I was not able to get lima beans planted this year and I have been really missing having had a lima bean harvest. So, when Cam and I went to the farm store, we both jumped on the bushels of lima beans. Now that I have so many beans in my refrigerator, I need to…
Category: Lima Beans
Succotash Salad
Most of the time, I try a recipe, I have to make changes, it just doesn’t seem right to me. This salad by Katie Lee is an exception, I made it just as it was written and it was a really happy addition to our dinner. Not only that, it met my “is it great…
A Lima Bean Twist on Goulash
Perhaps it is my Hungarian grandmother coming through, but I love, love, love this dish! The paprika and lemon flavor combination made me so happy. The dish felt like love from beginning to end. The love started at the beginning with shelling the lima beans. The process started with both Cam and the dog hovering,…
Fattoush
There is a middle eastern restaurant near my daughter’s university…Ali Baba in Newark, DE. It is one of my favorite places to eat. They have many delicious dishes, but somehow, whenever I go there I have to order the fattoush. Fattoush is a middle eastern bread salad, and I think I am addicted to it….
Roasted Lima Beans
I was looking for a new way to cook the lima beans from our garden. After doing an internet search, I came upon this recipe from an NPR piece on lima beans from 2007 by D. Cameron Lawrence. The recipe is from chef Bruce Ucán of the Mayan café in Louisville, KY. It is adaptable for…
Cavatappi with Lemony Brussels Sprouts and Lima Beans
Brussels sprouts and lima beans, the two vegetables that make most of America groan and kids run to hide. We are so accustomed to steamed, over-cooked, stinky, frozen Brussels sprouts and dried or frozen lima beans cooked until they are bland and mushy. But once you have tasted these vegetable prepared fresh, in manners that…
Baghali Polo – Persian Rice with Lima Beans
File this one under “I can’t believe I just made something this delicious!” Yes, I often make really tasty and flavorful food, but not typically on my first try making something I have never tasted before, using a lot of improvisation and guess-work. And, according to my Persian food expert (my Iranian husband), this was…
Fresh Lima Beans with Roasted Tomatoes and Artichokes
I stopped at the farm market the other day to pick up some broccoli (Cam is demanding it every day right now) and what did they have at the checkout? Shelled fresh lima beans! Yay! I immediately started tasting Never Say Never Again Lima Beans in my mind. So, into my cart they went. I had…
‘Never Say Never Again’ Lima Beans
If you are like me, you grew up cringing every time you saw lima beans – those yucky, mushy, stinky lima beans. Never would I eat them, no way, no how. I’d rather lock myself in the bathroom! When I moved to Delaware, where they grow lima beans, people would actually look forward to the…
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