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Thanksgiving Dinner Adventure


                In front of you is a refrigerator about half the size of yours. Take one step to the right. You are looking at the dining table  with a bench seat on either side. Turn 180 degrees. Now you are facing a sink and counter area, but 75% of the counter is beyond the sink. Take another step to your right. There is the range and the convection oven/microwave that is the size of the microwave. Turn around again and you're back where you started.

        Here's a complication to the story, the stove runs on propane, which hasn't been purchased yet. That leaves a the convection oven/microwave as your sole means of cooking, which you've only used as a convection oven once before. Considering those limitations, I have to say that a Thanksgiving dinner of turkey tenderloin cutlets, sweet potatoes, and broccoli with a choice of cheese toppings (Parmesan or Cheddar) served nearly all together and still hot is a pretty good job.

        The other nice thing about it is that I filled the dishwasher (AKA sink) while sitting at the table, the dishes are drying and most of the evidence has been added to a dumpster.

       And now, for my next trick....  

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