re: Pot cooked green beans

Go out and buy 15 jars of Better Than Bullion Ham Base. Buy a small honey baked ham.

Season the beans with four Tablespoons of oil, a Tablespoon of sugar and 1 - 2 Tablespoon of Better Than Bullion Ham Base per gallon of green beans. Do not keep the liquid from the cans. Drain it off, because it makes the beans taste "tinney" like the can. Add tap water to cover the beans. Cut up the ham and divide it equally between the pots of beans.

Bring the pots up to boil temperature and taste the broth. If you like the way it tastes, the beans will be fine. They will taste no better than the broth tastes.

Happy it isn't me cooking all those green beans.

Give yourself plenty of time. It will take a while to bring big pots up to a boil and they need to cook maybe a hour maybe two at a low boil (more than a simmer) to get the flavor right.

This is a lot of beans - 20 (half cup) servings per can or 1400 servings!