My wife and I eat a lot of green beans and we both enjoy them in a very non-typical way for us! Many of our vegetables I steam long enough to warm them---still crisp, but not green beans when it is just us. I always have a couple of smoked ham hocks in the freezer and begin by throwing one of them in a pot of water and set it to boil while I clean the beans. Once cleaned, the beans go into pot and cook at least an hour ----and no crisp is left! We both enjoy sour cream on top of the now soft beans.
I save the water as vegetable broth and take the meat off the ham hock and use it for breakfast with my eggs. 
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