Slept late, until around 8 a.m. Skipped my exercises, as usual on Sunday. Hubbie accompanied Mother to our house around 9:30, and we began lunch preparations at 10:30.
Today's lunch plan was stuffed bell peppers, so I began by boiling the six peppers we bought at a roadside veggie stand. Mother diced onions, and I sauteed those with hamburger, added canned diced tomatoes, water, spices, and long grain brown rice.
The recipe stated that the rice should cook in about fifteen minutes. But it didn't. In fact, it took closer to 45 minutes to cook it. If I use this recipe again, I'll be wise enough to pre-boil the rice for a while, and then add it to the recipe.
Once the rice was tender, I added shredded Monterey Jack cheese to the mixture, and Mother spooned it into the bell peppers. Baked the peppers for about 30 minutes. We had them with Parmesan potatoes left over from last night, and sliced garden tomatoes and Vidalia onions, topped with cottage cheese. The peppers were especially delicious, and there are enough left for another meal.
After lunch, we watched "Wind at My Back," a 1996-2001 TV series, borrowed from the library, about a Canadian family during the Depression. The series begins with a young woman and her husband losing their home and grocery store to the bank, forcing them to move back home to his mother's house.
The mother lets them have a summer home, but on the first day they arrive there, the husband is stung by hornets and dies. The mother-in-law, who never liked her son's wife, insists on keeping her two young grandsons, and sending the granddaughter, a baby, to live with another family, because the young mother can't take care of them.
The young woman protests, but finally agrees, because she doesn't have a job and can't take care of the children.
Around 6 p.m., I scrounged up a supper of leftover turkey burgers left over from last night, and served them with veggie chips, and fresh cherries for dessert.
We watched most of the first season of this series, until around 8 p.m., when Mother was ready to go home. Hubbie accompanied her, and we watched another movie.
We'll continue the series as we have time this week, and next weekend. I borrowed seasons one and two, and I hope we can get season three when we've finished these, because we've become engrossed in the story.
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Around 4:30, while we were watching the TV series, a thunderstorm cropped up. Got some rain out of it, but later during the 5 p.m. news (which I had recorded on DVR), there was a report that our town got hail and enough wind to knock a power pole over, but not all the way down. We'll have to wait for tomorrow's local paper for any more news of the storm.
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