Tator tot casserole :.: burnt blueberry muffins! :.: chocolate chip banana bread

Well, I am DEFINITELY learning that cooking with these tiny studio apartment ovens is an adventure! Why?

1. They have very limited space.
2. They heat up VERY well.
3. They cook food within a VERY reasonable amount of time.
4. I'm left-handed, and my oven/stove top is on the left side of the kitchen, so that itself is an adventure.

BUT... I am having a lot of fun getting to know my tiny oven. :)

I sure had "Adventures in Cooking" yesterday! First of all, I am not having the best of luck in the muffin department. If you read my previous post in here, or if you saw my picture on Facebook, you saw that I had plans of eating cornbread muffins for breakfast on Wednesday. Yeah. That didn't happen. The muffins didn't even make it to the oven. Hehe. Drop, fly, flip, fall and SPLAT went the batter! Fail.

But I did not let that stop me! Yesterday, I attempted to make blueberry muffins. And although they made it to the oven...

... I BURNT them! And I had to throw them out. :(

Now, I did eventually come to realize that I was using a dark pan, and of course, if the oven gets extra hot, I may need to amend some things when baking.

Well... I still have chocolate chip muffins. Maybe third time's the charm??


As it came time for supper yesterday, I decided not to let my muffins get to me. So, I made tator tot casserole. Now, keep in mind that this is my FIRST casserole. It cooked rather quickly, and I was smart enough to take it out early. Hehe. But here it is:

Yum.

And, finally, around 9:30pm last night, I finally pulled chocolate chip banana bread out of the oven. This recipe called for 2 loaves, so one loaf is freezing, whereas the other one is on my table.

It turned out okay. I could have done a little better job in mixing the ingredients, but at least I didn't burn it.







Oh, by the way, most of the food I've posted in here, I've either put together myself, used box mixes, or found on allrecipes.com.

The spaghetti and grilled turkey & cheese sandwich in this blog were put together with no recipe to follow.
The muffins are boxed mixes.
And the tator tot casserole & chocolate chip banana bread are from allrecipes.com.

Hey! I think it's important to give credit on where you find information. :)