Believe it or not, stuck away in my big freezer, I found several bags of French cut green beans left over from Thanksgiving.  It’s time to clean house and I would like a way to cook up those beans other than the classic green bean casserole that we all know and love, but have had enough of. 

I did stumble across an old scrap of paper with a soup recipe scribbled on it that looks pretty interesting.  The instructions aren’t really detailed, but the ingredients are simple.  The recipe for French Cut Green Bean Soup goes just like this:

Take a bag of frozen French cut green beans (about 4 cups), about 3 medium size potatoes, diced up, 1 good size carrot, sliced, 1 medium onion, diced up, 1 to 2 teaspoons of salt depending on how salty you like your soup, and put this all in a pot, cover with cold water.  Simmer until all the veggies are tender.  Then, mix together in a bowl, 2 tablespoons each flour and butter.  Add 1/2 cup of cream or half ‘n half and mix together.  Then put that mixture into soup and stir well.  Return soup to a gentle bubble for a minute, then turn off heat.  Then, add 2 cups or more of buttermilk, until you like the way the soup looks.  The buttermilk is the trick to this really good soup.

Like I said, this recipe was just scribbled on a piece of scrap paper, so that’s as precise as it gets! 

If you have any recipes you’d like to share that use French cut green beans, even if it’s just an old scribbled recipe that you dug up somewhere, I’d love to hear from you!