Hello and welcome to this thing we’re doing where we help you figure out what you’re gonna put in your mouth this week. Some of these are recipes we’ve tried, some of these are recipes we’re looking forward to trying, all of them are fucking delicious. Tell us what you want to put in your piehole or suggest your own recipes, and we’ll talk about which things we made, which things we loved, and which things have changed us irreversibly as people. Last week, we ate so many festive cookies.
This time of year, every recipe seems to be so involved. You’re whisking, roasting, whipping, flipping and flambeing every ingredient under the sun to impress your holiday guests. By now, you surely deserve a break. You deserve to create a meal that involves the least number of cooking utensils possible. You need things you can cook in the microwave.
These recipes have got you covered from breakfast right through to dessert. You’d be surprised how easily and efficiently you can make a scrumptious dish that will impress the guests at your latest potluck — or at least let you have some breakfast without spending 20 minutes at the stove. Just make sure to always use microwave-safe dishes!
1. Single-Serving Blueberry Muffin
2. Sweet Potato and Parsnip Chips
via The Café
3. Cup of Coffee Cake in Under Five Minutes
via Pretty Prudent
4. Two-Minute French Toast in a Cup
via Pretty Prudent
5. One-Minute Microwave Quiche in a Mug
6. Pumpkin Coffee Cake in a Mug
via Somewhat Simple
7. Chocolate Pudding Cake
via Food Network
8. Apple Crisp in a Mug
9. One-bowl Quick Macaroni and Cheese
via The Kitchn
10. Cinnamon Roll Mug Cake
via Cooking Classy
11. Chocolate Hazelnut Mug Cake
12. Vegan Sweet Potato Mug Cake
via Oh My Veggies
13. Caramel Popcorn
via The Kitchn
14. Dark Chocolate and Nutella Puppy Chow
via The Kitchn
15. Cornbread Eggs Benedict
via Food Network
16. Poached Eggs on Toast
via The Kitchn
17. Tostada To-Go
via Sodium Girl
18. Mini Mochi Chocolate Donuts
19. 2-Minute Apple Pie
via Pretty Prudent
20. Garlic-Wine Risotto
via Tastefully Julie
21. BBQ Chicken Thighs
via Martha Stewart
22. Steamed Sweet Potato
via Spoon University
23. Corn on the Cob with Cilantro-Lime Butter
via Martha Stewart
24. Steamed Artichokes
via This Modern Wife
25. Frothed Milk for Cappuccinos
via The Kitchn
26. Simple Lemon Curd
27. Toasted Nuts
via Serious Eats
THIS is my kind of cooking thread. Seriously, thank you, I love you.
Time for another trip to the grocery store. I plan to keep on rocking the single life with my microwavable mug cakes.
My favorite in a microwave recipe is simple:
1: Take bowl
2: Fill bowl with pasta
3: fill bowl with water
4: microwave bowl until pasta is cooked.
5: drain bowl
6:(optional) add cheese/sauce (also heated up in microwave)
7: eat
I have got to try this. O:
I used to cook pasts like this when I had only a microwave and no stove. I think using a stove is quicker, but yes microwave pasta works!
Ooooh
Kaitlyn, thank YOU. My breakfasts will be transformed.
I really wish there was a “grand bow” emoji, because that is the feeling I wish to convey every time someone thanks me for sharing a recipe (or 27).
No way, I actually just made that same mug coffee cake last night!! It wasn’t bad, but nothing beats that mug cinnamon roll. So delicious.
Also, popcorn.
Thank you for supporting the microwave lifestyle!!! Everyone always makes fun of me because I make tea in the microwave, but I’m gonna show them. I’ll make some fancy cake in a mug to go with the tea and NOT SHARE ANY of it. Ha.
haters gonna hate.
Oops, that was supposed to be a reply to Mary’s comment!
Yes this is the exact response I need for so many things in life, including but not limited to microwave tea haters!!!
You are my people; I am one of you.
I have microwaved whole squash (spaghetti squash).
I make big batches of microwave burritos from scratch and freeze them.
All microwave, all the time. Although, toaster oven is nice for special occasions (crispy bread). It’s like the microwave version of a conventional oven, kinda.
People make fun of me for my microwaveable meals but WHY DO THEY PUT A POTATO BUTTON ON THERE THEN, HMM? I win. We all win.
lol ‘crispy bread’ because i couldn’t think of the word toast after typing out toaster oven. thanks, brain.
That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen all day lol
You manged to get the awesomeness of microwavable lemon curd on a foods that can be made in the microwave list.
I don’t know you, but I wanna shake your hand.
I love you, Article.
Marry me, Article.
I can do all the cooking now, Article!
u guize i ended up cooking xmas dinner yesterday at the last minute and i had to use the STOVE and it took THREE HOURS just for a single vegetarian entree.
Granted, a lot of that was prep time chopping veggies and spices and stuff. But STILL.
I was thinking wistfully of our microwave user’s club here the whole time. Lol.
And we microwaved all night to the best post ever!
Thank you Kaitlyn, this is life changing. I am bookmarking the hell out of this
But cheddar cheese on top of apple pie is not gonna happen. No way.
I used to feel the same. Then I met a tiny Wisconsinite named Mary at the Mars Cheese Castle who told me that “apple pie without cheese is like a kiss without a squeeze.”
oh my god i’m making those sweet potato chips today and they are one of the best things to happen to my mouth.
I appreciate knowing that I can steam artichokes in the microwave. Maybe now I won’t feel like I have to boil them for a full year if I want to enjoy them.
Yay, cooking on the quick! There is always room for more of these recipes. Please add more, as time allows (of course.)