Phew. I was afraid you were going to tell me that icanhascheezburger is run by neo-Nazi seal-clubbers.

You probably could have figured it out on your own

You overestimate my culinary abilities.

Thanks though! They sound good.

Bye-bye. Can I have your stereo after you snuff it?

Well I didn’t have full portions of all of it, nor did I eat every dish. I had just a bite or two of most of them, but they were all there to be eaten.

There were so many foods in part because we had three families’ worth of people here - my family, my friend’s family, and my sister’s old boyfriend’s family all got together. I think it was about 20 people.

MH- Garlic Jalapeno Green Beans?
The holy trinity….*drool*
Care to share?

You probably could have figured it out on your own - I just ran some garlic and peppers (and olive oil) through the food processor and tossed the beans in them.

Anyway:

I put a few jalapeños, about 1/4 of an onion, and about half a clove of garlic into the food processor, along with some olive oil and a splash of lemon juice - maybe a teaspoon. I use the Pulse option, just pulsing it a few times - I didn’t want to liquefy everything! I didn’t make exact measurements - I usually just eyeball everything I make, or modify it “to taste”. I added some salt and black pepper also.

Anyway, boil some green beans, and after boiling them, immediately put them into cold ice water to shock them - it stops them from cooking further [which can result in limp beans, I like them to retain a little crispness]. It also brightens the green color.

Then just toss the beans in the mixture. Note: I had to toss about half the ground-up mixture, it made a lot more than the beans needed. I personally prefer serrano peppers, but they’re too hot for my white bread family & guests, so I toned it down.

The holy trinity….*drool*

Care to share?

I’ve been trying to figure out what you mean. Is it the Internet locale that is referenced on the lolcat Wikipedia page as being the origin of lolcats?

Watchu mean? Is there something I should know that I don’t?

It used to be very, very good for all of the simplicity, but years of smoking have robbed my mom of her sense of taste (she claims it’s another reason, but I suspect it’s the smoking) so now everything is ridiculously bland, but we can’t convince her to let anyone else cook.

The pumpkin pie was from Ralphs (Kroger to you Southerners) and it was REALLY bad. We ended upp picking up a pecan-cranberry tart on the way home and having some of that. Then we watched the MST3K version of “Santa Claus” and all was well.