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

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. 

• Speed Cooking - Microwave Spicy Shrimp

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 Potatoes

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.

 

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.)

A slow cooker, also known as crock pot, cooks meat at 200 degrees on low and 400 degrees on high. It usually cooks meat in 8 to 10 hours on low and 4 to 5 hours on high. Slow cookers preserve moisture and make the meat tender. There are a lot of ways to use a slow cooker because you can put anything in it. Aisans like to mix ginger, scallion, soy sauce, sesame oil, etc with meat and sea food to make soup etc. I tried this with ox tail in a slow cooker.

Salmon is very easy to cook. Baked salmon has a smoky taste. In this recipe, we also stir fry tomato with onions first to get the flavors out then we mixed the stir fried vegitables with salmon to bake. The result is amazing. You have to try it.