Wow, it has been years since I put a thing on this blog.... grad school ate up every waking moment, it seems. Well, I'm back, and I'm sharing a few cooking details from tonight. First is baked sweet and sour chicken, recipe here: http://fiddlingmuff.blogspot.com/2017/03/baked-sweet-and-sour-chicken.html. When I say SWEET I am talking 3/4 cup of white sugar sweet. You get dessert and dinner in one bowl! While this recipe was baking away, I sauteed a bunch of veggies to mix with the chicken, and it was still SWEET. Wowie zowie, but if you like restaurant take-out this suits the bill. I will mess with it next week, and see if I can come up with a baked General Tso's chicken, sans sugar.  After cooking comes a dirty stove. I haven't cleaned the stove in a year anyway except for a quick swipe now and then. I would like to share my tried and true easy clean method, and here goes phase one.

Tonight - the top of the stove, sans burner grills. I'm using two of my favorite cleaning agents, and no they are not PC. Well, nothing is PC anymore so it doesn't matter, does it? Windex and Arm and Hammer baking soda. If you would like to be more whatever the new word is going to be for PC when THAT ever happens again, you can make your own Windex, and I will include the recipe later, down to the blue food coloring. You can't make your own Arm and Hammer though, unless you live in Green River, Wyoming, so don't even try.
Here's what I do. Sprinkle some baking soda around. Squirt some Windex on top. Rub it all with a damp microfiber cloth. If you have a really stubborn spot spray and sprinkle more, and let it sit for 20 minutes, before rubbing it up with the cloth. I have read that even baking soda will make scratches on enamel and glass, but I don't rub very hard, and my stove top is still really shiny. The stove is almost 25 years old, and has had a tremendous amount of use. So you be the judge.

Tomorrow I will do the grills.