Spicy Potato and Black Bean Soup

Anyone who has watched me in a kitchen can attest to the fact that I can not cook. More specifically, I can not follow directions properly to save my life, and I don't have enough experience to wing it. Sunday night, though, I decided to make soup.

I was too chicken to eat it then (it is far from the most beautiful food ever invented), but warmed some of it up for dinner both last night and tonight. Surprisingly, it actually tasted like food. Simple food, but food - and tasty food at that!

Excuse the nasty looking bowl. I was lazy and warmed it up in the microwave. 

How To: Chop one (white skinned?) potato and 1/4 onion. Throw them in a pot with 1/2 can of black beans (mine had already been warmed once the night before), four-ish cups of water, and 1/2 a small can of diced green peppers.

Season to taste. (I used generous amounts of salt, pepper, and cumin; one cube of vegetable bullion; and a pinch (literally) of  basil, oregano, curry powder, paprika, and possibly rosemary.) I don't have the spices memorized, so it was more of an open-jars-and-sniff-until-something-smells-"right" approach. 

Bring to a boil, then simmer, covered, for 1.5 - 2 hours. (I added more salt, pepper, and cumin as it boiled - whenever I stopped being able to "smell" the spices.)

Refrigerate overnight, and rewarm as needed.