Lima Beans

[Guildedagain]

This is gonna be good on this cold Easter Sunday ;]

Southern Lima Beans (Butter Beans)

The recipe for these Southern Lima Beans (also known as butter beans or dried limas) is simple, easy, and only calls for a handful of ingredients. The super rich, creamy broth and smoky flavor is what sets them apart.

southernbite.com

 

[Stuball48]

I like 'em mashed up with the crustiest piece of cornbread I can get

 

[beecee]

I can't even think of eating again for a bit!!

Lots of food and family today!!

 

[HeyMikey]

I hated beans growing up. Somewhere along the line I began to eat and appreciate them when done right. Nowadays I love them. My grandmother had a recipe for baked lima beans that were amazing. Lost to the winds of time. Now I’m going to have to Google some lima recipes.

White beans are great with smoked meats. French cassoulet being my favorite. Navy bean soup another. My kids hate them, but I love ‘em, especially on a cold day.

 

[Guildedagain]

 

[Guildedagain]

Lolol A bean recipe

Lost to the winds of time.

 

[beecee]

Then again...we did get a big chunk of ham and part of the bone from aunt Reenee's today after Easter dinner.

 

[walrus]

I assume I'm an outlier, but there isn't anything you can do to lima beans to make me like them...

walrus

 

[Guildedagain]

I reconnected with a local farmer who has these heritage hogs, Large Black, native to Devon Cornwall, who will sell me 30lbs of this and that for $250, a very good deal. It used to be $8 for a roast was considered way too much for some people, but now grocery store prices - nearly the same - make the local meat very attractive.

Nothing like pulled pork from homegrown pig, and now I can get some ham shanks, which is the correct way to make these bean soups.

Here's a recipe I developed - euphimism for making the same dish over and and over - over the last few months.

Great Northern Bean & Broccoli soup.

Soak 2 cups of Great Northern beans overnight. I use a tp of salt in the soak water, it helps to break the beans down. I do not throw this water out.

Cook the beans in a pressure cooker with 3qts/1 gallon of water, adding more salt as needed and black pepper. Also add crushed red peppers, for heat and color. Cook 20 minutes under pressure, let pressure come down on it's own. Test beans for doneness, cook longer as needed by bringing back up to pressure and adding cooking time if needed.

Once tender, add one large stalk of Broccoli chopped up, and two very thick slices of ham, chopped up.

Bring back up to pressure, simmer 5-10 minutes, turn off and let pressure die down on its own.

The Broccoli should be nearly nearly invisible - creamed - except for larger stalk pieces, and the beans will disintegrate into the soup.

You'll have incredibly tasty "Cream of Broccoli/ham/bean soup", easy to make and perfect for slackers like me because it's easy, great soup, wife loves it, lasts several days and just gets better and better until it's gone.

The red pepper flakes look neat alongside the green broccoli bits, red and green ;]


Make biscuits.

Add grated parmesan to the biscuit mix for mind blowing biscuits.

Serve hot soup with added chunk of butter.

 

[FNG]

We call those butter beans. Fresh ones are called lima beans...only the big Fordhook ones, not baby lima beans. Love succotash, just corn and limas, salt pepper, butter.

Either way sounds great!

 

[Guildedagain]

Succotash. 1st ate it in Charlottesville in the early 70's. I never forgot and still make it ;]

 

[Midnight Toker]

I would dunk my head in that!!! (open mouth first, of course!) Big fan of butter beans!!!

For actual meals, I used dried beans, but I do keep my pantry stocked w/ no less than 5-6 cans of butter beans at a time just in case I need a quick snack. I'll just dump a can into a bowl, nuke it for 2-3 min, fresh pepper and a few good dashes of hot sauce. Now that's what I call a snack!!

 

[Guildedagain]

Nothing like a can of beans for a quick pick me up ;] I don't nuke but I like to just open the can, dump just enough liquid to add some olive oil - a Covid preventative - some Bragg aminos (like Soy Sauce), some hot pepper flakes, stir, and enjoy. And there's nothing to wash ;]

It turns out that beans contain the enzyme Tryptofan, the drug that wipes you out after a big plate of turkey. This is why beans are so satisfying as a "comfort food". Eating a bowl of beans is like smoking a bowl ;]

 

[HeyMikey]

LOL! Dude, don’t Bogart the beans!

I ate at a local hole in the wall Mexican restaurant last week. Had the most amazing refrieds I’ve ever tasted. So good I had to order some to take home. Now I know why.

 

[Opsimath]

Re Guildedagain, post #9 - "biscuit mix"? What's that?

 

[Stuball48]

Veer:
SIMPLEST and best biscuit recipe - IMHO 1. Whipping Cream
2. Self Rising Flour
Follow directions on back of flour for biscuits.
You add "NO" other ingredients.
Simple simple simple!!

 

[fronobulax]

I assume I'm an outlier, but there isn't anything you can do to lima beans to make me like them...

walrus

Nope. You'll never walk alone.

Growing up I considered eating cooked vegetables to be a form of punishment and I just wouldn't. I just said No to lima beans and have not had them for a few decades. I do wonder, now, about the naming of things since I have seen things called butter beans that are not what I was told were lima beans and I can choke down a butter beans in some contexts.

 

[davismanLV]

I assume I'm an outlier, but there isn't anything you can do to lima beans to make me like them...

walrus

I totally get this. When I was a kid I liked almost everything, except lima beans. Of course, my mom was the most uninspired cook in the world, although she did make good lasagna. She'd put some on my plate and I had to eat at least half of them before I could leave the table. I've avoided them for years! But now looking at these photos and reading the recipes I'll bet I would enjoy them if prepared correctly. Usually with all bean dishes that I make (rarely) I take 1/4 of the beans and liquid and put 'em in the blender and puree them and put them back into the beans. Makes it nice and creamy. Goof grief, now I want some lima beans.....

 

[Midnight Toker]

^ Just about everything I used to make a fuss over eating when I was a kid, I've progressively come to love. My mother's table was pretty unforgiving, but she was, and still is a great cook. While I sat pouting with arms crossed, I was being lectured on what getting a simple meal was like during their time as refugees in worn torn Germany. Basically living off turnips and potato peel soup. Their coffee grounds had been steeped by 3-4 other families before they were fortunate enough to make some light brown coffee flavored water of their own. And then there was the closer...."I watched less fortunate people eat axle grease from broken down military vehicles for protein! And we were thankful for what little we had!!" There was no such thing as leaving food on your plate, and scraping leftovers into the trash was downright sinful. So when I outright refused to eat my calf liver.....guess what was on my plate for breakfast the next morning? Meanwhile, my brother's wife pretty much made 3 different meals for their kids when they were younger. My mom's toungue was borderline bleeding from her biting down on it!!

 

[davismanLV]

"There are kids starving in Africa!!"

"Can we send them these lima beans??"