The classic omurice (watch Tampopo for an intriguing Japanese food referencing movie) is basically an omelette wrapped around fried rice ... a delicious repurposing of the leftover rice dish. Ketchup features prominently in seasoning the rice and garnishing the omelette.

TabiEats has a delicious, made from scratch version, which is made in a ( Read more... )

A few years ago I ran across a wonderful post on Diethood which had links to a collection of microwaved 'cakes in a mug'. I copied several of the recipes and even made one ... a "Strawberries and Cream" version. I served it with some macerated strawberries on top.


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I've had a microwave for ages but most of the time I just use it for thawing, reheating, melting (butter and chocolate), heating up milk for hot chocolate ... the usual ( Read more... )

Not particularly imaginative but everything was freshly made from scratch and required minimal effort at the end of a busy work day. The slowest item was the long grain rice which, once the broth was boiling, took 25 minutes to cook.

The strawberry "cake in a mug" recipe came from this site. As I didn't want to make any whipped cream for the cake ( Read more... )