Out with the old...

RIP "Mouse"
Monday was a sad day in our house...for when I went to preheat my oven it just wasn't cooperating. Let's not fail to mention that the front left burner (the one I used the most) sat cockeyed so everything slid to one side. That I could live with...but no oven? Can't do it. This was in the middle of my making a pumpkin pie from scratch. No, I'm not meaning scratch as in dumping out the can of yum, I mean that the last hurrah of the oven must have been roasting the pumpkin the day before...fresh roasted pumpkin, I even made a homemade crust (recipe and review will be on my food blog later this afternoon-or tomorrow..or whenever I get to it!)...so the recipe said "Preheat to 425, bake at that temp for 15 minutes, then lower to 350"-so as I'm rolling out my pie crust and before I've assembled the filling I set it to 425. I finish putting the pie together and I wait....an HOUR later it STILL says it's preheating. So I go ahead and lower it to 350 thinking, hoping that it's already there and I can just bake my pie longer. Another HOUR later it STILL says it's preheating to 350.


My Mom baked a meatloaf in it the next day but had to FLIP the meatloaf. Read that again..she had to FLIP the meatloaf.


I felt myself sinking into a deep depression. The cupcakes I'd planned on making my best friend Heather for our date tonight to see New Moon were circling the drain, and Aaron told me that it would probably be a couple weeks before a good "deal" would come through.


I sadly browsed food blogs that I love and wanted to cry each time I saw something that had to be cooked in an oven.

And then a miracle happened. Clouds parted and a choir of angels began singing..even though when you really looked out the window it was raining! A scratch and dent deal $400 UNDER the original price found us. And yesterday the nice delivery guys came like a stork, to deliver my new "baby".

Notice there was already a pot on the stove-I couldn't WAIT to try out the flat top, and yes..look..there is my pie in the oven!


Thanks Honey!


I'm naming her Betsy. Mainly b/c that is a name that I WANTED to name the baby if it turns out to be a girl, but Aaron has his head set on ANOTHER girl name....

*Mouse was thusly named b/c it was a fairly new range that had been in a vacant house. It replaced the range that was here when we bought the place, but when we got it a family of mice had taken up residence in the broiler drawer. Ew. I think that is where my love of glue traps was born.