Best Kitchen Toy Ever!

The best kitchen toy ever… is how we survived a major home renovation… and stayed married!

Original kitchen window

New kitchen window now opens onto patio

Our sanctuary from the construction noise

It’s the Year of Renovations, at Casa Snopek. Phase 1 was creating a small guest suite, complete with bathroom and kitchenette (sink/bar fridge/counter), which is where we’re living while the rest gets done.The rest, meaning the kitchen, bathrooms, flooring, carpets, paint… really, it would have been easier to move. 

Anyway. It all began in late July and won’t be done until early December. Hopefully. Maybe. Don’t really know.

That’s a long time to be without a kitchen, folks. At first, it was fun eating take-out and fast food and checking out the local restaurants. But that’s a) expensive b) dangerous for the waistline and c) tiring.

Now, I just want real food.

So I bought us an Instant Pot DUO60 6 Qt 7-in-1 Multi-Use Programmable Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Steamer, Sauté, Yogurt Maker and Warmer. I’m not exaggerating when I say that it’s the best kitchen device I’ve ever had.

I LOVE this baby! The first day I made chicken soup – awesome – and rice pudding – the best I’ve ever made. This, my friends, is the way to survive a live-in home renovation project. Do you have yours yet?

Here’s the .com link and the .ca link, for my Canadian friends. 

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