We made Serious Eats' Chicken, Bacon and Lentil Stew for the first time last weekend, and I cannot begin to describe how fantastic it was. The only tweak we made was adding some already-cooked brown rice (a handful or two) at the end just to thicken it a bit. This dish is so flavor packed that I could eat daily for a month and never grow tired of it. Really. I promise you. Go straight to the grocery store and thank me later.

If you don't have a pressure cooker, I'd highly recommend the Instant Pot. It's a pressure cooker/slow cooker/rice cooker/other cooker. Really fantastic small appliance.