Smoky spring greens with butter beans (lima beans)

A lovely, vibrant, recipe adapted from a BBC good foods recipe; this is a relatively quick and simple dish to make. I've eaten it with both rice and mash potato, and both worked well. If you don't have access to spring greens, you can substitute with any spring/summer cabbage, kale, or even spinach.

Butterbean (Lima Bean) Pasta Salad

This is a relatively simple and quick cold pasta salad; I often make some variant of this recipe for lunch at work when I want to have a break from sandwiches. For convenience, you can make it the night before, pop it into the fridge, and then take it into work the next day. It would also work well for a picnic salad (though as I write this, it's completely the wrong season). I designed this recipe in order to have a well-balanced lunch - carbs (pasta) plus protein (beans) plus vegetables. This time I happened to use butterbeans (i.e. lima beans) and sweetcorn, but I have used other beans (kidney, cannellini, whatever else is in the cupboard) and other veg (e.g. sweet pepper or cherry tomatoes) so feel free to play around with the recipe as you see fit. If you don't like mayonnaise, I have also made this before with a simple home made salad dressing of oil and vinegar, so you could do that instead.