Microwave omelet

3 eggs

Splash of milk

S&P

Cheese

Butter spray

9 inch pie plate

Plastic wrap

50% power

Spray pie plate

Mix 3 eggs well with a splash of milk and pour in pie plate. Cover and nuke at 50% for 5 minutes until top is glossy.

Add S&P and cheese, fold in half and nuke at 50% for 30 more seconds.

microwave corn on the cob

You don't need to shuck corn before cooking then in the microwave.

Cut the ends off so you can push the ear out when it's done.

Place in microwave on a plate. Cook 4 minutes on high.

Since the corn will be screaming hot, wear silicone pinchers and squeeze that baby out of the husk.

Usually, you won't even have to clean any silk off.

Butter liberally and salt and pepper and enjoy! 🌽

microwave poached eggs

Ingredients

2 eggs

1/2 cup of water

Place water in bowl and carefully crack eggs into the water. Try not to break the yolks.

Cover and vent. Place in the nuker and cook on high for a minute or two, depending on the size of your eggs, thickness of your bowl and wattage of your nuker.

My 1100 watt microwave cooks 2 eggs in about 1:45 minutes.

Place on toast. Enjoy.

microwave sautéed onion

Ingredients:

One small onion

A pat of butter or margarine

Instructions:

Cut the top and bottom off a small onion, do not peel.

Place onion standing up on its flat bottom in the nuker with a pat of butter on top. Cover and cook on high for 3 minutes.

Remove the skin and break apart with a fork.

Microwave carmel

Nuke a can of sweetened condensed milk for 5 minutes for instant caramel sauce.

Microwave cakemix cake

Pour Cake mix into large mixing bowl

Mix as directed on package

Spray a 2 quart round dish thoroughly. I use a straight sided round dish to make a traditional looking layer cake, but a rounded casserole dish works too.

Pour batter into dish

Put dish in microwave on the edge of the turntable, not the center to ensure the cake cooks through the middle.

Cook on high for 8-9 minutes in 1000w microwave.

It will puff up.

Run knife along edge to loosen cake, overturn onto cooling rack and allow to cool.

If you want a layer cake, you don't want to omit this next step.

Empty store bought can of frosting into a mixing bowl and use an electric mixer to mix the frosting. This adds air and makes it fluffy, and most importantly, it stretches it out to make enough for a layer cake.

When cake is cooled, cut the cake into half horizontally.

Spread half the frosting onto the bottom layer, place the top layer on it, then spread the other half of the frosting on the second layer.

Enjoy

#cake #microwave 

No-Drain Microwave Macaroni and Cheese

No-Drain Microwave Macaroni and Cheese
1 7oz box of Mac & Cheese mix
1 3/4 cup HOT tap water
1/4 cup milk
1/4 cup butter

Put macaroni in a 2 qt bowl with HOT tap water. If you can’t use HOT water, adjust cooking time accordingly.
Cook in microwave for 9 to 9 1/2 minutes, stirring once or twice. All the water should be absorbed and macaroni tender. Stir again after it is finished.
Add cheese mix, milk and butter, stirring until butter is melted and cheese powder is cheesy.

Steak House Sweet Potatoes

• Time 5 minutes
• Serves 2

Ingredients

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• 4 small sweet potatoes
• sweet butter
• ground cinnamon

How to make it

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• Scrub the sweet potatoes clean.
• Prick their tops to vent out steam.
• Nuke until soft.
• Slit and into each cavity add a generous pat of sweet butter and sprinkle in a lot of cinnamon.
• When you're ready to eat them just mash all together in the skins and be ready for the ensuing food coma.

Vidalia Onion Side Dish

• Time 10 minutes
• Serves 2

Ingredients

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• 2 medium vidalia onions
• 2 beef bouillon cubes
• 1 Tbsp butter (divided)
• Fresh parsley sprigs (optional)
• Fresh ground pepper (optional)

How to make it

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• Peel 2 medium onions and cut a thin slice from bottom and top of each one. Scoop out a 1-inch-deep hole from the top of each onion. Place onions, top sides up, in a 2-qt. microwave-safe dish with a lid. Add 1 beef bouillon and 1/2 tbsp butter to shallow hole in each ionion; cover with lid. Microwave, covered, at HIGH for 8 to 10 minutes or until onion is tender. Garnish each serving with fresh parsley sprig and pepper, if desired.
• They recommend only Vidalia or Texas Sweets for this recipe.
• Be sure to use a microwave-safe lid only; plastic wrap will melt
• If you'd rather grill, wrap each filled-and-topped onion in heavy-duty aluminum foil (or a double layer of regular aluminum foil). Grill over high heat (400 - 450 degrees) or until tender. Let stand 10 minutes.

Microwaved Poach Pears

In 2-quart casserole, heat 1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 cup water, and 2 tablespoons lemon juice 2 minutes to dissolve sugar. Arrange 4 peeled pears on their sides in the syrup, with stems pointing to the center. Cover with lid or vented plastic wrap, and cook 10 to 12 minutes or until fork-tender.

Microwave BROCCOLI GARLIC SAUTE

Microwave BROCCOLI GARLIC SAUTE
Ingredients:
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 thin slice of butter, about ½ teaspoon
1 garlic clove finely minced (best is through a
garlic press to extract garlic juices)
1 cup fresh broccoli florets
Salt and pepper to taste
Lemon wedge
2 tablespoons of finely shredded cheddar cheese (optional)

Directions:
Add the oil, butter and garlic to microwave safe dish, Then add the broccoli.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cover and Cook for 6 minutes until tender crisp. Squeeze juice from
lemon over broccoli and mix well.  Let stand for a couple minutes.

Tip: For melted cheese, (if desired)
remove the lid and sprinkle on the cheese. Simply put the lid
back on
for 1 minute to melt. No need to cook in microwave to melt the cheese.

Microwave Breakfast Sandwhich

I don't know if one piece of bread is still considered a sandwich, but that's the way I like my breakfast sandwich.  If you like two pieces of bread or muffins, than do that.
You'll be enjoying your breakfast within 5 minutes from start to finish.

Makes 2

Ingredients:
2 pieces of bread
2 slices of cheese
2 slices of precooked bacon cut in half
2 eggs
Butter flavored cooking spray
Salt and Pepper to taste

Instructions:
Spray your egg cookers with cooking spray.
Start your toast.
Crack eggs in the egg cookers and whisk with the tines of a fork or if you want them poached, add a little bit of water to the container (1/2 tsp) and gently poke the yolks.
Cover, place in microwave for about 1 minute, 15 seconds.  If you want poached eggs, cook the eggs for 2 minutes at 50% power.  Your time may vary depending on the power of your microwave.
When eggs are done, take them out of nuker and reheat bacon for about 30 seconds.  This also allows the poached eggs to finish up so keep the eggs covered until the very end.

When toast is done, place a slice of cheese on each slice of toast.
Put two half slices of bacon on each slice of toast.
Salt and pepper your eggs and slip them on top of it all.  (I never salt the eggs until the end.  Salt makes eggs rubbery)

This tastes so much better than an egg McMuffin from McD's IMO, because you control the ingredients.  You get your favorite bacon, and your eggs are real eggs cooked to perfection.
Faster than going through the drive thru too.

Enjoy

Microwave Poached Eggs

Microwave Poached Eggs

Ingredients:
Eggs
1 Tbsp. water per egg
Butter
Toast
Salt & Pepper to taste

This is ridiculously simple.  I love eggs in almost anyway, shape of form, but I have to admit, I have never mastered the art of making poached eggs the traditional way.  I find this method to be a great shortcut and tastes the same.  For me, the important part of a poached egg is the consistency of the yolk and this method does the trick!

Add 1Tbp. Water in a microwave egg and muffin maker or a ramekin.  If you use a ramekin, you will need some plastic wrap to cover the dish.
Crack an egg into the dish.  Use the tines of a fork to prick the membrane of the yolk.  Do not skip this part because if you do not, the egg has a high probability of exploding!
Cover eggs and place in microwave.

I generally make 2 eggs in separate containers at the same time and cook them for 2 minutes, 30 seconds at 50% power, until the whites are just barely opaque over the egg.
Your cooking time will vary according to the size and amount of eggs you cook at once, and the wattage of your microwave so use this as a guide.
It's better to guess less time then you think so as not to overcook your eggs.  You can always add more time, but once an egg is overcooked, you have to start over or eat a hard yolk.  :(
Drain the liquid off the egg, you may have to loosen the egg with a fork, and slip the egg onto a piece of toast or a muffin.  You can trim the whites if you want, but I  hate to waste it.
Season your egg with salt and pepper to taste.  I never salt my eggs before cooking.  Salt toughens the whites but you season your eggs whenever you wish.

A perfectly poached egg will have a yummy, runny yolk with the sides of the yolk just barely hardened and I can get them consistently done right with this method.
Alternately, you can substitute melted butter or butter substitute for the water for a shirred egg but I like mine poached and  save the butter for the toast.  :)
Enjoy!

"Jiffy" Microwave Cornbread

"Jiffy" Microwave Cornbread

1 pkg Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix
1/3 + 2 Tbsp. milk
1 egg

Grease an 8 inch or 9 inch microwave safe dish.  A glass pie plate is fine.
Mix ingredients until will blended in a medium bowl.  Pour into prepared dish.  Microwave 8 minutes on medium (50%) power.

The bread will not brown so don't use color as an indicator that it's finished.  The edges will not get crispy as it does in the oven, but it is still a nice quick alternative.
Serve with butter and honey.

How to proof bread in microwave

The microwave is the perfect place to set up a temporary proofer (for nonbakers, a proofer is a contraption that creates ideal conditions, i.e., warm and moist, for yeast breads to rise.) The sealed environment of your microwave will keep the moisture and heat in. Just heat a cup of water in your microwave until it's steaming, then put your dough in along with it, shut the door and let it do its thing.

Proofing Yeast Dough in Microwave

Proofing Yeast Doughs in Microwave

Yeast doughs that normally take an hour or more to rise at room temperature can be proofed in the microwave in about 15 minutes. Place the dough in a very large bowl and cover with plastic. Place an 8-ounce cup of water in the back of the microwave with the bowl of dough in the center, and set the power as low as possible (10 percent power). Heat for 3 minutes, then let the dough rest in the microwave for 3 minutes. Heat for 3 minutes longer, then let rest for 6 minutes. The dough will double in bulk.

Microwave Popcorn

Microwave Popcorn

Place ½ cup popcorn kernels in a large microwave-safe bowl with 1 tablespoon olive or canola oil. Cover with a microwave-safe plate and microwave on high (power level 10) until the majority of the kernels have popped, 3 to 5 minutes.

Soften Brown Sugar

Soften Brown Sugar

Place sugar in a microwave-safe bowl and sprinkle with 1 teaspoon water (regardless of the quantity of sugar). Cover and microwave on low (power level 3) in 1-minute intervals, tossing in between, until soft, 4 to 5 minutes.

Perfect Poached Eggs

You can make perfect poached eggs in the microwave!
Poached eggs do not require any fat to cook.  They are traditionally cooked in a pan of boiling water, however, they can be made in the microwave using a steam method.
I purchased a Nordic Ware Microwave 2 Cavity Egg Poacher however, you can use a small dish, such as a ramekin covered with plastic wrap.

First you'll want to toast your English muffins or bread.
Then place 1/2 teaspoon of water into each "bowl".  Crack open 1 egg per bowl, lightly pierce each yolk with a fork,  then close lid or cover with plastic wrap if using a ramekin.
Place in microwave.  Cooking times will vary depending on the wattage of your microwave.  Start at 1 minute of cooking time for 2 eggs.  Keep them covered after they have cooked for 30 seconds as to allow the steam to continue to cook the eggs.  Your cooking time will vary.  1 minute is just a starting point.

The whites should be just cooked and not runny.  The yolks should be runny.  :)


Scoop the eggs out of the bowls and onto your choice of bread.  I use the fork I pierced the eggs with.  :)
Season as desired.  Enjoy.

Cheesy Microwave Eggs

Cheesy Microwave Eggs

Dead simple. If you like cheese omelets, you'll like this. No pan to wash either! Just a bowl, a spoon and a whisk.

Ingredients:
Cooking Spray
3 eggs or Egg Beaters
A splash of milk
A couple slices of cheese
Salt & Pepper to taste

Spray a microwave safe bowl with cooking spray. Whisk together the eggs and milk with a fork or a whisk. The longer you Whisk, the fluffier the eggs will turn out.
Add the cheese.
Put the egg mixture into the microwave and cook for about 2 minutes and 30 seconds. The time is going to depend on the power of your microwave and the amount of eggs used. Egg Beaters take less time then whole eggs.
2 minutes and 30 seconds is the magic number for my microwave and 3 lg. eggs. Egg Beater cheezy eggs take about 2 minutes.
You want your eggs almost done at the end of the cooking time. They cook for a little while even after you take them out of the microwave. Do not overcook! Nothing worse then dry eggs!
After you remove the eggs from the microwave, stir in seasoning. I do not like to add the salt before cooking because I think they toughen the eggs.
Allow to cool for about a minute because as mentioned, they still cook after removing from microwave.
Mmmm. Cheesy, salty, eggy goodness.
Enjoy!