Have you ever grown fava beans? We had not. Until this year. The plant is like nothing I have ever encountered. And our large crop was ready to harvest this week.
Dave found the following recipe in The Wall Street Journal. It was our starting point.
I was worried. They looked a lot like another bean I knew too well from childhood. Lima beans. He loves them. I hate them.
I tasted. I fell in love. WSJ recipe
And because I adore garlic, I might add more than the recipe recommends.
While enjoying, I was also checking out variations on Epicurious/toasted bread with olive oil/that's tomorrow's dinner.
See Epicurious/I do not like peeling things. But when peeled, they are a gorgeous, vibrant green.
Epicurious recipe.
Note the fact that they peeled the fava beans. We did not. I would next time.
Friend SR had a good suggestion: rather than bread, serve with endive. Love that idea.