Smoke Signals: Grill to the rescue!

The next time you complain about it being too cold to grill, think about Stacy Dean .

Back in November, she, her husband and their three elementary-aged children assumed starring roles in that horror movie known as “a kitchen remodel.” A week after Thanksgiving, the walls came tumbling down in their upper Northwest kitchen. Literally.

Walls. Cabinets. Appliances. All of it, obliterated. To create a new, improved and expanded kitchen, the whole thing was gutted.

What does that mean? It means, of course, they no longer had a stove or oven for cooking meals.

“We bought a used refrigerator and a microwave, and we set up some shelves in the dining room to put our food and food prep items on,” Dean says. “So we prepare the food and eat it on the same surface.”

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