Microwave Cooking Titles III

Easy Livin' Low-Calorie Microwave Cooking by Karen Kangas Dwyer — Cutting down on calories, fat, and sodium is easier than ever before with the microwave oven. Foods cook with less fat, retain more nutrients and flavor, and are ready in one-fourth the time of conventionally cooked foods. Karen Dwyer has developed more than two hundred simple, tasty recipes for fish, chicken, lean meats, vegetables, breads, muffins, even desserts-each with fewer than 250 calories per serving. Each recipe also features a nutritional-analysis chart lists the number of calories, the diabetic exchanges, and the per-serving amounts of carbohydrate, protein, fiber, cholesterol, and sodium. Dozens of tips throughout the book help even beginners to master microwave cooking techniques and to enjoy healthy, delicious, easy meals that take minutes to prepare.

Indian Microwave Cooking by Michael Pandya — Michael Pandya offers a unique approach to Indian cooking, with 150 tasty, time-saving recipes for the microwave. The rich, exotic flavors that make Indian food such a sumptuous experience need hours, sometimes days, to reach their full potential. This makes the microwave, with its power to blend and concentrate flavors, the perfect way to cook Indian food. Steaming, braising, and stewing are the main techniques of the cuisine, and microwaves excel in all of these. Quite simply, Indian microwave cooking means more flavor and healthier food in less time and with less effort. Michael Pandya proves the point with 150 mouthwatering recipes, from foolproof Basmati rice to the perfect jhalfrezi, along with appetizers, soups, curries, breads, sauces, chutneys, desserts, and a wide array of vegetarian options.

Getting the Best from Your Microwave by Carole Bowen — All the information you will ever need to make full use of your microwave. Full color, step by step photography clearly explains the various cooking procedures inspiring you to greater confidence.

Microwave Magic by Carole Bowen — Microwave cooking is quick and simple, perfect for light results that emphasize the true flavor of fresh foods. Microwave Magic brings together recipes selected to make the most of your microwave, proving that they all taste as good, if not better, than when prepared by traditional techniques. Tasty recipes, such as Potato Fish Pie, Chili Con Carne and Fruity Brown Rice Salad make excellent family suppers, while sophisticated dishes include Salmon with Cucumber or Spiced Chicken with Spinach. There are irresistible fruit desserts as well as scones, tea breads and muffins, all of which feature in the baking chapter.

Southern Spice A La Microwave by Marjorie Brignac — Microwave cooking is becoming a way of life for millions of people. But as many microwave users find that meals can be cooked in minutes, they often lose the desire to experiment with unusual dishes. However, convenience cooking needn't be time-consuming and dull, according to this cookbook. Margie Brignac, a microwave specialist and demonstrator, has adapted her favorite Louisiana recipes to microwave cooking, combining timesaving convenience with the flavors of Cajun and Creole cooking.

Microwave Cooking Times at a Glance by Annette Yates — Microwaves are marvelous. Just pop in your food, set the timer and 'ping', it's ready. But for how long should you set the timer? What if the food is frozen? Are you cooking a snack for one or a meal for the family? Does the dish need covering, stirring or turning during cooking? Does the power of the machine make a difference? Here Annette Yates gives you all the answers, in a clear, straightforward layout. Tips and hints about preparing and cooking different types of food, as well as the length of cooking time required, are all included, with tables giving at-a-glance advice for all wattages, 500W to 1000W. And it's all arranged in A-Z sequence for speedy reference. This book is the essential guide for everyone with a microwave — singles, couples, families, students, new cooks - whatever your experience, whatever your microwave.

The Combination Microwave Cook: Recipes for Combination Microwaves and Microwaves With Built-In Grills by Annette Yates and Caroline Young — At last, a cookbook written specifically for the owners of combination microwave cookers and microwaves with built-in grills. With over 100 recipes - from simple snacks, vegetable, vegetarian, meat, fish and poultry dishes, to sweet and savory bakes and pastries - all developed to make full use of these ultra-modern appliances. Combine the well-known advantages of microwaves with the traditional crisp, golden finish which makes dishes so appetizing. Imagine crisp, flaky pastry, golden-brown gratin and baked pasta dishes, main dishes, cakes and desserts, all cooked (and browned) in a fraction of the conventional cooking time. All the recipes will serve two or four and are written in an easy-to-follow style. In addition, there are lots of useful tips and delicious serving suggestions. Every recipe is marked with symbols so you can see at a glance whether it is suitable for cooking on combination or microwave plus grill, or both.

The Classic 1000 Microwave Recipes by Sonia Allison — Cooking expert Sonia Allison shows how to untap your microwave's other abilities and use it to its full advantage, giving you more flexibility and freedom (both in and out of the kitchen) than you ever thought possible! Now you can quickly and easily make tasty, healthy real food in your microwave. You no longer have to rely solely on fast food to fit into your busy lifestyle. This practical fast-food microwave cookbook, a guide to everything the microwave does best, includes such recipes as chicken amandine, Thai rice with lemon grass, Belgian beef in beer, hot cheese and carrot sauce, gingered honey cake, and mocha fondue. Using the tips and recipes in this book, you will not only grow to love microwave cookery — you'll wonder how you ever got along without it.

It is a very good cookbook and I have yet to find a recipe that didn't turn out as it was supposed to.—Norm Peterson, Arizona
My hubby keeps looking in the cookbook, and asks "when will you cook this recipe?"—Lori Hamby, Florida