If you don't already have a pressure cooker, get one, along with one of Lorna Sass's excellent cookbooks. Pressure cooking beans is so quick and easy (and SO much cheaper and less wasteful than canned beans)! Some of my standbys: pasta e fagioli, risotto (also in the pressure cooker) with white beans and rappini; highly seasoned Spanish style garbanzos with saffron (so sue me, it's from one of the Moosewood books); Cuban style black beans with oranges and kale....

mmmm, I'm getting hungry.