jmcquown wrote:
>
> Arri London wrote:
> > The reason I haven't been around is that I've been ill and had major
> > surgery in May. Recovering nicely thank you very much.
> >
> > However there has been some loss of vision (ie one eye no longer
> > works; the other one is its usual short-sighted self LOL).
> >
> > So I don't want to cook on the gas cooker if I can avoid it until my
> > brain has learned to deal with the asymmetry. We have a crockpot,
> > bread machine and a rice cooker but I'd like to do more with the
> > microwave.
> >
> > Vegetables work out OK, including 'baked' potatoes or apples (and
> > microwave popcorn). What else can be cooked in the micro? We have
> > enough Corning Ware etc and even a weird plastic 'frying pan' given
> > by a neighbour. The few books in the library on the topic have strange
> > recipes that I'd never eat anyway!
> >
> > TIA
> > Arri
>
> Sorry to hear about your eye problems, Arri! There are a number of good
> microwave cookbooks available. You *can* actually do more than boil water
> in a microwave. The first thing that comes to mind is something I did when
> I got a microwave back in 1978 (laughing) and made chicken tetrazzini in it.
> It was very good! I'll dig some recipes out and send the info to you.
>
> Jill

Thanks Jill. Losing 50 % of my visual field was rather a shock but the
other 50% seems to work well enough. Might be easier to post the recipes
here; other people might like to know to. Still learning to use the new
microwave which my mother bought one day before I got dragged off to
hospital; the other literally went up in flames after something like 10
years of daily use.