A one pound bag of dried beans is too much for just the two of us so I break them in half and make two different things out of them. The first go-round which was the first time I tried making dried beans in my instant pot, was red beans and rice. Don't look, you won't find it here because even though it tasted exceptionally good there were quite a few fails during the process. So I modified the recipe and here is the new one, but we're eating this with bread instead of rice because my wife wanted to, so it has a thinner broth. So give this a try and I'm pretty sure you will enjoy it. If you use a different type of bean, most likely you will need to adjust the cooking time. These small red beans take a lot longer to cook then some other types of dried beans.

Pinto beans done in a crockpot makes an easy meal. It is good ol' comfort food for a cold day. Add some homemade cornbread to sop up all that goodness.

A little Sweet and Spicy...

I was wanting beans and looked in the pantry and had 1 cn vegetarian beans 1 can northern beans and 2 cans pinto. So they all went in the pot to make my pantry beans

Tasty for blended/pureed for stage after gastric surgery - not a lot of protein.

Bean soup with the slightly smoky flavor of ham hocks (smoked pig knuckle). Of course ham could be substituted, I just enjoy the extra richness ham hocks bring. Takes awhile to cook, but it is more, do a little prep, cook for awhile, so you can do other things while this cooks. This has an awesome flavor, and I usually buy a bean mix, well, I like to mix it up a little.So try it, and enjoy.