Adventures in cooking

I am Bad Luck Schleprock, I have the AIM name to prove it. Anyway, tonight I thought I would try steaming some asparagus in our new steamer. To go with our yummy veggie I would prepare a Perdue Perfect Portion Teriyaki chicken breast, as well as a nice salad with a light vinaigrette. So I put my chicken in the oven, turned it on to 350 degrees and was standing at the sinking cleaning my asparagus and placing it into the steamer tray. All of the sudden a loud humming sound and sparks flew out of the oven. Smoke started billowing from the burners. I yelled to Jerry "help...help... thing...fire...sparks...". Now usually I'm a cool cucumber underpressure but tonight, not so much. He ran into the kitchen and thought I was talking about the new steamer so he unplugged that. Finally I said the right words and he killed the power, via the fuse, to the stove and pulled it out to unplug it. Now I have been wanting a new stove/oven but not tonight! Thankfully I had more chicken and could cook it on the contact grill. (I burned it though ) The asparagus was yummy though. This is coming from a girl that really didn't want to like it. Veggies=food for the devil.

Comments

  1. Anonymous12:12 AM, November 09, 2006

    Whoa..scary times w/ the oven! Hope you can score a new, fancy one. :)

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  2. Gknee6:30 AM, November 09, 2006

    Was on Consumer Reports' website last night looking for the best. And fortunately the best isn't the most expensive. I'm excited because now I get my smooth surface cooktop :)

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  3. Jerry Sutton8:25 AM, November 09, 2006

    I still want to know when she had the time to saw through the heating element so it would explode like that...

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  4. Anonymous1:06 PM, November 09, 2006

    'saw through the heating element'...ahh, it would look as if you've been exposed, gknee. ;)

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  5. Gknee9:26 PM, November 09, 2006

    DOH! :O

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