Microwave Recipes Penfield Books

Michelle Nagle Spencer presents more than a hundred recipes you can make in a microwave.

The recipes are presented in the handy, spiral-bound, recipe-card-size book. Recipes are provided for appetizers, beverages, soups, salads, sauces, breads and cereals, meats, poultry and eggs, fish and seafood, vegetables and side dishes, and desserts.

Some free samples:

Seven Layer Bars
1/2 cup butter
1-1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
6 ounces chocolate chips
6 ounces butterscotch chips
1-1/2 cups flaked coconut
1 cup chopped pecans
15-ounce can sweetened condensed milk
In a 12×7-inch glass pan, melt butter. Spread butter over bottom of pan. Sprinkle even layers of crumbs, chocolate and butterscotch chips, coconut, and pecans. Pour sweetened condensed milk over all. Microwave on defrost or low power for 10 to 15 minutes, or until mixture browns slightly. Cool and cut into bars. Makes 3-1/2 dozen bars.

Hearty Italian Chicken
2 whole chicken breasts, skinned and boned
1 tomato, sliced
1 zucchini, sliced
1 leek, sliced
1 cup chopped Italian parsley
1/4 cup chicken stock
1 tablespoon olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
2 cups hot cooked brown rice
On a 12-inch serving platter, arrange chicken breasts on half the platter, fanned, but not touching. Arrange tomato and zucchini over the second half of the platter. Sprinkle with leek and parsley. Beat together remaining ingredients except rice and pour over chicken and vegetables. Microwave, covered, on full power for 10 minutes, or until chicken tests done. Serve over rice. Serves 2.

Banana Bread
3 ripe bananas, mashed
1-1/2 cups flour
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup melted butter
2 eggs
1/2 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon baking soda

Topping:
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup dark brown sugar
2 tablespoons butter or margarine

In a large mixing bowl, beat together all bread ingredients. Grease a 10-cup glass or plastic tube pan. Blend together all topping ingredients. Pour batter into pan and sprinkle with topping. Microwave on medium power for 8 to 10 minutes, or until loaf tests done.