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

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

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.

Sometimes you just want somethign cheap, easy to make and taste good. Grilling a corn on stovetop is just that. All you need is fresh corn and stove. The taste is good, at least different (like BBQ.)

• Speed Cooking - Microwave Potatoes

There are many way to make Veal Saltimbocca. I got this version from my friend Monica. She is a great Italian chef. I tried the recipe out a couple of times. It is definitely a crowd pleaser. I showed my video to Monica. She confirmed that I did it right.

Deep fried Shrimp

• Urban Bachelor Cooking Recipe - Scallops Wrapped in Bacon

Scallops Wrapped in Bacon

• Speed Cooking - Microwave Potatoes