a cook a bake a beep

I made a fire-roasted tomato stew for Christmas eve tomorrow. There will be vegan Spaetzle (German pasta) and a few other things to go with it.

I also made an upside-down pumpkin pie cake. When I pressed the oven's Start button to start the preheat cycle, the oven proclaimed Beep-beep-beep! It kept beep-beep-beeping rather than turning on, no matter what I tried. The oven can't be turned on except by that Start button.

Well, I could bake the cake at my mom's house tomorrow. But Mistral - Le Chat suggested unplugging the oven for 10 minutes. So I did that and for good (or bad) measure, blew some hot air at the control panel with a hair dryer, and pushed the buttons some more. After plugging it back in, the Start button worked right again. Yay. So cake got baked.