Fava Bean Chili

Shelled fava beans have an outer skin that should be removed when cooking fresh. To get rid of the outer skin, boil the beans for a minute or two to loosen the skin. Then it should be easy to pull off. It is time consuming to cook the beans this way, but the result is an extremely soft and buttery bean. For dried beans, it doesn't matter as much if you leave on the outer skin. Just cook them a long time. I used a crock-pot for the chili and the beans turned out fine.

Fava beans grown in 2011. Green pods dry on the bush to become
a purplish-black, with the dry beans being slightly less dusky.

Some fresh Bogatyr garlic to go in the chili. I planted cloves in a
backyard raised bed in October 2011 and harvested the bulbs the
second week of July. This hardneck garlic variety from Russia
produces small bulbs, but the taste is outstanding.

Almost as good as Nalley.