Recipe for abstinence

[frerejacques]

I eat beans every day. The Mexican stereotype is true! (actually it isn't, I just like beans.)

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Señor Walberg, I am a dainty dewdrop. A precious flower, even. And besides, Mexicans do not have this problem because we are used to beans. :wench

This is true. Perhaps I <i>am</i> part Mexican, or maybe I just eat beans alot?   Anyhow, at Chez Frerejacques tonight it's going to be tostones (twice fried plantains with garlic lime sauce) accompanied by from-scratch black beans and rice Cuban style, the way my godmother taught me to make it - no measuring. 

In college I missed the beans from home so much that I invented a dormatory version:  buy a giant can of black beans and a jar of sofrito from your local purveyor of Goya foods.   Order a quart of steamed white rice from the Chinese place. Microwave the sofrito and beans until you hear sizzling, mix in the rice, microwave it again for a minute.  Refuse to feed anyone who doesn't bring their own lime or who boges the hot sauce.