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I spent the day with my brother's daughters. He has a 3 year old and twin 16 month old girls. Great kids all around. Me and my brother made gumbo and he is an awesome cook (I tend to suck at anything without close supervision).
Getting the stuff, we took the oldest to the grocery store that just opened up down the road. Its a pretty cool place that lets you try a lot of stuff before you buy. So we let Lily, the oldest pick the sausage. I should point out that even though we are in MD, the girls were born in Texas. This is the only explanation I have for what occurred.
I start cooking the sausage when I notice my eyes are watering like crazy. I get done cooking it and slice it up. I grab a piece and pop it in my mouth. Good lord...
Now I got a pretty good stomach. Outside of crazy Thai food, I can handle pretty much anything...but this kicked my butt. Gasping for water, I tell my brother that we got a problem. He tries a piece and his face turns red. Well Lily starts tugging on my leg, wanting to try a piece. We figure that the store, when letting her try different things, obviously gave us the wrong sausage cause there is no way in hell a 3 year picked out the hottest sausage I have ever eaten. Well she won't take no for an answer. So my brother gets a big glass of milk ready and I give her a piece. Then another...and another. She is popping these things away like they are candy. All she kept saying was that she liked it.
We make the gumbo and pretty much other than my brother, me, and Lily, no one else can even take a spoonful. Again, we didn't mean to make it hot at all and as soon as we noticed the sausage was brutal, we tried to neuter it as much as possible. Pretty much the grandparents were stuck eating rice and chicken that we made on the fly after realizing the Gumbo was now 5 alarm. Me and my brother are killing the water just trying to keep up with the 3 year old. Well now the twins are clambering to try the gumbo. My brother's wife is dead set against it, but the Lily ended up sneaking them a spoonful of it onto their high chairs while mom was in the kitchen and everyone was distracted talking...
They eat it likes it nothing. Mom comes back, freaks out and starts wiping up their high chairs and the twins freak. They end up eating more of the gumbo than anything else. They went bonkers for it.
As I type this, I am about halfway through a bottle of pepto and after talking to my brother, he is in the same shape. The kids? For the first time in months, all three of them are sleeping fine. I guess all it took was insanely hot food.
Getting the stuff, we took the oldest to the grocery store that just opened up down the road. Its a pretty cool place that lets you try a lot of stuff before you buy. So we let Lily, the oldest pick the sausage. I should point out that even though we are in MD, the girls were born in Texas. This is the only explanation I have for what occurred.
I start cooking the sausage when I notice my eyes are watering like crazy. I get done cooking it and slice it up. I grab a piece and pop it in my mouth. Good lord...
Now I got a pretty good stomach. Outside of crazy Thai food, I can handle pretty much anything...but this kicked my butt. Gasping for water, I tell my brother that we got a problem. He tries a piece and his face turns red. Well Lily starts tugging on my leg, wanting to try a piece. We figure that the store, when letting her try different things, obviously gave us the wrong sausage cause there is no way in hell a 3 year picked out the hottest sausage I have ever eaten. Well she won't take no for an answer. So my brother gets a big glass of milk ready and I give her a piece. Then another...and another. She is popping these things away like they are candy. All she kept saying was that she liked it.
We make the gumbo and pretty much other than my brother, me, and Lily, no one else can even take a spoonful. Again, we didn't mean to make it hot at all and as soon as we noticed the sausage was brutal, we tried to neuter it as much as possible. Pretty much the grandparents were stuck eating rice and chicken that we made on the fly after realizing the Gumbo was now 5 alarm. Me and my brother are killing the water just trying to keep up with the 3 year old. Well now the twins are clambering to try the gumbo. My brother's wife is dead set against it, but the Lily ended up sneaking them a spoonful of it onto their high chairs while mom was in the kitchen and everyone was distracted talking...
They eat it likes it nothing. Mom comes back, freaks out and starts wiping up their high chairs and the twins freak. They end up eating more of the gumbo than anything else. They went bonkers for it.
As I type this, I am about halfway through a bottle of pepto and after talking to my brother, he is in the same shape. The kids? For the first time in months, all three of them are sleeping fine. I guess all it took was insanely hot food.
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