Currently Obsessed With...

Lima bean salad.

If my mom were to read that, I think she'd do a double-take. I love almost all vegetables, but I have led a lifelong crusade against lima beans and their dopplegangers, butter beans. I had seriously never met a lima bean I could tolerate.

Which is unfortunate, generally, because lima beans are one of the few vegetables Joey has always loved.

So, a few weeks ago, we were trying a pizza place downtown that I had read about. It's a nice little place, which focuses on small-plate appetizers and brick oven pizza. They also fulfilled another of our dining requirements, which was to find a place in town that serves a killer tiramisu.

One of the appetizers mentioned by name in the review I had read was a lima bean salad, so Joey wanted to get that. And it came in a bowl, cold and marinated in vinegar and lemon juice, mixed with the occasional small piece of celery.

And goddamn, if it wasn't three kinds of amazing. The kind of amazing where you think about it a few days later, and suddenly you are craving something that cravings aren't usually made of [since my cravings are usually composed of chocolate, pizza, and chocolate...].

So, we went again tonight, and it's just as amazing as I remembered. If not, honestly, more. Again, I can't stop thinking it--and I am vowing to recreate it in my kitchen.

I'll keep you updated, internets.