Whats left in the garden soup
- By MyVeggieHeven
- March 6, 2015
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At the end of summer many gardeners are looking around and seeing what is left in their garden. In mine, there is actually quite a lot. Cabbage, scallions, potatoes, okra, beets, eternal zucchini, even more tomatoes, green beans….and off in a corner, a tower of lima beans that I had ignored all summer. Sure, it got watered. But that is about it. It had finished producing any pods so I decided it was time to pick what I could, tear the whole thing out, and possibly put lima beans on the list of things to not bother growing again in the future. Then I changed my mind.
The yield turned out to be a surprising amount in light of how negligent I had been. Then I began googling and searching Pinterest for what the heck to do with lima beans. In my typical fashion, I reviewed several recipes and then made one up. I headed back out to the garden and cut some celery, pulled a few carrots and grabbed some shallots and onions. All of these got chopped and added to the all mighty crock pot. I topped it off with a box of organic chicken stock, added my lima beans, salt, pepper and parsley and walked away. When I returned hours later I was pleasantly surprised. It smelled delicious and the lima beans made it a somewhat thick consistency. I was nearly there. I decided to add some buttermilk biscuit dough to the top and make dumplings. Good choice. My husband and I each had two helpings and polished it off pretty quick.
I’ve got more lima beans in the freezer for another batch. I imagine it will only be a week or so from now when they get used.
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