Simple Pleasures

I have been without an oven since just before New Years. Yes...that would be almost 2 months without an oven. What have I been doing?, you ask. Well, I've exhausted every crockpot recipe TWICE. To the point that John told me "NO MORE CROCKPOT." Thank goodness I had some already made meals in the freezer that only needed to be heated up. We've done fried foods, sandwiches, wraps, salads, "brenners" (breakfast for dinner), etc. But now...NOW I have an oven. John figured out what was wrong with it and fixed it!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!

My first meal in the oven was baked fish. Homemade baked fish. Understand that in the past I never successfully made fish in the oven, on the stove, on the grill, or otherwise. But tonight...on Ash Wednesday, I succeeded. And what a success!!!! It was delicious. It was in the oven. And it was a wonderful wonderful feeling to really cook again.

Oh, how I missed my oven. Lent is supposed to be a time of sacrifice and fasting. I'm going to have a hard time NOT baking up a storm...NOT feasting on wonderous foods that we've been without. Perhaps the sacrifice can be in extending the deliciousness to others....generosity. Yes....generosity.