Reviewed: Jan. 3, 2010

Thank you for this recipe! I needed to find a good green bean recipe that I could substitue either fresh or frozen green beans, as I will not buy canned vegetables. I had a small group for Christmas dinner and tried to adjust the servings accordingly. I ended up using fewer green beans and the same amount of sauce, but this dish turned out great!! Everyone loved it! Will definitely make it again.

Was this review helpful? [ YES ]
2 users found this review helpful

Reviewer:

Jackie

Reviewed: Jan. 2, 2010

Huge disappointment. 40 min @ 350 = extremely over cooked beans and I used fresh beans.Can't imagine what canned beans would have been like since are already partially cooked.I used half the sugar and they were way too sweet. Used only 5 tsp soya, 7 would have been too much. Used one clove fresh minced garlic; that was good. Overall these beans had a nice flavour but they were overcooked, too sweet and too greasy. If I tried this recipe again I would make the sauce with less sugar, less soya and less butter, I would steam the beans, cook the bacon with the garlic, make the sauce and pour it over the cooked beans. But guess that would be a whole new recipe.

Was this review helpful? [ YES ]
17 users found this review helpful

Reviewer:

CHEFB1

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Reviewed: Dec. 28, 2009

Oh. My. God. So I have to be honest. I picked this recipe over the various others because of the fact that you bake it. This is much easier when making a large Christmas dinner. I was VERY worried how it would taste, the brown sugar part was making everyone make faces. So I took the suggestion of others and halved the brown sugar. As I was worried about the sauce permeating through all the beans, I also added 50% more sauce. Turns out this second part was not needed, but taking the brown sugar down by half was. IT WAS PERFECT. Everyone LOVED it. The only other changes I made was that I did cut the bacon into smaller pieces before microwaving, but I still layed it on top, and used enough to cover the beans. I also used frozen beans, and 4 bags worked well. We will definitely be using this recipe again!

Was this review helpful? [ YES ]
24 users found this review helpful

Reviewer:

Gold32

Reviewed: Dec. 26, 2009

This one is the keeper for our family. We have been looking for a green bean holiday recipe for years. Next time I will pull out the bacon and crisp it up and crumble it in the beans and I might add some french fried onions. The recipe is a 5 star as it is though. Thanks!

Was this review helpful? [ YES ]
0 users found this review helpful

Reviewer:

PAPERBAGPRINCESS

Reviewed: Dec. 24, 2009

I love this recipe! I will definitely use it again and again to add some pizzazz to the basic green beans and bacon recipe. Yum...

Was this review helpful? [ YES ]
0 users found this review helpful

Reviewer:

Rhonda Glass

Reviewed: Dec. 14, 2009

These were ok. Nothing great. Could be improved with the use of fresh green beans instead of canned.

Was this review helpful? [ YES ]
1 user found this review helpful

Reviewer:

LASTRONG

Cooking Level: Expert

Reviewed: Dec. 12, 2009

It is not that this dish isn't delisious...because it is. Everyone ate it, but I cut the sugar in half and I still felt like I was on a sugar high after eating it. It was way too sweet, and if you are going to be serving a vegetable dish during Thanksgiving when you have alot of other sweets on the table, it could be the thing that puts you right over the edge. I would choose a healthier dish to make than this. But, if you just want a vegetable on your dinner table that your kids will eat, and there are not other sweet items competing, this is a great dish.

Was this review helpful? [ YES ]
1 user found this review helpful

Reviewer:

Philboyca

Reviewed: Dec. 11, 2009

These were fantastic! I do not like green beans much and have been looking for a recipe that actually appealed to me. Well, I made these for Thanksgiving and they went fast! They were soo good! This will be the ONLY way I will ever do beans again. Thanks for sharing.

Was this review helpful? [ YES ]
1 user found this review helpful