On Sat, 21 May 2011 21:14:17 -0500, Omelet >
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>In article >,
> Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
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>> I even nuke those bags of baby spinach.
>
>I'm going to have to try that. Thanks for the tip!

Works great... I stand the bag up in a bowl, make a couple slits at
the top, add a couple spoons of water, and nuke on high for about five
minutes or until done to your liking with your microwave. Then with
scissors snip off the top half, add a pat of butter and dig in,
careful not to scald yourself... no dish to wash. I didn't invent
this, Birdseye has bags of frozen veggies designed to pop open at a
seam while heating. Their "Steamfresh" concept works well with any
smallish bag of frozen veggies, just remember the slits as they won't
pop open like the Birdeye Steamfresh bag.

http://birdseye.com/whatsnew.html

The first time I tried it I bought the creamed spinach one from
Walmart... the cooking concept works wonderfully well but the creamed
spinach was just awful, more sauce than spinach, I couldn't finish it.
But now I buy other brands of frozen veggies keeping in mind sizes
that will work with this cooking method, no more than one pound...
today for lunch I steamfreshed a bag of Walmart brand stirfry veggies,
excellent... at the last moment I decided to cook a pot of nice thick
chicken egg drop soup and tossed in those cooked veggies.... added
some seasonings to jazz it up; white pepper, dillweed, toasted sesame
oil, and lately I've resorted to powdered ginger as fresh is not
readily available around here, actually I noticed that the Walmart
that's further away has it but I always forget... now ginger is on my
list. Try this once and you won't be able to live without a
microwave. I made that soup extra thick with cornstarch and drizzled
in two eggs, added some of those not so good crispy noodles too....
filled my 1 1/2 ancient Pyrex bowl one and a half times. I have this
bowl a very long time, it was my mother's, it's my favorite soup bowl
and I use it for eating lots of things. You probably won't believe
but that's the only Pyrex bowl I have from that really old set, my
bowl is *pink* with with what appears to be a fig leaf pattern with
little fags. LOL
http://i53.tinypic.com/1zq4r5x.jpg

The Jilly lording over her critters...
my new tree is right there where I can
get a good view, and getting leaves:
http://i54.tinypic.com/96xmag.jpg

Had to fence or would be deer dinner...
one of my new mallard tenants, about
a dozen here now, they mingle well with
the geese:
http://i53.tinypic.com/v2skg7.jpg