Microwave Cooking for One

By Marie T. Smith

Book Overview

Fast, easy, and economical, the recipes in Microwave Cooking for One are ideal for individuals, whether they live alone or share busy modern households. From breakfast through dinner, fresh, delicious meals can be prepared to satisfy personal tastes without wasted food, overheated kitchens, or messy clean-up.

This cult favorite has been featured by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Washington Post, The Mindy Project, BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, About.com, Dangerous Minds, Anorak, SF Weekly, Livestrong, Nutrition Know How, Serious Eats, and more.

This uniquely practical guide to wholesome and efficient cooking emphasizes the importance of measured portions, careful timing, and the right utensils when cooking with a microwave. Inexperienced chefs will be able to cook like professionals with these more than three hundred easy-to-follow recipes. As an extra bonus, included are instructions for easily doubling or tripling a recipe when you need more to go around.

Dishes include Flounder with Stuffing, Flaky Homemade Biscuits, Momma's Chicken Cacciatore, and Pound Cake. Discover a world of convenience for every meal of the day

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565546660
• ISBN13: 9781565546660
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Great for cooking for kids on the go

It seems we're always running out of time at the end of the day and it's great to have some short-cuts that help me get dinner on the table without having to send my four year old to bed late. I use the section on vegetables most often to get last-minute veggies on the table, or to give my daughter something to snack on while the rest of dinner cooks. I admit I change some details of recipies to suit our tastes, but the cook times are there for me already and I find it easy to double or triple quantities. I could get snarky and "clever" by making jokes about cooking for one, making it seem like a cookbook for the lonely, but a) I use it to cook for my family all the time and b)appreciate the flexibility the book offers by allowing me to prep something to cook for lunch at work, just for me.

A Cure for Lonliness

Alone in my dark apartment, having worn my 3 Wolf Moon T-Shirt as well for countless weeks, found this book to be my bible. I sit at my dining room table, playing World of Warcraft night after night, sobbing silently for want of notice by another human being. Pizza boxes piling up, chinese food leftovers filling my fridge, I was beginning to run out of options. I recently lost my job as a Custodial Consultant for sniffing the amonia in the utility closet. My funding for my gourmet meals from such world reknown chefs as Boyardi and Uncle Ben had begun running low. Stumbling in a drunken daze through the local bookstore, my elbow carelessly knocked a book onto the floor as I turned a corner. As I peered down, I saw the title, "Microwave Cooking for One." Curiously, I picked it up and decided to have a a quick read. As I began flipping through the pages, I began to see that this was no ordinary cookbook. No my friends, this was a book passed down from the Gods themselves, displaying the infinite beauty of their messenger Marie T Smith on the cover. I knew at that moment, that this book would change my life. I purchased it with the last few dollars to my name and brought it home. Because of this book, I now eat like a King. Filet Mignon? Chicken Alfredo? Caviar? Its all in there. Not only do you never need to buy another cookbook, there will never be a book so beautifully written ever again. From that point, I ahve divided my life into two different categories, life before Microwave Cooking for One and life after, much like the Old and New Testament. From this book I have made more friends than I can count, gained 30 pounds of rock hard muscle, and have a new job as VP of a major financial holdings company. This book worked for me, and I am sure it will work for you.

microwave cooking for one

excellent book. I decided to start eating better and this has helped my limited cooking skills greatly.

A Great Cookbook!

If you are single, this cookbook is a must for you. The recipes are easy to prepare and don't require any fancy ingredients. Most of them are recipes you wouldn't mind serving to a guest either, and doubling the ingredients for such a purpose is easy. I had no idea my microwave could do so much!

Be The Best Cook on the Block!

If your microwave's main function in life is to heat leftovers or bake potatoes, "Microwave Cooking for One" can make you the best cook on the block without sacrificing your time, taste or pocketbook.Make homemade lasagna, biscuits, cookies, jams--or just boil an egg! The nearly 300 recipes are kitchen tested, easy to follow, and specific, from breakfast foods to midnight snacks. Best of all, you start with a recipe for one, and multiply each dish to make the amount you need--from a hot sandwich to brunch for the holiday crowd.The difference between this book and all those others is Author Marie Smith's emphasis on measuring portions, timing carefully, and simply using the correct size dish--all of which she explains clearly. The result is that whatever your degree of culinary skill (or interest!), "Microwave Cooking for One" makes it easier to prepare great food. Fast. And isn't that why you really invested in your microwave?Send for your copy of "Microwave Cooking for One," today, and unchain your microwave oven from leftovers! Get the convenience--and taste--you deserve from your microwave oven.