If I can do it in the microwave, I will and I've experimented a lot. You can sauté onions in just a tiny bit of water in the microwave. Heat, stir, heat a bit more, stir a bit more. You can steam vegies just with the water that clings to them after rinsing. You can cook pasta if you stir it and keep it covered.
You need one of those crisper dishes if you want to brown something, but most other cooking chores, I find easier to do in the microwave. Especially if I'm preparing something for oven baking or the crockpot, it's quicker to just use the microwave. It's healthier too -- less grease than frying. Our breakfast is often a toasted English muffin with cheese and ham piled inside and microwaved for about twenty seconds. Even if I'm making something on the stove I often preheat ingredients like milk or butter in the microwave to save cooking time so I'm dumping only hot ingredients in to the pot. You can also scramble an egg in a coffee cup -- my niece makes muffins in the microwave in coffee cups and has promised to send me that recipe. --Debee _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
