About yellow beans

Yellow Beans from our garden. 

• Yellow Beans are less bitey than Blue Lake Green beans. 
• We grow them every year.  Up North they are called wax beans but they aren't waxy.
• The freeze better.  When you freeze green beans that little bitiness or bitterness becomes stronger but yellow beans don't become stronger.
• Good plain with butter, salt & pepper. And with parmesan, romano or other Italian white cheese.  
• One of my favorite and simple recipes:  
• Cut into 1-2 inch slices and cook like you would green beans but a little firmer.  Soggy is not good.  They will get soggier in fridge. 
• Run cold water over them in the pan to chill them down.  
• Cool them to room temperature.  
• Chop some onion, red onion or green onion and add with Italian dressing***  I use Wesson Best Blend
• & fresh ground pepper and marinate in refrigerator.  
• Will keep a few days. 
• Great light lunch ingredient.  
• Travels well for picnics. 
• (Want more color?  Add canned drained sliced pimientos.) 
• (Adventurous?  Add crumbled feta cheese.)  
• (Spicier?  Add some dried red pepper flakes.)
• *** I use the old fashioned now popular again Good Season's Package Dressing Kit (remember those cruets?)  I have found that (even Good Season's) Italian (zesty and other Italian) bottled dressings taste too sweet for my tastes so I use the following:

    

    

Note:  New packaged Thick and Creamy packaged Italian dressing (It takes mayo but you could use Hellmann's Light which is my fave) to cut the calories down. 

OTHER YELLOW BEAN RECIPES:

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1738,159183-254201,00.html

http://www.cooks.com/recipe/ax7ng5yp/yellow-wax-beans-supreme.html

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/green-yellow-bean-salad-with-chunky-tomato-dressing-feta-cheese-10000000630014/

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Green-Bean-Yellow-Bean-and-Cherry-Tomato-Salad-103487

Cloud City Cookbook 1889 free pdf download link

Like old cookbooks? Leadville Colorado 1889

I love this preface especially about the poor cooking part:


Preface
"Of making many books there is no end," said a wise man;
but probably he had good cooks. There is a "place" for all
things as well as a "time," and every hungry man knows the
place for a good dinner. If the shortest road to man's heart is
by way of his stomach, then the projectors of this little volume
think they have struck it rich. So, like all other authors, we have
written to meet a "long felt want." There are cook-books and
cook-books, but who ever saw a cook-book for " Cloud City"?
It is a well-established fact that in a high altitude the science
culinary has its local and peculiar laws. It is commonly held
that a different proportion of ingredients is necessary, as well as
a different Jength of time. It is even claimed by some that
more fuel is required here than in a lower altitude. Be this as it
may, it is well established that the husband, who has recently
brought his wife from the East, is not in healthy employment
when he reminds her of the superior ([uality of his mother's
cooking. He must wait until she has learned the new conditions
in her new world. Without a scientific explanation of why the
boiling point is reached at lower temperature here than at lower
altitude, or whether this one fact accounts for the necessity of
different proportions of ingredients in cookery, the Ladies of
the Congregational Church gracefully bow themselves before the
public with a genuine blessing to every family. Poor cooking
is responsible for much of the wretched health of women and
children, and much of the drinking habit among men. If, by
gathering together in this little volume the wisest experience,
wrought out in the peculiar conditions of this lofty altitude, we
are able to bring peace and happiness to the home, our ambition
shall have been amply satisfied.
Ladies Congregational Church.


Old Recipes for (and including OLD ADVERTISEMENTS and a bunch of yellowed blank pages)

• Soups
• Breads
• Salads
• Pies
• Cake
• Puddings and Sauces
• Dessert
• Miscellaneous
• Cookies 
• Household Hints 

Link from a site called pioneerliving.net
http://www.pioneerliving.net/Recipts/cloudcitycookboo00nash.pdf