Baking outside the box…

Another thing my stoveless period did for me was to make me look at new ways to bake and cook without using the microwave. I discovered you can produce quite presentable biscuits and small cakes from a toaster oven, even a small one like mine. You just have to be careful with the overhead element. You can make puddings in an electric steamer, and the George Foreman roasting machine (lent by a friend) cooks a delicious roast chicken. You can bake a reasonable lasagna in an electric frypan. Cover the bottom of the pan with thinned out tomato sauce (three tomatoes, one onion, chopped and fried with a spoonful of tomato paste and half a cup of water), then layer the lasagna sheets, meat sauce and bechamel sauce as usual. Clamp the lid on, turn down to simmer and let the pasta cook.
I believe you can also bake bread in a slow cooker or a rice cooker (I use the rice cooker for pasta and it’s brilliant) so maybe you can do cakes in them as well. I don’t know, my experiments didn’t take me that far. But you can bake a decent cake and a lovely chicken and mushroom pie in the dish supplied with the George Foreman roaster - just in case you need to know that.

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