The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Microwave Cookbook

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Since this cookbook is for beginners, Yates introduces the reader to preparing and cooking different types of food in microwaves. Filled with tips and hints on cooking, Yates’s narration tempts you to try out some of the dishes now. With popularity gaining and families growing into nuclear ones, the demand for microwave cookery has only increased over the years. People at large have turned cautious of how they eat food, how it is cooked, and what nutritional values it provides them with. There are no great mechanics to these recipes; they are just something you would do in a home kitchen. You can easily double these recipes if you are a couple or two office colleagues for lunch. These eighty recipes are nutritious, flavorful, and colorful. They do not require much cooking time. It describes every step properly and also the time taken for each step. This makes it very easy for you to plan before you cook. There is also a perfect nutrition chart and you will know how much nutrients you will be gaining on eating what you make. The book has very good illustrations and you can know how exactly the food will look once you are done cooking it. You can technically rely on the microwave for making any dish you need. It is not very expensive.

Offering you perfect cooking times for steamed vegetables or fish, Yates’ cookbook is helpful to those who are new to microwave cooking. Most users like the fact that the recipes are easy to follow and are indexed to find a dish easily. Yates has shared cooking times for different microwaves depending upon their wattage and what is being cooked. Yates is a pro as she suggests recipes by weight and different cuts of meat. All microwaves up to the known norm of 1000 watts benefit from this cookbook. Index: Cookbooks should be easy to read and follow. Look for cookbooks that have recipes in the index by the food or courses. Many folks have admired her logical representation of recipes which doesn’t require them to go through a maze of things, keeping it simple and predictable. Most recipes have timings given for single portions, too; Yates does not miss out on a singleton’s need. For the users, it requires them to know their microwaves well enough to go with the flow of the cookbook, using power jargons and then giving it a simple everyday common word. Many folks find the Teriyaki beef with broccoli and the painless paella amazing dishes to go for! Instructions are simple to follow once you have the ingredients listed and shopped. While all the main ingredients are listed, some users found the other ingredients are given in a smaller font, making reading them difficult.

With its limited capacity, microwaved food is for a limited quantity. For a lrge get together you may need to do multiple batches. Pictures/Illustrations Do seek a cookbook with pictures to encourage you or provide guidance on how the finished dish should look. The famous proverb ‘Pictures communicate much more than words only,’ applied beautifully here. Features Food tends to retain more nutrients when cooked in the microwave because they are not destroyed by prolonged cooking.

As well as cooking whole meals and reheating leftovers, microwaves have a multitude of handy uses which could save you time and effort in the kitchen:Providing you a refreshing break, these recipes don’t become the task itself. Take some time off the tasks to refresh and cook yourself a healthy meal with this cookbook. Remember there are 250 different dishes that you can make very easily and you only need a mug for a vessel. There are a variety of dishes here which does not need turning on the stove and standing there till the food is done. Stir and put it in the microwave and wait for the timer to ring. For bachelors and students living in a dorm and especially for people who do not know to cook, buying this is one of the best choices. The recipes are put in very simple words and hence it makes it easy for the reader to understand and cook very easily. It is one single book for making any meal you want in no time. This is the best choice for people who are in a hurry.

Filled with simple and easy-to-follow instructions, Joyce’s cookbook is a welcome change from The Good Housekeeping. Joyce provides more than fifty recipes, shows you what drinks go with what food and has menus for most occasions. She provides time charts for all recipes and the nutritional food value in a standard recipe.

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It is very handy and small. This cookbook can be carried around very easily. All you need to know is what are the utensils safe for the microwave. It helps you fill your stomach with healthy food even when you are really hungry to spend time cooking. This is really fast and your food comes into your hands in no time. It is very easy to buy this book on any of the online shops that sell books. If you have a digital microwave then this allows for precise cooking programme and time settings as well as variable heat settings on some machines. Sections: Look for recipes being indexed under courses or under sections of meat, vegetables, legumes, fish, and more. This makes it easy for you to look at recipes for a particular main ingredient. This book has a very easy to understand steps explained clearly but in very short sentences. There is hardcover and board book and the price of the book varies accordingly. Most of this, you can just cook on your own and you don’t need help or even supervision. It is one of the best books for college students and for men. It is very easy to learn cooking with this book in your kitchen. It is a man’s best friend in the kitchen. It is one of the most important things in the survival kit of the person just beginning to cook. Finally, cooking in a microwave avoids burning or charring food which can often occur with oven cooking and frying.

For many food connoisseurs, the cookbook is helping save food wastage with limited portions being cooked. You don’t have to eat the same food cooked in large quantities and frozen and reheated. Its fresh food cooked each time, every time. A few critics have emphasized the need for recipes that can be managed in today’s modern technology with higher-powered microwaves, unlike the 700 watts of previous decades. For users living in the hot and temperate zones, this cookbook, they say, is a blessing. For example, a user from southern California despises the kitchen’s heat during summers, where cooking is considered a pain. She loves this cookbook with its capacity to cook small and fast batches of nutritious food that doesn’t add heat to the already heated up kitchen. As you opt for a cookbook, consider the microwave capacity and power that you have. For example, some recipes will say cook this dish for 20 minutes – apt for a microwave with power less than 1000 W. What do you do if your microwave is 1200 watts? Most cookbooks do not provide the answer. So opt for a cookbook that matches or gives you answers to the microwave of your size. RecipesFilled with food tips and facts and over eighty fast-to-cook recipes, Denise has authored one of the slimmest cookbooks. This cookbook is apt for meals for a single person, whether in a dorm or at an office or someone who is in a hurry or perhaps just doesn’t want to cook. Denise has conjured up and done a rejig of some simple and well-known food dishes to suit every palate. There are a lot of people who do not know to cook. This is when you will need to cook on a microwave as it is easier and you can blindly follow the recipe in this book. It is simplified and is very easy to understand. This has very clearly written step by step instructions of how to make over 500 dishes. With this microwave cookbook, you can make a menu for any kind of meal and even for the entire family. There are people who know to cook perfectly well in a stove but aren’t microwaves much faster? This book has many recipes of dishes that is usually cooked on a stove. This is one of the most useful books to people who need to cook faster and also use the microwave to make it easier.