Lima Beans and Spinach recipes

[madmax]

I can eat a big bowl of spinach with olive oil and garlic and some nice Italian bread. Hard to come by good bread Italian or otherwise here in NC. I miss Rye, Italian, and hard rolls. And Dinners, NJ is not only known for our toxic air - we're the Dinner capital of the world! I miss those good 'ol Greek dinners.

Bet someone has a good fetta cheese and spinach recipe. I can't make the tiropete's sp? Phyllo dough and I just can make get it together ;)

Now, lima beans I'm not too familiar with, other than maybe having had lima bean soup once in my life.

[Warpy]

1. I love baby limas just by themselves

with maybe a wee dot of butter (olive oil, in your case) and a little salt and pepper. I can make a whole dinner off these and a small bowl of steamed rice.

Just be aware the combination of lima beans and potato can be lethal the next day to the point you will need to hang your bum out the window.

[madmax]

2. Did you hear Jack Cafferty today on CNN

The question was about human gasses causing global warming. :rofl: and then you post this!! I can't stop laughing!

Do you use canned beans or dried?

I found this recipe:

Salmon & Lima Bean Casserole

1 pound of canned salmon
2 1/2 cups of potatoes
2 cups of lima beans
1 teaspoon of grated lemon rind
1/2 cup of cultured sour cream
2 tablespoons of butter
1/2 teaspoon of dry mustard
1 tablespoon of lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon of salt
Dash pepper


Start your oven at 300ºF. Drain salmon, discard skin and bones. Place in 2 quart casserole. Melt butter, drain potatoes and lima beans and mix butter in with the drained vegetables. Arrange over salmon in the casserole. Stir mustard, lemon juice and rind, salt and pepper into sour cream. Pile on top and bake 30 minutes. Serves 4.

[Warpy]

7. Well, it's your digestive system

but I know what it would do to mine.

I use frozen baby limas.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. Succotash...............

I love it, and very often make a meal of it.

Just corn and lima beans, with some butter. Or no butter. A hit of salt, and that's it.

Divine.

But, looking around, I found this recipe, which sounds even better than traditional, simple succotash - and it's pretty, too!



http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/edamame_succotash.html

[madmax]

4. Oh yes!

Looks yummy! I love shrimp! I don't know what edamame is so I googled and someone posted this:

"Ok, so my first experience with edemmame was tonight. I bought a frozen bag of the whole pods,and stir fried them in sesime oil, and procceded to eat them....whole. A few minunts after finishing the whole bag(And thoroughly enjoying them) I was watching food network, and Aalton brown comes on and says that the husk is completely indigestible. Well I have just eaten a whole bag of husk, so what can i expect? just alot of fiber, or something less plesent". http://caloriecount.about.com/edemmame-pods-ft130948

It's turning out to be a very hilarious evening. Wonder how she made out? :rofl:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. You're gonna love them -

I keep bags of frozen edamame on hand all the time, and I just like them for snacking. I do that with peas, too, liking them better raw than cooked.

Fiber? OH MY GOD!

Uber-Fiber?

I'm having pain just imagining. The shells of edamame have no taste, are tough and really, not good. Yet she ate them all?

I'm tempted to say she got what she deserved, but, really, no one deserves THAT ...................

[The empressof all]

6. I love Edamame....But there are some things you should know

As with everything we eat lately there is some controversy about the soy. I take thyroid supplements and was advised by my doctor to limit my soy consumption or at least to eat small quantities several hours after I take my pill. There is also some concern about soy and estrogen and the prevalence of Genetically modified soy in the American diet. You can google yourself but here's one link.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hyperthyroidism/AN00454

As with everything else on the internet there's also a great deal of doom and gloom about the soy....

It is one of the products that I try to be hyper vigilant about getting organic but it's in so many different kinds of products in one form or another.

[TankLV]

10. Uuuk! - WORST concoction EVER!!!

make me puke...

[Mind_your_head]

8. Edamame is just "fancy-schmancy" talk for soybeans

The husk is inedible. The little green beans inside are "golden" :-)

One of my kids goes to college in Iowa. My daughter served 'Edamame' up to her friends/roommates at a party. One of the 'Iowa farm girls' was like ...."wait.....this is familiar...." And indeed it was. Her daddy was/is a farmer who grew/has grown soybeans for many, many years.

Edamame = Soybeans.

[TankLV]

9. Why? Lima beans - ugh, yuck, yucky, yuck, yuck!!!

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

11. I never cared for Lima beans yet I love Butter Beans

which seem to be big, blond, soft Lima beans. I like their texture better, it's more . . . . buttery?

Limas always seemed kind of firm and mealy to me. I love most beans, but I don't care for Limas or garbonzos. Limas - mealy, garbonzos - waxy and mealy simultaneoulsy - blecch!