Actually... I had some fresh lima beans at a nice Spanish restaurant here last night with romesco sauce, roasted eggplant and charred onion. It was really good. I was very impressed with the whole meal, which usually isn't the case when I go out to "fining dining" type places anymore. Hey @JOHN72 are "judia blanca" commonly found fresh in Spain? Hope I have that translation right. This restaurant was using Moorish Jewish recipes among other Spanish cooking. What was really extraordinary was this dessert we had called Torta Santiago, which is a sort of almond cake but what was really interesting is that it was served with a salty whipped cream. Sounds weird but it sort of gave the mouth and mind this impression that you were eating salted butter. Blew my mind! Next time I have some sort of pie at home I'm going to try that.
The Greek restaurants I go to here usually have a dry lima bean stew type dish with tomato which I always order. Lima beans have a really particular taste if you ask me. Funny, I bought some dried lima beans at a Greek grocery store once and the older Greek casher asked me if I knew how to cook them which I thought was an odd question and added that most Greek people don't. Really nothing complicated about cooking them like most other beans. Just takes time really.
The Greek restaurants I go to here usually have a dry lima bean stew type dish with tomato which I always order. Lima beans have a really particular taste if you ask me. Funny, I bought some dried lima beans at a Greek grocery store once and the older Greek casher asked me if I knew how to cook them which I thought was an odd question and added that most Greek people don't. Really nothing complicated about cooking them like most other beans. Just takes time really.
