Cheesy Tuna Casserole

My lovely boyfriend introduced this recipe to me, and I can't help but devour half of it every time it's made!! It's super easy, and takes pretty much no cooking talent, so anyone can make it!

-1 large head of broccoli, cut into bite-size florets

-1.5 cups minute rice

-1 can tuna, drained

-1 can condensed creme of mushroom soup

-Milk

-White canadian cheddar, or any other sharp white cheddar, shredded. At least 1 cup.

1. Dump the rice, tuna, broccoli, and condensed soup into a large glass or ceramic bowl or casserole dish. Fill the empty soup can with milk, that's the amount you need, and pour it into the bowl/casserole dish. Mix it all up, obviously making sure the tuna isn't one can-shaped chunk and that all the rice is covered with milk and soup.
2. Layer about half the cheese on top of the mix. Don't mix it in yet.
3. Microwave for 10 minutes

4. Remove from microwave, mix it all up again, getting the cheese in there.
5. Layer the rest of the cheese on top
6. Microwave for 10 minutes

Serve and enjoy!! Careful, it's freakin' hot!!!

Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal

So it snowed (a worthwhile amount) for the first time today. Yay Canada!! It's so beautiful, I couldn't possibly deny myself a warm winter-friendly breakfast to get my day started. Thankfully, it was a lot easier than I thought it would be. You can easily pack this up and run to class, too. Breakfast on the go!

Ingredients:
-1/2 cup oats
-2/3 cup milk - and a little extra for at the end
-1 sweet apple (mcintosh, gala,red delicious, empire, pink lady, whatever you'd like. I guess you could even do granny smith if that's what you like)
-2-3 tsp brown sugar
-1/2 tsp cinnamon
-pinch of salt

1. Pour your milk and oats into a bowl. Let those sit while you cut up your apple into slices. Depending how much you like, I used two slices and cut them up to tiny bits, but you can use as much as you'd like I guess. I just ate the rest while it cooked, no use in wasting fruit.
2. Mix your small chunks of apple into the oats and milk
3. Microwave for 2 minutes, 15 seconds
4. Mix in a dash of milk, the brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt.

Be careful not to burn yourself taking it out of the microwave, it can be pretty hot!

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!

Breakfast cups

Some days I wake up and I think I might die if I don't eat something. Eggs are definitely my favourite breakfast food, however I get pretty darn tired of frying them and eating them plain. I got creative, thinking of other recipes I've seen, and I made some breakfast cups! :)

Ingredients:
- 2 eggs

- 1/4 tomato
- 2 slices of cheddar cheese

- 2 leaves of spinach

- 2 slices of deli meat (ham, turkey, chicken, etc..)

1. Dice the quarter of the tomato, chop up the spinach, slice the cheese horizontally to make short + thin pieces
2. Beat the eggs in a separate bowl or cup
3. Try to line the ramekins or mug with the deli meat.
4. Add spinach and tomato to the bottom
5. Pour egg either half and half into the two ramekins or all into the one mug
6. Sprinkle the cheese on top. Add salt and pepper if you want.
7. Microwave for aprox. 2 minutes for the two ramekins, or 1:30 for the mug

If it seems wet, keep putting it back in for 10 seconds until it's fully cooked.

Enjoy!

Chocolate mug cake

The best one I've had so far - here's the recipe!

4 tbsp all purpose flour
4 tbsp white or raw sugar
2 tbsp cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder (you CAN leave this out, but it won't be quite as fluffy imo)
pinch of salt

3 tbsp milk
3 tbsp oil
1 egg

optional: peanut butter, chocolate chips, chunks of berries, jam, or whatever else you want.




1. Mix the dry ingredients in a mug or bowl (has to be a big mug)
2. Mix the wet ingredients in a separate bowl or cup
3. Add in whatever extras you want... or none at all.
4. Microwave at full power for 3 minutes.

Be careful, it will be very hot. If it's someone's birthday, maybe put some sprinkles on it and a candle in the middle!

No Stove French Toast

Sometimes I'm really lazy in the morning. Sometimes, I also want a really yummy breakfast that goes beyond "toast and peanut butter". I'm a huge fan of french toast. It's always been a favorite of mine, but I hate cleaning - and with french toast you have to clean the pan and the bowl and the fork you whisked the eggs with and the fork and knife and plate you used and ugh. It's just a mess. I saw this recipe a little while ago, but I forget where so don't ask me to tell you, and thought I'd give it a shot this morning. Happy to say, it was a success!


1 egg
1 tsp sugar
a shake or two of ground cinnamon
1 slice (depending on the size, maybe 1.5 if you're going with the classic wonderbread size) of a fluffy, thin crust bread.  (Basically, nothing dense like rye or pumpernickle, and try to avoid seeds - they're annoying)
optional - maple syrup and/or other toppings


- Combine the egg, sugar, and ground cinnamon with a fork in a medium-large mug
- Cut the bread into cubes. About 3/4" squares should work.
- Add the bread to the mug and slowly move it around, trying not to cut it up or squish it too much. Make sure every piece is covered.
- Microwave for 1m10s
- Top and eat!!

Microwave Apple Crumble

This was an experiment.. a relatively successful experiment! Don't do what I did... I ate half the apple cubes raw because it was overflowing, totally forgetting that apples shrink when cooked! Whoops!

For the apple part:
-1 apple, diced
-1 tbsp margarine or butter, melted
-1 tbsp sugar (brown or white, your choice)
-dash of cinnamon

For the crumble part:
-2 tbsp granola
-1 1/2 tsp margarine
-dash of cinnamon
-1 1/2 tsp brown sugar

I'll put the directions to how it SHOULD have been done instead of how I did it.

Combine all the ingredients for the apple half. Stir them up, and try to get them ALL into a ramekin dish. Even if it's a massive pile on top. Microwave for 30 seconds.

Combine the ingredients for the crumble and spread over the apples. Microwave again for 2m30s.

Allow to cool for about a minute, and enjoy!