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Or, as any Vietnam vet will call it, Ham and MFers.

I'm a Class B bachelor this week, so I get to cook up what I want. I'm starting off with Ham and Limas. Swung by the store and got...

2.5 lbs of hickory smoked pork neck bones (Was looking for a ham hock, but couldn't pass these up.)

Two 12-oz packages of frozen lima beans.

At home again, put the neck bones, beans, 4 cups of water, a tablespoon of ham "Better Than Bullion", a quarter cup of dried scallions, two bay leaves, a half teaspoon of garlic powder, and some black pepper into the crockpot and turned it to High. In four or five hours, I'll shred the meat off the neck bones, recombine and salt to taste.

A pan of cornbread and a cold brew will make supper.

That should do.

My Dad made a version with bacon and cajun smoked sausage for the meat. He and I would knock out a good bit of that in one sitting. Good stuff.

Later we'd peel the paint.

I cook with lima beans or canned butter beans a lot.


Not because I like them very much....but its just what you are supposed to do.

Love this kinda food !!

Fibre is good for your health.

I’ll be right over. What time?

Sounds good Rock. My first on the ham. and lima beans was the notorious "C" ration meal. Not bad.

Yessir,but not the Mrs.

I love Lima beans. Never had them with ham.
We always had ham cooked in with butter beans when I was growing up.

Couldn't get butter beans here, so went with the limas.

Dayummyummyummy that was good! It didn't need any extra salt, but I added a shot of Crystal hot sauce in the bowl. Cornbread was perfect with it, and after thought I had a glass of milk instead of beer. Wished for buttermilk, but didn't want to make another store run.

Enough left to last me the whole week.

https://www.thekitchn.com/good-question-2-15403

"Lima beans are more than just related to butter beans, they are the same thing! In the South, lima beans are often called butter beans and in the UK they almost exclusively refer to them as butter beans. ... Lima beans can be consumed in both their immature stage (fresh and green) as well as their mature (dried and beige).


I like the dried beige version with smoked pig shanks.

Thanks FG. I did not know that. Always figured they were just a different legume variety.

I thought that for years too.....

I'm still working on that "Baby Lima Bean" thing tough.

All that we ever had at home, when growing up, were Butter beans. I always thought that the bigger ones we ate at school, that they called Lima beans, were a different thing. Smaller variety beans=butter beans, and bigger variety=Lima beans. I never liked the bigger ones as well as the smaller ones, and much preferred Pinto beans or Purple hull peas over either. Parents like butter beans the best, so guess what I ate the most of. After I was grown, and my parents got to where they could not garden, I was asked to grow them butter beans. Dad had a favorite variety, which I don't remember except they were pole beans. I failed at growing them for about three years running before I gave up. Good vines and made pods which never filled out, but turned yellow and fell off. Lots of work for nothing. Bush beans did fine, but it was not what they wanted. miles

They always seemed about the same to me,
but I figured that was wrong.

And you can get different sizes.

22, 38, 44, as my old neighbor used to call them.
WWII vet, truck driver from way way back,
he was a character. Not always a good influence on a youngster.
I miss him.

I raise what is called a "butter pea," which is really a small butter bean, with a flavor like the baby lima beans. Growing up, we grew several varieties in the garden, including the big limas, which I really like, and the speckled butter beans. I don't care for anything in my butter beans, no meat or anything.

Rocky. Shame on you. Twisting a guy's arm like that. Now I gotta make a batch.

I was wanting some big Limas for supper tonight but the small grocery store in our town had none. I settled for Great Northerns.

In the late 80's we used to drive by Olivia Minnesota, and the Green Giant contracted fields. Heaping loads of edible beans on Parker wagons looked a bit odd.

Highway 71 Revisited! (With apologies to Bobby Zimmerman)