Cruise on past the fast food drive-thru windows and head home to your own kitchen. You can have a tasty meal on the table in around a half hour. This meal is simple, easy, quick, inexpensive, and best of all, very good. The microwave oven is one of your best friends for quick meals. This menu takes advantage of the microwave with an Easy Microwave Meatloaf in a Bag that only needs 15 to 17 minutes to cook. The Sunday Glazed Carrots also cook in the microwave in a matter of minutes. The Rocky Road Fudge Sauce that goes over the dish of ice cream can be made in the microwave, too.
EASY MICROWAVE MEATLOAF IN A BAG
1 1/2 lb ground beef
1 1/2 lb cups crumbly-type herb-seasoned stuffing mix
1/2 cup water
1 egg
1 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
1/4 cup barbecue sauce
1 tbsp flour
1 10 x 16-inch cooking bag
Mix beef with stuffing mix, water, egg,salt, pepper, and barbecue sauce. Mix well and shape the mixture into a loaf. Scatter the flour inside bottom of the cooking bag which has been placed in a 12 x 8-inch baking pan or dish. Place the meat loaf in the bag. Close the bag and make a 2-inch X slash the top so steam can escape. Place pan in microwave and cook 15 to 17 minutes until done. If you do not have a turntable in your microwave, give the dish a 1/4 turn every 4 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes before slicing.
SUNDAY GLAZED CARROTS
6 to 8 medium carrots
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup cold water
1 tbsp cornstarch
1/2 cup pecans, coarsely chopped, optional
Wash and cut carrots into 1/2-inch slices. Place in 1 1/2-quart casserole with butter and brown sugar. Cover and cook in the microwave for 10 minutes. Mix water and cornstarch until smooth. Stir cornstarch mixture into the carrots. Add pecans, if using. Cover and continue cooking about 5 more minutes.
ROCKY ROAD FUDGE SAUCE
1 pkg (12-oz) semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 jar (7-oz) marshmallow creme
1/3 cup milk
1/2 cup miniature marshmallows
1/2 cup chopped pecans
In a large saucepan over low heat, stir together the chocolate chips, marshmallow creme, and milk. Cook and stir until the mixture is smooth. Stir in the marshmallows and nuts. Serve over ice cream, pound cake, or angel food cake. Makes 2 cups.
To microwave: In a microwave-proof bowl, put the chocolate chips, marshmallow creme and milk. Cook 3 to 4 minutes until smooth, stirring half way through. Stir in the marshmallows and nuts.
Enjoy!
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Elizabeth Karmel’s Grill Friends Organic Pecan Grilling Planks, 2-Pack
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Create restaurant quality food in your own kitchen by flavoring your food with the smoky spice from all-natural American wood. America’s female grilling expert, Elizabeth Karmel, offers the first ever Sear and Plank system. This new, easy to use, line of wood cooking products are made in the USA from sustainable forests and designed to add that delicious and distinctive wood smoke flavor to quick cooking foods including fish, shellfish, pork, poultry, beef and game. The traditional barbeque of the Pacific Northwest has been adopted by the entire country. Cedar planked Salmon is honored because of its complex and wondrous flavor. There is no better presentation than serving the fish directly from the wood. Inspired from the dynamic taste of Cedar planked food, cooks world-wide use Pecan planks. Bring this delicious and wonderful taste home. Turn your dinner from ordinary into extra-ordinary with these Organic Pecan Planks. Fish or meat, can’t be beat when you use Grill Friends wood grilling products. Set of 2, 5-1/2-inch by 14-1/4-inch planks.
Barbecue: From Skewered Prawns to Hot Beef Satays (The Small Book of Good Taste Series)
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Elizabeth Karmel’s Grill Friends Organic Cedar Grilling Wraps, Package of 8
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The traditional barbecue-inch of the Pacific Northwest has been adopted by the entire country – cedar planked salmon. Five-years ago, you had a hard time finding cedar planks in kitchen stores and in most markets, you had to buy untreated cedar at lumber yards and have the wood cut into planks for cooking. Today, home cooks across the country can find these gourmet-inch planks in most stores and they are using them frequently. And, if you stick with the traditional salmon fillet, there is no better presentation than serving the fish directly from the wood – until now. Grill Friends introduces the latest grilling and kitchen innovation: Organic Grilling Wraps. These thin wood wraps are made from cedar and are used in a similar way as cedar planks. Like a plank, the cedar wraps must first be soaked to prevent burning. The soaking also makes the wraps flexible so that they can be wrapped around food. Grill Friends wraps are larger than their Japanese counterparts and perfectly sized for American portions. The wraps are designed for individual servings and make a dramatic presentation, whether you wrap the food or place the food on top. The sheets are disposable and make clean-up a snap. Package of 8, 7-1/4 by 8-inch wraps.
Elizabeth Karmel’s Grill Friends Organic Hickory Grilling Planks, 2-Pack
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Create restaurant quality food in your own kitchen by flavoring your food with the smoky spice from all-natural American wood. America’s female grilling expert, Elizabeth Karmel, offers the first ever Sear and Plank system. This new, easy to use, line of wood cooking products are made in the USA from sustainable forests and designed to add that delicious and distinctive wood smoke flavor to quick cooking foods including fish, shellfish, pork, poultry, beef and game. The traditional barbeque of the Pacific Northwest has been adopted by the entire country. Cedar planked Salmon is honored because of its complex and wondrous flavor. There is no better presentation than serving the fish directly from the wood. Inspired from the dynamic taste of Cedar planked food, cooks world-wide use Hickory. Bring this delicious and wonderful taste home. Turn your dinner from ordinary into extra-ordinary with these Organic Hickory Planks. Fish or meat, can’t be beat when you use Grill Friends wood grilling products. Set of 2, 5-1/2-inch by 14-1/4-inch planks.