Lima beans are almost always cooked. If you buy dried beans, you will need to soak them first. Before soaking beans, spread them on a flat surface and remove all debris, small stones, or damaged beans ...

If you don't like the texture of baby lima beans, mature beans, which are dried, have a smoother texture ... and flavor to butter beans. They are small white beans often used in soups.

Here are seven of my favorite beans and how to use them in your cooking: They might be small in size ... version of a lima bean. Large, creamy, and mild in flavor, they also shine in skillet ...

They come in a variety of shapes and colors, including large beige varieties, small pale ... the green baby beans. Ganaway ...

Scout fields in late summer/early fall when lima beans begin to flower. P ... which is diagnostic of downy mildew. Pods eventually become dry and shrivel. Pods and racemes located anywhere on the ...

N.Y. Welsh warns that like many dried beans, dried favas "hardly resemble their fresh counterparts." Although favas are often compared to lima beans and peas, there are noticeable differences.