Welcome to my blog.

I love cooking, and pre children would lavish time and love on intricate dishes. But then I had children, and a husband,  all of whom eat a lot, three times a day, every day. I started to hate cooking. Having to cook over twenty different meals a week for, occasionally, extremely ungrateful recipients,  was starting to feel like drudgery. I was beginning to go down the 'pasta with a different jar of sauce every night' route, when I looked upon that black box that took up so much counter space in my crappy little kitchen and wondered if indeed it could do more than reheat coffee and nuke frozen stuff.
I discovered it could, in fact it could quarter the time I spent in the kitchen, halve the amount of washing up, and also do away the syndrome of "cremated dinner" that seems to happen so often when you are distracted by small children. Nothing like a carefully made risotto burnt black in the pan to make you weep and reach for the baked beans. Again.

I also found that meals cooked in the microwave are much, much healthier. You can't really use fat in the microwave, so it is naturally lower fat, and because it cooks so much more quickly, preserves far more nutrients and colour in say, vegetables, than steaming for example.

I don't say that I exclusively use the microwave, that would be as ridiculous as only cooking with kettle, and some things are just better in the oven, cake for example, or grilled bacon. But it can, used to its potential,  make your life so so much easier! And reduce your bottom. Can't beat that really, can you?!