What do you actually cook in your microwave? (skillet, fast food, frozen)

[sunsprit]

Nothing! after 10 years of a micro-wave taking up space on the counter, my wife finally gave it away to a neighbor whose microwave had blown up.

Never cooked anything in it, and prefer to "warm up" stuff in the warming oven portion of our wood cookstove during the winter months. In the summer, we use our grills (gas and charcoal) for cooking on the porch.

[Leana76]

Popcorn, baked potato, and re-heating leftovers.

[northcountrygirl]

Thawing meat, re-heating leftovers. I make 4 course meals and do a lot of prep cooking. I use the microwave to reheat some of my courses prior to putting on the table.

[winkie2]

My whole family uses micro constantly. We cook veggies, scramble eggs,thaw stuff from freezer, re-warm coffee etc. Many things it's not good for, but some things are great.

[South Range Family]

Scrambled eggs are fantastic in the microwave. Stir in some water and they come out nice and fluffy. I also cook raw sausage patties by placing them between two saucers.

[missyM]

I do baked potatoes in the nuker. However, I only cook them till they're half done, then I put them in the real oven @ 375 for 20 or so minutes. That way, they don't taste like nuked bakers.

[Jason_Els]

Corn on the cob: Cut off the ends but leave the husks on. 4 ears in 3 minutes on average, take out and the husk and silk come right off. The corn steams itself in the husk. Comes out very hot, silk-free, and delicious!

Fish: Fish in the microwave is fantastic. Best way to cook fish there is. Comes out moist and flaky and hot with loads of flavor. Times depend on the size of the fish but lots of recipes around.

[mystree]

Baked potatoes,frozen veggies and frozen convience foods.

[Roaddog]

Popcorn is about it at home, at work I heat up dinner or nuke up a TV dinner.
My Son uses it to warm up things.

[cpmaaiam]

I invested in steamer bags and now cook everything in a microwave...
A whole day could be:
Breakfast: warm up water for tea/french-press coffee + scrambled eggs or oatmeal with warm fruit
ommelett veggie-meat substitute (but you can make bacon in a microwave and many frozen tater tots and sausages are nuke-friendly)
Lunch: I'm veggie so dinner and lunch can be similar... nuked-potatoes (sweet potatoes) steamed veggies (squash w/ maple sugar, eggplant with smashed garlic and oil, garlic mashed potatoes, fennel bulb w/ oil and lemon drizzle, honey glazed carrots, artichokes with a lemon oil dip, sweet and sour purple cabbage and apples (a poorly stocked pantry's take on blaukraut), and steambag-fried baby potatoes (other veggies would go great... like asparagus ) with garlic rosemary and olive oil.)
Dinner: A variety of soups and premade foods can be reheated... I like to make a "one-pan pasta (optional meatballs, sausage, etc...)" dish in the microwave... the sauce gets soaked into the pasta... so good
Baking: I "bake" pumpkin seeds in the microwave
Recipe's I'm working on: I see lots of cake and fudge recipes for the microwave that I want to try, there's a potatoe chip recipe I want to try.... I'm creating a ratitouilli-stuffed eggplant recipe, and a homemade (cheese-less) herbed mushroom ravioli with creamy sage-infused mushroom sauce... the sauce would probably end up going better over rice... a good pseudo-homemade microwave dish if you eat fish is tuna noodle casserole (pop all the ingrediants (cooked noodles) together and nuke) or pasta w/ clam sauce (pasta or rice too, w/ condensed clam chowder as a sauce.... I add frozen veggies (usually peas and carrots))