Jacques Pepin makes black bean soup

Interesting ideas: garnish with sliced banana or with cilantro and hard-boiled egg

But I know one household that likes black beans with fried plantains so not too big a leap.

4:00 hours of sleep.

Once again, I meant to get to bed earlier but I had to do last minute things like check about how to ripen a papaya and try to prep for a Zoom meeting this afternoon