I only use the seeds for my cream of tomato soup and German Potato salad. I saw in the seed catalog you can buy some leafy type celery (no stalks). I was amazed to see a video of a back woods Serbian cook, and she went outside and cut some of that leafy celery and fresh mint for her style of stuffed red peppers.
They cook on hot coals, amazing to watch some of the videos. The channel is AlmazanKitchen and it's best beans and sausage. I just drool at some of the things she makes using clay cookware and hot coals for hours and hours.
There's a couple recipes for family secret ham and bean soup as well as just ham and bean soup.
Speaking of dry lima beans, my Jewish girlfriend's mother used to make beef brisket and beans with those dried white limas or butter beans. Also an old boss made some yummy baked beans with them, soaked and cooked, bacon, the stuff you put on homemade pork and beans. So I have cooked with those dry limas but have to improvile if I do it again.
Oh, Chef Buck (another yt channel) is really cool, makes some neat stuff. He uses too much garlic and spices for my taste, but I like his ideas and style.
Almazan is one of my favorites - but the cook is a man! Once in a great while you get to see him and hear him, sort of; but usually he’s off-camera.
The photography is amazing, and he seems to live in a little paradise. And I like Mr. Ramsay ;-)