[recipe testing] harumi's green beans
Nov. 5th, 2009 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reikaNot making this into a full-fledged food blog, 'cause even though I enjoy cooking, I think it's too much work to photograph your food, present it in a pretty way, and then write about it engagingly so that other people would want to read it. So many great people are doing that already, and they're far better in it than I.
I do want to start evaluating recipes -- how'd it taste, did I do anything different from the original version, how easy were the instructions...? Think of it as online crib notes for cooking.
Anyway, since I had 1/2 lb. of green beans that were going to go to waste if I didn't act on them soon, I found this super simple recipe from The Good Mood Food Blog. The dressing worked really well with the subtle sweet of the blanched green beans. I didn't have the sesame listed in the recipe, but since the author mentioned that tahini would work just fine (I mean, it is just sesame butter anyway, so that saves me the work in grinding the seeds), and it did! Usually, I find tahini overpowering when I use it in hummus or babaghanoush, but here, it melded nicely with the rest of the ingredients. I would use the dressing quite sparingly though since it is quite flavorful.
I do want to start evaluating recipes -- how'd it taste, did I do anything different from the original version, how easy were the instructions...? Think of it as online crib notes for cooking.
Anyway, since I had 1/2 lb. of green beans that were going to go to waste if I didn't act on them soon, I found this super simple recipe from The Good Mood Food Blog. The dressing worked really well with the subtle sweet of the blanched green beans. I didn't have the sesame listed in the recipe, but since the author mentioned that tahini would work just fine (I mean, it is just sesame butter anyway, so that saves me the work in grinding the seeds), and it did! Usually, I find tahini overpowering when I use it in hummus or babaghanoush, but here, it melded nicely with the rest of the ingredients. I would use the dressing quite sparingly though since it is quite flavorful.