What to make when all you have is a rice cooker, waffle iron, pannini press and toaster oven?

I made fajitas using your suggestions...

They are my kids FAVORITE meal and so I tried it last night. Cooked some chicken tendors on the panini press, warmed up a can of black beans and a can of corn in the rice cooker, roasted some broccoli, carrots and red peppers in the toaster oven and heated some tortillas wrapped in foil on top of the toaster oven. Maybe not the best fajitas I have ever made but a very acceptable attempt and the boys were thrilled!

Thanks again for the suggestions!
Kathleen

 
Here are the links for rice cooker recipes...

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I haven't done this yet, but I think it was in a Martha Stewart "Good Things"

little magazine for kids, and they took a sandwich, used a cookie cutter to cut a shape in the center, then continued to cut through to the crusts from the original cut, it's hard to explain with words, but it ends up being like a jigsaw puzzle. Maybe I can find a pic of it online.
This isn't the exact one, but it is the basic concept.

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you can make a puzzle cookie too. I saw this with a Xmas tree, but any shape would do.

just make the giant cookie on a cookie sheet and then bake and cut into puzzle pieces when still warm.

 
I'll second the idea of buying an electric fry pan at Goodwill. When we did.. our kitchen it was microwave, toaster oven, electric fry pan, & outdoor gas grill (sometimes). I was able to cook quite a variety of great meals and (almost) felt guilty about getting a new kitchen.
 
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I did this 32 years ago when all that existed was the elec fry pan. It was no snag but lasted 3 months. We still ate, but inconveniently and not quite as well. The other help was the old plate from the corn popper. We had finished a major reno on the house but the kitchen cabinets were coming from Germany and even way back then, so much was built in that all we could use was a refrigerator.

And I'll never forget melting butter on top of my heated roller set, with a slice of lemon from my tea, in a hotel room, having just picked up a huge HUGE cooked lobster that we had ordered the day before.

How life has changed now with all these new 'must-haves'. The fry pan, circa 1950, was one that my mom had given me years earlier, never used it but then learned to love it. I later took it to the Caribbean and it once again became indispensable just a few years ago, after a whopping hurricane . A little generator could not run much but this old guy was still ready to be warmed up.
 
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You should see what my mom got by on, love the heated roller story, that has to be the most innovative use of heated rollers.
 
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