Oven Out Of Commision

My cooking experiences and plans have taken yet another hit to my wallet and not in a good sense and atm I don't know for how much. Could be as little as 15 euro or as much as 300/400 euro. Only the week will tell me for sure.

Basically the other evening I was getting ready to put something in the oven which is now pre-heated for it (was going to make salmon cakes and zuchinni chips) and well it has this automatic 'spring' system to help close the door. I always found this quite stupid actually... I mean who in the right mind forgets to CLOSE their oven any how? So back to the point, I miss holding it open while putting in the chips and the door closes. Not hard, not forcefully or any thing of the like... just it's normal every day spring back motion and BOOM... the entire front door explodes into a million little glass pieces with exception of this big metal and plastic piece that use to be the handle.

Now the reason I say it could cost as little as 15 or as much as 300/400 is simply... either it's going to cost us 15 euro to talk to people that specialize in the laws of renting apartments to talk to them about if the landlord is responsible to repair/replace the oven or if we are... since it comes with the apartment and we were not liable for the damage done we figure it's the landlords job to repair it. Now if it is ours to have to repair then it'll either be repaired for 100euro or less... if it's higher then that we're not going to throw the money out the door and we'll just buy a new one but rest assured, we'll take it with us and leave them the one they wouldn't repair and they can deal with it when we move! My oven (gets overly possessive).

So my poor oven... stove top still works so at least I have that and tonight I'll be making a nice simple taco salad (will take photos!) and then for dessert we're planning on making bit sized apple fritters since we also have a freshly cleaned/oil replaced fryer :D So my cooking hasn't ended but my baking atm has... will have to do with what I have and see what things I can get into trouble with!

I hope in the end, it's the problem of the landlord to repair or replace the oven as if we have to, I won't be able to afford my pasta maker :( That is the only really truly bad thing about this happening... I WANT MY PASTA MAKER! LOL I have for quite a number of years so I hope this is just a case of him having to repair it. I rather be without an oven for a couple of months even then have to forfeit getting my birthday present!

New Photos & Info Updated

For those that are keeping a watch on my beautiful and colourful photos, I've updated the VEGGIE STEW recipe with a brand new set of photos. There use to only be 2 but they were old and didn't show very much. Removed those and replaced them with like 10 new ones including an finished product. Remember my blog is about tried and true recipes. Things I've made, cooked, baked, tried and thought were worthy of a place here on the blog from recipes to stores to even just something I found interesting that had to deal with the whole gluten free life style. That also means I will always have photos of stuff I've tried or made just to prove that it has been made and I am true to the word!

Thinking of that... the veggie stew was inspired this time around by the hand off of a totally massive zucchini that was quite literally the length of my arm and larger then baseball bat thick. This monster made 2 recipes, the stew and later on some Zucchinni Bread. This thing was laid out on a white sheet we have over one of our couches... I wish there was a better way to show the size of it but I think from the width alone you can tell how huge it actually was!

Stupidity On Blogger's Side

Of all the stupid things I have come across in the way of text based things like this site, this has got to rank in the top 10.

Today I added of course my first recommended entry. All was working quite well before that post. I publish the post and suddenly I am missing half my blog... every thing to the left including the search widget that *I* actually had to add physically to the HTML code of the template I use for this blog because it wasn't working/active for some reason through blogger itself.

Ok NOW I'm upset as all of my labels were gone too and I KNOW these were there just yesterday because I took the time to edit them to make them sound and look better. So WTF?! But as usual, I am not a quitter and didn't let this stop me. I stopped my posting and went on a hunt for why my side widgets up and took their unexpected vacation. It took quite a bit of time to find the right search terms but in the end (as I'm sure you can see) I figured out how and where to search for the problem.

This is where I placed the title as I did. The reason my widgets disappeared is because of the damn automatically made iframe embed that GOOGLE itself makes *duh* for it's mapping feature was too large for my blog. So instead of the blog warning me or something that some thing was simply over sized, it just up and makes things disappear! I spent 30mins tonight finding this out but in the end I simply did a custom sizing on the google maps I added and made them no bigger then the re-sized by blogger images in my blog pages and wela, every thing works again.

So a note to my fellow bloggers, if suddenly you post something and lose your side widgets without having touched any thing in your template at all... check your image sizes! It's really stupid but in the end it's a quick and easy fix to make it all right again.

Leave Your Comments!

Please by all means leave your comments on this blog but I do politely request that you keep it on subject which in this case is gluten free food/cooking stuffs. If you are posting toward a blog entry in specific then please also keep it about the post as well. Just keep it on track and don't go talking about how to purchase a brand new Iphone 4 while we're taking about making a wonderful fruit tart.

I'd also LOVE to have you link your food blog but please link only gluten free blogs or even if it's just toward a gluten free post of your blog but if your blog is all about cakes with normal gluten filled flours/ingredients and it's posted in a comment to say corn dogs, I'll just remove/not approve it. I just want to keep this blog about gluten free cooking and to help those that have to live with this. Give them a place to come to, know the recipes are tried and true, that the information within is accurate and gluten free.

Enjoy the blog and don't forget, if you have suggestions to any of my recipes, POST ABOUT IT! I'm always looking for ways to spice up the recipes I have made!

Welcome To The Gluten Free Experience!

Welcome to my spare time project! I know I know, you're saying to yourself 'oh great another food blog' but this blog comes with a purpose... a good purpose! To write to all of those out there that are living the Gluten Free life style! I had to go about this about 5years ago as of this post and new blog. It's been a crazy experience from lots of good things relearned, bad mistakes, flopped cooking, really good cooking, depression days due to feeling sorry for myself and much much more.

I wanted to start this little project here because it'll give me a way to express what I'm doing with my life in the way of my food & cooking while enjoying some things I like more, photography... writing and of course computers! I hope you'll find something good out of this blog and that you'll enjoy my ride with me! 

Feel free to link to your blog but please keep it related to gluten free cooking. If it's a blog entry only that is fine but please link to the entry and not just the blog itself... keep it real and I'll keep it real.