A Microwave - Finally!

We finally broke down and bought a microwave last night.  In the morning I like to make my tofu breakfast which consists of toast, peanut butter, sliced bananas, warmed tofu, topped off with a spice mixture of cinnamon, sugar, curry, and cayenne.  Without a microwave I have to saute the tofu which means more dishes to wash!  I already do enough dishes (no dishwasher of course) and just warming up the frying pan takes a while and then the tofu sticks which means using oil which changes the taste of the tofu.

The other night Sung and I were warming up pizza in the toaster oven and I lined the tray thingie with aluminum foil so that cleaning it would be a little easier.  And the pizza ended up sticking to the aluminum foil - ugh!  I think that was the last straw, we both looked at each other and said - let's get a microwave! It will mean less dishes and it will be so much easier and faster to warm stuff up.  It takes 20-30 minutes to warm up leftovers in the toaster oven and now it will take 2 in the microwave!!  With no extra dishes!

So now the problem is that we only have one available plug for the microwave, toaster oven, and washing machine and even with the extension cord we can only run one at a time.  This works out more or less okay since the microwave is super fast!!

Our $91 microwave, cheapest we could buy at Mega.

The tofu breakfast - I love it because I don't get hungry half way through the morning, it's the best sustaining breakfast ever in my opinion.

AND last night we found CRUNCHY peanut butter which we're both really excited about!!!  First crunchy in 7 months!  $5.20 for a 16 oz container, expensive but not outrageous.  I tried to bring some back from the US for Sung a couple weeks ago but my checked bags were overweight so I just grabbed a bunch of stuff out of them and stuck them in my carry on bag and of course the peanut butter got confiscated by TSA!

 

And I just made curry cauliflower in 10 minutes - delicious!  With the stove the water would just about be boiling in 10 minutes!  Okay, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration.  :)