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Zydeco green beans ****

Yield: 1 Servings

Ingredients:

• 2 1/4 c Water
• 3/4 c White Vinegar
• 2 tb Sugar
• 1 tb Crushed Mustard Seeds
• 4 md Garlic Cloves Thinly Sliced
• 3 Bay Leaves
• 1 1/2 ts Salt
• 1 1/2 ts Tabasco Pepper Sauce
• 1 lb Trimmed Green Beans

Instructions:

Zydeco Green Beans is actually a redundancy. The exuberant music of Louisiana's black French-speaking Creoles is called zydeco an idiomatic phonetic version of les haricots French for snap beans. Serve these green beans as a relish or as "stirrers" for Bloody Marys. ~------------------------------------------------------ ~----------------- In a large saucepan stir together the water vinegar sugar mustard seeds garlic bay leaves salt and Tabasco sauce. Bring to a boil reduce the heat cover and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the beans. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes until tender-crisp. Arrange the beans in a shallow dish and cover them completely with the vinegar mixture. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Serve cold. From: The Tabasco Cookbook.

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