Really Good Butter Beans

I really like beans. I think beans can surprise people when thoughtfully cooked and correctly seasoned. Our kitchen gets pretty excited when we hear that a guest feels like the beans were the unexpected highlight of the meal. This happens more often than you might imagine. I like that. I also like that the road to really delicious beans isn’t through some super rare specimens of hard-to-get varieties, planted exclusively during the vernal equinox on the southfacing hillsides of Tuscany or s