I’m pretty sure that this happens to a lot of young people when they’re just married: when you love to cook and know a couple of different recipes really well, but realize that Cooking every single day for your spouse is a different story. That happened to me, at least, when I had just gotten married. I knew how to cook several dishes, even the complex Mole Poblano, but after a few weeks into the married life, I realized that my cooking repertoire wasn’t that big!

This realization is confirmed when you hear them say “Are we having this again?” That was when I started buying cookbooks to widen my cooking experience, and this black bean recipe is my own version of a recipe from the first cooking book I got as a newly wed, back in the 80’s.