Baked potato - no baking required!

Honestly, this is the easiest thing to cook in your microwave. Yes, a baked potato, in the microwave. It's filling, familiar, warm, and I'm pretty sure everyone gets tired of minute rice as carbs on their plate pretty damn fast. I actually have to give credit to my mom, she showed me this first.

Ingredients:
-1 russet potato (whatever size you want)
-1 tbsp (maybe a bit more if you got a big potato) of canola, sunflower or vegetable oil
-1 tsp salt
-1/2 tsp black pepper - coarse ground is best

1. Oil up the potato. Sprinkle the salt and pepper on it, rub it all over.
2. Prick it 5-10 times with a fork
3. Microwave for 5 minutes. When it's done, poke it with a fork. If it goes through nicely, it's ready. If not,
4. Microwave for 3-5 minutes more until the fork goes through. Keep doing those 3-5 minutes if the first try didn't work, until it does.

Put this on a plate with some baked chicken, done in your toaster oven, and frozen peas defrosted and cooked with boiling water from your kettle, and you're good to go! Honestly, you don't even need butter or sour cream. It's flavoured enough from the salt and pepper!

Salmon Dinner

I GOOFED! I DIDN'T GET A PHOTO!!! I'M SO SO SORRY!!!! Also, this one isn't particularly cheap, but it's really yummy so if you have the extra cash, don't be afraid to spend it. This would be a really nice dinner if you happen to have someone coming and you want to impress them. I'll only be instructing on how to feed one, but just double the portions if it makes it easier for you.

-Salmon portion, fresh from the fish department is the very best.
-A big handful of asparagus. About 10-15 pieces.
-1 medium russet potato
-1 tbsp Butter or margarine
-1/2 tbsp Brown sugar
-1 tsp Garlic salt
-2/3 tsp Pepper
-Canola oil

1. Set the oven to 450(f).

2. Cover the salmon with brown sugar, garlic salt, and pepper. All the brown sugar may not be used, but there should be a generous coating on it.

3. Coat a cookie sheet with a bit of oil so the salmon doesn't stick. Let the flavors of the seasoning sink in while you wait for the oven to finish heating up and while you do other things. Just put it in the oven when it is heated. Set the timer for 10-15 minutes (longer if the fillet/portion is unusually huge). If you can't figure out how long it should go in for, cook it until it's solid and flaky.

4. To bake the potato quickly, rub it with oil, rub it again with just a very little bit of salt and pepper. Prick it with a fork a few times. Place in the microwave on a plate for 5 minutes. If a fork doesn't go through smoothly, put it in for another 3-5 minutes.

5. Cut the wood-y bottoms of the asparagus and place it in your steamer. If you don't have a steamer, you can put them in a microwave safe bowl with enough water to cover them and microwave them until they're soft enough to enjoy. When they're done, coat lightly with butter or margarine, and sprinkle sparingly with salt.

Everything should be done roughly the same time. If not, just keep it all warm until it's all finished. Don't forget to peel the skin off the salmon.

Banana French Toast

Now, since I am not yet in my dorm and still living at home, I still have access to my stove and frying pan. If you don't have a stove, you can try to rig your clothing iron to stay upside down and use aluminum foil as your pan, you can wrap your pieces of bread in tin foil and have squished french toast, or you can venture out into the scary common kitchen. I'll be instructing you on the scary-venturing-to-the-kitchen method.

For the toast
-2 pieces of brown bread
-2 eggs (If you're using your clothes iron you may want to use only 1.5 eggs to avoid mess)
-1 tsp cinnamon
-1 tbsp brown sugar

For the banana part
-1 banana
-1/2 tbsp brown sugar
-1 1/2 tbsp butter (I use becel olive oil margarine)
-1 tsp cinnamon

1. Set skillet to medium-low (3.5 out of 8) and place some butter in the pan to give it time to melt.
2. Combine eggs and cinnamon in a shallow bowl.
3. Quickly soak each side of the bread in eggs, letting each side soak for about 1-2 seconds.
4. Place pieces of toast in the pan. If there is extra egg mixture in the bowl, don't get rid of it.
-while the first side toasts-
4.5 - drop butter, cinnamon and brown sugar into a bowl and throw it in the microwave for about 40 seconds.
       - slice up a banana, throw the slices in the melted butter and mix it around (oh my god use a spoon, it'll be way too hot)
       - now you can choose to either place the banana in the microwave for 50 seconds OR you can wait til the skillet is free and fry them up for about a minute. I fried mine, but microwaving has worked in the past too.

5. About a minute before you flip your toast, slowly pour the remaining egg mixture on the raw side. Try not to let any of it spill over the edge. I find moving it around slowly with a fork helps it sink in.
6. Sprinkle the brown sugar on top of the raw side, let it rest for a few seconds to sink in and flip!

Once your toast is done, throw it on a plate, put the bananas over it, and cover it with maple syrup if you so choose! This is a very sweet breakfast, no doubt, but it was soooo delicious.