Sear ’em and finish them in the oven, got it. You know the one. Just the title of a recipe can invite you in…or out. I ended up with lots of leftover chopped apples. David Lebovitz | Paris Recipes bbstx October 4, 2014. Microwave steak is so bad, you guys. There's also a strange, greenish hue, suggesting the slices attempted Fearing that this one tart would not be enough, I grabbed one of the perenially-pleasing-to-the-eye fruit tarts as well. I microwave both ingredients separately, with the exact instructions given by the recipe. 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It’s probably happened to you before: you buy all the ingredients for a new recipe and follow the instructions exactly, but what you end up with is just…not right. But the problem is not you. Sounds simple enough. Actually, I'm not even sure I can say that -- it has absolutely no taste at all. Then, I start spreading Momma's breading on them ... and notice that the recipe is only enough to coat maybe a quarter of the fish: Look, I get that the name of the book is Microwave Cooking for One, but nowhere does it specify that the "one" it's talking about is Ant-Man, or some other entity capable of spreading subatomic layers of breadcrumb mush on limp fish. Absolutely! What's more, the strange not-quite-recognizable steely odor of microwaved raw beef lingers in the house for a couple of days despite the book specifically claiming that its recipes are virtually odorless. Just not that recipe. Me, apparently, as I warily mix the ingredients of my soon-to-be orange juice-sauce and stick it in the depths of the home appliance that is rapidly becoming my mortal enemy. The recipe did you wrong like a man in a Loretta Lynn song. In a move that had seemed hilarious at 1 a.m. on a five-whiskey Thursday night, I had acquired this book to try out its recipes for a column. And based on the resulting texture and consistency of the batter, I was right. 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Repent! It looks simple. Hip Paris David would never do this. What little I managed to nibble of the actual meat didn't exactly convince me, either -- what I by now recognize as the taste of microwaving (which is actually a complete lack of the kind of signature taste all other methods of preparation bring to the table) rendered even the bacon experience bland. Pet Peeve. You'll recognize French toast as basically bread soaked in an egg mixture and fried into a delicious combination of moistness and crispiness. Too many apples spilling out over the pan and overwhelming and taking over the batter completely. Momma's Breaded Fish is basically microwaved fish fingers with ... well ... breading. Since I started this blog, I’ve learned how challenging it is to record all the minuscule steps to cooking any given dish. Fuck you, microwave steak. The whole thing is then microwave-baked to oblivion. It looks simple. No March Madness, Chicken Wings Up The... 5 Painful Things Everyone Needs to Realize About Themselves, 5 Animals that Survived Shit that Would Kill a Terminator. That was handy, as I had to measure 2 cups of flour.). What they mean is what they did not say:  one-half cup butter, melted. If one has purchased 4 large apples (like I did...the more the better my motto), for example, this just will not work. Probem and Pet Peeve No. It's the recipe. Since I don't own any of these things and chances are that neither do you, I replace them the best I can with microwaveable roasting dishes and whatnot, and set out to make the first of my many no doubt dubious meals to come. A well-written recipe is a thing of beauty. Connect to your existing Cracked account if you have one or create a new Cracked username. A large wet mass stayed in the cake pan. As such, it was easily the best solid(ish) meal out of this lot. It's a roast -- the preparation method is right there in the name. Drinks? This is the last meat-containing meal people who abruptly convert to veganism eat, and the one they remind themselves of whenever it occurs to them that maybe the occasional meatball sub wouldn't be so bad. I cover the bacon with a paper towel to ... keep the bacony-ness in, I suppose? There are several dishes with the prefix "Momma's" in the book, which I assume are secret recipes the author's family has protected for ages behind a moat of tears and loneliness. Let's break it down. Context Travel, CultureMap Right off the bat, I bump into a problem, as half the recipes require microwave-specific browning skillets and other special equipment that apparently can't be found outside eBay. However, the results are ... not optimal. This recipe is bullshit. I mean, yeah, at first glance it looks like an old softball that someone found in a drainage ditch, but as I cut into it, the rosy color and texture actually looks like meat. I also know that eggs can be cooked in the microwave, if you accept a certain amount of popping and aren't particularly keen on keeping every single particle of the meal on the plate. As such, I take the time to document the world's most unwise method of meat preparation for posterity. This was overkill. Aaaaaaaand of course it's freaking horrible. It says it's "easy" or "quick." Austin Restaurants | Urban Spoon Ina's tender, crispy sprouts are simply roasted with olive oil, salt and … I now appreciate a good recipe -- the well-written one. White fish shouldn't even taste of anything, yet I'm sure I can detect the peculiar aroma of feet. The amount of Tahini paste versus the amount of chickpeas and olive oil in the recipe is obnoxious and obviously wrong. Look, I get that the name of the book is Microwave Cooking for One, but nowhere does it specify that the "one" it's talking about is Ant-Man, or some other entity capable of spreading subatomic layers of breadcrumb mush on limp fish.. This is a clear infraction of Poorly Written Recipe INFRACTION 2B (to follow). Central Market. Are you on reddit? "Hahahahaha! NOW I'm starting to comprehend the idea of this book. Barely! Go by what the toothpick test proves, not the color of the cake." Of course you don't. This is how I make a steak: Take a good steak. Check it: We are too! But there the recipe is, and I realize I'm standing at one of life's great crossroads: I will either live the rest of my life as a man who tried microwave roast, or a happy, well-adjusted person with an undamaged digestive tract. Out of all of the recipes in this column, this is the one I'd actually see myself making again. Don't let its surprisingly delicious smell fool you. Well, not when the chopped-into-quarters pieces must be poured into the batter. Two guesses as to which road I chose. ... then wait 3-5 days, feed the starter; wait 3-5 days and make bread. Who uses corn starch in a hot drink? Dear reader: I have committed a terrible sin. It's a 1980s equivalent of those annoying folks who insist on wearing Google Glass everywhere. What comes out is this: I'm not sure what I was expecting, but that ... doesn't actually look super bad, now that I see it. Main aftertaste. Copyright ©2005-2020. Immediately, a problem arises: I am unable to find frozen, unbreaded white fish fillets, so I resort to buying breaded ones and scraping their breading off. Fall & Winter Recipes; Spring & Summer Recipes; Food-Travel Pics; About Chef Mimi; Tag: poorly written menus. Trust me, this particular concoction loses a significant part of its magic once it cools down. That's the best book title in the history of everything! So that's when I went with. It was not overdone. It's worth mentioning at this point that precisely none of the book's recipes have pictures, which is always a reassuring sign in cookbooks.