I feel a little silly posting this as a recipe-it's more of a template, really, for a kind of stewy dish that I make quite frequently in the cold months. I've found that this combination of pinto beans with turnip greens, particularly with a sweet pepper in the mix, is a particularly nice one, but you could take this in a lot of different directions. I imagine collard greens would be a good substitute for turnip greens, and I know there're myriad bean varieties that could pinch hit for the pintos. That said, pintos+turnip greens(+sweet pepper) makes for a stew with a subtle sweet and smoky flavor that threw me for a loop the first time I tried it. It may be cheap, it may be simple, it may look like glop (delicious glop!), but this dish really is more than the sum of its parts. Fair warning: the recipe makes a lot, so invite your friends! Also, it makes great leftovers-I'd say it's even better on the second day.

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