Recipes: Make a soup, a spread, a salsa, a side dish or a snack with canned beans from your pantry

As the world faces a pandemic, eating well at home takes on a high priority. Many home pantries showcase canned goods including a lineup of canned beans, the cornerstones of spur-of-the-moment meals that are high in protein and fiber. The whush-whirl sound of lid parting can announces that dinner is just minutes away. It’s a welcome tune to a frazzled cook’s ears.
Purists might argue that cooked-from-scratch beans are better, insisting that canned beans are saltier and more expensive