Dick Foster
Platinum Member
No butter for me.Lima beans. I can't figure out why people hate them so much, but it's more for me so it's all good. I've happily cooked up a whole package and had them ala carte for my whole meal, plenty of butter, s & p
Rinse the beans then put them in your slow cooker to soak over night in chicken stock.
Next morning fire up the cooker and add a ham hock.
Sometime after noon when the ham hock is fully cooked, remove it. Use forks to pull all of the ham from the hock and add the shredded ham back to the beans. Discard the hock. If necessary thicken the dish with a little rux. I use butter/flour rux but you can use the fat of your choice for the rux. Bacon drippings would be good to pork it up a bit.