![]() ![]() ![]() Or mediocre chocolate malt ones, at least.Īlthough this recipe was originally published in early months of winter, it tastes like spring to me. It may be a modest dish in appearance and name, but under a sheen of grassy olive oil and a pungent cloud of garlic, these lima beans taste better, I think, than most cupcakes. I go after them first with my fork, and then I follow with hunks of coarse, crusty bread to sop up the sweet, oil-dotted broth. ![]() I could eat these lima beans like candy, by the handful. It quickly became a standby, calling, as it does, for only a few basic ingredients: a pack of baby limas, a glug of olive oil, a handful of parsley, and an unflinching dose of garlic, plus a little water and salt to hold it all together. I stumbled upon this recipe almost three years ago now, in an old issue of Gourmet. But I have long loved its mild, green flavor and its soft, starchy creaminess, and I should have written about this dish a long time ago. Now, I know that the words “lima beans” are not, for most people, synonymous with “delicious.” A lima bean is nobody’s chocolate malt. It was a hard weekend, to say the least, and in the end, the best part was finding, in a fit of desperation, a package of baby lima beans in the back of the freezer. Sadly, though, the cupcakes and I had a run-in when they decided to turn into something with the texture of a kitchen sponge, and when they tasted more like a cheap, too-sweet, boxed cake than a chewable incarnation of my beloved chocolate malt. I was aiming to recreate in cake form the chocolate malted milkshakes of my childhood, the kind that I slurped through pink-and-white striped straws at Braum’s Ice Cream and Dairy Stores throughout the state of Oklahoma. As my mother would say, “ Hmph! She’s got a lot of nerve.” Well, yeah, I guess I do.īut if it makes you feel any better about our relationship, dear reader, know that I had planned to bring you cupcakes instead-and awfully good ones, at that. I keep you waiting for a whole week, and then I arrive with nothing to show for myself but a bowl of lima beans and a mouthful of garlic breath. ![]()
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