Lima beans?!

That's right: eat your vegetables! And one delicious way to get your daily serving of healthy veggies is to cook succotash. 

Before I knew what succotash was, I imagined it as some elaborate Native American concoction. Turns out, succotash is very simply a mixture of beans (usually lima beans) and corn. Any fancy embellishments are up to the cook. 

Here's some information from Wikipedia: 

Succotash (from Narragansett msíckquatash, "boiled corn kernels") is a food dish consisting primarily of corn and lima beans or other shell beans. Other ingredients may be added including tomatoes and green or sweet red peppers. Because of the relatively inexpensive and more readily available ingredients, the dish was popular during the Great Depression in the United States. It was sometimes cooked in a casserole form, often with a light pie crust on top as in a traditional pot pie. Succotash is a traditional dish of many Thanksgiving celebrations in New England as well as in Pennsylvania and other states. In some parts of the American South, any mixture of vegetables prepared with lima beans and topped with lard or butter is called succotash..

Succotash is featured in the Little House Cookbook as one of the many foods Laura Ingalls Wilder featured in her "Little House" books. Here are recipes for two versions from around the internet: 

BeansBeansBeans.com

Allrecipes.com

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Elizabeth