A Bachelor's Weblog to Urban Cooking where speed and simplicity comes before taste!

Broiled chicken is a fast, easy, and cheap way to make a meat dish. You can broil chicken thigh or breast. You can also experiment with whatever spices you like put on the chicken. The only key is to make sure the chicken is fully cooked. Timing depends on your oven and your cut of the chicken. Error on the overcooking and always cut a thick piece open to test. Fine tune your timing after several trials or reheat your food. 

• Speed Cooking - Microwave Potatoes

You can steam a lot of things with microwave oven. You can buy a steam bag but you can also make your own by just using plastic food wrapping. What I like about asparagus is they are easy to prepare and taste very good after streaming. 

• Speed Cooking - Microwave Steam Asparagus

I usually keep bags of precut vegetables in the fridge. You can also use leftover from other recipes. All most all vegetables can be steamed by microwave. The generally ideas is add some water to the container, cover the container with plastic wrapper, then microwave it for a couple more minutes. (usually larger than 3 less than 10 for one or two person plate.)

• Speed Cooking - Microwave Steam Asparagus

Want to eat grilled shirmp but has no time to setup the grill? This a perfect recipe for you. It requires very little setup except you have to have frozen shrimp. The idea is that microwave heats up the water in the shrimp and steam cook the shrimp. All we need is to add some spice and wrap the container with clear fridge warp while the shirmp is steamed.

It's a good idea to stock up frozen shrimp in your fridege. I can be used for a quick pasta topping, microwave, stir fry, grill. Frozen shrimp also last a long time. 

• Urban Bachelor Cooking Recipe - Scallops Wrapped in Bacon

Did you know that you can micrwave potatoes and have food ready in 5 minutes? No dishes, no preparation and yet an alternative to roman noodles. In fact potatoes are pretty healthy. A potato usually contain a large amount of water. Microwave oven heat up food by vibrating the water molecule. Anything containts water can be heat up easily. I have some small potatoes here and I microwaved three of them for 5 minutes. All potatoes were cooked evenly and takested like boiled potatoes except a little dry.

• Speed Cooking - Microwave Spicy Shrimp

This is a classic recipe but believe it or not I never made it before until today. This is another recipe Sade gave me. I love italian food is can be made fast. This is definitely in my alley. The only problem is that I am too good at making it even the first time. I am pretty stuffed right now even though I just had dinner 4 hours ago.

This is a simple but tasty recipe from my friend Sade. She simplified several steps to make it a fast recipe. I loved it. It goes well with steamed vegetables such as broccoli, carrot and asparagus. White wine is a plus.

Steamed vegetables in microwave are the easiest thing ever! Now you can get zipper bags just for this purpose.

Any kind of vegetable will do. I will include carrot and cauliflower for demo. You can also get pre peeled and pre packaged vegetables for even faster operation. I just want to demonstrate how to peel and cut carrot and cauliflower in the video.

Tuna fish stew simple and fast. (5 cans)

A lot of times you can get almost pre-made food from local variety shops. In my case I frequently visit a local Italian specialty shop The advantage? Pasta made in the shortest time with the best taste ever.

Capone Food is my favorite Italian shop in town. Highly recommended if you live around Boston area. Just for pasta, Capone Food makes 23 types of sauces and 21 types of pasta, and four different types of cuts. That’s 1932 combinations! Of course not all combination tastes great. The owner is extremely friendly and will give you a char indicating what combination taste well.