets from the Land of Longevity, by award-winning author Robin Keuneke, takes home cooks on an unforgettable journey through northern Spain’s delicious food culture. Keuneke's unique blend of health book, cookbook, and all-five-senses culinary travel memoir brings us this delicious cuisine by way of storytelling; this is such an interesting way to learn about  culture, place, and the Spanish Mediterranean diet.

We are so happy to share with you a recipe from an extraordinary new cookbook, Gather & Graze (click here to read our review and author interview!). It's peak blueberry season here in Michigan, and we've already picked almost 100 pounds over near South Haven (and almost a month left in the season to go!). I thought to save some from our picking Monday (in the rain, but oh so worth it) to make these. They are SO delicious. 

When I was in college at Michigan State University, we used to go to El Azteco Restaurant for our Sunday dinners, when the cafe was closed. El Az offered bean and cheese burritos at a fair price for a college student in the late 1980s: $1.50 each. Since I graduated many moons ago, they’ve moved to a better location – and I’m able to afford more than a bean and cheese burrito.

Over the holidays, my mom would often give away jars of homemade raspberry jam. Now I fully admit I didn’t inherit my mom’s gift for gardening or canning (I’m working on both though, mom, promise!). Thankfully, though, I did pay attention when she was giving me cooking lessons.