Stocking for typhoon - a list

Super Typhoon Usagi is raging out there and might hit HK in the next few hours. Strong winds are blowing, it's started to rain. And super market shelves are being wiped clean.

I realised rather late in the day that one should stock for a typhoon and made a run for the supermarket. Only to find it super crowded - don't know if it was the Sunday effect or the Usagi effect!

My typhoon rations list (besides milk and vegetables) included -

Water - Always, always, the first thing to have on your list in times of emergency. Loads and loads of water!

Fluids - Lots of fluids including juices, iced teas, milk/ coffee etc to supplement water and fill you up.

Bread - My best friend when hunger strikes. Picked up raisin and cranberry bread - don't need anything to have it with. It's great by itself and even better with butter!  

Snacks - Lots and lots of snacks including 3 minute noodles and soups. These will see you through the times when the cold wind is roaring and shrieking outside and keep warm inside.

Fruits - Fruits for those mid-meal snacks. Fruits to fill you up. Fruits to snack on through the long day cooped up indoors. 

Kebabs - Frozen, pre-cooked kebabs are a staple in the freezer. Defrost and eat or make it as a side with bread or naan or rice or even pasta! 

Wine - A little help goes a long way in calming nerves when sitting at home while nature rages outside!

And after all the groceries have been bought, I rush back home. The wind seems to have a life of its own, pushing me forward, making my clothes flap around my middle. In an absurd way, it makes me feel alive. But not for long. Soon it's time to head upstairs, open that bottle of wine and write this blog as I watch nature run it's course behind the safety of my window. And wait for the husband to come home safe and sound.

Stay safe everybody. Prayers.

Drunken fruits: Sangria love!

Anybody who knows me well enough knows how much I love sangria. 

White wine, red wine, rose all types of sangria work for me. Wine soaked apples, green apples, oranges, green grapes, purple grapes, pomegranate, lime, passion fruit, strawberries all are welcome to my glass(es)/jugs/pitchers of sangria! 

Home made white wine sangria with green grapes

Drunken fruits - remains of home made red wine sangria with purple grapes and apples 

The best Sunday afternoons are spent in the company of the husband and sister and glass(es) of sangria; cooking with sangria, watching TV with sangria, eating while sipping sangria, singing with sangria, listening to music with sangria! The first thing prepared on Sangria Sundays (even before the morning glass of hot water and lime!) is the perfect pitcher of wine and fruits followed by an interminable wait for the fruits to get suitably 'drunk'!

Dia sparkling white wine sangria with strawberries (super yum, super easy to make!)

While I am a big fan of homemade sangrias for the simple reason that there is ample room for experimentation, my favourite sangrias are found at Cafe Mangii for the freshness of the fruit, Woodside Inn for the yummiest sangria and Indigo Deli for the potent(est) and most interesting sangria combinations and Ivy for the pitchers!

Green apple sangria at Indigo Deli

What are your favourite sangria flavours? Where should we head next for some more super sexy sangrias? Do let me know in the comments below.

In the meanwhile, cheers, let's drink to that!