Microwave Cooking?

[zuiden]

Hi I am brand new here and this is my first post so please forgive me...

Anyways I am in the Air Force and live in the dorms (Air Force for barracks) and have only been for about 3 years and simply tired of eating fast food.

I am flyer and would have to pay for eating at the chow hall, where it is cheap it's not all that good.

So the next step for me is learning how to cook in a microwave. There was many an hour cooking for myself with my own oven and stovetop and really only used the microwave for popcorn and heating up canned vegetables (which I despise).

So if you could share some of your favorite microwave dishes with I would appreciate so I can stop eating at [insert fast food joint] or ordering pizza every other night.
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[Max Sutton]

I suggest that you get a microwave cookbook.

I have three:

1. HEALTHY MICROWAVE COOKING (1988) by Judith Benn Hurley
2. LITTON MICROWAVE DINNERS IN HALF AN HOUR (1980)
3. BETTY CROCKER'S NEW MICROWAVING FOR 1 OR 2 (1990)

Check your base library to see if they have any microwave cookbooks that you could check out.

Good luck.

[mcnerd]

Also check out http://microwavecookingforone.com (http://microwavecookingforone.com/)

You might also want to think about crockpot/slow cooker cooking. You can create some amazingly good meals in one and you just toss stuff in and forget it for the rest of the day.

[kelly123]

You can cook a lot of stuff in the microwave.. fish can be done just on a plate. I did bacon in the microwave today and survived.. I guess most meat can be done as long as you make sure its properly cooked.

Get some microwaveable bowls and you can do veg- any veg you would normally boil, just put in water and then cover partly (ie leave room for steam to escape). It might take a while to discover the optimum time for cooking, but you can always do them for a minute, try them, then keep adding 30 seconds until they're how you want them.

Pasta might be more difficult, but you can get pasta cookers that you just add boiling water to (guessin you've got a kettle?)

Also I know ready meals aren't always the healthiest option but they're better than takeaway and you can get some really cheap microwaveable ones that actually taste pretty good.

Hope thats useful!

[fahriye]

Microwave Christmas Pudding
Cook this pudding onfull power throughout (in a 650- watt microwave )

You need:

2 dessert apples, grated
150 g breadcrumbs
100 g raisins
100 g sultanas
100 g prunes, chopped
100 g vegetable suet
50 g almonds, chopped
50 g candied peel
50 g soft brown sugar
2 tbsp black treacle
3 eggs
125 ml Guinness
1 tsp grated nutmeg
1 tsp mixed spice
1/2 tsp gravy browning

Place all pudding ingredients in a bowl and mix. Spoon the mixture into a lightly greased, base-lined 1.25 litre basin. level the top and cover with cling film. Pierce the cling film and cook on full power for 8 minutes. Cool and cover with foil before storing. Serve it with brandy sauce.

[cezz]

I love these microwave recipes:
Pizza Pops
Ingredients

* 1 teaspoon reduced-fat mayonnaise
* 1 (10 inch) whole wheat tortillas
* 6 slices deli roast beef
* 1 slice 2% cheddar cheese
* 12 baby spinach leaves
* 2 tablespoons tomatoes, chopped

Directions

1.
1
Spread mayonnaise onto tortilla.
2.
2
Top with remaining ingredients; roll up tortilla.
3.
3
Place on microwaveable plate.
4.
4
Microwave on high for 1 minute or until velveeta is melted.

Beef Wrap Melt


Ingredients

* 1 teaspoon reduced-fat mayonnaise
* 1 (10 inch) whole wheat tortillas
* 6 slices deli roast beef
* 1 slice 2% cheddar cheese
* 12 baby spinach leaves
* 2 tablespoons tomatoes, chopped

Directions

1.
1
Spread mayonnaise onto tortilla.
2.
2
Top with remaining ingredients; roll up tortilla.
3.
3
Place on microwaveable plate.
4.
4
Microwave on high for 1 minute or until velveeta is melted.

[RecipeRiver]

In addition to mcnerd's suggestion of a slow cooker, I thought I'd mention another small appliance: the toaster oven. This gives you that dry oven heat that you might need sometimes when the microwave is just not quite the right thing. A toaster oven is a great complement to the microwave.