Green beans cooked to perfection, somewhere between hard and soft, are delicious tossed with a sauce made with Asian-style ingredients. Oyster-flavored sauce, that bottled oh-so-tangy condiment, adds ...

Green, yellow, and purple beans (a.k.a. string beans, though the strings have been bred out of most modern varieties) are at the height of their season now. Look for ones that snap crisply when broken ...