The First Time Cooking in the Apartment

The stove in my new apartment is much nicer than the first apartment.. (see pictures below and that should be enough). But of course we still had issues the first time we used it. Living the frugal life of a recent college graduate when Kelly visited we wanted to cook to save money...

We decided to have a Fiesta and make Sangria and Soft Tacos.. but we forgot to buy chips. So we decided to make chips out of the tortillas for the tacos and bake them in the oven... We turned on broil and stuck them in for ten minutes.

When the buzzard rang we took our "chips" out of the oven along with a huge cloud of smoke. The chips were burnt like charcol and the result made the fire alarm go off. The problem... I couldnt figure out how to get the windows open and we couldnt get the alarm off... Please, picture this: Kelly running around with a tray of ash, me running around trying to make air to turn the alarm off, the entire apartment smokey and both of us completely afraid that the entire building was going to evacuate. We ended up sticking the cookie sheet in the bathroom and turned on water.. and it worked, but we will never make chips ever again, thats for sure! : )