Well, it is true. I am not only full of beans but so is our pantry. These are dried shell beans which I’ve been harvesting over the past few weeks and will continue to do so until the last bean pod is ...

Dried beans, sometimes called dry or shell beans, are simply beans that have been left unpicked in their pods until they dry and harden. They can be harvested like snap beans while young and ...

In general, there are two main bean types: shell beans, grown for their protein-rich seeds and eaten both fresh and dried; and snap beans, cultivated mainly for their edible pods. Shell bean and ...

Dried beans continue to lose moisture as they sit. With very recently picked beans -- say, the Scarlet Runners I pick and shell in the summer in my back yard -- a quick simmer is all that is ...

The kitchen uses fresh borlotti beans in season, and dried borlotti from Half Moon Bay’s Iacopi Farms when they are not. Louis Iacopi is shelling-bean royalty, a longtime grower whose popular ...

Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times Shell beans are, quite simply, sensational. Look for crimson-podded cranberry beans (called borlotti when dried) or fresh limas (they’ll make you a lima ...

And the better question: Do they ever go bad? When it comes to beans, there is no shortage of delicious recipes that will ...

Consider them halfway between snap beans and dry beans. Grow shell beans just as you would snap beans; just leave the bean pods on the plants 2 to 3 weeks longer to allow the beans to size up.

to whether adding salt to beans before they're soft makes them tough, we decided to get some help clarifying what to do with dried beans from one of our favorite bean companies. After over 100 ...