Green Beans With Garlic-Herb Butter

Green beans have many common names – string beans, pole beans, snap beans, zydeco – just to name a few. Two of my favorite ways to eat green beans is to break it off the plant and eat it fresh; the other is pickled. I just wonder if I could dance the “zydeco” – does that mean I have to dance with a string bean.

Ingredients

• 1 pound fresh green beans, trimmed
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 small onion, minced
• 1 celery rib, minced
• 1 1/2 tsp jarred minced garlic (I like roasted)
• 1/8 tsp dried rosemary (optional)
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
• cayenne pepper to taste

Directions