Pokhyelbka

A couple of weeks ago, I started to cook a lovely Russian soup called Pokyelbka on our ancient electric stove. My wife warned me not to do it, but I put the ingredients into a ceramic slow-cooker crock, and everything seemed to be going along beautifully until she tried to move the crock. Yes, the crock broke. Yes, the soup poured out. Dammit. The end result was a shorted-out stove, which was due for replacement anyway. But when the new stove arrived, it appeared that the electrical plug had shorted out, too. So...for the last three weeks, we've been subsisting on take-out food, electric wok food, and microwave food. I don't even know if I can cook any more. Or if I should...