What to do? My bread was sitting there, all raised ready to be baked. I thought of asking my neighbors to bake them, in trade for a loaf but they weren't home. The only thing to do was to freeze them.
I didn't know that oven ranges were so costly! I thought a couple of hundred....not to be! We had a drop in range and those ran about $1200.00 and up. Built in ranges were pretty costly too, but we couldn't get one of those because of the area the previous oven came out of. We ended up getting a stand alone range with a ceramic top and uses steam to clean it which I like too. It isn't a fancy model but it cooks and bakes. When we get our dream house someday, that is when I'll get my fancy oven.
Here are a couple of before and after pictures.
I had to put things to cover up the holes under my cabinets so our cat, Minnie didn't go under the cabinets before we put the range in. That is why there is a recipe box and cheese grater there.
It was a challenge for me to make all our meals from the microwave and crockpot but I managed to keep my husband happy. The first thing I baked was the bread that I had frozen. The bread didn't really raise, I guess because it was already done doing that before it was frozen. It thawed, kind of spread out on the baking pan but it did taste good. It went great with our Italian dinner.
I've found some really great looking desserts I found on Pinterest that I'll be trying out soon.
Stay tuned!
