{"id":2114,"date":"2011-02-27T23:55:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T06:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2011-08-06T08:12:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T15:12:38","slug":"freezing-runner-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/?p=2114","title":{"rendered":"Freezing Runner Beans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After some experimentation, this is the way we prefer to freeze and then cook our runner beans in order to preserve taste and texture.<\/p>\n<p>TO FREEZE: Take two cups of runner beans of any size.  Top and tail, then cut them into bite-size pieces.  Blanch for two minutes, transfer to ice water for two minutes, partially dry them in a dish towel, and place in a freezer bag in the freezer.<\/p>\n<p>TO COOK: Bring half a pot of salty water to the boil and add two cups of frozen beans.  Stir until defrosted &#8211; about thirty seconds.  Drain and transfer to a microwave-safe container (no liquid) and cook for one minute on high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some experimentation, this is the way we prefer to freeze and then cook our runner beans in order to preserve taste and texture. TO FREEZE: Take two cups of runner beans of any size. Top and tail, then cut them into bite-size pieces. Blanch for two minutes, transfer to ice water for two minutes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2137,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions\/2137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}