Easy Livin' Microwave Cooking: A microwave instructor shares tips, secrets, & 200 easiest recipes for fast and delicious microwave meals [Paperback]

Karen K. Dwyer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 15, 1989

This microwave primer will show you why you bought a microwave oven in the first place: to save time, money and energy at every meal, every day. Karen Dwyer has created more than 200 recipes that require minimal preparation and commonly available ingredients to make great-tasting: appetizers, fish, meat, and poultry, dishes, casseroles, breakfast foods, vegetables and fruits, candies and desserts, and more. Designed with beginnings cooks in mind, the book features microwave cooking time charts for various foods, a simple explanation of how the microwave ovens. With dozens of tips on making the most of your microwave oven, Easy Livin' helps anyone prepare attractive, satisfying family meals in minutes instead of hours.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Cooking instructor Dwyer dishes up unpretentious recipes with a premium on speed and ease of preparation. Introductory material effectively explains the use of microwave ovens and, whether identifying the magnetron tube or describing how to soften brown sugar, comments are clear and concise. Additional tips are interspersed throughout: frosting can be turned into glaze by adding milk; a red citrus drink is well-suited to holiday entertaining. Dwyer emphasizes everyday fare, such as hamburger, macaroni and tomato casserole or Polish sausage cooked in beer, and offers a few lighter meals for calorie-watchers, including fish fillets prepared with vegetables and a meat loaf with ground turkey. However, this is no diet book: its rich fudge brownies and utterly decadent pralines can be made so simply and quickly as to be dangerous. Dwyer favors convenience foods, using potato mix in her potatoes and broccoli au gratin, both Jello and cake mixes in her rhubarb cake, and dry onion-soup mix for most beef entrees. Illustrations not seen by PW.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Karen Kangas Dwyer has worked as a microwave specialist and instructor representing Sharp Microwave Ovens and as a home economist for Litton Microwave Ovens. She currently gives microwave presentations for local television and community organizations, and teaches public speaking at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her other books include Easy Livin Microwave Cooking for the Holidays.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 243 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 4 edition (August 15, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312029101
• ISBN-13: 978-0312029104
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #318,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good book, but needs to be updated, November 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Easy Livin' Microwave Cooking: A microwave instructor shares tips, secrets, & 200 easiest recipes for fast and delicious microwave meals (Paperback)

This book is a wealth of information, but it desperately needs an update. It was published nearly 15 years ago, when the most powerful microwave was 700 watts. Now with 1000, 1100, and even 1200 watt microwaves being the norm, her recipes all need to be adjusted and updated. Also, there are a whole slew of new utensils - like browning dishes - that could be addressed.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Have Book, August 16, 2006

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This review is from: Easy Livin' Microwave Cooking: A microwave instructor shares tips, secrets, & 200 easiest recipes for fast and delicious microwave meals (Paperback)

I've made many a dish using Easy Livin'Microwave Cooking and it is a real "gem". I usually prepare meals for two, but many times make the full 4 serving recipe. My wife and I are both trying to loose weight and the ability to make great-tasting, quick meals has been a real bonus. I hasten to add, we are loosing that weight! This book is a must for any home that has a microwave oven!

Bill McQuesten

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The only microwave cookbooks you need., November 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Easy Livin' Microwave Cooking: A microwave instructor shares tips, secrets, & 200 easiest recipes for fast and delicious microwave meals (Paperback)

Not only is this a very readable and informative cookbook but Karen Dwyer really knows what she is talking about! I find hers to be the only cookbooks i need to both learn and keep learning about microwave cookery. Thanks Karen.