I just made dinner in ten minutes! Home, hungry, and curious, I timed myself with the microwave clock. Start: 6:33 PM.
Olive oil into pan, set to heat up. Rinse, cut up chicken breast, dump in pan. Toss some garlic and fresh ground pepper on.
Tear already-washed broccoli into florets, cover, stick in microwave, start microwave.
Cut up some leftover onion and red pepper, add to chicken breast sauteeing, stir. Cut up small eggplant from friend’s garden, add to chicken. Stir, then toss pan theatrically. Add a dash of salt.
Sit down at computer, load SDMB. Drink some diet vanilla coke.
Microwave dings five minutes later. Remove broccoli and precious, precious (no-longer-made) Saran Quick Cover. Dump contents of skillet into broccoli bowl.
Mix up with spoon.
Eat.
I guess I have no excuses for eating crap instead of “dinner”, as long as there are thawed chicken breasts, and washed vegetables in the fridge.
I was just looking for Quick-Covers in stores last week, after coming across half a tub-full packed up with my dishes and realizing I missed them! I was so disappointed to find out they’ve been discontinued. Who wants to have to mail-order them, or wash out the permanent style ones! Maybe if I start haunting the dollar stores, where they always seem to have discontinued products…
The Dollar Tree stores usually have the Good Sense brand knock-offs in stock. Only $1 per box of 16, and they are every bit as good. Plus they only have the medium and large sizes that are good for bowls and plates, and leave out the teeny ones that are only good for slip-covering Barbie’s Barcalounger or something.
I liked those quick-covers, but that new Glad Press’n Seal stuff is heaven-sent. It’s sticky and makes a good seal against whatever you put it on, but yet it doesn’t seem to get tangled on itself when you unroll it. I’ve always had wretched luck with regular saran wrap.
Who needs thawed chicken breasts? Take a frozen one, cover it in soy sauce, ginger, and pepper, and microwave it until it’s done. Stick some vegetables on the plate if you like, and make sure you use low sodium soy sauce, otherwise the chicken will be too salty.
The chicken cooked very quickly as it was cut into bite-sized chunks. I like the “browning” I get from the olive oil/hot pan combo, but I’ll give the microwave chicken a try.
Hmm… will have to look for the Miles Kimball covers. I’m in Canada, so they might not be found. And I forgot to look at the dollar store last time I was in one. I was buying rubber snakes for, you know, the Snakes on a Plane showing.
We have been washing and re-using the Saran covers from the start, so we still have a stash of them. My husband calls them “shower caps” and loves them.
