what are these: pale yellow, look like green beans?

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:43:39 -0800, "em" <[email protected]> wrote:

>I had some veggies with my steak up at Carrows (the one at Western and
>Westmont, between RPV and San Pedro, in case you're in the area). Green
>beans, carrots, and yellow bean-things that looked like green beans but they
>were a pale yellow. There weren't too many and they didn't seem carby, so I
>ate a few. I'd like to find out what they are so that I can look them up in
>the usda database. Thanks -- Mike


Hmmmm ... are you talking about wax beans?

em wrote:
> I had some veggies with my steak up at Carrows (the one at Western and
> Westmont, between RPV and San Pedro, in case you're in the area).
> Green beans, carrots, and yellow bean-things that looked like green
> beans but they were a pale yellow. There weren't too many and they
> didn't seem carby, so I ate a few. I'd like to find out what they are
> so that I can look them up in the usda database. Thanks -- Mike

Might not be the same thing but I used to grow yellow beans here in UK.
They seem to be much like the green beans, just yellow

"Marengo" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:43:39 -0800, "em" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>I had some veggies with my steak up at Carrows (the one at Western and
>>Westmont, between RPV and San Pedro, in case you're in the area). Green
>>beans, carrots, and yellow bean-things that looked like green beans but
>>they
>>were a pale yellow. There weren't too many and they didn't seem carby, so
>>I
>>ate a few. I'd like to find out what they are so that I can look them up
>>in
>>the usda database. Thanks -- Mike
>
>
> Hmmmm ... are you talking about wax beans?

OK, there we go. I found them based on your que. They're called Yellow
Beans. At 1g/oz, raw, they're the same as green beans.

In article <SYw%[email protected]>, "em" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I had some veggies with my steak up at Carrows (the one at Western and
> Westmont, between RPV and San Pedro, in case you're in the area). Green
> beans, carrots, and yellow bean-things that looked like green beans but they
> were a pale yellow. There weren't too many and they didn't seem carby, so I
> ate a few. I'd like to find out what they are so that I can look them up in
> the usda database. Thanks -- Mike

As others have said, they're wax beans. You grow them and prepare them
exactly like green beans. You can also get purple beans, but those turn
green when you cook them. I get a mixed seed pack for my garden each
year, as the wax beans usually are ready to pick before the green and
purple beans are.

--
"[***] has very definite opinions, and does not suffer fools lightly.
This, apparently, upsets the fools."
---BB cuts to the pith of a flame-fest

As others have posted, these are yellow or wax beans. In the summer, I love
to make a mixed bean salad with these, green beans, some kidney beans,
chopped onion and garlic, a little olive oil, and apple cider vinegar. Plus
salt 'n pepper. If you like this type of salad sweet, add a little of an
artificial sweetener of your choice. Not very carby, especially if you keep
the proportion of kidney beans low, and very refreshing and pretty. I like
red onion with this, mostly for the appearance.

HG


"em" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:SYw%[email protected]...
>I had some veggies with my steak up at Carrows (the one at Western and
>Westmont, between RPV and San Pedro, in case you're in the area). Green
>beans, carrots, and yellow bean-things that looked like green beans but
>they were a pale yellow. There weren't too many and they didn't seem carby,
>so I ate a few. I'd like to find out what they are so that I can look them
>up in the usda database. Thanks -- Mike