1. Take open hot dog bun and get it all nice and crispy using your BBQ, toaster, toaster oven, or your oven.
2. Squirt any tomato-based sauce on the insides. Use bottled pizza sauce, spaghetti sauce, BBQ sauce, or like I did, ketchup. Cause we gotta teach them young to love the ketchup. That's how we roll in this house.
3. Pile shredded cheese and various toppings on. I just used plain ole mozzarella and nothing else.
4. Nuke until the cheese melts.
5. Cool and serve.
6. Viola! Easy toddler friendly insta-pizza.
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Guess who finally feels better?
Took long enough! The books all say by week 13ish you should be getting all your energy back and be a glowing beauteous pregnant goddess.
Uh, do old yoga pants and my husbands t-shirt count at appropriate goddess attire?
I'm not even going to mention the lack of makeup or any recognizable hairstyle.
So here we are at 16 1/2 weeks along, starting to feel that old familiar friend come back again...without the use of coffee! I'm finally getting some things done and not feeling bedraggled by 4 pm.
I'm actually running around playing with Bubbalu to chase and tickle him.
It's good to be back...
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Any of you ever tried the self-cleaning feature on your oven?
As you know, we have been in a variety of apartments over the last 4 or so years. Imagine my surprise upon moving last month to find that the oven in my apartment (that I had lived in for 6 months) had a self-cleaning function.
Clearly this conveys the appliance standard I have been accustomed to.
Well, we were moving out, so my very helpful Mother-In-Law (who wouldn't let me clean the kitchen or bathroom saying the bleach fumes would probably not be so great for grandchild #6) started the self-clean function.
Now first let me say that while I am not a meticulously clean cook, I am by no means messy. I clean up after myself and during the cooking process as well.
However, smoke started POURING out of the oven. I was upstairs packing my clothes and wondered why I was looking through hazy air. I started coughing and my eyes started to water. Mind you, my bedroom door was closed and the window open.
I meander downstairs to see what the heck is going on, and Lance and my MIL are busy fanning the air away from the smoke detector so it won't go off, opening windows and starting fans. We have 4 fans, but that wasn't enough, so we borrowed 3 more from the next door neighbor.
Bubbalu was napping so we put towels at the bottom of the door so his bedroom air wouldn't get too smoky. I went in and checked on him later, his fan being on and the window open worked great...his room was the least smokey in the entire house.
So, that being my first experience with self-cleaning ovens, I was wary to try mine out today. I NEEDED to use it though, as I had a messy bake-over that required my attention.
I am happy to report there was no smoke and only a minimal chemically smell that the owners manual said to expect for the first few times using the feature.
Still, I decided the minimal chemically smell warranted an entire morning and most of the afternoon of sitting outside in the sun watching Bubbalu enjoy his pool rather than us tempt fate by being inside and, you know, doing HOUSEWORK or something equally worthwhile.
So, I think I'll be cleaning my oven on a weekly basis, but only on the really sunny days...
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