Fresh Green Bean Salad (originally posted 7.22.02)
Tonight I made a little dressing of olive oil and lemon juice, salt, into which I placed about 6 green beans five minutes of out my garden. The beans had spent 2 of those minutes in hot water which I heated in a butter melter. I tore a leaf of fresh basil to put on top. I let them sit for a few minutes and then ate them with my fingers, greedily, in my incredibly hot living room, feeling like the luckiest human in the world.