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Give them to me, we make fiery wooshing experiments in those at work! :)

I think this is quite brilliant. Way to take a first step into making electric vehicle corridors for consumers. If I had an EV I would totally love to charge it while window shopping and eating delicious food at Cracker Barrel!

I love the cheery colors!

Also: Cheap spices in large quantities. If I'm making chicken paprikash, this is where I get my paprika!

I had gas in my old, terrible apartment. The stove was great. It was an older stove with pilot lights but I was so used to gas it was easy to work with.

When I called about the new place my landlord said the kitchen had hookups for either gas or electric but the stove he had in the unit was a GE electric stove with a double oven. It's a nice vintage stove (the color is coppertone and it matches my fridge!). Much as I miss gas sometimes, I love the versatility of my two ovens enough to deal. I just have to watch out when making anything delicate because the coils don't cool quickly. I've boiled things over too often for lack of attention!

I always eat breakfast. If I don't eat a substantial enough breakfast I start wanting to hit up the vending machines at work, which offer little good food and drain me of excess cash.

I usually make a bulk breakfast on my days off and eat it during the workweek. Usually it's simple stuff like polenta or muffins. In the morning I have my pre-made breakfast with some kind of eggs. Sometimes I'll have sausage or bacon, sometimes I'll have a fruit smoothie, sometimes I eat yogurt, but I usually have grain and eggs. I have no shortage of eggs, ever (my parents have chickens and give me a dozen eggs a week), and eggs fill me up properly until lunchtime.

I used to eat oatmeal nearly every day. Now I can't eat gluten and I haven't found myself ready to splurge on gluten-free oats yet. So I stick with polenta and other gluten-free grains.

Oh, and I give myself an hour and a half between waking up and going to work. This gives me time to dawdle a bit. I don't muck around with morning showers and heat styling my hair or anything like that so I can have a nice, leisurely breakfast and time to read before I go to work.

Not really a kitchen accident per se, but interesting and dramatic: I dropped a full glass of milk on the floor of my parents' dining room. The glass hit bottom first and didn't break, but the milk shot out of the top of the glass and across the room! The spatter was amazing. My dad, who normally gets really upset about messes, was fascinated at how the milk shot all over the place.

It made me want to try with a can of paint... but not in a house, of course! ;)

I made a batch of black beans this week and have been making black bean wraps the last couple days. It was so nice to get home from work and have a quick, easy, nutritious, and tasty meal ready in just a few minutes.

I'm going to make beans and rice tomorrow... maybe throw some corn in there... and whatever else suits my fancy. That's the nice thing about having a huge batch of beans made, you can season as you like when you do eat them.

Of course, it's just me living here so I'll probably have to put half the beans in the freezer soon. I'm going out of town. At least I'll have food ready to go when I get back!

I'm going in for a celiac blood test next week, so I am well aware of cost for gluten-free food.

It's easy to say "oh just eat rice" but gluten is in much more than the obvious baked goods... every sauce in my refrigerator right now would have to be pitched and I'd have to find new versions if I go gluten-free. And it's really jerky to say to someone who has eaten bread and baked goods throughout life to just suck it up and eat rice. How insensitive.

I will be getting a gluten-free baking mix and making my own food. I have always made my own baked goods anyway, so it won't be much of a change. The hardest part will be eating out. My boyfriend takes me out to eat a lot. He knows I am getting the test soon so we are both looking at restaurants with gluten-free options, just to be on the safe side (I'm pretty sure I have celiac, even before the blood test).

Thankfully, my parents got chickens and they should be laying in the next few weeks, so breakfast will be covered as I will have a virtually unlimited source of eggs from free-range, humanely raised chickens! Yay omelets!

I'd make so many delicious things... pork roasts, chickens, beef roasts...mmm...