4 big-batch, make-ahead recipes to help you cook throughout the week

Simply Perfect Pot of Beans, pictured above. A pound of beans can get you far. This recipe makes about 6 cups of beans, plus the liquid you don’t want to throw away – it’s brimming with flavor! Of course, you can just eat these chickpeas with toast every night until the bottom of the pot is scraped, but it’s more fun if you use the beans to make other dishes. For these purposes, we’ll assume you’ve made a pot of white beans such as cannellini. Then you can do: