Easy Kid Friendly Sweet Green Beans Food

EASY SWEET GREEN BEANS

Steps:

• Heat water in a pot large enough to hold all of your beans until boiling.
• Wash, trim and cut your green beans into bite sized pieces while you are waiting for the water to boil.
• When water is boiling and your beans are prepared dump them into the boiling water for about 5 minutes or bright green.
• While beans are boiling grab a medium bowl and combine soy sauce, melted butter and brown sugar. Stir until blended. Set aside.
• When beans are cooked drain them in a colander in the sink or how ever you prefer. Return beans to the pot and add the soy mixture on top of the beans. Toss beans in mixture until they are all coated. Serve immediately.
• I always serve this dish with rice. I usually serve the beans beside or on top of the rice with a little extra sauce drizzled all over!

GREEN BEANS KIDS ARE SURE TO EAT

Steps:

• Heat butter, garlic powder, onion powder, and pepper in a saucepan over medium heat until butter is melted, 1 to 2 minutes. Stir green beans into butter mixture and cook until beans are heated through, 5 to 10 minutes.

EASY & KID FRIENDLY SWEET GREEN BEANS

Steps:

• Remove stems from beans.
• Add garlic, butter and green beans to frying pan, simmer covered on medium low heat -stirring occasionally- for 20 minutes or until beans are tender.
• Drizzle small amount of honey and maple syrup on top of beans occasionally as they cook. You can add as much or as little as you like for desired sweetness!

FANCY PANTS BURGER

Steps:

• Form 8 patties from the ground meat. I usually use ground chicken breast or lean ground sirloin. Ground turkey is ok but it is going to be very soft so you may want to add some bread crumbs to firm it up- A mix of ground meats works well too.
• Place cheese in the center of 4 of the patties.
• Top each cheese topped patty with a non cheese topped patty and pinch edges to seal all the cheese inside.
• In a hot non stick pan add 1 tsp of salt- this will keep the grease from settling in the burgers- Gramma trick!
• Fry the patties on each side until browned and cooked through.
• Remove patties and keep them warm on a paper towel lined plated.
• Drain grease from pan and add tomato sauce and brown sugar.
• Cook until sugar is dissolved and sauce is warm. Add salt and pepper to taste- can also add some garlic and onion powder as well- to taste.
• Return the patties to the pan with the warm sauce turning once to coat.
• Spoon sauce on top of each patty when serving.
• When you cut into the patty the cheese will melt out! YUM.
• NOTE: Try other 'stuffings' inside these fancy burgers. Great way to sneak veggies in as well! Try adding some diced mushrooms, green peppers, broccoli, carrot, etc -- aqnd use as much or as little cheese as you like --.
• Experiment! Try pizza sauce/ mozzarella.
• spaghetti sauce/parmesan.
• tomato soup/monterey jack.
• mushroom soup/smoked gouda.
• the possibilities are endless- Have fun!

SIMPLE GREEN BEANS

Steps:

• Can be made earlier in the day. Snip off the tops, but not the curly tails (they look better rustic-style), from the green beans. Boil in salted water for 3 mins until just tender. Get a bowl of iced water ready. Drain the beans and plunge into the water for 3 mins, then drain well and tip out onto a plate. Finely chop the shallot, scatter over the beans and sprinkle with some vinaigrette. Set aside to cool.