Cranberry beans

Unshelled Cranberry Beans, originally uploaded by QuintanaRoo

Cranberry beans are beautiful and so tasty! They were one of my favorite late-summer/early-fall meals last summer, and somehow, I love them even more this year.

I've made them into a shell bean ragout as described in the Lucques cookbook--recipe online at the Amateur Gourmet, as well--and a shell bean risotto, optionally with sea bass with gremolata butter, also from Lucques. They make everything better.

Next up: braised pork belly with shell bean ragout.