Cooking in Strange Kitchens

I didn't set off the fire alarm. That shouldn't really be the standard for cooking success but sometimes you have to take what you can get. It's so hard to cook in someone else's kitchen -- even if they have exactly the same roasting pan, that doesn't mean it's going to work like yours.

So far we've made chicken and sweet potatoes on the grill, the shrimp and broccoli stir fry and roasted carrots, pork tenderloin with jicama fries and more roasted carrots because there just weren't enough the first time, and tomorrow is my go-to breakfast hash. Tomorrow we're attempting a new ham recipe with peaches and apples, and about a million side dishes.

I might have burned the jicama fries because I tried to fit too many pans in the oven, and we might have overflowed the garbage disposal. Oh, and we ran out of gas in the grill, but we nuked the pork to avoid a side of salmonella.

We had mini cupcakes from Miss Mamie's for dessert. They were awesome. I recommend the strawberry. Happy Easter!