A few weeks ago, a friend gave me some of the first fava beans from his garden. Even though the weather lately has felt dreary and wintry, seeing those favas made me realize that, oh yeah, it’s spring ...

When you have fresh produce at the peak of its season — like the delicious yet underrated fava bean — you don't need to do anything fancy to improve it. Executive chef Mark Richardson of Seasons ...

Spanish manchego tops this simple pasta of Moroccan merguez sausage and fresh fava beans inspired by the western Mediterranean. If you can’t find merguez, substitute with sweet or spicy Italian ...

Fava beans are one of spring’s most coveted ingredients, and my favorite way of preparing them is to smash them with mint and pecorino into a chunky spread for topping toast. Once the favas are ...

I had no idea that on the day my husband, Marvin, walked in from his garden with a handful of the first fava beans of the season, that we would be eating them at almost every meal for a long time. Now ...

The only place I could find fresh fava beans earlier this month was on a small, potted plant at the St. Joseph Day altar at St. Cletus Church in Gretna. I tried, folks. I checked in at farmers markets ...

Quick fava beans -- that's an oxymoron, as my friend Debbie likes to say. It's true that shelling fava beans and then blanching them to remove their outer skin is time-consuming. And after all that, ...