Ruth B wrote:If it is any comfort -- when we were building our house five years ago we 'camped' for almost four months.
I cooked every meal on our gas grill (I got so that I could actually bake on it).
I actually got some great suggestions from people on this board, including things like 'use more couscous and bulger' (which I did).
No running water turned out to be the biggest hassle.
It made me appreciate my kitchen all that much more when we finally moved in (but I wish I had just a little bit more counter space)
Ruth, then you must have built during the summer. How sensible--wish I'd thought of it.
I'm freezing my tush off. The payoff is that I'll have the new kitchen in time for summer entertaining.
Isn't counter space wonderful? I'm going to have a LOT of it, and separate counters for different tasks: a prep area vs. a plating area and, after dinner, dirty dish staging area for washup. Right now my biggest complaint has been the distance I have to go for clean water, but running water I do have. I'll remind myself to be grateful.
Bulgur! I love bulgur and indeed that should be very cookable in the microwave. I have yet to try rice, but you know what I did? I dropped off a huge load of old dishes that I decided to part with at Value Village the other day, then went right next door and bought a bag of rice as I had been emboldened by Celia to try microwaving it. And as I got in my car, I realized that I would now need one of the dishes that I'd just dropped off at Value Village to cook it in, not having saved anything like that when we packed. So instead I bought a little 2 qt Pyrex bowl later at the grocery store, it's souffle-dish sized with a plastic lid. Don't know how I thought I was going to get along without something like that: I've used it every day since.
But I get the next three days off: our neighbors are taking great care of us, and we got so many invitations for this weekend we had to turn several down.
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