Feijoada. 2 cups black beans, four cups broth, 4 oz fatty pork scraps (bacon, shoulder, whatever), 8 oz sausage, whatever other meat scraps are laying around, 2

Feijoada. 2 cups black beans, four cups broth, 4 oz fatty pork scraps (bacon, shoulder, whatever), 8 oz sausage, whatever other meat scraps are laying around, 2 onions chopped, 2 bell peppers chopped, 6 cloves garlic, tsp oregano, tsp black pepper. High pressure 2 hours. Unlid, correct seasoning, eat with rice. Real minestrone is a bean-and-cabbage stew, and made properly it's one of the best things. Fry 3 oz bacon in pressure cooker saute. Add 2 ribs celery chopped, 1 carrot chopped, 2 onions chopped, fry until softened. Add 6 cloves garlic, 8 cups broth, a Parmesean rind (about 5x2"), a bay leaf, and 1 cup small white beans (cannellini). High Pressure 2 hours. Meanwhile, fry a sliced zucchini in some olive oil. Reserve. Then fry half a cabbage chopped up in some more olive oil. Add the fried veg to the finished bean soup, then add 1.5 cups V-8 and a big fistful of chopped basil. Stir it up. Correct seasoning with salt and red pepper. Eat it, maybe with some more parmesean. DON'T THROW AWAY THE STEWED CHEESE RIND IT IS DELICIOUS. You can do some other weird stuff, like make an egg salad-style salad with chickpeas, but that's some weird stuff that I think takes a bit more adventurousness in the mouth. I coould go on, but those are some good starters. I cook a lot.