The Ward Board: A Teensy-Weensy Oven Who Likes To Burn Food

When Travis and I started this blog we made an agreement that we would both be posting on it. Well.. after two weeks of waiting for him to make a post, I give up! I really can't blame him too much though, he has been getting up at 4:35 every day and then he either comes home and naps or watches T.V. until dinner and then goes to bed (usually around 8 or 9). So I wouldn't be expecting any appearances from Trav until at least the end of the week if I were you.
On a different note.. I made my first cheesecake! I have been having so much fun trying recipes and learning to cook. The only thing that I don't like about cooking is our oven!

Here is a picture of our beloved teensy-weensy oven.I placed a normal size oven mitt on top of it so you could get a better idea of the size.

With a small oven comes some cooking difficulties. Well, really just one.. it cooks extremely fast. On our first trip to get groceries we wanted a treat so we bought a yummy Ghirardelli Brownie Mix. I know you may be thinking 'there is no way she messed up a brownie mix.' Well, I burnt them to the crisp. Another day, Travis and I made a pizza from scratch. Well, I got the dough and all of the fixings onto the pan and guess what.. the pan didn't even fit into the oven! Lucky me for having such a smart husband, Travis put the pan where you normally place the oven rack (so yes, the pan was 'floating' in the oven). It turned out yummy BUT a bit to crisp. There are other meals and desserts I could tell you about me burning but I don't want to make myself look too bad ;).
Our poor cheesecake got a little burnt too. The recipe called for 45 minutes in the oven. I took it out at 28 minutes.

Since there were crushed Oreo cookies crumpled on top of cheesecake, I had no idea how to tell when to take it out ( I knew it would be before the 45 minutes was up). So, I went online and read that if you see cracks on top, it is burnt. I opened the oven at 28 minutes and there was some cracks. Suurrpprrriissee!

Even though it was a little too done on the outside, it turned out super yummy.