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Sunday afternoon:
2 hurricanes heading into our kids areas today. Hurricane Douglas hurdling towards Hawaii at the moment. And Hurricane Hanna coming up through south Texas. Son is on Oahu where he said the sirens just went off. And daughter is in the Hill Country a little north of the Texas coast. Hopefully neither will get the brunt of the storms... both may lessen in intensity by the time they actually arrive where the kids are. But as a mom, I will still wait to hear word from them later this evening.
*Having written this yesterday afternoon, I have since heard that both hurricanes did little to the areas where the kids live. However, I will say that the picture above looked very ominous to me. My son and his wife live on Oahu in Kailua (where that green dot on the screen is). The island looked very small to me compared to the size of the hurricane. Anyway, as a typical son, he texted me this morning with the words, "didn't die". *
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Saturday DH made a delicious batch of red beans and rice - which we had for supper both Saturday and Sunday along with some fresh challah bread and butter. We usually have enough beans for 2 meals and some left over to freeze.
Then Tuesday I plan to make a big pot of African Chicken Peanut soup - to eat and to freeze. This recipe we came across several years ago and my daughter and I have made it ever since. It uses peanut butter in the soup at the end. Yes, sounds strange, but tastes delicious!
Oh, and I need to tell you of a funny mistake we made in ordering our curb side groceries this past week. DH added some sour cream to the list online... thinking he was ordering a 16oz tub instead of the small 8 oz tub. Well, you should have seen our faces when we pulled this out of the grocery bag.
5 lbs. of sour cream!! Didn't even know they made tubs of sour cream this large. What would anyone ever need 5 lbs of sour cream for.... maybe a restaurant?? Any suggestions - outside of returning it? I hear that you can freeze sour cream (although I've never done it).
That's it for this Monday's post. Life goes on... a little different than it used to be... but we're adjusting. Things change. My hair is getting long. I can now make a small ponytail. Seems like I will be going back to my ponytail days (or perhaps a long braid like Willie Nelson?). Have you made any adjustments to your normal routine - that you may keep - besides the stay at home, social distancing, and wearing a mask requirements?
Please take care - always - but especially during these unusual times. (My SIL went into the hospital with a broken leg a few weeks ago. Now she has Covid-19)
Hugs,
Rian
Your son's a comedian. :-D
ReplyDeleteI'm glad all is well for your family!
As for that sour cream....I didn't know they sold tubs that large in a regular grocery store, either! Wow! I like sour cream, but that much? I would return it!
Take care, stay well.
Yes, my son teases me... He had told me that he would use the security camera videos and send me a video of the storm. I told him that a text that he was alright was all I needed. So that's what I got.
DeleteI'm going to try to return the gigantic sour cream - but if that doesn't work, I will put it in smaller containers and freeze it. (so funny)
I like sour cream but 5 pounds! That's a lot of sour cream coffee cakes. Maybe dollops on the soup? Mix it with some sweet fruit instead of yogurt?
ReplyDeleteI have to say that we got a good laugh out of it. I told DH that perhaps I needed to double check the grocery orders before he put them in.
DeleteYour son sounds like mine, very funny!
ReplyDeleteThe soup sounds tasty so I had to look up a recipe. Oh my, it sounds very good and though I hadn't planned it, I think I'll make it tomorrow with a few changes to the recipe. I don't do meat with bones so I'll just use boneless chicken breast.
Yikes 5 pounds of sour cream. That seems a bit over much. Hope the store will allow the return.
Good wishes to your SIL. Take care and stay well!
Mae, I use boneless chicken breast in my soup also. And the soup is very good. I do cook my sweet potatoes separately and add to soup. And taste the soup before and after you add the peanut butter. It really makes a difference.
DeleteThanks for letting us know the Hawaii and Texas contingents are safe. And well.
ReplyDeleteThey are... thankfully. So much is happening lately. DH goes out each night wondering the neighborhood hoping to get a glimpse of the Asteroid or possibly the space station. I told him that if any of the neighbors ask why that old man is running around at night looking up at the sky I'm going to tell them he's waiting for the Alien Invasion. (Oh wait, maybe that's already happened...)
DeleteI have no idea what you can do with that much sour cream. I also didn't know they sold containers that big of it. Let me know what you finally end up doing with it. :-)
ReplyDeleteThankfully the store let me return the 5 lbs of sour cream... no problem.
DeleteGlad you dodged the hurricane; now I hope your SIL skirts the worst of the disease.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Tom. As far as we've heard, she's doing OK...
DeleteSo glad all your family was spared. It sure looked big compared to the green dot.
ReplyDeleteHad to laugh out loud at the tub of sour cream. Wow. Good that you could return it.
Hope your SIL is doing Ok. What a shame to catch it at the hospital. Nowhere safe these days.
No, one really doesn't want to go to the hospital these days... or anywhere actually.
DeleteSo happy the hurricanes did not do too much damage.
ReplyDeleteYour son's message, sounds like one of our sons, would send. LOL
Yikes, you have to be careful of "how much" of something you order. I got a huge jar of pickles, when I did not want that!!!!!!!
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Yes, sons can be funny...
Deleteand a huge jar of pickles, huh? I wouldn't know what to do with that either.
Glad the kids are safe; it must be a bit worrying to live in the path of a hurricane, any hurricane.
ReplyDeleteIs there a recipe that uses lots of sour cream? Potato cakes maybe? You could cook with it and then freeze it for the future.
Thanks, Friko. I never worried about hurricanes growing up. We lived in New Orleans and went through hurricane seasons every year. But seeing that weather picture of hurricane Douglas bearing down on those little islands did scare me... and perhaps you worry more when it involves your children than yourself.
DeleteHope your kiddos stayed safe.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Latane, they did.
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