Disaster!

So I haven't posted for a while, so you'd think I'd have lots to share and tell, but honestly I don't! It's been a ridiculously busy couple of weeks and I've got very little to show for it (picture-wise). Quite honestly I've spent more time at school than I have at home, or anywhere else for that matter, and except for a fabulous weekend with the Woos, I've spent pretty much every waking moment at school. =P

One thing I thought I'd share to give my good friend molly-o a laugh, again.. it comes back to my cooking... ='( Teaching preschool, I thought it would be a good idea to do a little cooking. They seem to LOVE playing kitchen and cooking and they've playing it every day when they can at center time, so I thought, since we're doing the letter A, we could make something easy like apple crumble without too much hassle. WELL... let me tell you...

So I bought a toaster oven a couple of weeks ago, and I got the "inexpensive" (read: cheap) one. It was kinda a spur of the moment thing. I found a bunch of food at Metro (China's version of Costco) that needed toasting and I grabbed one quick. Turns out there is no temperature dial on this one and it's something that is necessary when baking apparently. =) So I test drove Apple crumble at home, just to make sure it would work. There was a bit of smoking but it wasn't the first time that I've had smoking out of this oven, so I didn't pay too much attention. About 10 minutes before the timer went off, I thought I'd take a peek. Lo and behold, I look inside the oven and blue flames are dancing on top of my apple crumble!!! Scorched the top of my oven and the top layer of the apple crumble was history, but the underside was pretty good!



The topside and underside of my first attempt.






Luckily we figured out how to do it for the kids. Our apple crumble at school turned out quite well, so that was lucky!

Here are some pictures of my birthday celebration at school. =) Yum, meat!