Black bean, corn, and tomato salad is super! Several recipes exist for black-eyed pea salad--Southern Living's Southern Caviar is the best, imo, especially when made with quantities of Vidalia or Peru onions. I've also seen a summer squash bisque made with buttermilk and chives. I've also used summer squash in cornbread dressing as a replacement for some of the oil or butter, and I've seen one recipe somewhere for pumpkin/butternut squash cornbread, and another for parkerhouse rolls made that way. You can make veggieburgers with black beans, too. Black, pinto, or white beans are good curried, and I've even seen hummus recipes which substituted beans and pecans (or sunflower seeds) for the more common garbanzos and sesame paste.
Of course, Little Mexico has the ever-popular sopa seca--rice cooked with tomatoes, onions, garlic, Mexican spices and whatever you want to add. Add shrimp, hot peppers, and thyme, and it's St. Augustine shrimp perlow. Use red beans, sausage, and substitute Cajun for Mexican spice and there's another classic dish. Use black beans, leftover beef roast, kale or collards, and it's Brazilian feijoada.
You can cook those pole beans in several types of casseroles; I prefer a simple Stroganoff sauce with plenty of mushrooms. I've heard of deep-frying pole beans whole, but who needs the calories?
And my personal garbanzo favorite: add a few hunks of ham and a pack of either Lop Cheong sausages or a pound of chorizo sausages, cut into chunks, along with a few potatoes, a chopped onion and a couple cloves of garlic, and plenty of carrots. Makes a rich and addictive stew. Not budget-friendly, but darn, it's good on a cold day.