Who Says I Can’t Boil Water?

Posted on July 5, 2009 by Amber

Dinner and a movie for Italian night!  Spaghetti & meatballs and “The Pope of Greenwich Village” starring a fabulously beautiful young Mickey Rourke.

So… Spaghetti’s pretty easy on the cooking scale of diffiiculty – even for me. 

So I fill the pot with water and turn on the burner to High … but… nothing… no fire. 

Where’s the *foof* of fire that supposed to pop up?

So I figure, damn, I probably need to light the pilot.  And a-looking I go for the lighter.

Once I found the lighter, I went back to the burner to realize… 

I have an electric stove.

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11 Responses

  1. Ron, on July 6th, 2009 at 12:26 am Said:

    You are incredible. Martha Stewart’s got nothing on you.

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  2. chez bez, on July 6th, 2009 at 3:17 am Said:

    I watched the same movie last night. God, I love Mickey Rourke. Even his bad movies are fun.

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  3. Amber, on July 6th, 2009 at 4:53 pm Said:

    Ron – what can I say – I think my brain is like Martha Stewart’s hand towels – for decoration only.

    Bez – Yeah, he’s pretty awesome – I hope The Wrestler (which was one of the most moving movie experiences I’ve had in a long time) wasn’t just a fluke and that he’s back for quite awhile.

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  4. daisyfae, on July 6th, 2009 at 5:08 pm Said:

    ooooh, girl… this may require intervention. although i was heckled by my family once for standing in front of the microwave oven, confused as to why it didn’t work during a power failure….

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  6. demcommie, on July 7th, 2009 at 4:26 am Said:

    I’m glad that it was only that. I thought it was going to end up that you spent fifteen minutes looking for a lighter and when you lit the burner it ruined your “do”.

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  7. Sarah Hogenswallow, on July 7th, 2009 at 5:02 am Said:

    Bravo, Amber! Would love to have been there. Did you ever get to enjoy your spasketti with Mickey, though?

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  8. jim voorhies, on July 7th, 2009 at 12:52 pm Said:

    Don’t cook much, huh? Not everyone would have admitted this publicly. ;)

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  9. Mommy, on July 7th, 2009 at 2:32 pm Said:

    U should of ask me I am cooking girl extrodinaire

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  10. Amber, on July 7th, 2009 at 4:40 pm Said:

    Daisy – ha! See? Your microwave story makes me look brilliant! ;-)

    Finn – can you imagine, I’m still single?

    Demo – actually when I went to go light the electric stove, I actually did worry that I was going to blow myself up. I’m only half-stupid.

    Hs. Hogenswallow – Yes, Mr. Wonderful came over to the rescue and made a good dinner.

    Jim – I’ve lived here 3 years, ya think I may have figured the stove situation before now… yeah… um, no.

    Mommy – you may be a cooking girl extraordinaire, but if you can see in California that I have an electric stove in Massachusetts – well, that would be something indeed. I promise if I ever try to boil water again, I will call you. :-)

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  11. woody, on July 7th, 2009 at 11:31 pm Said:

    Finish the story. Did you ever get the pilot lit?

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