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Recipe: Orzo with Fava Beans and Mint

Fava beans are, in our opinion, one of the very best things about spring. So, when we set out to follow a Martha Stewart recipe for orzo with peas but couldn't find English peas at the farmers' market...

Try This: Grilled Fava Beans!

Fava beans are in season right now, and with the weather getting warmer, it's a good time to fire up the grill. I pulled mine out last week, and after acquiring a big bag of fresh fava beans at the f...

How To Pick, Clean and Prepare Fava Beans

Go ahead and make your jokes about fava beans and a nice Chianti. There's no denying that these fresh, meaty beans are delicious, and they are in season right now, so grab them up! Most Americans ar...

Farmers' Market Report: Echo Park
Los Angeles

As die-hard Hollywood farmers' market shoppers, we sometimes forget that there are nearly 100 other farmers' markets in LA County. While few of them match the spectacular size and selection of the Hol...

Farmers' Market Report: Spring Peas and Beans
Los Angeles

Little green mountains have started popping up all over our farmers' market. Unlike some of the market's year-round offerings, snap peas, snow peas, and fava beans are available for a limited time and...

National Food Roundup: Creamed Fava Beans
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 04.08.09

These creamed fava beans with tarragon would be a perfect side dish for Easter, or any spring meal. That recipe, plus Spam for Easter and brunch ideas, below....

Recipe: Fava Bean Dip with Roasted Garlic and Yogurt

Sometimes eating light in January is just too darn hard. There's not a lot of green, not a lot of crunchy vegetables. So we broke down and bought a mess of expensive hot-house vegetables the other day...

Ancient Egyptian Recipe: Ful Medammes

Recently we bought a package of dried fava beans and made this delicious recipe that goes back thousands of years in Egypt....

Weekend Meditation: Harvesting Heaven

A couple of evenings ago you could have found me at home on my living room floor, peeling fava beans with my dinner guests. I had spontaneously invited them in only to discover there was nothing much...

Video: Fava Beans 101

We're excited to see fava beans showing up in the farmers' markets, but we admit to being a little intimidated about all that shelling-boiling-shelling action. Sometimes watching a quick demonstrat...

Seasonal Spotlight: Fava Beans

At the local farmer's markets, we've been seeing a lot of fava beans. These long green beans show up in the spring and have a short growing season, so snatch them up while you can because they are de...

San Francisco Market Report: Ferry Building Farmer's Market

Here's a roundup of what's fresh at the Ferry Building Farmer's Market in San Francisco this week! The photo above shows a small sampling of our haul. Clockwise from top: baby dandelion greens, drie...

Blogging Fine Cooking: Fresh Spring Peas

When it comes to food magazines, we consider Fine Cooking to be a practical, user-friendly guide to everyday home cooking. If if were a clothing catalog, it would be Land's End — reliable, full of ...