LATE MAY, THE OUTDOOR DISHWASHER (last meal with a stove as it turns out)


Food Mood: grateful

Reno Ridiculouso: bought a kitchen

Two big wins this week in what has been a long planning process.
Win 1: the Hubby ripped out the old kitchen cabinets (still got a stove)  and tore off the back entry in a great explosion of manly ripping and tearing!  A lovely side effect of this is that he took our old counter top that contained the sink and laid it across two saw horses in the very back of the yard with a camping water container with spout for a faucet.  This makes me obscurely happy.  It is a place for me to be.  It has rapidly becomes a happy place where the Hubby, the Kid and I catch up and do the dishes together as the late spring sun sets across our faces.  Win.

Win 2: the kitchen cupboards.  I hate waste and there was absolutely nothing wrong with our old cupboards other than that they looked like 1984 was calling. 
The old kitchen. 
“Ring, Ring!!”
“Hello…”
“Hey, it’s 1984 telling you that girls just wanna have fun!”
“Uhm, ok, great.  Thanks 1984 but I’m not sure that I’m feeling that anymore…”
“What?  C’mon, Kama, Kama, Kama, Kama, Kama Chameleon…”
“I don’t even know what that means. Goodbye 1984” click.

Anyhow… The Hubby and I have been going back and forth for months.  Repaint the kitchen cupboards, put new doors on old cupboards, buy all new, repeat.  

And then finally, a break through.  The building that I run needs some “better than they have” kitchen cupboards and want ours.  Yeah, recycling!  And simultaneously we discover a brand new, espresso finish (which we want) set of cupboards that were put into a new built home.  The owners arrived, hated them and are taking them out.  They’ve never been used.  So we (and by we I mean the Hubby) hightail it up to Richmond Hill to retrieve them. It’s more cupboards (and granite) than we can use and it comes with the original bill of sale, dated three months before and detailing all the finishes in case we want to order more from the local builder.  MAJOR WIN!!!! 

And Now… for a recipe by someone who still possesses a stove, but no counters and an outdoor sink

Sauteed Pork with Corn Kimchee
½ small red cabbage, shredded
1 cup frozen corn
¼ cup chili sauce ( I like Heinz, but whatevs..)
1 tsp chili powder
1 tbsp finely grated ginger
½ tsp white vinegar
1 tbsp chili garlic sauce
1 pork tenderloin thinly sliced
3 green onions
Lightly oil frying pan and cook cabbage for eight minutes
Add corn, chili sauce, chili powder, ginger, chili garlic sauce and vinegar (lotsa chili there, but don’t worry, it’ll all be ok!)
Cook for 2 minutes, remove to a bowl
Use the same pan, add some oil and stirfry pork until browned. 
Return cabbage mix to pan, heat through and top with green onions. 
TASTY! 
Hello! Thanks for stopping by to check out my recipes and commiserate with my (our) misery. Misery loves company! I live in Toronto with my husband and little girl. We have spent a year (yep, that's right, renovating our home) About seven months into this crazy renovation I thought to myself, this has got to be funny or it will be pathetic! And so, I have chosen for funny! This is my collection of mostly crockpot (although sometimes not) recipes paired with the days (weeks, months) that inspired them. Please share your best reno stories and crockpot recipes too.

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