Microwave Polenta Bread

I wanted something like cornbread but a little different and I wanted to start really using my tupperwave microwave stack cooking set

for more than just reheating/warming foods in the microwave

I've had my stack cooker for some time and was also lucky enough to be given a cookbook to go with it, it's a spiral bound book with separated pages which allow you to pick out three different recipes to 'stack' cook at once if you wish

fast and fresh stack cooked meals

Anyway one of the recipes for the 'top' stack which you use the inverted lid for is the following:

sour cream cornbread
2/3 cup flour
2/3 cup corn meal
1 T sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp each baking soda and salt
1 egg slightly beaten
2 T solid vegetable shortening, melted
1/4 cup milk
4 strips crisp cooked bacon, crumbled
2 T snipped chives

In med. bowl stir together flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Make a well in center of mixture, add egg, shortening, 1 cup of sour cream and the milk to the well stir until just combined, pour mixture into inverted casserole cover - to cook individually cook on medium (50%) 12-14 minutes until top is no longer wet and cornbread pulls away from side of casserole, the recipe called for more sour cream to be spread on top and then sprinkled with the bacon and chives

MY VERSION
Microwave polenta bread
2/3 cup bisquick
2/3 cup polenta
1 heaping T sugar
1 egg slightly beaten
1 T olive oil
1/4 cup milk
about 1/2 cup of sour cream

12 minutes on 50% was all it needed


we ate it with potato soup

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Party Mashed Potatoes

I wish I could take credit for this idea.  It turns instant mashed potatoes into something wonderful.

I used the following recipe with the modifications below.


Party Mashed potatoes

http://www.hungryjack.com/Recipes/Details.aspx?recipeID=2891

with the following changes...

-I had an off brand pack of instant potatoes that was only 10.? oz's
-I omitted 1 of the packs of cream cheese
-I only used 8 oz of sour cream
-I only used 1/2 stick of butter
-I omitted onion salt, milk and optional ingredients but I'm sure they'd be good lol

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White Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake

One of the deserts I made for Thanksgiving was this recipe with the following modifications


http://www.recipezaar.com/No-Bake-Cheesecake-Pumpkin-Pie-26407

Modified version:
-I used a chocolate graham cracker crust
-white chocolate pudding instead of vanilla
-pretty sure I omitted the confectioner's sugar because I didn't have any at the time


It was a big hit

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Too easy Rice Pilaf

The Knorr cilantro cubes in the box are a recent discovery and I am loving them.  The bag of dried veggies came from the San Francisco Herb Co.

It's their dried soup blend.

For 1/2 pot of rice (1 cup water - 1/2 cup rice)  I've been adding 2 teaspoons of the dried vegetables and 1 Knorr cilantro cube.  As soon as the water starts to boil, add them before the rice.  Stir well after adding the rice, then cover and simmer.

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Sausage macaroni

Couldn't really decide on a good name for this.  I had some fresh corn put up in the freezer.  Some ranch dip.  Some leftover sausage links.

• cooked up some macaroni
• boiled 2 ears of corn, cut it off the cob
• crumbled up the sausage
• mixed it all together with the dip and a knorr cilantro cube
• added a little salt, pepper, and california style garlic salt

Not bad...

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Sprouts

grow your own sprouts in your kitchen cabinet :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouting

http://www.isga-sprouts.org/

lots of information out there about how to do this but here are my simple instructions:

using a pint size wide mouth jar and a lid similar to the one shown in the above wikipedia article but without the thing that allows the jar to continue draining on its side...

I use a tablespoon of the seeds - (I'm using a mixed blend of seeds I bought at a health food store).  Dump those in the jar and add water to cover.  Allow to soak overnight, sitting on the counter.  The next day drain off the water and dry off the jar and set it in the kitchen cabinet.  Every day take the jar out of the cabinet, fill with water, swirl it around and drain the water again.  Dry off the jar and place it back in the cabinet.  When sprouts are fully sprouted (~4-5 days) move them to the fridge (in a baggie, or tupperware like container - whatever), clean your jar and start some more lol.

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