Green Beans with Tomatoes and Onions

I almost called these Christmas beans. You’ve got the green beans, the red tomatoes and the white onions. All the colors of Christmas. However, using that logic I suppose that they could also be called Italian beans or Mexican Beans. But regardless, because they are the color of Christmas, not to mention delicious, I think that they would be perfect on your Christmas dinner table. You know, the meal that you eat in between all the sweets that you consume this time of year.

This recipe does call for fresh pearl onions. I picked them up because I had never cooked with them and I wanted to give it a shot. What I didn’t think about was how I was going to peel the little buggers. I did some digging around and found that a lot of people prefer to use frozen pearl onions instead. However, others suggested that if you do want to use fresh pearl onions you simply blanch them like you would tomatoes and then peal them. I decided to give that a shot and it worked perfectly for me. If you’d prefer simply buy a bag of frozen pearl onions and follow the directions for thawing. Then proceed with the recipe as if you were using the fresh ones.