Son is home from college and has requested...

[Phentex]

lima beans!



It's been interesting to see how much he appreciates non-cafeteria meals.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. so go open up a can and simmer them for an our or so!

[Phentex]

2. I had some frozen...

baby limas.

On the stove now. Mmmm.....

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. I can smell them! Nothing smells or tastes like lima beans!

[Phentex]

4. Should I add a little

bacon? I have no bacon grease.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

7. Thank God!

Lima beans are disgusting.

[Phentex]

9. My husband was forced to eat them as a kid...

and didn't want them for years. But he likes them now and I don't force.

[Warpy]

5. Frozen baby limas with plenty of butter, salt and pepper

are one of the real pleasures of being a grownup. Mixed with corn (and whatever else you throw in), they become succotash, the down home treat of the northeast.

Good for him, his tastes are growing up.

[Phentex]

11. I like a lot of pepper...

I try to go easy on the salt but limas need them. Mmmm....

[pinto]

12. Succotash!

[dem in texas]

6. Yum, Yum - Butter Beans!

I cooked some lima beans in my crockpot Sunday night. I cooked them on slow so they wouldn't burst and they were ready this morning. I added a little bacon drippings and a chicken bullion cube when almost done this morning. We ate them for lunch today along with Swedish meatballs, rice, coleslaw and sliced ripe tomatoes. Great down home meal plus I have enough lima beans left for tomorrow..


I like them green too, but the dried are my favorite. They are easy to grow, I used to always plant them in my garden. A great starter for little kids who are planting their first garden.

[DawgHouse]

8. Oh my goodness, that lunch sounds fantastic!

I remember shelling beans with my great grandmother. The speckled butter beans were my favorite to shell because they were all different and pretty. I've shelled bushels of purple hull peas too.

[Phentex]

10. I could eat them as a meal!

all by themselves. But your lunch sounds yummy.