Meal in a Mug: 80 Fast, Easy Recipes for Hungry People―All You Need Is a Mug and a Microwave
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Charmingly designed and perfectly approachable, here are eighty simple recipes for delicious, healthy food that require nothing more than a mug and a microwave.
For anyone who can’t cook, won’t cook, or doesn’t have the time to cook—but still wants a fresh, delicious meal instead of takeout or packaged, processed food when they’re eating alone—here is the answer. All you need for real food, really fast, is a large mug, a microwave, a handful of ingredients, and a spoon.
Whether you’re cooking in a pocket-sized apartment, a crowded dorm, or an office kitchenette, here are quick and clever recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, and snacks. Squeezing a home-cooked breakfast into your morning dash is no problem with Peanut Butter and Jam Porridge, Eggs Florentine with Hollandaise, or seed- and fruit-packed Breakfast Muffins. And no more sad office salad: whip up Spicy Lentil and Bacon Soup, Pea and Pesto Soup, and Shrimp Laska in the office kitchen for lunch, with a side of Honeyed Carrots or Garlicky Mushrooms! Chicken Korma, Thai Shrimp Curry, Wild Mushroom Risotto, Chili con Carne, and Sweet Potato and Chickpea Tagine make healthy, quick, and delicious dinners that easily trump overpriced takeout or preservative-laden frozen food. And mug baking is a piece of cake with Chocolate and Pistachio Brownies, White Chocolate and Lime Cheesecake, Berry Crumble, Sticky Gingerbread, and much more. Finally, don’t forget the more conventional (but no less delicious) mug treats: Ultimate Hot Chocolate, Mulled Cider with Ginger, and Vanilla Latte. Yum!
You will be in and out of the kitchen, cravings fully satisfied, in five minutes or less!
Publisher : Atria Books
Publication date : June 16, 2015
Language : English
Print length : 128 pages
ISBN-10 : 1476798141
ISBN-13 : 978-1476798141
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 6.69 x 0.4 x 7.5 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #108,588 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #15 in Microwave Cooking #238 in Cooking for One or Two #752 in Quick & Easy Cooking (Books)
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Customers say
Customers find this cookbook offers good basic recipes that are easy-looking and fast to prepare. The book is particularly suitable as a gift for graduation and brilliant for teenagers and college students, with one customer noting it’s ideal for 1-person meals. Customers describe the cookbook as cute, tasty, and excellent in terms of ideas. The ingredient list receives mixed reactions from customers.
13 reviews for Meal in a Mug: 80 Fast, Easy Recipes for Hungry People―All You Need Is a Mug and a Microwave
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EGGS FLORENTINE WITH HOLLANDAISE
Oh My!!!! Hit me up with Eggs Florentine in the first few pages …. I’M IN !!!This is a perfect little book for cooking in a MUG. Author, Denise Smart … is one SMART little cookie. Only 80 recipes, and I’m hoping for another book of 80 down the road. BACON & TOMATO MUFFIN … WHAT? Oh yes, it’s in here. Right down to EGG FRIED RICE … Comfort food IN PORTION CONTROL … WIN WIN!!I love this little book — it will definitely be getting dog-eared over the coming days/weeks/months and years! As I pare down to a simpler life, this is my perfect companion and I hope SMART will come up with some more NEW recipes to keep the Portion Control going. The Egg Fried Rice will be a WINNER for me and I’ll be able to cut my Schwan’s man off paying dearly for this type of thing.The book is laid out nicely, one page recipe and photo too for a lot of them. Another perfect guide to the things you’ll need including tools, pantry, fridge items & freezer!! IT’S GOT YOU COVERED. You got all that — I’m ready to get cooking!THANKS DENISE SMART!
AC Slater –
Great fo the microwave enthusiast
Bought for our tiny Airbnb studio that does not have a full kitchen. Cute recipes and a great book to have for guests.
RMW RN –
Good gift
Good gift for niece in college
Lindsay –
Good for dorm life
Got as a gift for my sister who is starting college and will be living in a dorm. It has a good mix of recipes and most have pictures with them!
Joann –
Perfectly meets my needs.
Gave this to my granddaughter who thought it was a great idea. Wish you had more available so that I could give them at Christmas to those leaving for college.
Anita –
Mg meal cookbook.
The book is ok but I was disappointed that the recipes weren’t simple and typical as I expected.
heather –
Cute book
Cute book, made a few recipes. I enjoy reading this at nighttime while laying in bed
Janet –
good cookbook
Good recipes but some tend to be on the small side as far as servings. I usually have to supplement with something else like rolls, fruit, salad, etc. These recipes are good for quick single serving meals. Since I cook only for me, I waste less food and don’t have to eat the same thing all week. Great for college students, singles and quick lunches.
Dsh –
bought for young nephew just starting to ‘cook’ for himself – he loved it
Nina Anderson –
I wish I had this book back in my single days. Tasty nutritious food, quickly and easily made and not tons of leftovers. I plan to use this book a lot!
Cat N. –
While the recipes are good themselves, you get good ideas on how to adapt them to your tastes, as well as how to possibly invent your own. Nice clear instructions. I only wish it was easier to look up the photos.
JayKaybe –
Love this – have discovered a whole new way of producing meals, snacks and cakes in my microwave. Ideal for when I am on my own and need something quick. Recipes are for ‘real’ meals etc, not just for a ‘nuke it’ type meal.
Gina –
sending this to my daughter who is at uni abroad and only has a microwave and a hot plate to cook with. The meals seem yummy without too much fuss which is just what she needs