LR:
Welcome to Make Your Day Count. I’m Lindsay Roberts, joined with Brenda Kunneman and Christy Hair. And today we’re going to tell you about life lessons that have to do with salmon and dill and mayonnaise and sour crème.
And what in the wide world does that have to do with The Supernatural You, the brand-new book by Brenda Kunneman? We’re not going to tell you. We’re going to show you. It’s going to be something. It started out a disaster, but we’re going to talk about divine interventions in the middle of a disaster.
If you need prayer, 918-495-7777. You can go on-line at Oral Roberts Ministry website, orm.cc, write Richard Roberts and Lindsay Roberts at Tulsa, Oklahoma, 74102, or like I said, go to the telephone, 918-495-7777.
LR:
Okay, we are back. And you know me—I love illustrated sermons. And we have an illustrated sermon about divine disruptions. Now what in the world does a divine disruption have to do with Brenda Kunneman and The Supernatural You and your sister Christy and a disaster in the kitchen?
BK:
Well, it’s one of the funniest stories. We were traveling out of town, and I was getting ready to do this dinner event for a friend of ours.
LR:
It was like a big-shot dinner. It was, it was a big-shot dinner. And so they wanted salmon. And so we were clear out of state, and I called Christy on the phone and I said, “I need a salmon recipe real quick.” She said, “That’s fine.” And she flipped to a book, and she really quickly said—I said, “I’m at the store.”
CH:
Picked up the first one I found.
BK:
She said, “Buy all these ingredients, and I’ll call you back.”
LR:
And that’s when the disaster began.
BK:
She said, “Buy these ingredients. I’ll call you back.” I said, “That’s fine.” Bought them all, called her later in this day when it was time to start preparing the event.
LR:
But without enough time to do something else.
BK:
Correct. And I said, “So what do I do?” And she starts to read the recipe, and she realizes it’s not a salmon dinner—it’s a dip. You don’t cook anything.
CH:
Yeah, no cooking involved whatsoever.
BK:
Right, there was no cooking involved. And so it’s a dip. Tell them what you told me to do.
CH:
Well, I didn’t tell her right away it was just a dip. So I went ahead and—
LR:
And she’s the worship leader, and she and her husband pastor the church in Omaha. So, needless to say, can we just say they’re both out of their element, okay?
CH:
So I went ahead and said, “Here’s what you’re going to do. You’re going to cook the salmon, and then all those other ingredients are going to make a fabulous sauce.” So she puts it all together, and I said, “Just call me and let me know how that goes for you.”
LR:
So I won’t say you were lying through your teeth. You were improvising, right?
CH:
I was improvising. I like that word.
BK:
So, anyway, I cooked the salmon. We put the sauce together—
LR:
Having no knowledge it’s a dip.
BK:
No knowledge. She wouldn’t tell me. You know, wonderful sister, she didn’t tell me.
LR:
Smart woman.
BK:
I can appreciate it. I’m mad at her now for it.
CH:
She knows now.
BK:
Yes, I know now. I put it all together, served it to these people, and they were like, “This is the best salmon we have ever had, hands down.
LR:
Meanwhile, you’re home sweating, right?
BK:
Yes, I’m home sweating. We didn’t have cell phones then. No, I let her sweat, so we’re going to make it for everybody.
LR:
So here’s what happened. And we’re going to give you the ingredients and share this because, here’s the thing, many times in our lives we get into a situation where we think, This is the biggest disaster of my life. Can God turn this mess into a miracle?
And so we were sitting at the table, and the reason why I wanted them to show you is, first, so you can have the recipe and see how simple a mess can turn into a miracle. And second of all, the reason I wanted to do this was, your husband Hank was sitting there and he looked at us and he went, “You mean that was never supposed to be a real recipe?”
BK:
We got it like from some gourmet recipe. He brags about it everywhere.
LR:
And it was truly a total and complete accident. I say that to say this—we’re going to talk about Supernatural You in just a minute. But in the meantime, we’re going to show you how to take this mess that turned into a miracle, and we’re going to show you the recipe because I told Brenda, “I want you to cook.” And she said, “I’ve got an idea.”
Well, this was the idea, and how you can take something that is nothing but lemons, literally, and turn it into lemonade. If you’re sitting there thinking about what mess you’re in, what mess you’ve become, what mess someone has thrown in your face, “How in the world can I turn this into a miracle?”—I’m not sure you can. But the supernatural power of God that resides within you can take the mess and turn it into a miracle.
So before we get into the book, come on, you guys. Submit the recipe. Do it. By the way, we sautéed it. In the back room we have this little stove back there, and we sautéed the salmon. Depending on the thickness of the salmon or how you like your fish cooked, we did it about seven to eight minutes total. If you like it more done, help yourself. If you like it less, help yourself.
BK:
This was in a little butter. Get it as brown as you like, and then basically what Christy has done is, she’s just cutting up some fresh dill. And then we’re going to use—how many ounces is this, Christy? This is about 16 ounces. And we’re going to use just the whole thing. And now here’s the thing, you could do this over a saucepan. It’s probably better because you really want to serve it hot. You could microwave it too. So that would be fine.
Basically, we’re just going to put the whole container—I am going to give that to you. That’s right.
LR:
And you came to my house for dinner and got the privilege of eating my husband, Richard Robnerts’, cooking.
CH:
And I tell you, that man could open his own restaurant. It’s the truth.
BK:
We’ve got just about a couple, three tablespoons of maybe mayonnaise, you know. And you know what? Here’s the thing about these ingredients, you really cannot almost not ruin it. You could mix different parts, depending on your taste, but this is mostly sour crème, a little bit of mayonnaise. And I think we’ve got maybe, oh, a third of a cup of looks like Half and Half or cream, heavy whipping cream. And then we’re going to mix this up.
LR:
It’s that simple.
BK:
It’s that simple.
LR:
You know, as a dip it might not have been so awesome. You did good, woman.
BK:
That’s true. And then we mix it up and get it smooth. You could use your beaters, I guess. It might be easier. And I’d give it a good mix. And then we’re going to heat it up. And they’ll squeeze lemons into it.
LR:
And that’s it.
BK:
Don’t get the lemons in your eye.
LR:
We sat at our kitchen table—actually, we had so many people in the room, we just starated laughing, and laughing turned into more laughing. And I tell you something, you know, first of all they got lost. And then as they got lost, my kids—I do not know how or why they did this, but they took one of my tape recorders. You know, her husband is Hank Kunneman, the man that is such a prophet to the nations. We love this man. And so when he comes around, we always have a tape recorder.
My kids started singing Christmas music on my tape recorder and turning it on high speed. So by the time dinner came, we were laughing so hard, we couldn’t contain ourselves. And, you know, I think that’s part of it. So many times we worry about the food, we worry about this, we worry about that. The most important thing is worrying about each other, and not necessarily worrying but I’m saying, be concerned about the people in the room. The rest kind of takes care of itself in so many ways.
So how much dill do you have in there?
BK:
A bunch. You can mix it up. It’s turning out to be about half a cup. A little bit of parsley, squeeze in some lemon. You want to kind of taste it to make sure you like it.
LR:
It certainly is pretty.
BK:
It’s beautiful. And then salt and pepper, a little bit of salt and pepper, and that is it. Now when you heat this, it’s a little bit softer.
LR:
But the original recipe was, what would you have done with the salmon, like chop it up and—
BK:
She never showed it to me.
LR:
Okay, never mind. Use your imagination. You know, Christy, I’m not going to call you—
BK:
No, she’ll leave you hanging out there.
LR:
The next time we have a party, we’re not calling you. Man, can this woman lead worship. Oh, Lord!
CH:
She’s a fabulous cook. Only she could have pulled this off.
BK:
So all you do is, you just want to, you know, spread it over just like that.
LR:
And that’s it.
BK:
We usually serve it with like basmati rice, buttered rice and some—
LR:
She’s going to get fancy on us.
CH:
She’s the gourmet.
LR:
Now I have to tell you, Hank admitted this was his favorite thing when she does the salmon, and had no idea it started out a bomb. It was a total disaster. So I tell you what, we’re going to talk about that in just a minute. We’re going to talk about taking what may by the world’s standards seem to be a total disaster and how God can take that mess and turn it into a miracle. Stay tuned. We’re going to be right back.
Leave a Reply