Name: Cuban Black Beans                            Serves: Makes pot

Category: Beans                Cuisine: Cuban              Source: LA Times

Ingredients:
1 lb dried black beans
2 onions
2 green pepper
Olive oil
3 cloves garlic
1/2 tsp ground Cumin
1 bay leaf
1/2 cup canned tomato sauce
Salt
1 Tbs wine vinegar
Chopped onion

Rinse beans and soak overnight in heavy saucepan with enough water to cover
beans by 2 inches.
Next morning...
Cut 1 onion and 1 green pepper in half and place in pot.
Bring to boil, stir, cover and simmer for 1 1/2 hours.
Heat 5 Tbs olive oil in skillet. Chop remaining onion and green pepper and
saute with garlic for 5 minutes or until onion is soft and starting to get
golden.  Add cumin and bay leaf to skillet and simmer 5 minutes. Add tomato
sauce and simmer another 5 minutes.
Remove bay leaf and puree mixture in blender or Cuisinart.
Add to beans. Add water if beans are too thick.
Season to taste with salt, about 1 tsp.
Remove and discard onion and pepper pieces from beans.
Simmer, stirring often, until beans thicken and are tender.
Turn off heat.
Add 1 Tbs wine vinegar and float a little olive oil on top.
Serve with white or yellow rice, and chopped onion, if desired..