Wednesday 3 August 2011

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One, Two, Three o'clock, Four o'clock... Crock

Once upon a time I used Pinterest merely to torment myself with the awesome things that people were making / owning / wearing / baking. Oh, and bookmark things that were inspiring and that I could maybe do one day. But mostly to organise my inadequacies into handy folders. Like...


Let's face it, though, even if my oven did work I am probably more like to have this experience (also found on Pinterest and which made me laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh):


But then the Fairy Hobmother from Appliances Online read about my fecked-oven-ness over on Housewife Confidential (where I made a wish about having a working oven) and he made a wish of his own: for me to stop blaming the oven, the world and God for my cooking. So he bought me a slow-cooker. And so a new folder begins...


Look closely and you will see...


Slow cookers can (allegedly) be used for baking! No excuses now, although I'm sure I'll do my level best.

The best thing for those of the altruist persuasion? The Fairy Hobmother just might visit a commenter on this post to make you stop whining too. Just leave your wish below.*

*I would imagine that wish fulfillment would apply only to people living in the UK. Not that I think he is personally racist (he's totally not), but logistically that makes sense. Wishes do not need to be of the appliance variety.

21 comments:

  1. I *wish* the Fairy Hobmother would send Kitschy Coo an oven already....

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  2. The Fairy Hobmother is ace.... But you know you can totally make keylime/margarita cheesecake with a no bake recipe... And make various cake pops with store bought cake and sell them to your other half who refuses to buy you an awesome oven.

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  3. That's a holy crock of non shit right there. I would be the queen of slow cooking (given half a chance, nudge-wink-slip-you-a-fiver) - seeing as I regularly forget about whatever's on the hob/in the oven until it boils dry and explodes (eggs) or adheres itself to the oven door (casserole) and/or becomes sentient and literally just walks out of the kitchen in disgust...

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  4. Wait, is this hobfather giving away a slow cooker? Because I'd be totally down with that. No wait, it's a hobmother. Actually I don't care, I just have no time to cook anymore! *doe eyes*

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  5. Hey! I already have the crockpot yogurt in my mental list of really cool things that my would-be-self is going to do. My mental doppleganger is so totally awesome.

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  6. Hey, if it's a totally open field, portable a/c!

    Or a crock pot, of course. I have plans you see:)

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  7. Has the fairy Hob Mother not seen your cake making mastery? You SO need an oven so that I can be cheered up by tales of your wonderful cake making! Slow cooker *yawn* bored already, I mean there's only so many stews a girl can eat. Come on Fairy Hobmother send Kitschycoo a proper oven!

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  8. Seems clear to me - the Fairy Hobmother should give you a new oven (shhhh they do do that...)!

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  9. Slow-cookers are great, but nothing can beat a good oven! Please lovely Fairy Hobmother, send Kitschy Coo an oven...

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  10. Why has this woman not been sent an oven? Come on, Fairy Hobmother...

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  11. This post really did make me laugh till a bit of wee came out! I had to forgo Pintrest as it made me feel even more inadequate and that's quite a challenge!

    Please Fairy Hobmother send your magic this way. I have three teenies who would LOVE to taste some real food rather than the freezer based nonsense I force feed them daily like sad little, children shaped, battery hens.

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  12. Dear Fairy, please let us sell our flat. Thank you!

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  13. I have no cooking or baking skills whatsoever, but I wish for grid paper in imperial measurements. What use is metric and centimetres when you were raised on eighths of an inch and still think that way for all sewing purposes other than buying fabric/trim? Fabricland and your metric grid paper, I'm looking at you.

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  14. Dear Fairyhobmother,

    I have no wishes for any new domesticery appliances, as all ours seemed to break within a month of each other last year so we have already replaced them. I do, however, wish that somehow my pregnancy related nausea and 'omg I'm going to die if I'm not in bed by 8pm' fatigue would magically disappear overnight and be replaced by boundless energy and a healthy glow. It is taking the michael a bit when I'm nearly 19 weeks pregnant and I still haven't bloomed. Failing that, a lie-inpast 8am would do. Lots of love, The Pickled Weasel x x x

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  15. I think my wish has to be that the Fairy Hobmother will send Kitschy Coo a new oven.

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  16. If you can do that with a slow cooker just think what you could do with a whole oven .

    I could really do with a fairy hobmother at the minute for s fluffy hobmother hug. Failing that something for my kitchen would make me smile

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  17. I wish the fairy hob mother would send kitchy coo an actual oven. his is my actual wish. Thank you please.

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  18. A slow cooker can be hidden in a cupboard and ignored (trust me I know). A REAL oven, now that sits proudly in your kitchen and demands you cook something. I wish that the Fairy Hobmother (yes you, Fairy Hobmother, don't you look fabulous today, have you lost weight?) should give this poor damsel in distress a real oven.

    If you can't manage that can I have a kitchen extension please?

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  19. I wish that the fairy Hobmother would send Kitschy Coo a new over - please..pretty please - I would love to see what creations she can conjure up with a brand spanking new shiny appliance and umm.... ya know, a kitchen aid for me wouldn't go amiss either so that I can conjure up lovely veggie delights.

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  20. I long for an ice cream maker to shut my children up. That is all. Well it isn't really, my wish list is a mile long obviously, but it would be a start!

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  21. Oh, fairy hobmother - surely you can see that poor Kitschy Coo really needs a proper oven, not a slow cooker...

    If we all wish together, hold hands, turn around 3 times and clap, will it happen?!? Pretty please with cherries on top?

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