new to cooking beans, how do you make these bastards taste good?

I thin you should try and adapt.

It's in your future.

Add carrot and celery ...

Quick easy, inexpensive and tasty.

Add a cup of your fav salsa and 1lb of smoked sausage, cut into thin slices and 1 beef bullion cube to a medium size crock pot. Cook until the beans are as tender as you like and bob is your uncle.

You can do this with any sauce/meat mix. We have tried italian sausage with a tomato sauce base, beef tips with mushroom soup as a base...you can add just about anything.

If you like a thicker sauce add a bit of cornstarch to the soupy mix and pair with some type of bread. Makes for awesome leftovers and its always filling.

if you want red sauce you go to the italians...

if you want beans you go to the ricans.