Book Review and Recipe 2!

So I just got done reading "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was such a fun book to read! Not very long and easy to get through. It's full of fabulously cliche detective stories. It's nice because the book isn't one continuous story, every chapter is a new story! That also made it kind of hard for me to get in to, but all of the stories were great! It is narrated by Holmes' 'trusty sidekick' Watson who is an old doctor friend of his. Sherlock always insists on having Watson around to help him solve his cases, although Watson can rarely add any insight to the genius of Sir Sherlock. Since I can't give you a synopsis of the story line, here's just a taste of the book.

"You appear to read a good deal upon her which was quite invisible to me" I remarked.
"Not invisible, but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring you to realize the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a bootlace..."
"Well, Watson," said Holmes, when our visitor had left us, "what do you make of it all?"
"I make nothing of it," I answered, frankly. "It is a most mysterious business."
"As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this matter."
"What are you going to do, then?" I asked.
"To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."



Now, for the recipe. I tried to think of something new that I've tried lately, but I kept coming back to taco salad! This has got to be one of my all-time, favorite recipes. It's easy, tastes really good, and goes especially well with some County-time lemonade!

TACO SALAD
1 lb ground beef
1/4 c chopped onion
1 16oz drained kidney beans
1/2 c Catalina dressing
1/2 C Water
1 T chili powder
*Brown meat. Drain. Add onion, cook until tender. Stir in beans, dressing, water and chili powder. Let simmer for 15 minutes. (I usually double the recipe. FYI. I just brown the meat and onion, drain it, then throw everything in a crock pot together and put it on warm while we're at church. SO easy!)

The rest of the ingredients are up to you! Or whatever you happen to have in your kitchen.... :)
lettuce
tomato
tortilla chips
green onions
sour cream
olives
guacamole
cheese
catalina dressing
*But may I stress the correct way of layering the ingredients, since the Crosby household has it down to a science. :) Place the tortilla chips on your plate and smash them. Then add the meat and beans, then the lettuce. Everything else is then up to you, but make sure you mix it all around good before eating. ENJOY!!