February 16, 2005

  • Is she some sort of nut?  A lunatic who howls at the moon when it's full? 


    Upon perusing Allrecipes.com, I came across taco soup recipes and even though I've got a perfectly good one I idly clicked on this one and that.  Which is how I came upon The Horror . . .


    Taco soup with lima beans?  


    What sick person puts lima beans in taco soup?  To add to the misery, instead of the traditional can of corn, the recipe calls for hominy instead. 


    Don't where this person's from, but it sure isn't Texas.  LIMA BEANS. 

Comments (11)

  • Lima beans???? ick.

    I dont put corn in my taco soup because I don't like it much. And I quit putting in meat because my kids eat it better without the meat!

  • I certainly loathe lima beans.  I wish Icould put my finger on why. However, taco soup nopthwithstanding, I can just tolerate them in a beef/ barley soup.  That's about the only dish I won't turn dow...so long as the lima beans are small, young ones.

  • Lima beans......eeeeeewwwwww. My mother was reminicing about different foods us kids "loved" when we were little. Mom loves lima beans and tried to convince me that when I was little I liked them, after all I ate them..... Of course I ate them, she threatened us with starvation if we didn't. I didn't like them then, nor do I now and never ever ever in taco soup, that's just wrong....

  • People can be so food-abusive sometimes. I'm no snob, and enjoy variants on some things, but for heaven's sake, why would you want to put something in your taco soup that tastes less good, has less desirable texture, and blends less well with the other flavors than the standard ingredients? If someone finds herself using lima beans in a pinch, that's one thing, but publishing the recipe online as though it's something others might WANT? :-Þ

  • Isn't it the truth? I could maybe imagine someone writing in the reviews "I didn't have any beans on hand except limas, and by jingo, it wasn't as awful as you'd expect!" but who would see a can of lima beans and think, "Oh, those are just the thing for taco soup"?

  • Well actually (you knew I'd do this, didn't you?) hominy is the traditional  native American way of preparing corn for human consumption and lima beans are native to Central and South America, so that recipe is probably closer to an authentic Mexican or South American soup.  I still prefer taco soup with corn and black beans, but there it is.

    About lima beans - I absolutely HATED them when Mike and I first married, but he loved them and wanted me to fix them, which I wouldn't do because they're just too gross.  But then when we visited his grandmother, she had butter beans, as she calls them, so of course I ate some just to be polite and loved them, so I got her recipe.  The first thing is you don't buy those gigantic Fordhook Limas - you get baby limas or butter beans if you can find those, and then you cook them in water a long time along with a couple of pieces of (raw) bacon.  I don't usually have bacon, but beef broth and butter give equally delicious results.  They do have to cook a long time - much longer than the 20 minutes usually suggested on the bag of frozen beans I buy.  I think I cook them for an hour to an hour and a half.

  • But Kelly, is taco-anything authentically Mexican? I thought it was a modern Texan invention, and Anne will tell you that it is NOT authentically Texan to put lima beans in taco-anything.

    Green lima beans are vile, but I do like dried ones. However, the rest of the family doesn't, and my mom doesn't cook them anymore (she really doesn't cook anymore) so they're not really part of my life anymore.

  • I agree - lima beans in taco soup is dreaful. UGH UGH UGH!!

    I never serve lima beans. No particular reason except that they're on the very long list of Vegetables Jason Won't Eat and Vegetables We Can Live Without, but I must say this thread is making me very hungry for roast beef, mashed potatoes and gravy, and sweet, dripping with butter baby limas. Mom made that same menu with variations on salads, every single Sunday of my growing-up years.

    Mom also used "Gravy Master" which I don't. My gravy is quite good without it, thank you very much!

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  • What on earth is Gravy Master?

  • I'm not sure but if you get it on your fingers it stains them! :)

    It's in a small bottle and you add a drizzle of it to gravy to darken it and make the flavor richer, I guess. I recently saw chef on food tv use it! I was transported back in time.

    me<><

  • Should have looked first:

    http://www.gravy.com/

    me<><

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