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[panthermodern]

My advice:

Breakdown and buy one of those large grey electric pizza pans / steamers.

You kniow the ones that the food sample people use.

You can grab one for about 30 000 won at E mart.

They are wonderfully non-stick but also very versitile.

You can cook almost anything in them.

One of my tricks is to put in the steamer tray (with no water) and do the cooking foil pillow/bag trick that Jamie Oliver always does in the oven.

Dont know it ... ok here:

Take a long strip of wide cooking foil.

On the cooking foil take some new potatoes, other assorted vegetables chopped into bite sized pieces, a dash of salt and olive oil and one of those pre-cooked rice packs or just cooked rice. Foil and bend the foil into a pillow and throw in some of your favorite spices and/or hot sauce and seal the whole thing up.

Bang the bag on the steamer trap and set the pan on "5" (high) and throw on the lid on and in about 30-45 minutes you will have a wonderful bit o veg with little or no effort.

Just use potates and a little olive oil and you can get a nice roasted potato type thing without and oven.

The best thing about thses pans is the fact they are electric and thus heat control is easier then open flame.

Tonight ... BTW ... made a big batch of lasangna ... on the stove top and in the toaster oven.

[mindmetoo]

[peppermint]

chef at the Royal York hmm- hook a sister up!

[beast]

throw something electric into a pot of boiling water. booyahhh!!!!!

[Crois]

I only usually buy food for that day or meal. But sometimes i have to steal ( ) off my flatmate. Well it isnt stealing but i say to her i am.

[beast]

Sometimes two days before payday I'll eat my own fingers.......he he he , got two left still......go good with ramien, kinda like shrimp.

[beast]

Sorry, I didn't realize I was dealing with such an upper crust crowd. What I mean't to say was..... after a hard day at work a slowly roast my golden locks in a dash of olive oil with diced garlic BEFORE PLUNGING MY HEAD INTO THE BOILING POT OF CHEESE. HMMMM, YUMMY!!!

[mindmetoo]

[mithridates]

One can do just about anything with a rice cooker. Besides cooking you can also use it as a humidifier, or throw some potpourri into the water before you boil it to make one's room smell really nice.
As for cooking, a rice cooker cooks pasta and macaroni better than a pot. You can also make omelettes, steamed fish, soup...another meal I've made before involves taking pieces of sliced baguette in the rice cooker, dipped in milk a little bit if they've become hard, then put sliced ham on top, drizzle some beaten eggs on top and then put cheese on later. Very fattening (in theory) but I need to gain weight.
In the winter if one's shower is acting up it's good to turn on the rice cooker an hour before waking up. When one wakes up it has warmed and humidified the house to a certain extent, and then you also have a pot of hot water to use just in case the hot water runs out in the middle.

I find the best way to get vegetables in my diet is through salads at Emart that are quite cheap, tomato or vegetable juice (V8 can be found in some places as well), vitamins, and lots of cucumbers and little tomatoes which are very cheap.

[coolsage]

Yes, cooking for one is like making love alone; you can do it, but it's just not the same. However, if you whomp up a mess of spaghetti, for example, you can freeze the unused portion and pull it out for a quick and effortless meal. Stuff like that usually tastes better the second time around anyway.

[mindmetoo]

[dg611]

Someone complained about the need to buy large quantities of garlic that winds up rotting in the fridge. I had the same problem until this idea came to me:

Get a ziploc bag (any foodtype plastic bag will do but ziploc is convenient) you can crush the garlic by hand but it takes a long time..if you have a blender or a hand mixer (i have a braun hand mixer...works great) Mince all of the garlic and put it in the ziploc bag....then flaten the garlic into a sheet in the ziploc (i use a rolling pin but im sure it can be done by hand or any other flat object) lay it flat in the freezer. When you need some garlic you just break off a piece the size you need and return the rest to the freezer. Make sure you make the sheet thin enough to break off easily. Works great for most Korean food. I usually save some whole peeled garlic for when the dish calls for really fresh minced garlic.

[coolsage]

My local shop sells small trays of garlic cloves for 1000 won. I can usually get through them before they go off. And if not, they'll survive indefinitely in the freezer. And of course, if you want the fresh stuff, there's always 'Manul Man' bellowing at you from his Bongo from sunrise to sunset.

[hojucandy]

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