A challenge!

So, I have access to a bunch of canned beans, and I don’t know what to do with them. But they should be eaten. Beans I have access to:

Baby lima
Black
Black-eye peas
Garbanzo
Great Northern
Kidney
Lentils
Navy
Pinto
Red
Split peas
White

I’m not a great cook, so I’d like to be able to prepare these with as few other ingredients as possible. How about [...]

Cherries aren’t very tasty.

We have a big magnificent perfect-for-climbing cherry tree in the back yard. In previous years we’ve slaved over this tree to earn a good harvest and I think that’s only worked … once? Like six years ago? There were always worms. So many worms.
This year, we completely ignored the tree. It doesn’t deserve our attention [...]