What do you cook when your oven dies?
"You don't know what you've got until it's gone" sang Chicago in the mid 80's... and the lyric stays true even today!
Surviving a week without an oven is harder than it would seem. Only when it stops do you begin to realise how many options have been removed from your daily menu. Pies? Roasts? Pizzas? Tarts? Quiches? Cakes? All go out the window without an oven.
Here's some of what we had over the week.
Simple and delicious - pan fried chicken/beef/pork wrap.
Pan fry any beef you've got and wrap it up in pita bread with fresh garden leaves. Don't forget a good dollop of mayo or dressing. You end up with a proper delicious meal. Oh, yes. The pita bread was heated on a flat pan, over the fire.
A firm favourite - Godhamba Roti.
If you've been following these little posts, you'd already know what there's are. One of the many, many combinations of flour, water, baking soda, oil and a bit of sugar.
The latest addition to the cooker. A two millimetre thick sheet of cast iron - perfect to 'burn' godhamba roti.
An unpopular option, simply because of the levels of oil used, is frying. Having said that, everything from 'Kali Cutlis' (a kind of local komkatsu), to peanut-crusted fillet of fish, to steaks to pot roast, made the lack of an oven less noticed.
No, this is not an appetising looking shot, but the end result is amazing. Local pot roast.
Our pot roast is made in a clay pot. It starts with a fillet simply dusted with pepper and salt and put into the pot. Its juices, supplemented with any sauce or dressing you like, are then used to boil the vegetables.
Over here, the oven is used daily for the evening meal, call it dinner (or supper), and so with the oven out of commission, our dinner options were different. Different, thankfully, doesn't mean any less delicious!
What would you cook if your oven died right now? Comments down below, please!
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Ok, so having just bought a house, with plans to extend the kitchen, it looks like we're facing three/four months without an oven. Genuinely not sure how I'm going to cope...!
Experience thought us to be creative with a frying pan! 😁 But you can’t go wrong with a good pot roast!
I pride myself in 'one pan cooking'.
Usually rice, pasta, or a curry.
I recently got a new hob and oven. The oven is a large combi one, it is brilliant. Much better than my old convection oven.
I think I would stay with pasta dishes, stir fried veggies, rice.
Microwave cookery books will be your... um.... friend?
Brainy!