So, I recently learned how to microwave ramen noodles, and today I prepared a meal for myself by breaking up the brick into four smaller bricks, piling them into a bowl, pouring the seasoning in with a can of chicken (comes in a can like tuna, but it’s chicken!) to make it into something that could actually be considered food. This weekend I plan to hit a grocery store in town for some chives and celery that I can use to further enhance the meal with.
Any other ideas for tasty (maybe even healthy?) food that can be prepared in a microwave in a dorm room?
If you ever want an egg sandwhich, it’s really easy to do in a microwavable bowl.
I use glass or ceramic bowls for this and I tend to spray the bowl with a cooking spray as it makes it 10 times easier to get the egg out. Add in whatever ingredients you want for the egg part (egg, pepper, chives, ham) and just nuke it until it’s cooked. With a fork, cut along the bottom of the bowl and the egg should slide out pretty cleanly. Plop it on some bread with cheese, top with salsa or ketchup, and yum!
Quesadillas aren’t bad in the microwave. Tortillas, plenty o cheese and other stuff, about three minutes till cheese melts. It won’t get the nice friedness, but it’s good anyway.
Chef Boyardee and Easy Mac are your friends when you only have a microwave. However if you want something a bit healthier than that I have microwaved oatmeal, instant mashed potatoes, etc. Pretty much any prepackaged item can be microwaved, really.
Bacon and broccoli can be microwaved. Just put some broccoli in a bowl with a little water and cook for about 3 minutes. Bacon has instructions on the package.
I dorm-cooked for two years before microwaves were affordable. I’d suggest getting a hot plate and/or a toaster oven. Then you can do just about anything smaller than a turkey. My friend and I did duck ala orange using just about every cooking implement on our floor, and I made a nice meat loaf. But you have to actually like to cook.
You should hit up Trader Joe’s if you have one in your area, they have a lot of good mircowaveable stuff.
Sometimes I’ll make microwave nachos. Just get some tortilla chips, sprinkle liberally with grated cheese, then microwave for about 30 seconds.
Another thing I like to do isn’t really a meal but for dessert, is melt chocolate in the microwave for dipping stuff in. Just break it into small blocks, put them in a bowl, and microwave for about a minute. The time depends on the microwave, so keep checking up on it. If you do it too long then it’ll burn and be a nasty mess.
Heh, both are strictly forbidden in my dorm (yay Air Force tech school dormitories). Basically, the only thing I have available is my microwave (and maybe my new XBox 360 if what I’ve heard about them overheating is true ), and I can get a coffee pot if I get authorization from one of my sergeants first (yeah, I know, I know).
I used to use my iron to make grilled cheese sandwiches. Most irons get hot enough to boil water, so you can pretty much use them like a hotplate if those aren’t allowed at your school. It’s not a microwave recipe, but it definitely falls under the category of dorm room cooking.
I used to microwave bratwurst a lot (hot dogs too.) You can get the already-cooked ones, of course, but you can also do the uncooked ones. Get a small Pyrex dish with a cover to cook in so the hot grease doesn’t melt the plastic or anything.
They do sell little microwave egg poachers and omlette makers too, and they work reasonably well if you want eggs.
Slap some peanut butter on some graham crackers, sprinkle some chocolate chips on top and nuke ‘em. Pour a big ol’ glass of milk to go with it. Greatest dessert EVAR!
Cook for only little bit at a time, till you figure out the right timing. The chips will deceptively hold their shape even when they are melted enough. The graham crackers will burn on the inside if you are not careful; nothing worse than microvave burnt graham crackers.
For a rib stickin’, sorta healthy dinner I got it in my mind that you could make a decent Scalloped Potatoes and Ham in the Microwave.
Use a large microwave safe shallow dish:
Get a small water pack ham around a pound/pound and a half (Cube or chunk it large).
5 medium 1/4 inch thick sliced potatoes (You can peel them, or wash and slice with the peel on.)
a large knob of Butter or marg. (apx. 2 tblsp…)
1 tbsp. flour
1 onion sliced (half moons)
Your choice of other veg. sliced or diced (You could certainly add celery and chives… I hear green bell pepper is also nice.)
1 can of chicken broth
a small carton of cream or half and half along with some milk
A bag of shredded cheddar cheese
Salt and Pepper
Add the butter, onions, and veg to the microwave safe bowl. Hit it up on high heat for 3 minutes. Remove and sprnkle the flour over while hot. Stir it up so there are no lumps. Hit it for another minute on high.
Remove, stir in the cream and chicken broth and a about a 1/4 cup of milk.
Throw in the sliced potatos and chunked ham.
Cover with some saran and nuke for about 15-20 minutes.bAbout half way through add the cheddar cheese and stir.
You’ll have to work out what power setting… it’s so variable.
It might actually work better if you were to heat and make the cooking medium or sauce before you add the potatoes and ham.
After singing the veg, butter, and flour. Stir in the liquid ingredients. Nuke, covered, on high till boilling (about 5 minutes) Remove, stir in the package of cheddar cheese nuke for a minute or two, remove, stir till a smooth sauce. Throw in the Potatoes and Ham, nuke for about 15-20 minutes. Be careful, it will be hot.
We could not have a microwave or hot plate. I had a poly pot that I used for everything from pintos and cheese to making Ice tea. Now I use it to melt wax in.
i had an older kind, that held about 16 oz, probably the first ones readily available mass market in the US back in the very early 80s.
You can flip an iron upside down, turn it on and wrap a toasted cheese sandwich infoil and cook it on the flat surface. You sort of have to make a base to hold the iron upside down but a couple of soup cans will do. Make sure there isnt any water in teh steam chamber
might be able to talk the sergeants into a hot pot like that one, but the policy right now is only microwaves and coffee pots. I love the idea about the iron. It will be tried one of these days.
), and I can get a coffee pot if I get authorization from one of my sergeants first (yeah, I know, I know).
