black beans

When our Brazilian friends left to go home, they left us with some black beans that they had gotten from Brazil during their stay over here. They actually left us a bunch of other stuff too, like leftover spices, garlic, etc... Anyhow, I tried to fix the black beans last night for dinner. I found a recipe online and followed it, but....they didn't exactly turn out as I had hoped. They were done enough I suppose, but had to cook for much longer than expected. We ate them, and they were fine, just not as exciting as I had hoped. Thankfully there are some left that we can experiement with again in the future.