Dried beans cooking lessons

As I've picked and mostly podded all the beans grown for drying now and they're all drying on trays in a sunny windowsill in their separate varieties, I'm beginning to wonder what to do with both storing and recipes, so I thought I'd bump this thread.

The drying and storing have been covered here already, although I didn't realise they needed quite as long to dry out. There is some mention on the Web of using a dehydrator ( which I haven't got) or a fan oven (which I have ) to dry the beans, is this something anyone else has done?

With all the hype around eating less meat,  I thought the idea of growing for drying would be eco friendly, but realise I'm just not in tune with cooking without meat.  I make chilli and other random  tomato based related dishes where beans can be incorporated but am at sea when it comes to anything else. So team, what are your favourite recipes (generally -  I'm not asking for detailed qty measurements) to use up the masses of various beans I've got. 

PS I blame Scarlet