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Microwave Gourmet
Author: Barbara Kafka

Nearly 600 recipes and each a triumph. Barbara Kafka is known for her boundless imagination and iconoclastic style, and the "Microwave Gourmet" radiates the vitality and creativity that are her hallmarks. Her book introdcues new ways to cook favorite foods that are so incomparably good you will never prepare them in anythin... more »g but the microwave oven again.

Each chapter combines a mix of much-loved home-style recipes (pork chops in bottled tomato sauce, chicken and rice, meat loaf and chili) and festive dishes (shrimp gumbo and crispy duck with blackberry sauce) that enhance a cook's reputation. The range of vegetables and vegetarian dishes -- timbales, curries, pickles, stews--staggers, and recipes for great grains and cereals (like pilaf, couscous, risotto and barley) inspire and enlight. You'll find fabulous toppings for pasta, fish dishes cooked to perfection, and classic sauces from barbecue and Espagnole to Bolognese and butterscotch. Ideas for instant meals for hungery dieters are a boost to anyone's resolve. They make it easier for all of us to eat right.

The recipes have been tested in thirteen different ovens and they offer the kind of specificity never available before. Exact timings for different quantities and in ovens of different power take the guesswork out of microwave cooking--no vague spans of time that result in over- or undercooked food.

A book that makes it easy to undnerstand your oven by providing answers to the questions:

- How to freeze for the microwave oven and how to defrost in it.

- How to orchestrate multicourse meals with one oven.

- How to reheat fragile foods.

- How to use the microwave oven to prepare parts or components of a dish.

- How to solve the microwave-oven cake problem.

- How to convert standard recipes to the microwave oven.

- How to cook for 1, 2, 4, 6, or more.

A practical reference and an inspiring cookbook in one: In addition to its recipes, a comprehensive Dictionary of Foods and Techniques supplies cooking times and methods for hundreds of foods in various quantities, weights, and sizes. If you want to know how to melt chocolate, poach a fish fillet, cook asparagus, bake a potato, thicken a sauce, look here. Timings are given for small and large ovens. The Dictionary alone will make this breakthrough book the most indispensable reference in your kitchen.

ISBN-13: 9780688068431
ISBN-10: 068806843X
Publication Date: 9/1987
Pages: 575
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3 stars, based on 3 ratings

Publisher: William Morrow Co
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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PAUL C. (pabloguitarist) reviewed Microwave Gourmet on 5/9/2007 + 159 more book reviews

"Barbara Kafka has written the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA of microwave cookeryu." -- Gael Greene

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Deb E. (Deb605) reviewed Microwave Gourmet on 3/18/2006 + 19 more book reviews

If you think your microwave is just for reheating leftovers, this book will help you discover new ways to use it.

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