oven cleaner & impatience

cleaning the oven isn't a task for an impatient person. Wait 20 min. means wait 20 min., not 15 or 16. Probably waiting more than 20 would be good. Wait at least 20. When it says spread newspapers, don't skimp. Don't wear your black maryjanes to do the job. The ovencleaner that missed the newspaper, is in a fine mist on the lineoleum. yes, it will eat away the lineoleum. yes, the black soles of your maryjanes will also be eaten away. But you won't notice, cause you'll be so busy hacking at the bottom of the oven where the carmelized scalloped potatoes au gratin left that black pool. But you will notice when you look down at the floor: all your little black foot prints, like a game of twister, but the best is the first one, bleached into the lineoleum which is now freckled where the cleaner burnt away sections, the sharp angle where the spray left the confines of the newspaper. Well, some people might PAY to have such a cool floor design. Get out!

A permanent sign that you have cleaned this oven. One day you will need to prove yourself. Domestic bliss.

What for? Just so the place wouldn't smoke up when you were trying to make a nice dinner for three bachelors and your husband. What a weirdo you are. Don't cha know it ain't that hard to impress bachelors. You're going way overboard on this. Roast lamb with oregano potatoes. Stuffed tomatoes, red, yellow & green peppers and zucchini. Homemade sour dough loaves, including one special loaf studded with Kalamata olives. Tapenade. A mint cheese tart with a yeast crust.

Oh it'll soon cover up that oven cleaner smell. And the band will finally love and appreciate me. At least for my cooking, if not for my complicated lyrics and wandering tunes. Ciao amigo. Dinner will be ready at 6 p.m.