Keeping green beans/4th of July menu

[Cairycat]

7. The beans kept quite well

I just put them in a bag with a paper towel, and gave them plenty of space in the bag. The green bean and tomato salad recipe was really good. I thought the dressing was a bit too tart, so I put in a few drops of honey, and added some savory to the dressing, since it's traditional with beans. Also used garlic chives instead of the basil.

The watermelon agua fresca was good too, but a lot of work. I made a double quantity to use the whole watermelon. The leftovers are not bad with a little light rum, lol.


We drove a half hour to the little country cemetery where my FIL is buried, and scattered my MIL's ashes around his grave. The cemetery is very quiet except for bird song and wind in the trees, but the heat and humidity made it like a sauna and there were lots of gnats and mosquitos, so it was good to come back and have the key lime pie. My younger son talked about the job opportunities he'll have when he gets his degree next spring, and the young woman we hope will someday be our daughter-in-law was excited to see an osprey nest en route, since she is doing an internship at a raptor center.

On a lighter note, in searching for the rum, I decided to rearrange the liquor cabinet and had all the bottles spread out on the counter. My older son says, "That looks like a hell of drink you're planning on making!" "You've heard of Long Island ice tea, haven't you?" I replied. "Looks like the whole damn state of New York there" was his rejoinder.