Green beans and potatoes is one of my favorite side dishes. I grew up on this dish. I remember when my mother cooked fresh green beans and potatoes straight from the garden seasoned with a ham hock and we could not get enough. Mama used pork jowl and salt pork or just plain bacon as southern lady cooks in any kind of beans she made for us.

Today, I feel like the meal is really not complete if we don’t have some kind of beans and potatoes. Mama always cooked a huge kettle of green beans and potatoes and we had them for several days. I never tired of them with cornbread muffins and would make a meal of just the two dishes. You don’t have to use the chicken broth. 2 hours until potatoes are done and water has cooked down. You can also do this in the crockpot and let cook on low 6 to 7 hours or high 4 hours.

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