Cooking in a microwave

[nancylebov]

Summary: it's good for steaming/poaching veggies, and for puddings

Link thanks to kate_nepveau.

Comments

[sgsguru.livejournal.com]

A trick with the veggies -- put a smashed clove of garlic and some olive oil in your steaming dish and zap for ~20 seconds. Add veggies and zap normally (on my microwave I just push the button that says "fresh veggies".) I turn the dish with the veggies and garlic upside down and shake (covered, hopefully) to spread the oil around, but I don't think it's really necessary.

Warning -- if you try this recipe, you'd better like garlic.

Or you could roast a chicken.

[bruhinb.livejournal.com]

Microwaves are also wonderful for making sauces and gravies far more easily than on the stove top. Custard-style puddings are also a snap in the microwave. I even have made successful fudge and peanut brittle using the microwave. Hot cocoa made from milk and basic tinned cocoa from the baking aisle (sugar very optional, chipotle pepper instead) is also a snap.

I strongly recommend The General Electric Microwave Guide & Cook Book (http://www.goantiques.com/detail,general-electric-microwave,100012.html) as a basic source book for all these things and more. Just skip the chapter on meats.

[gildedacorn.livejournal.com]

According to my father, you can do good scrambled eggs in a microwave, but I've never tried this myself.