winter storms and beans and rice

Are YOU ready for a winter storm? 

Yay for giving my first winter storm presentations to YMCA afte-school programs yesterday.  It's good to be back in the swing of things.  So that's 2 yesterday, 2 today and one tomorrow.  After that, hopefully volunteers will start inundating me with offers to give presentations, thanks to the note Judy put in the latest emergency services newsletter.  That'd be awesome.  The more presentations I can get covered, the more of a chance I have of being able to be deployed to a disaster response operation sometime after the B & A 1/2 on March 5th. 

In other news, I made a huge batch of my favorite brought-from-home lunch yesterday-creole red beans and rice.  We seem to go through a lot of chili powder and cumin and onions in my house...wonder why?  Now let's see if I have that recipe memorized...test time!

( Creole Red Beans and Rice Recipe-first time trying a cut )

I'm rather imprecise when I make this-the more spices the better.  Just be sure not to burn the onions or it doesn't taste so good.

~Bethany