This would be great for weekends. Something sweet and uplifting!
Ingredients
* 1 cup butter or margarine
* 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
* 2 eggs
* 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
* 1 cup all purpose flour
* 1 cup quick cooking oatmeal
* 1 teaspoon baking powder
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1 cup semi sweet chocolate bits
* 1/4 cup chopped nuts
Method
Put butter in glass micro proof bowl.
Cook on HI for 45 seconds to soften. Beat in remaining ingredients except chocolate and nuts.
Spread batter in buttered 12 by 8 inch micro proof baking dish.
Sprinkle with chocolate and nuts. Cook on low for 16 to 17 minutes, or until no longer doughy.
Rotate dish once during cooking. Cool and cut into squares
Yield: 32 bars
Recipe by: 123 Easy As A Pie
Chicken Wing
I am trying out another chicken wing recipe today. It came out nice and very delicious. You should give it a try too.
Ingredients
* 8-10 chicken wings
* 1/3 cup soy sauce
* 1 cup fine cracker crumbs
* 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
* 1 teaspoon paprika
* 1/4 teaspoon ginger
* 1/8 teaspoon ground pepper
Method
Cut wings in half, discard tips. Rinse; pat dry with paper towels.
Pour soy sauce into shallow bowl; set aside.
In another shallow bowl, combine remaining ingredients. Dip chicken in soy sauce, roll in seasoned crumbs, coating evenly.
Arrange chicken wings, skin side up in spoke pattern in a 9 inch round glass pie plate, placing thickest portion toward outside of plate.
Cover with paper towels. Cook on high 13 to 15 minutes or until chicken is tender.
Recipe by: 123 Easy As Pie
Ingredients
* 8-10 chicken wings
* 1/3 cup soy sauce
* 1 cup fine cracker crumbs
* 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
* 1 teaspoon paprika
* 1/4 teaspoon ginger
* 1/8 teaspoon ground pepper
Method
Cut wings in half, discard tips. Rinse; pat dry with paper towels.
Pour soy sauce into shallow bowl; set aside.
In another shallow bowl, combine remaining ingredients. Dip chicken in soy sauce, roll in seasoned crumbs, coating evenly.
Arrange chicken wings, skin side up in spoke pattern in a 9 inch round glass pie plate, placing thickest portion toward outside of plate.
Cover with paper towels. Cook on high 13 to 15 minutes or until chicken is tender.
Recipe by: 123 Easy As Pie
Citrus Salmon Recipe
I am trying out salmon for dinner tonight for dinner. Got this superb recipe that I have found. I hope you'll give it a try too.
Ingredients for Citrus Salmon Recipe
1 lb Salmon fillets
Salt and pepper
1 tb Cornstarch
1 tb Water
2 tb Frozen orange juice
Concentrate
1 tb Lemon juice
1/4 c Brown sugar
1 Orange — sliced, for
Garnish
Parsley — for garnish
Preparation
Sprinkle both sides of the salmon fillet with salt and pepper.
Mix the cornstarch and water in a small bowl to form a paste.
Add the orange juice concentrate, lemon juice and brown sugar.
Stir mixture well until all the ingredients are dissolved. Set aside.
Pour half of the sauce into the bottom of a microwaveable dish.
Place the salmon fillet in the dish on top of sauce.
Pour the remaining sauce over the salmon.
Cover the dish with plastic wrap.
Vent to allow steam to escape.
Microwave on high for 7-10 minutes ( depending on microwave ).
Remove from microwave and remove plastic wrap.
Place the fillet on a plate.
Stir remaining sauce and pour over the fillet and garnish if desired.
Source: Freerecipe.co.uk
Ingredients for Citrus Salmon Recipe
1 lb Salmon fillets
Salt and pepper
1 tb Cornstarch
1 tb Water
2 tb Frozen orange juice
Concentrate
1 tb Lemon juice
1/4 c Brown sugar
1 Orange — sliced, for
Garnish
Parsley — for garnish
Preparation
Sprinkle both sides of the salmon fillet with salt and pepper.
Mix the cornstarch and water in a small bowl to form a paste.
Add the orange juice concentrate, lemon juice and brown sugar.
Stir mixture well until all the ingredients are dissolved. Set aside.
Pour half of the sauce into the bottom of a microwaveable dish.
Place the salmon fillet in the dish on top of sauce.
Pour the remaining sauce over the salmon.
Cover the dish with plastic wrap.
Vent to allow steam to escape.
Microwave on high for 7-10 minutes ( depending on microwave ).
Remove from microwave and remove plastic wrap.
Place the fillet on a plate.
Stir remaining sauce and pour over the fillet and garnish if desired.
Source: Freerecipe.co.uk
Tips for Cooking Vegetables in Microwave Oven
Vegetables
You can prepare just about any vegetable - fresh, frozen, or canned in the microwave. Vegetables cooked in the microwave retain all of their bright colour, fresh taste and nutritional value if cooked with a minimum amount of water.
For even cooking, cut the vegetables into roughly the same-size pieces. Stir or rotate a 1/2 turn halfway through cooking. Loosely cover food so that steam can escape, use wax paper, microwavable wrap, or the cooking container's lid.
Use a fork to pierce whole, unpeeled vegetables like potatoes to keep them from bursting while cooking.
Frozen Vegetables
Place in a bowl, cover and cook for the given time. Season with salt after cooking if desired. Salt can cause localised ionic heating that reduces the microwave penetration depth and this can dehydrate and toughen some foods.
Souce: Microwavecooking.com
You can prepare just about any vegetable - fresh, frozen, or canned in the microwave. Vegetables cooked in the microwave retain all of their bright colour, fresh taste and nutritional value if cooked with a minimum amount of water.
For even cooking, cut the vegetables into roughly the same-size pieces. Stir or rotate a 1/2 turn halfway through cooking. Loosely cover food so that steam can escape, use wax paper, microwavable wrap, or the cooking container's lid.
Use a fork to pierce whole, unpeeled vegetables like potatoes to keep them from bursting while cooking.
Frozen Vegetables
Place in a bowl, cover and cook for the given time. Season with salt after cooking if desired. Salt can cause localised ionic heating that reduces the microwave penetration depth and this can dehydrate and toughen some foods.
Souce: Microwavecooking.com
You Use It Every Day. But Can You Make It Cook?
This is an article that I have found in The New York Times by Mark Bittman. I think most of us use our microwave everyday, but just for certain things only. This article will inspire you to use your microwave for more cooking. Have fun!
FOR years, I hadn’t used my microwave for much besides reheating leftovers and softening ice cream. I make popcorn the real way, I steam my vegetables on the stovetop, and everyone knows a potato doesn’t really bake in a microwave.
But after all, the thing is sitting there, built into my wall. You have one, too, unless it broke and you haven’t replaced it (understandable but unusual). Shouldn’t you be using it for more than reheating coffee?
I thought so, and so I decided to revisit the microwave. The push came as I was hurriedly putting together appetizers for a dinner party. I’d decided to make a combination frittata and Spanish-style tortilla (impure, I know, but they’re close enough), and it occurred to me to nuke my medium-size waxy potatoes instead of parboiling them. A few minutes in the microwave, a few minutes’ resting, peeling, then quickly browning in olive oil; I went on from there. (You can see the results, read the recipe, and check out scores of readers’ comments about microwaves on my blog.)
This success inspired me to give the thing another shot. I called Barbara Kafka, who wrote the bible “Microwave Gourmet” (William Morrow, 1987), and has devoted a portion of her life to refining her technique ever since. What did she use her microwave for most, after a quarter century of experience and experiment?
“Vegetables,” she said, without hesitation. “Their color is better, their flavor is better, you have no water dripping, and there are studies that show they retain more vitamins.”
I don’t know about the vitamins (although Harold McGee makes the same point in his article today on the science of microwaving), but in other respects, she’s right.
For any vegetable you would parboil or steam, the microwave works as well or better, and is faster. Put the vegetable in a bowl with a tiny bit of water (or sometimes none), cover and zap. Asparagus: two minutes; artichokes (a revelation): six; cauliflower (try my cauliflower with tomatoes and pimentón): five; potatoes or beets: four; spinach: one or two; eggplant: we’ll get to that. Timing, though, is tricky, especially if you strictly follow an older recipe.
“I did my original work on a 700-watt oven, which is very low power by today’s standards,” Ms. Kafka said. If you have an old oven, you can use the old times. But your current oven is probably 1,100 watts or more, which is more than 50 percent more powerful; check the label to see the wattage. So, Ms. Kafka said: “Go slowly — you can always add, but you can’t take away.”
It’s the starting and stopping, the opening and closing, that can make microwaving annoying. But Ms. Kafka is right: if you err on the side of undercooking, you can’t go far wrong. So if you’re using an older recipe, start by cutting either the time or the power in half. Take notes; they will help you the next time you make a recipe from the same source.
One of the real beauties of the oven is that when the timer goes off, the thing stops heating. You can set your asparagus for two minutes and go for a walk; when you come back it’ll be “parboiled.” Try that on top of the stove!
I was starting to think the microwave needed a new name that would reflect the thing it does best. Something like “the whiz-bang steaming oven.” Reinvigorated and inspired, I reviewed the reader suggestions I’d asked for on Bitten.
Most, not surprisingly, were for vegetables. Some went farther afield, and these I pursued with mixed and mostly unconvincing results. Toasting nuts and spices: yes, but not easier than stovetop. Poaching or scrambling eggs: fast, but unreliable beyond belief. (I have never had a harder scrambled egg.) Melting butter or chocolate: yes, but if your timing is off, you’ll make a mess and possibly burn the chocolate. “Baked” apple: a nice snack.
The microwave does a fine job on rice, saving you a pot because you can do it in your serving dish, as long as you can figure out how to set your oven so that the water doesn’t boil over, meaning you have to wash the carousel. (One-and-a-half times as much water as rice, salt, plastic wrap with a vent slit cut in it, about 12 minutes at full power.) But risotto, no, at least not for me; all the stirring makes it more trouble than it’s worth. It’s the same for chicken stock, which I’d rather make by the gallon than by the quart, thank you.
My conclusion to that point was, if you can steam it, you can microwave it. But only with vegetables was the improvement clear.
Two reader suggestions opened my eyes. A young woman from Riverdale named Mee-Lise Robinson suggested flourless chocolate cake, and a number of other readers suggested puddings. With both of those dishes, you want low heat and no crust: what would make normal cakes a failure are just what the microwave is good at.
I called Ms. Kafka again, and she said, “I don’t do desserts, except steamed puddings,” calling them a miracle. At her suggestion, I tried an old-fashioned chocolate steamed pudding. Once I’d adjusted the timing, it was just short of miraculous: easy, tender, and rich.
Finally, I recognized that many Indian desserts are pudding-like, and I called Julie Sahni to ask her opinion. Her “Moghul Microwave” (William Morrow, 1990) stands next to Ms. Kafka’s as exemplary. (Like Ms. Kafka’s, it takes things too far. But that is understandable: When we want to prove a point, we become extreme.)
“We’ve come to the point where we’re not looking at the microwave only to simplify but to find what produces the best results,” said Ms. Sahni, who lives in Brooklyn. “And when it comes to Indian pastries and desserts, it’s amazing.” She suggested I try a couple, and I did the Indian-style milk fudge. It’s not exactly my style, but I know enough about Indian desserts to recognize a success, and this was one.
Ms. Sahni also raved about upma, the polenta-like savory pudding made with semolina. Like polenta, it microwaves perfectly. But like polenta it also works perfectly, easily, and in my experience more reliably, on the stove.
If I had one single outstanding revelation, one that might change the way I cook, it was after I started messing with eggplant. One reader, Roopa Kalyanaraman — who produces her own cooking blog (www.raspberryeggplant.blogspot.com), and it’s a good one — steered me to the spicy eggplant recipe I’ve adapted here. The timing was forgiving, the recipe was easy enough, and the texture of the eggplant was mind-blowingly good, soft and not at all oily or soggy. Like steaming, but better.
I started playing, and gained some confidence. I pierced an eggplant all over and nuked it for about seven minutes, until it collapsed. While it was cooling, I gently nuked half an onion, a couple of poblanos (they collapsed too, as I’d hoped), and a couple of cloves of garlic. I peeled the eggplant, chopped it along with the onion, chilies and garlic, and tossed them with the lemon juice, a little cumin and salt: a credible eggplant salad, in short order.
Again, the results were like steaming, but with a little more whiz-bang.
FOR years, I hadn’t used my microwave for much besides reheating leftovers and softening ice cream. I make popcorn the real way, I steam my vegetables on the stovetop, and everyone knows a potato doesn’t really bake in a microwave.
But after all, the thing is sitting there, built into my wall. You have one, too, unless it broke and you haven’t replaced it (understandable but unusual). Shouldn’t you be using it for more than reheating coffee?
I thought so, and so I decided to revisit the microwave. The push came as I was hurriedly putting together appetizers for a dinner party. I’d decided to make a combination frittata and Spanish-style tortilla (impure, I know, but they’re close enough), and it occurred to me to nuke my medium-size waxy potatoes instead of parboiling them. A few minutes in the microwave, a few minutes’ resting, peeling, then quickly browning in olive oil; I went on from there. (You can see the results, read the recipe, and check out scores of readers’ comments about microwaves on my blog.)
This success inspired me to give the thing another shot. I called Barbara Kafka, who wrote the bible “Microwave Gourmet” (William Morrow, 1987), and has devoted a portion of her life to refining her technique ever since. What did she use her microwave for most, after a quarter century of experience and experiment?
“Vegetables,” she said, without hesitation. “Their color is better, their flavor is better, you have no water dripping, and there are studies that show they retain more vitamins.”
I don’t know about the vitamins (although Harold McGee makes the same point in his article today on the science of microwaving), but in other respects, she’s right.
For any vegetable you would parboil or steam, the microwave works as well or better, and is faster. Put the vegetable in a bowl with a tiny bit of water (or sometimes none), cover and zap. Asparagus: two minutes; artichokes (a revelation): six; cauliflower (try my cauliflower with tomatoes and pimentón): five; potatoes or beets: four; spinach: one or two; eggplant: we’ll get to that. Timing, though, is tricky, especially if you strictly follow an older recipe.
“I did my original work on a 700-watt oven, which is very low power by today’s standards,” Ms. Kafka said. If you have an old oven, you can use the old times. But your current oven is probably 1,100 watts or more, which is more than 50 percent more powerful; check the label to see the wattage. So, Ms. Kafka said: “Go slowly — you can always add, but you can’t take away.”
It’s the starting and stopping, the opening and closing, that can make microwaving annoying. But Ms. Kafka is right: if you err on the side of undercooking, you can’t go far wrong. So if you’re using an older recipe, start by cutting either the time or the power in half. Take notes; they will help you the next time you make a recipe from the same source.
One of the real beauties of the oven is that when the timer goes off, the thing stops heating. You can set your asparagus for two minutes and go for a walk; when you come back it’ll be “parboiled.” Try that on top of the stove!
I was starting to think the microwave needed a new name that would reflect the thing it does best. Something like “the whiz-bang steaming oven.” Reinvigorated and inspired, I reviewed the reader suggestions I’d asked for on Bitten.
Most, not surprisingly, were for vegetables. Some went farther afield, and these I pursued with mixed and mostly unconvincing results. Toasting nuts and spices: yes, but not easier than stovetop. Poaching or scrambling eggs: fast, but unreliable beyond belief. (I have never had a harder scrambled egg.) Melting butter or chocolate: yes, but if your timing is off, you’ll make a mess and possibly burn the chocolate. “Baked” apple: a nice snack.
The microwave does a fine job on rice, saving you a pot because you can do it in your serving dish, as long as you can figure out how to set your oven so that the water doesn’t boil over, meaning you have to wash the carousel. (One-and-a-half times as much water as rice, salt, plastic wrap with a vent slit cut in it, about 12 minutes at full power.) But risotto, no, at least not for me; all the stirring makes it more trouble than it’s worth. It’s the same for chicken stock, which I’d rather make by the gallon than by the quart, thank you.
My conclusion to that point was, if you can steam it, you can microwave it. But only with vegetables was the improvement clear.
Two reader suggestions opened my eyes. A young woman from Riverdale named Mee-Lise Robinson suggested flourless chocolate cake, and a number of other readers suggested puddings. With both of those dishes, you want low heat and no crust: what would make normal cakes a failure are just what the microwave is good at.
I called Ms. Kafka again, and she said, “I don’t do desserts, except steamed puddings,” calling them a miracle. At her suggestion, I tried an old-fashioned chocolate steamed pudding. Once I’d adjusted the timing, it was just short of miraculous: easy, tender, and rich.
Finally, I recognized that many Indian desserts are pudding-like, and I called Julie Sahni to ask her opinion. Her “Moghul Microwave” (William Morrow, 1990) stands next to Ms. Kafka’s as exemplary. (Like Ms. Kafka’s, it takes things too far. But that is understandable: When we want to prove a point, we become extreme.)
“We’ve come to the point where we’re not looking at the microwave only to simplify but to find what produces the best results,” said Ms. Sahni, who lives in Brooklyn. “And when it comes to Indian pastries and desserts, it’s amazing.” She suggested I try a couple, and I did the Indian-style milk fudge. It’s not exactly my style, but I know enough about Indian desserts to recognize a success, and this was one.
Ms. Sahni also raved about upma, the polenta-like savory pudding made with semolina. Like polenta, it microwaves perfectly. But like polenta it also works perfectly, easily, and in my experience more reliably, on the stove.
If I had one single outstanding revelation, one that might change the way I cook, it was after I started messing with eggplant. One reader, Roopa Kalyanaraman — who produces her own cooking blog (www.raspberryeggplant.blogspot.com), and it’s a good one — steered me to the spicy eggplant recipe I’ve adapted here. The timing was forgiving, the recipe was easy enough, and the texture of the eggplant was mind-blowingly good, soft and not at all oily or soggy. Like steaming, but better.
I started playing, and gained some confidence. I pierced an eggplant all over and nuked it for about seven minutes, until it collapsed. While it was cooling, I gently nuked half an onion, a couple of poblanos (they collapsed too, as I’d hoped), and a couple of cloves of garlic. I peeled the eggplant, chopped it along with the onion, chilies and garlic, and tossed them with the lemon juice, a little cumin and salt: a credible eggplant salad, in short order.
Again, the results were like steaming, but with a little more whiz-bang.
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