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Southern Girl Butter Beans

May 19, 2010 by The Runaway Spoon 7 Comments

Butter beans, lima beans, whatever you want to call them, good, fresh butter beans are a real treat.  When I start to see these fresh little green gems at the farmer’s market and produce stand, I load up on them.  And I love to cook them in the Southern manner – with pork.  Here I use bacon and add a simple, old-fashioned sauce.  These would be great alongside a pork chop … [Read more...] about Southern Girl Butter Beans

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I'm P.C. I think I am like most people. Somewhere in the middle between food snob and food schlub. Just being in the kitchen makes me happy. I live, mostly in my kitchen, in my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.

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