How to Roast Green Beans and Why We Grow Rattlesnake Beans 

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Little new potatoes also taste delicious in that pot of green beans that u cook for hours!!!

I now live in the South and used to work in produce departments. Many "grandmas" often collected all kinds of greens, including radish, to add to their collards ... They also collected the outer leaves of cabbage people often tore off to add to their collards ... which is a great idea ... mellows the flavor. If y'all like mustard greens, you will appreciate radish greens ... both are very tender but fresh ones deteriorate very quickly.

Here in Mississippi wr always refer to a skillet of cornbread as a "pone" too. I've eaten my weight in green beans this summer since being diagnosed as a diabetic earlier this year. Y'all live and do so many things as we do here. Thanks again for your videos.

Yep, we grew up eating our green beans the same exact way. There wasn’t a crunch left to be had. My grandmother would then sauté onions in butter and mix them in with the green beans. 😍🤤 they were my absolute favorite. I still make them that way for thanksgiving. Loved this video!

Got me drooling again, thanks.

Never had roasted green beans but I do like other roasted vegetables. I'll have to give them a try.

My family likes radishes. My dad always had salt on watermelon, green apples and even Oranges. He was from Arkansas

Such a good-looking dinner!!!

I got pink salt and a bag of green beans in my Walmart delivery on Monday, so I am going to try your green bean method. Looks yummy! Did you ever slice and fry radishes with sliced potatoes? There is a restaurant near me that serves this as a side dish. It's really good--milder than sliced potatoes fried with onions. Thank you for posting this very helpful video!

Looks great Mrs. Tipper! Could you let us meet your chickens? Would love to see them. We had chickens, more as pets with benefits, when I was a kid. We used to feed them left over spaghetti noodles, Boy that's a Show! They had a fit over those plain noodles, every time!

Thank you Tipper. My little garden is so small. I’d love to grow some Rattlesnake beans. I usually grow Kentucky Wonder. They sure looked good.❤️

I agree with you about the salt. The pink salt isn't as harsh or sharp as regular table salt, in my opinion. And yes, I put salt on radishes. I'll have to try the roasted green beans.

Roasting the green beans does look delicious. I would like to try this soon. My parents always cooked them with fatback bacon and what they called new potatoes. They were always so good with cornbread & milk. All of us kids would look forward to this every year. And we still do. But in later years my oldest brother developed heart problems. So he started cooking his green beans with a quarter cup of cooking oil in them. And he left the meat out. And they tasted the same as if he had fat back in them. ( I guess it was just the fat from the oil.) Another great video. I always love your recipes. Many thumbs up here. Thank you. Stay well & safe my friends.

Nothing better than roasted fresh vegetables. ♥️🙏🏼♥️

I've heard of roasting green beans , but never tried it. I always roast my asparagus with oil and salt and pepper. This is gonna be put to the top of my cooking bucket list for sure. Thanks for sharing.

Such a sweet video, Tipper. Thank you.

That looks wonderful, Tipper. I love green beans lightly cooked as well as a pot full of fully cooked green beans. I guess I just like green beans! Tipper I also share your fondness for the pink salt. I've used it for years.

Like to grow Chinese snow peas ! They never leave my garden ! I scarve them up before I go to the house

Hi sweetie I just wanted to tell you I tried your roasted green beans yesterday first time I've ever had them and I loved them 😋😋 usually I only like green beans in green bean Casserole. Thank You do much for giving me a new way to eat green beans 🙂🙂 Your videos actually have encouraged me to eat more fruits n vegetables, which is not something I ate a lot of growing up. Thanks so much, please keep the recipes coming 🥰🥰

I love radishes with salt plus watermelon and mush melon I guess as you said just love salt to much 😀 but I have had to start watching how much I eat I developed high blood pressure that's a scary thing I do miss using it like I use to do. The Green Beans looked so yummy I do love a big pot of Green beans cooked like You said with cornbread plus with butter and green onions and a glass of milk that is a great supper.

I like traditionally cooked beans, but I've recently become addicted to battered and deep fried green beans. They're really good dipped in a ranch dip.

Since you like radishes I'll tell you about radish sandwiches. Get a slice of light bread and butter it. Slice up some radish and put them on the bread. Salt the radish slices and there you have it. It's better than it sounds.

Tipper will fling a CRAVING ON YOU , won’t she ????? 😊🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

Thank you for this video!!

Thank you, I will try roasting them. We do asparagus that way.

Some of the sea salts are very unique in taste as the seawater used varied in the chemical composition. I love salt on radishes, cucumbers and tomatoes. Salt cravings should not be ignored, your body knows how much you need.

I know what you mean about the salt Ms. Tipper. When I was growing up, I had the salt shaker setting beside me. I remember Grandma cooking a big pot of green beans with a big chunk of fat meat in them and she'd eat the meat.

You can also slice and pan fry your radishes they taste just like fried potatoes

Hi Tipper! I love your videos. My family eats green beans very similar to the traditional Appalachian way with a slight variation. My grandmother called them Greek green beans. Sauté an onion in a bit of olive oil, add fresh or jarred beans and jarred tomatoes to cover. Simmer for a long time until very tender. Give it a try - I think you’ll like it!

Your love of green beans always makes me think of my dad. He loved his green beans. They are pretty much a favourite of mine too along with radishes (of course with salt). Never have tried the greens but love beet greens, actually more than the actual beets! Thanks for sharing your meal with us. ❤️🇨🇦

I've always cooked them the traditional Appalachian way. It's the way I grew up too. Yet I'm going to try this as my daughter in law cooks them this way, she adds sliced almonds and mushrooms to them. Lol, my grandson's will not eat them our favorite way. Hoping for a better bean harvest next year yet thankful for what we did get.

I realized that I've NOT been very experimental when it comes to cooking green beans, preferring them the way you ate them growing up, Tipper (or maybe in a holiday casserole, some easy recipes and some more complicated). Never thought to just roast them and it's a 🤦🏼‍♀, as I love other vegetables that way. I'm gonna give it a try. THANK YOU, as always I learn something or get inspired here.

I cook mine for about 3 minutes. Can steam in microwave. I like oven roasted too.

There was a time when no one had heard of pink salt. LOL. I grew up with canned spinach. It wasn't until I was an adult that I found out you could grow and have fresh spinach. Just what your family is used to, I guess. Love your videos!

I can't remember the type of bean, they were large and slightly hairy, but my mum used to slice and boil them then make a kind of creamy sauce in the drained pot with flour and butter and put the beans back in. My parents were German, l was born and raised in Australia. I never met my grandparents or family from Europe but lve always somehow been fascinated with Appalachian ways and love watching your videos ❤

I really want to try rattlesnake beans. They sound really good. I didn't grow this year, I just supported the local producers. The green beans here were tough and the taste was not as good as usual.

O my lord I love green beans baked like that so good and back in the day I could eat a truckload of good red radishes .we grew them and the long white ice sickle radishes to they are so good .i really liked the sweet Mellon their you have i get mine at Kroger and they are so delicious and sweet .thank you Tipper for posting this video I could watch them all day oops I do watch them every day say hi to Matt for me .

We cook Asparagus the same way. It is the only way I'll eat them.

We grew Kentucky Wonder pole beans every year. They would be cooked in a big canning pot on the stove with Jowl Bacon, pearl onions, and potatoes. They were served with corn bread or corn cakes. One of my favorite meals growing up in Southern Indiana.

Thank you Tipper for tonight's dinner idea! I just picked some of my late planted green beans. I used to love pink Himalayan salt, then I came across Redmond Real salt. It is a mineral salt, and I love the flavor. It comes from the Great Salt Lake here in USA. I find it in bulk for a very good price at amish bulk food stores here in Ohio. If you ever get a chance to watch Mary's Nest, she does a vid about the different kinds of salt, that is very interesting.

Oh how I love my green beans and bacon grease! Make me some cornbread have me some pickled cucumbers I am in 7th heaven! Have really been enjoying all the videos from you and the girls and the deer hunter just tickles me to death when he gets to joking with you. God bless!

You might be surprised to know a lot of the things you call traditional Appalachia are actually found throughout eastern Canada, including these style of beans. My theory on that is because for nearly 200 years, from about 1600, much of North America was called New France. And many old traditions of the French remained in those places. For example, Sugar Pie is apparently the official Pie of Ohio - but Sugar Pie is a French Canadian dessert that pre-dates Ohio. And the Cajun are actually the Acadian that the english deported from Nova Scotia, they brought with them their culture which still lives today in Louisiana, as well as in Canada. We are all connected in really interesting ways when people take the time to learn about it.

Thanks Tipper. I put salt on radishes, watermelon and cantaloupe. Your dinner look’s yummy.

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I'm going to make this tonight with my fall beans that I just picked. Beautiful beans without a bug bite on them. I will most certainly grow fall beans again next year.

I was raised on the boiled to softness green beans with a ton of salt and hamhock for flavor. But once I tasted the roasted GB, it became my favorite.

I salt everything too. I got that from Daddy. Even fruit like apples need salting if they are peeled. I have cooked down green beans for years but never roasted them. I will try it. If Buz won't eat them just that much more for me lol. Thanks for the new way to cook them. 👍

Totally grew up cooking our green beans to death! 😂 Are you familiar with ‘mixed pickles’-green beans, banana pepper, cabbage, corn all pickled together? So good!

Here in the Appalachia we love our's cooked on the stove with bacon and bacon grease.... Yummmmm so good!

I grew up on Long Island and up there we rarely took the strings off. We'd eat them raw or boiled or in dishes sautéed or roasted. My husband is from India and his favorite recipe is to cooked them on the stove with potatoes and mustard seeds. It's a real easy recipe. Chop the potatoes up. Heat oil in the pan, add mustard seeds and cook until they pop, add garlic and let that sauté that until it has some color. Add the taters and let them brown and then add the string beans. We cook them until the beans are slightly soft. We also toss in curry leaves that he gets at the Indian grocer. We use a lot of the Himalayan pink salt. The first time I had Appalachian half runner beans at a friends house, she sent me home with a whole jar! They were really good and unlike anything I've had. We've been here in Ashe County, NC in the high mountains in the Northwest corner since 2011 and it just feels like home here.

I love the pink salt...it doesn't have the bite that table salt seems to have... and I never had roasted green beans growing up and love them now! Thanks for sharing 🤗❤️

I cook them like my mama,. till they're almost mush !!!!!!! Most times with small red potatoes and a little onion. The last time I sent a message about my mama's grit pudding and I said she made it like bread pudding but I meant rice pudding.....oops!!!

I don't have any green beans left. That looks good but I think I would blanch them for a couple of minutes then rinse them before roasting them. I find that green beans have an off taste if I don't. If I can find some good looking beans at the grocery store I might try that. I tried pink salt but couldn't tell the difference. Your sense of taste must be more refined that mine.

Enjoyed this! I grew up eating green beans, the same way you did tipper . As I've gotten older I've grown to love green beans prepared other ways as well. I love the little Tommy toes too...I'm like you, I don't like the hot, pepper heat , but the mild radish heat is good . I like the pink Himalayan sea salt too. You had a delicious and healthy dinner! Thanks tipper, appreciate y'all always. God bless...🙏❤

Salt on melon & radishes and spring onions

M Himalayan salt id much Healthier along with better Taste

Great looking lunch. I like everything you ate! Again being from german descent.... we would place sliced radishes on dense rye bread smeared with butter and added salt and pepper! Sounds strange but it was very good! Thanks Tipper!

Yup - green beans are "meant" to be cooked-then-"fried" in bacon grease (in the big cast iron pan) until soft and shriveled then eaten with chunks of Vidalia onion and warm corn bread with lots of butter. (Mom would always add a thick slice of tomato to the plate, too.) Will have to try roasting them, though - looks really good! (If you get the chance, try gray salt - fleur de sel - it's spendy so just use it at the table but it's really good.) I bet those radish greens would be good sauteed in bacon or fat back grease...but then, pretty much any greens would be good fixed like that, lol.

My Nana and Pappap would put a pot of leatherbritches beans on the wood stove in the winter. There was always a smoked ham hock in that cast iron pot. Good memories. I cook the dickens out of my green beans, with a ham hock. Love them with fresh tomatoes and diced onions on top.

Sautéed green beans are delicious. My husband's mother cooked green beans yo mushy like you mentioned. Bacon onion and green veins was a favorite dish

I live roasted veggies, I prefer green beans either roasted or sautéed…I never liked the soft beans that mama made by cooking them a long time…I have a story about a teacher making me eat green beans at lunchtime & they made me sick…so after I grew up, I tried them again but still didn’t care for them except roasted or sautéed…I sometimes sautéed them and when they are the way I like them, I put just a splash of soy sauce on them then serve…they are good 😊

A lot of the way you cook your food is the same as we do here in Vermont. Mom always cooked her veggies until very soft including green beans. She didn't like her veggies "half cooked". We also put salt on our watermelon and our radishes. Each person would have a tiny saucer filled with salt next to their plate to dip the radishes in as we ate them. Also, new lettuce leaves she would sprinkle with vinegar and sugar and we'd eat it like that. Only the new tender leaves from the garden.

Rattlesnake beans are amazing. My very favorite bean any way you cook them! Mustard powder brings out good flavor in green beans.

Do y'all know this lil diddy ?.... .."BEANS ..BEANS GOOD FOR YOUR HEART . BEANS ..BEANS MAKE YA FART ! . .THE MORE YA FART , THE BETTER YA FEEL !! ..SO EAT BEANS AT EVERY MEAL !!" 🤘🤠👌💨.☁..☁

They are good but like you like them traditionally cooked a long time. Thank you for sharing.

I like to make okra the same way. Same temperature and seasoning. Just slice to desired length or keep whole and bake for about 10-15 minutes then flip them best you can and bake 10-15 minutes more or until your likeness. They are so good like that. Not slimy. My husband says they're like popcorn cause you just can't stop eating them.

I guess I’m just southern thru’ & thru’, cause I don’t want no crunchy green beans! I want my green beans soft & juicy, full of Shellys & seasoned with bacon! Mmm mmm mmm!

I'm with you on preferring green beans done up the old fashioned way, and if I'm gonna roast them, I put plenty of salt and pepper on them. But I have added some garlic powder and onion powder, generally save that style for company or other get togethers. I probably would've roasted them tomatoes and radishes too. Don't care for how some folks blanch green beans for two minutes and serve 'em up, might as well eat the things raw. Something I found that's good is adding in some caramelized onions, garlic powder and butter to cooked green beans, good stuff. Spent many a days out on the porch snapping beans, shelling peas, shucking corn, you name it, with a glass of sweet tea or lemonade beside me. I always knowed you could eat green beans raw, just wasn't my favorite, probably why I don't like them two minute blanched green beans. For big summer suppers, I like to do what I call a roasted salad, it has green beans, onions, radishes, carrots, tomatoes, corn, cauliflower, broccoli, green onions, a little garlic powder and some fresh grated parmesan cheese, and some salt and pepper, of course. Since it's usually for a crowd, I'll have several sheet pans filled up and that helps keep from cooking one kind of vegetable too long, especially them green onions, or not enough on others, like them carrots. It's a big hit with everybody, and they say they can't wait for me to fix, but they don't fix it themselves, go figure. Seems like you cook up most things like I do or similar, well, I haven't seen too many of your shows, but so far that's how it is. Have to say I needed a good laugh today, and I sure got one when you said you got them beans, strings and all. My Nanie wouldn't let younguns near the food she was getting ready to cook, except me, and she only done that cause I was particular about being clean when it comes to anything going in your mouth, so I was the one that got to do all that stuff. We always give chickens all of the kitchen and garden scraps, don't understand why some folks wanna eat eggs and meat of chickens that ain't healthy, and giving them good stuff to eat is what keeps them healthy. Have grown extra kale just for chickens on account of them liking it so much and it being good for them. Even toss corn husk out for them because they attract insects and chickens love to scratch through them. Got many gripes with folks that don't feed their stock animals right or keep their water clean, but some let them live in filth too, either way is unhealthy for you and them, and it's cruel.

LOVE GREEN BEANS I hate to tell you but at the grocery store you can buy frozen green beans to cook in the oven and roast. The reason I'm ashamed to tell you is we do a small garden but no way the size of yours. I'm always impressed with the amount of work you put into canning, freezing, drying etc.

I remember having home canned string beans when I was a kid, that had not been "stringed" effectively. seasoned with bacon grease, salt & pepper, delicious, but you ended up with a mouthful, (cud?) of fiber that would be deposited discretely on the plate.

I'm fond of most roasted veggies!! I like a little chipotle chili powder on my roasted green beans. I tried roasting radishes including the greens and really enjoyed them. Roasted turnips w/ their greens r also good.

That looks like a delicious, nutritious dinner, Tipper. You're like me, I adore radishes with lots of salt, yum!

I love using the greens from radishes with crumbled Bacon and drizzle the bacon grease for my dressing and black pepper, my wife doesn't agree with my not so healthy salad, love to say waste not want not.

Hi Tipper Yes I love the way you cook the green beans and I will try this tomorrow with with roast pork mash potatoes, these are good to give the children snack for their lunch pail. Thank you patsy

Makes me look back to my wonderful summers spent with my cousins and family in Alabama. A stop at the "curb market " was almost a daily event . That is the same as a farmers market where fresh vegetables are sold . We could usually persuade the adults into a watermelon or peaches or plums . A midafternoon lunch was prepared by my aunt , grandmother and mother and it was so good . The green beans were always boiled but the ways you serve them is so mouth watering . Brings back many fond memories of happier times . Thank you so much .

Ditto on all that Tipper…I wouldn’t have thought I’d ever eat them any other way than stewed down with fatback. Low and behold I’ve really come to love sauté and roasted green beans and make these quite often.😊

I jumped on the pink Himalayan salt thing a year or so ago and immediately noticed that there was grit in my food. Apparently the brands my local Walmart offered were not top quality and grit was a common complaint. Needless to say, that negative experience tainted my opinion of this kind of salt.

I have never heard of roasting beans in England but I may just give it a go. I agree with you on himalayan salt it does taste different. I worked for a Sikh boss and they used to have something called black salt which smelt of rotten eggs and she would put on fruit!! I love watermelon but I don't think I could put salt on it. Have a good day.

I like radishes. And of course I put salt on them, and watermelon. Just a light dusting cause I tend toward high BP.

I could eat a vegetable n fruit plate like you fixed every day! Looks delicious! I still can’t get over your ability to grow watermelons !

I like roasted green beans and I think I’d love leather britches but never had heard about them until I saw Justro over at Metcalf mills put some up that way, I can’t wait til next years garden so I can make some.

I've seen you talk about "volunteer" plants/veggies. Does this just mean that they reseed themselves each year? Almost perennial, if you will?

Your meal looks delish - thx for sharing. What a wonderful way to enjoy the waning end of season treats....

The beans and tomatoes look delicious! I also like salt on my watermelon, however, you can keep the radishes! Haha! Never got a taste for them.

Tommy toes is one I've never heard...but sticks in my head now...thank you!

Don't u use any oil to roast the beans...sure do enjoy watching u in whatever u and Matt and the girls do....

I don't think I'd like traditional green beans -I can't even eat frozen beans because by the time they are heated up they are too soft for me! I've never thought of roasting them though, and that seems like a great method!

I have never had roasted g beans, sound so wonderful. I look every day for your video. So enjoy them. sondra mccain in north texas

Your video on roasted Green beans was very interesting ,I will have to give it a try.The best way to cook them is like you do.😋👍

The pink salt is much better for you. It has many minerals in it so good for us. iodized table salt is not healthy.

Mama would boil fatbackn the water cook it until done. Then she would put her green beans just until they were done that is as much as she would cook them. They were real good . She would also cook pole bean that were a wide bean with strings like your beans you would have to take that string out also. She would make new potatoes to go with all of that too. Sure was good.

I’ve never had roasted green beans. We always cook them to death. Lol My dad would fuss if he got one in his mouth that still had a string on it.

A lot of our meals when I grew up were vegetables, corn bread and slaw. Meat was only on Sunday’s’. My grandmother would have 5 or 6 vegetables. I can smell them today! ☺️

I love the pink salt and for the past 3 years have been cooking with it. I don't even use the other salts anymore.

I've never roasted green beans but have eaten them before & really like them. Maybe I should try to roast some for us. Hugs!

My grandma used make green beans like that with a piece of fat back my moms green beans were straight out of the can..lol The sell those little tomatoes in stores out here there called grape tomatoes because there the size of grapes. I get them every time I see them because there so good.

If you break them in half only, the strings that you didn’t get will appear

Got to watch out for dinosaur bones in that pink salt. I once had Kobe beef cooked on a slab of the Himalayan pink salt.

I found the rattle snake beans at our local feed and seed. I will plant them next season. I had not heard of them prior to you. I asked them about greasy bean seed, but they do not carry. The roasted beans looked delicious!