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Saturday I purchased the items necessary to hook our oven up. We have been in the house since June 1st with little need for the oven due to summer weather and lack of time. There have been a few occasions where we would have liked to use it however the toaster oven got us through. We are planning on having Thanksgiving at our home so the oven wasn't going to be able to remain stagnant very much longer.

I ran the wire from the breaker box up through the wall next to the oven and had the pigtails all set. Fortunately, my friend Mike swung by to tie it all together. Jess and I had plans Saturday evening so we didn't have a chance to try it out that particular day.

I've had this idea for a banana roll for quite some time. As my wife discovered, I'm not the first to think of it but neither here nor there, I had never heard of them.

Sunday morning I woke up and started getting things in order. I used an existing pumpkin roll recipe however I substituted mashed banana for the pumpkin and omitted the ginger. Other than cooking it a little too long and I would have liked to add some pecans or walnuts, the roll came out very good. I plan on making a few over the holiday season.

In the afternoon, I made a loaf of bread. Nothing too spectacular as I had some frozen loaves in the freezer waiting for the oven as well.

For dinner, I made two chicken wing pizzas. I didn't have any pizza sauce or canned tomatoes so I used the following which came out pretty good.

About 3oz of tomato paste
1 stick butter
1/4 or so cup franks red hot
basil, oregano, cilantro to taste
1 cup boiled chicken, chopped
mozzerella

The children felt it was a tad spicy but Jess and I enjoyed it.