After eating a dish of crunchy, salty, clean sea beans on a scallop dish at Dante a couple years ago, I've always wanted to eat them again, but I haven't run into them again, until I visited the family vacation home-- they are growing right in the ground, next to wetland! They look sort of like succulent cactus, and have a very salty taste on the inside when you bite into them. The property has a combination of spring water and salt water, brackish water areas, exactly where you would find them. The photos above were taken in the early fall, and they are turning red, but now we know to forage for them during the spring.
My mom actually figured out a dish to make out of them: she soaked them overnight in water, to try to decrease the salt content, then stir fried them w/a garlic/ginger/soy vinegar dressing, very flavorfull and delicous!
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