Lazy Girl's Cuban-esque Sunday Dinner

1. Set to cooking a pan of parboiled rice (yes parboiled, trust me, if you are going to have rice with beans, it should be parboiled rice...zatarain's if possible).

2. Slice up that perfectly sweetly ripened plantained and pan fry till caramelly and good. Set on plate and set aside (somewhere safe from dive bombing dogs.)

3. Saute chopped onions until translucent, add some goya adobo seasoning, and a big spoonful of ajo de mojo (you do have a huge jar of this in your fridge already don't you? You should.) When this is cooked nicely, and you are about to starve to death right there in front of the stove, add a can of goya black beans (undrained) and add about half cup of water and a couple slugs of vingegar (rice or cider). You want brothy beans don't you? When it's all heated and yummy smelling.....it's ready!

Get a nice dinner plate (just because you are lazy in your cooking doesn't mean you can't have the luxury of nice dinner ware), mound some perfectly cooked rice in the center (if you've timed this perfectly the rice will be just done when the beans are), add some beans, accessorize prettily with some plantains and serve with mojo de ajo on the side.

Do not feel guilty about seconds, but keep in mind how great the leftovers will be for lunch tomorrow.