My Cabbages!

We had a little...incident...in the kitchen.

I was cooking our Irish dinner--got the corned beef on and had it simmering for a couple hours and got all the potatoes cut up and ready to go.  Then it was time for the cabbage.  Thinking I could knock out the butt end by whacking it on the counter, I gave it a go...but knocked it on the glass surface instead of the counter.  Ooops.  

Thinking this was a quick and easy fix, I looked around to get a replacement glass, but like so many things, it costs almost as much to fix the thing as it is to replace it with a brand new one.  That's right--the glass costs $900.  A new stove costs $900-1200.  WHY?  I don't get it.  Granted, the stove is almost 15 years old, but you wouldn't think that the piece of glass would cost as much as a new unit.

Sadly, this means that the floors are going to be put off for a while again.  Sigh.

When we were living in a rental house up North, we had a gas stove.  We loved it!  We bought our first home...electric.  Second home...electric.  Third home...electric.  It's been something we've wanted to get back to since then, but we haven't had a chance (or the money).  Not that we have the money but we're going to have to get a new stove.  Now I gotta figure out how to get a gas line installed...maybe I need to go to Lowe's and see if they have a contractor that can come in and take care of things fairly quickly.  I don't know how long I can work without a fully functioning stove.  I have a guy coming tomorrow to give us a quote for the gas line...estimated $500-700.

Then the stove itself...I'm thinking of something like this:

It's got a double oven without taking up more space, so you can cook fish sticks AND french fries!  Turkey AND pie!  Double-speed on cookies!  And really, the price is only a couple hundred bucks more than the standard oven, and a lot less than many of the stoves out there.

I was wondering about this--do I want it?  Do I need a second oven?  Then I got to talking with my friend, author KateMarie Collins (heck yeah, I name-dropped!), and she said she LOVES hers and wouldn't trade it for anything...at least as long as she has kids.  SOLD!

And now I have to figure out what I'm going to make for dinner.  I think I may have to do some crock-pot cooking for a bit.  Boo.  Not that I hate crock-potting, but I'm not very good at it.  Overcooked, undercooked, dry, bland...sad.