Three-Bean Chocolate Chili

When I was first learning to cook, a friend and I would get together once a week and navigate our way through two or three recipes together. We were still learning how to read a recipe, and it usually took us twice as long as the recipe said it should, but it ended up being the fundamental excitement that got me into cooking. We recorded all the recipes that we tried in a notebook and would make all sorts of notes about what worked and didn’t. I haven’t seen that notebook in years, but the