t MICROWAVE ' MINUTES BY JOYCE BATTCHER Convenience, a return to tradi tional values, and the increasing popularity of the microwave oven have lead to the development of many new microwave foods. And, many more are coming. Fast-food restaurants have been able to meet some peoples’ needs for quick inexpensive meals, but what about people who don’t have a drive-thru nearby? Or how about the families who have returned to more traditional values of eating at home? (The research firm of Yankelovich Clancy Shulman found that the home is re establishing itself as the focal point for family activities, including eat ing. Other researchers have coined the phase “cocooning” to describe the trend.) Ypur business is producing milk, meat, eggs or other farm commodities. Our business is to help you get eNcry ounce of value out of the forages and other ingredients you feed to produce that milk, meat, etc. The challenge for both of us is to maximize production and at the same time generate as much income o>er feed costs as possible. THATS THE BOTTOM LINE!! Stop by our tent during your visit to Pennsylvania Ag Progress Days - August 16, 17 & 18, 1988. Talk to us about your business -- We’ll listen! We also will have an offer vou can’t refuse. how Special.... For the first 100 people who stop at our tent to talk business and bring this ad along with them, they will receive a special gift compliments of Youngs’. SERVICES AND PRODUCTS FOR TODAY'S DAIRY AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCER penn State ~By JOYCE BATTCHER For those people, and for people who don’t even have the time to go to a restaurant, many companies have developed high quality foods that microwave in minutes. In fact, one company, Micro M agic™, offers a whole traditional fast-food menu hamburger or cheeseburger, French fries or talor sticks and milkshake. Each item is sold separately in individual (or twin) packets. For a singles meal, microwave the fries in their own box and let them stand to crisp while microwaving a burger. After eating, microwave the milkshake in its disposable cup for4S seconds and stir to soften it to a thick con sistency. It’s fast-food meal that goes straight from freezer to microwave and is ready for eating in less than five minutes. Cost is /^young's Roaring Spring Pa 1667 T Livestock Nutritional about $3, This past year Geo. A. Hormcl introduced three different New Traditions™ hamburger sandwi ches. Their success led to two new ly introduced New Traditions Microwave Dinner Sandwiches on sesame seed yeast rolls. Each single sandwich microwaves on High for 45 to 60 seconds. (Or, if frozen, it microwaves on Defrost 30% power - for 4 to 514 minutes.) A microwave chicken dinner sandwich and microwave fillet of fish (topped with cheese) dinner sandwich join the 100%_ beef burger, cheeseburger and cheese baconburger. Each comes, individually wrapped, in a single serving package. Make a BLT the Easy Way With the introduction of Hor mel’s new Microwave Bacon™, making a BLT at home has never been so easy! You’ll have no greasy fingers from struggling to separate slices of bacon, no need for paper towels or a bacon rack and no messy clean-up. All you do is take a package of four strips of bacon from the box, microwave it to desired crispness, remove the bacon and throw away the package. Microwave Bacon uses Hor mel’s quality Black Label Brand Bacon, and a special package Services developed by 3M. The package top (which looks like plastic wrap) inflates during microwaving and the bottom tray actually broils the bacon and absorbs grease. The result is crisp - not flat or limp - bacon. Microwave Bacon comes four strips to a package, four packages per 12-ounce box. Cooking time is about 214 to 414 minutes. Cost is about 75 cents to one dollar more than regular bacon. Hormcl Micro wave Bacon is also available in a lower-salt version with 35 percent less salt than regular. Right now the “new” bacon is in supermark ets in four U.S. cities, but Hormcl expects it to be soon available nationwide. Serve Salad with a Microwave Sandwich Fresh vegetable salad adds crispness, nutrition and a homey touch to a fast foods meal. Like a microwave sandwich, today’s salad recipes arc microwave quick and convenient 100. Either salad may be made and eaten right away or refrigerated for up to one week and served cold. Both use fresh vegetables and store-bought salad dressing. Just a few minutes of microwaving pro duce lender-crisp carrots that can be served right away, cooled and © 1988 Young’s Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 13, 1988-B5 eaten at room, temperature or refrigerated for later. Salad dress ing provides the moisture to cook the carrots. Onion and green pep per is added after cooking for crispness. In Creamy Mixed Vegetable Salad vegetables are microwaved just to slightly blanch them - not to cook or tenderize at all. This warming allows them to quickly absorb more flavor from the dress ing so the. salad can be served immediately and yet be flavorful. Easy Carrot Salad 1 pound carrots, thinly sliced (3-4 cups) 1 cup Western-style salad dressing 1 small onion, thinly sliced or cubed 1 medium green pepper, thinly sliced or cubed 1 tablespoon vinegar Salt and peppr to taste Stir together carrots and salad dressing in microwave-safe 2-quart casserole. Cover with lid or plastic wrap. Microwave (High) 4 to 5 minutes, stirring after 2 minutes, or until carrots are still tender-crisp. Cool. Stir in onion, green pepper and vinegar. Chill. Keeps about 1 week in refrigera tor. Makes 6 to 8 servings. To Serve Immediately: Stir in onion, green pepper and vinegar; re-cover and let stand at least 5 minutes (or up to 30 minutes) to slightly soften added vegetables and to allow mixture to flavor through. Refrigerate remaining salad. Each serving—Vi of recipe: 139 calories, Ig protein, lOg fat, 13g carbohydrate, 225 mg sodium, 0 cholesterol. Joyce Battcher is an indepen dent home economist microwave specialist. 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