Time to Cry Tuesday – Two Alarm Dinner

I am a good cook. No really this is not a joke. I am really a good cook. And I enjoy it. But my kitchen is, well I guess you would say, a little challenged.

I have the fabulous Chambers Stove that you see in the picture above. I adore it from a design point of view. It is actually the reason I bought my house. I loved the charm of it. But the one problem is that if you use the broiler it heats up the griddle on the top surface and seeing that there is no fan above it the kitchen gets hot enough to set off the smoke alarm.

Ok, to set off 2 smoke alarms. One in the kitchen, one in the entry hall.

No biggie, right?

Unless you have a dog that has a strange neurological response to the sound of the alarm.

Which I don’t anymore. Iko is cool with it. But Mel? OMG, she would shake like her body was plugged into a socket. We used to have to take her outside and walk her around to calm her down.

So today when I used the broiler and set the chain of alarms off, my first reaction was to run and hug the dog. Who looked at me like, ‘Hey, what the hell is up with you and shouldn’t you get the broom and hit that thing to shut that incessant noise off?”

That Melly ghost just hung in the room for a second and made me realize how I will never stop missing that old girl.

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5 responses to “Time to Cry Tuesday – Two Alarm Dinner

  1. Kathy miller Mankowsky

    Oh the Melly Ghost!!!! Poor old girl….nshe is living the life…”all dogs go to heaven!!!!! And the stove is awesome! Hugs to you and Iko …..

  2. Thank goodness for mellow dogs. I think there’s bad cooking karma going around. Yesterday’s rice was hard (I’ve never made bad rice before) and today’s chicken skin burned on the grill—cooking for the same time and at the same temp as I always do. I say it must be time to give up cooking. I’m fine with that.

  3. Neal

    Nice one, Lucy!

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