Fava beans are nestled inside fuzzy chartreuse green pods that hold the wide, flat, tough, light green beans inside. They can be labor intensive to prepare, especially since they ...

Broad beans are at their best from the end of May through to mid-July, when the pods are pale green and soft and the beans are still small. Only brief steaming or cooking is required when broad ...

Broad beans, also known in the culinary sense as the broad bean, fava bean, or faba bean, is a species of vetch, a flowering plant in the pea and bean family Fabaceae. It is widely cultivated as a ...

Fava beans, a highly seasonal legume available in the spring and early summer, are also known as broad beans. They have long, sturdy, slightly fuzzy pods, but unlike fresh peas and green beans—b ...

Unlike other beans, broad (fava) beans are hardy and can be planted in late winter or early spring. March used to be my targeted time for sowing, but in recent years I’ve found that seedings ...

Never would I think about eating beans, much less broad (aka fava) beans. I actually hate broad beans in their cooked form, but as proven by kale chips and green pea crisps, when you roast or bake ...