Camellia Brand Dry Large Lima Beans, 2 Pounds

💛💚❤️💙💜 A review from Mrs. L.💜💚❤️💙💛 My father-in-law was such a grand soul. Highly educated, well read, artistic, Loved classical as well as contemporary music. Recited poetry from memory at the breakfast table. He did not tolerate cooking very well, preferring to load the table with sumptuous feasts purchased from the deli or local bakeries. BUT! Every Thanksgiving and Christmas he soaked a bag of gigantic Lima beans. Then he painstakingly cooked and stirred and spiced and annotated a huge cast iron pot of those limas. When the concoction was mysteriously perfect, this gargantuan pot was shakily hoisted into the oven to bake for what seems hours. "Get outta the way!" he would yell, "I gotta get this thing in the oven!" My first Christmas at his house, I mistakenly wondered why there was such a reverence for this cooking endeavor with a bunch of dried Lima beans. The pot of limas took preference in the oven to all other dishes. Even the turkey AND THE HAM!!! Oh. my . Word.Well, the limas turned out to be barbecued. And they were to die for. Absolutely totally unbelievable flavors and textures. The whole house smelled divine when they were cooking. They tasted slightly different every year. Always better as each year passed. It could also have been that with each passing year, I grew to love my father-in-law more and more and more.But, there was no recipe, so when my beloved father-in-law passed away suddenly one Easter, when the winter holidays rolled around that year, we recognized another loss in a tradition that was woven into our family in the holidays. There would be no feasting on barbecued beans. No wrapped dishes of it for the long ride home. No scrawled recipe to cherish.So, we were determined to recreate the recipe. We found giant limas at the local store. Back in the dark corner in a dusty plastic bag. We soaked and soaked, but no amount of ministering to them turned them into the plump, melt in your mouth limas we craved. Finally, after several years of searching, I finally ran across these limas on Amazon. And they are perfect. Creamy. Hold their shape, but are tender when cooked. Delectable flavor. Eureka!So, every holiday dinner, we tweak a recipe we developed. A bit more tomato sauce here. A splash more cider vinegar there. Brown sugar, spices, a dollop of love. Our recipe keeps getting better every year. Another year to ring in the holidays by clanging the cast iron lid on our cast iron pot and yell "get outta the way! I gotta get this thing in the oven!"So, here we are again! Thanksgiving is next week and I am ordering my Lima beans for the holidays! These are the best limas. Whether barbecued, or splashed with cream or swimming in butter. We haven't found a Lima bean as tasty in all the years we searched for them. We love them and they help us to remember a special person whom we loved fiercely!

My mother just loves these beans, so I sent her a bag for her birthday and they arrived on time and as described in Packaging I will use this vendor again in the future because my mother lives in a rural area and it is hard for her to get to town into the store very simply all I have to do is order and have it sent to her house

So my husband LOVES the giant beans you can get at the olive bar in the grocery but we never saw where you could buy these in person. So we found these, omg sooooo gooooood! We made about half the bag and for the two of us that worked out to being enough for 3 meals! They are indeed buttery and creamy smooth, even the skins are not tough at all. These are worth every penny and we look forward to buying them again! There was no debris or anything either, very clean and just fab!

These beans are delicious. They cook up nice and creamy with a robust flavor. Camellia's are the best!

They seem to be the large limas I used to get in the supermarket. Can't seem to find them locally, and these worked out fine. I used them in a soup recipe and it turned out the way I thought it would. I don't want to share the recipe. It's secret.

Not really big, but great quality large bean

Large camellia limas only available online for my daughter in CA. The quality and flavor are only Camellia brand in my estimation. It is the family recipes to pass down tha make it important to continue.

Had an amazing Lima bean and ham meal. It's so hard to find them in the grocery store here. They were a nice size and cooked great. Thank you I will be ordering again