The twentieth recipe I made for French Fridays with Dorie, from Dorie Greenspan's Around My French Table cookbook, was Pancetta Green Beans found on page 333.
It isn't exactly fresh green bean season here, but I did manage to find some that were passable, and made better by Dorie's treatment of them in this recipe.
Usually we just like green beans steamed with barely a whisper of a pass of a teeny bit of butter on them before they hit the dinner plate, and we like the ones that are young thin and tender...oh, yes, I am fairly picky about fresh green beans. That said, these were delightful.
I made two changes, I used bacon instead of pancetta as it is much friendlier on my weekly budget and I can always find good bacon whereas I can't always get really good pancetta, and I steamed the green beans rather than toss them in water and boil them. I think the essence of what Dorie intended was still present in the finished product.
Delicious! This is definitely a repeat.
