Re: microwave

thanks! sounds good to me.

Re: microwave

Well, it’s funny you should ask. I seem to have just the write-up right here!

Note that that is the “Weekend Version”. The other night, I made the “Weeknight Version”, which consisted of simmering two large boneless, skinless chicken breasts in 6 cups of Swanson’s Natural Goodness (low-sodium) Chicken Broth (their organic broth is good too) for 20 minutes, then cooling and shredding them, then continuing with the recipe from Step 4. I used two recipes of the Bisquick biscuits for dumplings (4 1/2 cups of Bisquick plus 1 2/3 cups of milk) ’cause we loves us some dumplings 🙂 Heh – I note that I call for microwaving veggies in that recipe, but you can steam ’em on the stovetop just as well.

I use the microwave primarily for 2 things – nuking frozen veggies & to hold whatever cake of the week we have (unless it’s got to be refigerated)….
but my question is what’s your chicken & dumplings recipe? My mom made a great one, but alas, she never wrote anything down. Point me in the right direction, son;)

mom;)

I recently had some TVP taco dip. It was very tasty and I’m not sure I ever would have known it was TVP if I hadn’t been told. I am sure that many people at the party where it was served never had a clue.

I love your icon. 😀

I was going to post a comment similar to Altivo’s, but not exactly the same. I did catch the distinction between “lazy tool” and “encourages lazy behavior [in Duncan].”

We use ours for odd things, including the melting of butter and making rice in our rice steamer thingie. Particularly for the odd wild rice blends I make, it’s much easier to get the rice fulling cooked without burning from of it in the microwave steamer than on the stove.

But mostly we use it to defrost things, or rather, to finish defrosting something–that we need to get cooking by a particular time because we have 15 people coming over, say.

We use the crockpot and the pressure cooker more often than the microwave.

We only replaced the old microwave that I’d inherited from an in-law because we decided when it started interfering with the TV, that was a good indication that it had probably been irradiating us for a while. Of course it was at least 25 years old, so maybe we shouldn’t have been surprised.

TVP is a blast from my past. Growing up with vegetarian neighbors introduced me to a lot of meat substitutes and a long-running (friendly) argument as to whether or not meat substitutes worked against the spirit of converting to vegetarianism.

Enjoy the TVP. Not too long ago, you could only find it here by visiting health food stores or buying a stash from the Seventh Day Adventists.

Well, the gist of my intent here is to suggest that you consider getting a small microwave. Since you obviously take cooking seriously, I think you will find it just as useful as a mixer, or a pressure cooker, or any of a myriad other tools you may have. Doesn’t sound like there’s much risk that you’d be tempted into “lazy cooking” by just having one, and a small sized one costs a lot less than a Kitchen-Aid mixer. ;p

I agree (see recent rants in my own journal) that Americans are falling into a pit of living off processed and fast food to the point where they have no idea about nutrition or even just what food is made of or where it comes from. It comes out of a box, doesn’t it? Made in factories? Probably from leftover petroleum byproducts, no? Watching what other people have in their carts at the supermarket is the ultimate in depressing.