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A Man, a Can, a Microwave: 50 Tasty Meals You Can Nuke in No Time (Man, a Can... Series)

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I bought this book for over $16 at Borders when it caught my eye. Look what you save buying it here! I don't regret it, though, the book is THAT good. Each recipe shows the ingredients in photographs, laid out in series:

photo of canned product, such as tomato)
+ this (photo of another canned product)
+ this (photo of meat or veggie)
= (photo of the finished meal)

Ingenious. No more wondering, am I buying the right kind of canned tomatoes for this recipe?

The first thing I made was Paella. It was done in under 1/2 hour and the leftovers tasted (incredibly) even better the second day.

I'm a working mom, cooking for my husband (DH) & 2 pre-teenagers who are into all sorts of activities. Although I love to cook gourmet meals, my family could be starving before such fare is ready. These are fast, tasty, and have child-and-husband-friendly-ingredients. I've saved out a portion and microwaved it fast for DH when he has had a late work night and usually I'm too cooked out to do that. And the cleanup is next-to-nothing, getting me out of the kitchen and not having to face a disaster of a kitchen when we get back from evening activities.

We had the turkey with stuffing last night... the kids actually bragged to their friends about that dinner-- and it was so easy. As if all this weren't enough, I think I'm saving $ too, because I'm not resorting to fast food because I'm too tired to think about what to make. It's that easy to have the ingredients on hand for these meals.

This neat little cookbook has some fifty quick and easy recipes that can be prepared using nothing but a microwave oven and a few ingredients. The recipes are organized into eight categories: beef, chicken, pork, fish, turkey, beans, veggies, and chocolate.

During a recent heat wave, my wife and I were redoing our menu, searching for meals that would require a minimum of baking and boiling, and as such keep from heating up the house. Well, this book came as something of a godsend! The recipes are all easy to make, use the microwave oven, and taste great. Yeah, I know, how can something cooked entirely in a microwave taste great? Well, take my word for it, these meals succeed!

So far, we have tried the Gobble-It-Up Sandwiches, the Teriyaki Beef with Broccoli, and the Coconut Curried Chicken, and loved them all. We highly recommend this offbeat but highly useful cookbook to everyone!

A Man, A Can, A Microwave is a board book for guys who must fend for themselves in the kitchen either because they are bachelors or their wives have gone off to visit mother for a week. Here are listed "idiot proof" instructions (complete with photos of the ingredients and their order of inclusion) for making fifty quick and easy, palate pleasing, hunger satisfying meals that can be made in the microwave in under 15 minutes. The recipes are divided up into sections dedicated to beef, chicken, pork, fish, turkey, beans, veggies, and even chocolate! From Maximum Microloaf (which combines Carnation Evaporated Milk; extra-lean ground beef; and a can of Manwich Sloppy Joe Sauce) to Toast Under a Tuscan Bean (which combines a can of Goya Cannellini Beans; a box of Melba Toast - Onion Flavor; and a can of Hunts Petite Diced Tomatoes), these are "good eatin', man pleasin'" dishes that are as easy to assemble as they are delicious to devour.

This sequel is cashing in on the Original A Man A Can cookbook that was surprisingly very useful for my bachelor sons. It had dozens of tasty recipes that the boys could do easily by opening several cans of easily procured and stored foods.
This one, however is just a microwave cookbook. It involves buying pounds of meat , shrimp, chicken and unprepared foods that need to be cooked properly before even assembling. This is WAY too much trouble for a bachelor when you can heat a frozen pizza in 15 minutes.
You might as well just borrow your Mom's microwave cookbook and learn to cook beef and chicken, spending an hour cooking dinner. Do you really want to do this?

This is a great book for a graduation gift, that's why I bought it. It has easy instructions, and all done in the microwave!

My dad and I bought this when my mom gave us dinner duty. The meals aren't exceptional, but they're easy to make and you feel a sense of pride when you're eating them. Some of my favorite recipes are...
Chocolate-peanut butter fudge,
Chicken cacciatorre, and
Smothered pork chops with onions and a mushroom sauce

Got this book as a present for a college student so that he could learn to make something other than what they feed him at the dining hall. While a lot of these required purchasing non-canned meat items (which would require refrigeration), there were quite a bit that only used canned and bottled items.

However, all of the recipes list "other ingredients" (such as herbs and spices, etc.) in a tiny little text box at the end of the large, illustrated ingredients list. This book would be better served by letting the person know up front that there are extra flavorings that should/can be added to the meal rather than tacking them on as an afterthought.

Bought this for my son when you moved into his first apartment, he says the recipes are pretty easy to make and pretty decent.

So I "cooked" the gravy-turkey sandwich and the bread pudding for my neighbors, and after the meal was over, the guy says, "Don't look, I just had to unbutton my waistband," and kept eating...

I think that means the food was good.

Gave this to my son for college meals. He has very rarely made anything to eat for himself! . He and his three roomates have welcomed this gift and have already enjoyed a meal from it.