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Roast stuffed chicken, bundt cakes, and sauces are easy foods to cook in a microwave.
Watch for “The Micro Way” each week and learn how to cook in your microwave!
The Micro Way: your microwave class at home
EDITOR’S NOTE • This new
column, designed to help yon use
your microwave ovens more ef
fectively, will appear in B section
each week. The author, Lani
Bloomer, has been teaching
microwave cooking classes and
conducting microwave demote
Strattons for a number of years.
Lani developed her own classes
in beginning, advanced and
gourmet microwave cooking,
which she has been teaching at
Sears for the last three years. She
develops and tests all her own
recipes for this column.
The mother of two, Lani holds a
bachelor’s degree in English and a
master’s in family economics and
home management.
Microwave ovens are just great
for cooking! You can roast a
chicken in about 20 minutes and a
meatloaf takes less than 15
minutes! Four or five baked
potatoes are cooked in less than 10
minutes. A bundt cake takes only
19 minutes to bake and turns out
tender and moist. Meat cooked
properly in a microwave is tender,
juicy and moist. Desserts like
cheesecake, apple crisp and
pumpkin pie are fast, easy and
delicious. Sauces and puddings
that you would have to cook in a
double boiler or stir constantly are
easier to make in a microwave.
Maybe you are saying to yourself
right now, “That’s great, but I
can’t code in my microwave. I just
use it for reheating and
defrosting.” I hear this comment
all the time from friends and
students in my microwave classes.
If you feel this way about your
microwave, or if you have just
gotten a microwave, then I’m
writing this column for you!
Welcome to “The Micro Way”,
your personal microwave class at
home. Join me here each week and
learn to use your microwave for
cooking.
Almost all of my cooking and
baking is done in a countertop
microwave. I put my food in the
microwave and cook it until it’s
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done, just like I used to do on my
range. I don’t have to look up
everything in a cookbook, and you
won’t either, once you leant a few
basic facts about microwave
cooking. These “basics” are
similar to conventional cooking -
you won’t have to learn to cook all
over again!
I’m not going to tell you to cook
everything in your microwave,
because not everything cooks well
that way. Also, your family may
decide that they don’t care for the
differences in a particular food
when it’s cooked in a microwave.
Foods are generally softer and
juicier in texture when properly
cooked in a microwave.
Did you know that you don’t have
to use special microwave recipes?
Whether you use convenience
mixes or cook from scratch, most
of your family’s favorite meals and
recipes can be adapted to the
microwave. I cook the same foods I
always did, I just cook them in the
microwave now.
Why should you bother to leam
to cook in your microwave? After
all, it will mean some adjustments
in your cooking habits. You
already know that microwaves
save time. Another advantage is
that you can cook and serve foods
in the same dishes, so there’s less
dishwashing. There are two other
less well known advantages to
microwave cooking which I feel
are important.
The first is that you can save up
to 75% of the energy you would use
to cook items in your range oven.
Things like baked potatoes,
meatloaf, roast chicken and cakes
use one fourth of the electricity if
cooked in a microwave instead of
an electric range. One meal-in-one
recipe I have for barbecured
spareribs, baked potatoes and a
vegetable costs less than ten cents
to cook in the microwave. The
same meal would cost almost
eighty cents in my electric range
oven.
Another advantage is that
microwave cooked food is more
nutritious, since it is cooked in a
shorter time with less water. You
won’t lose as many of the B and C
vitamins which are destroyed by
heat and dissolved in water. You
can use your microwave for almost
90 percent of your cooking jobs,
and use your range as an ac
cessory! If you do, you will have
healthier meals at a lower cost.
Try this recipe for hot fudge
sauce, and see how easy it is to
cook in your microwave! A 4 or 8
cup measuring cup is a super
“pot” for your microwave. The
handle stays cool and makes it
easy to remove for stirring. A
wooden spoon can be left in the
sauce during cooking if you like.
Hot Fudge Sauce
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
4 tablespoons butter or
margarine
1 small (5.3-ounce) can
evaporated milk, about 7/8 cup
Mi teaspoon vanilla
Put sugar and cocoa in a 4 cup
measure (or l-or-2-quart bowl) and
put the butter or margarine on top.
Cook on high for 1-2 minutes until
the margarine melts.
Stir in the milk. Cbok on high for
2-3 minutes, stirring after 1
minute, until the sauce is boiling.
Stir again and code on high for
one minute with the sauce boiling.
Stir in vanilla. Serve warm. This
keeps well refrigerated; reheat on
high for 2-3 minutes, stirring every
minute. Makes 1% cups.
In future columns of “The Micro
Way” I will give you simple,
specific directions and recipes for
the things that cook well in a
microwave oven. I will tell you
about the utensils you really need,
the ovens, and their equipment,
like temperature probes and power
levels. And I’ll give you directions
for adapting your family’s favorite
recipes to microwave cooking.
You can learn to be a microwave
cook! Join me next week and we’ll
start with some of the “basics” of
cooking the micro way.
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