I never have cooked much in my life because when I was at home until 18, my mom cooked. There was a short period of time when I lived with my oldest brother & we ate outta cans & drank a lotta beer. Then I lived with women who fed & cooked for me until I'm at the point where I am now, which is at 60 yrs. of age I have to do it for myself, cause my wife is otherwise occupied for lack of a better description. I know I probably disgust a lotta women by that confession, but that's the way it has been. I can cook fish & meat, that's about it. When there's more than one pan I get confused. Nobody's born knowing how to cook, & if you've always had someone else doing it for you, you don't learn anything. I just learned how to make scrambled eggs a week ago. I get ridiculed a lot.
Anyway, what I did was squirt lime juice on rice, then put thin chicken breasts in it that had maries exotic sauce on em, & splashed some of that on top on the rice, etc. with a little coconut milk with grated cheese on top & man it was good! I impressed myself, so I thought I'd pass it on, cause it sounded like a Belizean meal to me. It's kinda fun learning how to cook, as long as it's not too complicated.
I just ordered more http://www.mariesharps.us/ sauce & two ea. for everything sauce supposedly. It's a good website to order from.
Sorry if I sound like a total idiot about cooking, but that's what I am at this point.
Good for you. 
In this state in life, when you are offered the conveniences of prepackaged foods, choppin & fryin is a good thing. As for being a "late bloomer", sometimes that's how life goes. 
, you got different kinds of beans and or rice, depending on the meal you ordered. They made spinach stuffed chicken breast, with a mango salsa. The best garlic soup. It had a whole boiled egg in it, and topped to bread and cheese. They also made my most favorite quesadilla of all time. It was a hand made corn tortilla, folded empanada style, but it was about 10 inches in length, by 5 inches wide. Ohhhh, and soooo good. 
