Dining Hall Specials: Microwave Simulated Stir-Fried Vegetables (season 1, episode 6)
Load up on your vegetables and try to avoid salmonella with this easy-to-make dish. Plus, if you like your vegetables stir-fried like I do, you'll be happy to have this when you've hit your tolerance for raw salads.
[Recipe]
Dining Hall Specials: Microwave Simulated Stir-Fried Vegetables (season 1, episode 6)
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Ingredients
Vegetables from the salad bar.
(Mainly romaine/iceberg lettuce. Some onion and mushrooms if you have them.)
Oil
Salt
Lee Kum Kee fermented black bean paste, optional
(if you add this, go easy on the salt, or no salt at all)
Cost: None, if you are on a meal plan at school. If not, it should be <$1.
Instructions
- Take 2 plates and a soup bowl, add vegetables to the soup bowl.
- Coat well with oil and add some water if necessary.
- Microwave on high for 3 minutes. The trick to avoid scalding yourself is to use the plates to sandwich the soup bowl, thus providing a cool surface to move your setup in and out of the microwave.
- Add salt to taste. Stir and serve.
Dining Hall Specials: Spinach Egg Drop Soup (season 1, episode 4)
Missing a light soup on a cold winter's day? Or do you want something refreshing on a summer's afternoon? Try this microwaved approximation of a Chinese family classic.
[Recipe]
Dining Hall Specials: Spinach Egg Drop Soup (season 1, episode 4)
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Ingredients
One egg
Some tomato
Spinach
Onion and mushroom (optional, only to add a little flavor)
Salt
Cost: None, if you are on a meal plan at school. If not, it should be <$1.50.
Instructions
- Put as much spinach as you can in the bowl, add hot water and sliced tomatoes (about 3-4 thumbed-sized pieces for a small bowl). Add mushroom 2 heads, and onion, 3 or 4 slivers if you have them.
- Microwave covered on high for about 2 minutes. (Tip is to sandwich your bowl with 2 plates, so you can take the hot soup out from the microwave easily.)
- During this time, whip your egg.
- Uncover the bowl after 2 minutes, add whipped egg to bowl of soup, cover, and microwave for another 30 seconds.
- Salt to taste. Pepper optional.
Dining Hall Specials: Fancy Ice-Cream Plating (season 1, episode 2)
Watch the episode only as an example; really there are no fixed rules. Be observant, be creative, and have fun at your own dining halls.
Cost: None