Q: Some friends call me a gourmet and this is close to the truth. I love trying all of the cuisines that I can find in every village or town when I travel. Once a French family hosted me; they served a traditional goat cheese salad and melted my heart by this. The next day…
Q: For so many people microwaving leftovers twice is one or the only reason why they bought a microwave oven. We always have no time. Be it an office, a dormitory or your home. There’s nothing easier than taking out a pan of soup cooked yesterday and heat a bowl of it in the microwave…
Q: I had not noticed a big difference between spaghetti and noodles before I visited a Japanese Italian food restaurant where one of my friends ordered spaghetti and the other ate noodles. Frankly speaking, I felt like a fish out of water. The first friend ate spaghetti with the fork, while the other used chopsticks…
Q: Italian pasta is a mode of life for many people. We are not an exception. We owe the Italians appearance of spaghetti on our tables. The first suchlike pasta was up to 50 cm long, but today it does not exceed 15 centimeters. Therefore, it can go in the microwave oven! How to cook…
Q: The conversations about eggs which can’t go in a microwave oven take place every now and then. The reason for the categorical statements is the catastrophic consequences for your kitchen and the device. However, one of my friends, who is a chief cook, declares that eggs can be cooked in the microwave both in…
Q: Since I got acquainted with ketchup and started using it as an ingredient for different dishes cooked on the stove and in the oven, I also prepared some easy sandwiches with ketchup in the microwave oven. I always feel dizzy thinking that I can cook lasagna or beef stroganoff in the microwave. Is it…
Q: To heat or not to heat a baby formula in a microwave oven? The eternal dilemma seems to never be solved. There’s a big difference of views on those mommies’ forums for infant feeding. Someone says that microwaving is dangerous; others advocate this device as the best mother’s helper in the kitchen, while the…
Q: It happens so that you are neither able to cook in the kitchen nor willing to order food in the nearest restaurant. But if you have a microwave oven, you can boil, fry or stew food there. This is a top device in the office, at school, and in the hospital. As a follower…
Q: What do you usually cook when you are very hungry but short on time? I bet you take a casserole, throw pasta there and wait for 8 minutes or so. Add the time it takes to boil water. What do we have now, a thirty-minute dish? Yes and a mess on the stove if…
Q: My friend once threw a bachelor party where we had loads of drinks, pizza, sushi, and rolls. In the midst of pleasure, I learned that he cooked the Japanese food himself. No need to say that it hit me like a megaton of bricks! I just thought of how lucky his wife-to-be might be….
