Nicole's Adventures in Japan

On my first real attempt at cooking in my kitchen I discovered that, apparently using my one electric burner, microwave, and toaster oven all at once does not agree with my apartment. ( I might even have had the electric tea kettle going) The power had the audacity to go out. Fortunately for me I remembered to pack a flashlight and I even managed to remember where the safe place that I put it was for just such and emergency. As I had only once used the breaker to turn the electricity on the day I moved in it took me a minute to find the breaker and switch it off and on again. I know you are all thinking my apartment isn't very big and how can I forget where such and important thing is well, of course that is because it was nearly in front of my face and it I were a bit taller I would see it every time I walk to the bathroom. Well in any case I now know where it is and I know that having all three appliance going at once is something that ought not to be attempted. I was trying to cook spaghetti.
It was quite a balancing act to try and have it all warm at once. First I cooked the 1/4 of pound of beef that cost me $3.00. Then I added the spaghetti sauce $3.00, and a can of diced tomatoes $2.00 to stretch the spaghetti sauce a bit further. Then I heated all that together while in the Electric hot water pot I boiled water so I could poor it into a 2nd pan when I was done with the sauce and cook the noodles. In the toaster oven I had a piece of bread with butter that I was toasting to go with my salad I had made first. Cooking in my kitchen requires some planning. I makes me think of Grandma Bee trying to cook for all of us in her Motor home.