Magpie Cafe's Spectacular Bean Salad is Surprisingly Simple

Ingredients

• 1 pound fresh cranberry beans, shelled (or 1 pound premium dry cranberry beans, soaked overnight)
• 2 TBSP Olive oil
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1/2 bunch basil
• 1/2 bunch cilantro
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1 cup rice vinegar
• 1/4 cup sugar
• Salt to taste
• 12 squash blossoms
• 5 ears sweet corn (peeled, kernels cut and removed from cob 1/4 jalapeno, seeded, with all white ribs removed, chopped)
• 1/4 jalapeno (seeded, with all white ribs removed, chopped)
• 1/2 bunch green onion (chopped)
• 1 cup ricotta
• Salt and pepper
• 1 cup flour (plus flour for dredging)
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp pepper
• 1 cup beer
• oil for Frying