Dried beans are cooked with aromatics, tomatoes, anchovies, spicy Calabrian peppers, kale, and olives in our hearty vibrant Italian-style butter bean recipe.

This fresh green bean recipe comes from famed Italian chef Lidia Bastianich’s cookbook Lidia’s Commonsense Italian Cooking. Get the recipe: Mint String Beans ...

Many years ago as a teen I swore I’d never eat another green bean. My sister and I had to pick and snap enough green beans for mom to can 70 quarts of green beans.

Paired with a tomato-pepper salad and a peaches and cream cake, this herby main is lush with peak green beans and corn.

Italian ‘Tongue of Fire’ beans fit the bill perfectly. These shelling beans are ripe when their beautiful pale green pods are streaked through with “tongues” of pale red "fire".

7. Add green beans, sprinkle with salt and cook for 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add water. Cover and cook for 5 minutes. Remove cover squeeze in juice of ½ lemon and stir.