re: What do I do with butter beans?

A few posters have got it right...just a few. You need a little pork...bacon, or Tasso, or salt pork, or ham/ham bone. Then fresh or flash frozen butter beans. Simmer until tender...less than an hour, usually. Salt and pepper to taste. That's it. The butter beans can carry themselves.

Corn bread and a big slice of cold, raw onion on the side. You're set. The shrimp dish sounds interesting...the rest is total fail and my grandmothers would clock your dumb asses over the head with a skillet fro screwing up a good pot of butter beans.