Taste-wise, the best were the heirloom speckled beans, then lima beans, then butter beans. And we really preferred it over brown instead of white rice. We used stock from cooking the shrimp in the ...

While butter and lima beans cover a swath of varieties from pole beans to bush beans, and can be speckled or monochrome, they generally share some traits in terms of taste. Their skins tend to ...

“Both beans are the same species but lima beans are green and butter beans are traditionally speckled at least until cooked.” I cooked the limas and the butter beans together in the same ...

Beneath a thatch of wilted dandelion greens, the Christmas lima beans spill out, earthy and enticing, their pretty speckled markings still faintly visible after a few hours in the pot. This is the ...

Among polarizing foods, lima beans top the list ... Likewise, heirloom varieties (and there are many – speckled and splotched and mottled with color) certainly won’t disappoint, but neither ...

Faith Moynihan of Plowshare Farms in Pipersville, Pennsylvania, holds a handful of speckled lima beans. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY) “We don’t just think about climate change. We experience climate change ...

Christmas lima beans are sometimes called chestnut lima beans. When uncooked they are beautifully speckled like a calico horse, and when cooked they are more uniformly brown like chestnuts.

Though plenty of us love lima beans, there seems to be an equally ... small pale green specimens, and the burgundy-speckled Christmas or chestnut limas “with chestnut flavor and gorgeous ...

“Lima beans are great,” chef and food writer Amethyst ... small pale green specimens, and the burgundy-speckled Christmas or chestnut limas “with chestnut flavor and gorgeous markings ...