A book I cannot get through...

Every once in awhile I come across a book that I simply cannot force my self to finish.  The most recent culprit of this atrocity is "Room" written by Emma Donoghue.  I picked up this book because I noticed that it had won a plethora of awards, plus it was on Heather's List!  Usually Heather picks really great books, but alas this one to me was an utter dud!  

The book is told from the point-of-view of a young boy, which I think is where the problem of the book lays.  Since the narrator is five years old, the grammar matches.  I understand that the poor grammar was done on purpose by the author, but I couldn't wrap my head around it.  I think I would have liked the book (and maybe would have even finished it) if it were told from the perspective of the mother or if the narrator was omniscient.  

The story takes place in a room (what a witty title eh?!?) and it chronicles the life of the young boy and his mother in this room.  The boy and his mother are being held by a man, why?  I have no idea.  From what I read it was very confusing and every time I pick it up I just get angry.  This book is definitely a book that I will never finish!

The one thing that I do like about this book are the pages.  My copy of the book has this awesome vintage-looking pages. 

Black Bean Burritos

Being as it is "Meatless Monday" I decided to make meatless burritos for dinner!

The ingredients of the burritos are as follows:

• half a sweet onion
• one diced red pepper
• one can of black beans
• two cloves of garlic
• half a brick of cream cheese
• two teaspoons of dried cilantro

And of course because I'm excited about this blog thing, I took pictures as I was cooking!

Step One: chop onions and red peppers

Step Two: place chopped onions and red peppers into hot skillet.

Step Three: Add black beans after onions and peppers have cooked for five minutes.

Step Four: Add garlic to the black beans! (YUM GARLIC)

Step Five: Stir in cream cheese....the flash then died on my blackberry so now everything has this lovely yellow hue. 

Step Six: Fill burrito shells.

Step Seven: Stir in cilantro.

Step Eight: ENJOY!!!

The burritos were pretty darn good, but they needed some Jalapeño peppers for some kick! Definitely my fault for overlooking that in the recipe. I declare Meatless Monday a success!!!

Hello!

Hello hello!

My first post! Quite exciting, I know!  I plan on chronicling my cooking and reading adventures as well as fun things from everyday life!  I've been meaning to start a blog for a long time, but I just kept brushing it aside!  I was inspired today so I decided to put pen to paper (or fingers to keys?) and get'er done! Hopefully it isn't too complicated! *fingers crossed*


...stay tuned!