Hey There - Nice to See You!

Welcome! Three weeks in the new home, and I was hoping to be a bit more settled. Still surrounded by walls of boxes and feeling a bit like things will never be organized...sigh. But the new home came with an unbelievably terrific dream kitchen, complete with-you guessed it-a Viking Stove. Be still, my heart!!! A gazillion pounds of burgundy steel wonder just crying out for a culinary workout.

And that would have happened, too, if I hadn't experienced an EPIC FAIL when I used the self-clean mechanism to kasher the oven for its inaugural run. The oven heated up hotter than the Pompeii lava flow...and I set to dreaming of fabulous meals, mouth-watering desserts and the cooking experiments I'd never previously performed...EXCEPT the oven never opened again after the cycle. NEVER. NEVER until the very nice Viking repairman came and literally laid on the kitchen floor with his skinny piano fingers jammed into the oven door hoping to bypass the locking mechanism...and lo, two weeks later, we are still waiting for the back-ordered part.

But fear not, dear reader! I have recouped and determined to make the best of it, have cooked my little heart out atop the range. Question: do people actually like cooking on an electric stovetop? I'm not sure I do. I've spent an inordinate amount of time cursing at pots of water that seem to take forever to boil, rice and orzo that stick to the bottom of their pots, chicken that browns painfully slowly. Sure, I'll adjust...or we'll all cultivate a taste for the slightly crunchy.

Next posting: New! Improved! Kosher Tandoori Chicken!