This photo pretty much sums it up right now- a grill and a fridge. If you recall from my posts in June, the fridge went out the week we moved out of the house so Mike and his dad picked up this old gem at the used appliance store for $75 to get us by. It’s in the detached garage just outside the trailer and we keep most of our food in there. It’s not a hassle most of the time, but it does require going outside and opening the garage a few times a day.
As far as cooking, it is WAY too hot to cook in the trailer and the kitchen is super tiny. These things are designed with the assumption that you will be doing some or all of your cooking outside most of the time. On top of that, we only keep the A/C on in the trailer when we are around and it takes a while to cool off in the evening, so there is no way this time of year we will turn anything on inside that involves more heat. We use the grill as a grill and also as a makeshift oven. And let’s be honest, by “we” I mean Mike. Sometimes I microwave things and call it cooking, but Mike is an amazing cook and likes doing it so over the course of our relationship I have become completely useless in the kitchen. I used to feed myself and be a decent cook when I was single, now I can barely make a quesadilla. When I do, I end up with 3rd degree burns. Seriously. I burnt my knee taking pre-made cinnamon rolls out of the oven at the lake house a few weeks ago. My knee.
Anyway, the grill as an oven works decently well. It really means that Mike isn’t cooking we are basically warming things up at this point. We have virtually no countertop inside and outside is hella dusty and hot and smoky so if it comes prepackaged it is right up our alley. We’ve had a few failures like the night he tried to make Pasta Roni in a pan on the grill, but overall it isn’t so bad. I am definitely looking forward to him having an amazing kitchen when we are done. Him and I went an entire year without repeating a single meal once and I would LOVE to do that again. It was a fun challenge and right now it’s a challenge, but not much fun at all.