Cooking for One: What’s Your Go-To Single-Serving Dish?

[Morning Glory]

Jacques Pepin has a method where he starts them in the microwave and finishes them in the oven (or the other way round ) and he says he gets a quality baked potato in a fraction of the time. Haven’t tried it yet myself, but I plan to.

I've made them that way for decades. Microwaved potatoes lack the right floury texture and and crispy skin. But microwaving first significantly cuts cooking time with nigh on similar to fully baked results.

 

[karadekoolaid]

The airfryer does seem to cook more quickly as well.

Well an airfryer is basically an oven; a convection oven.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Well an airfryer is basically an oven; a convection oven.

yep - just much smaller and cheaper to run than the "main" oven we have. It is one of the reasons we have fallen in love with it and to be honest, it is our main use of it. We sometimes airfry in it, but mostly bake.

 

[The Velvet Curtain]

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As a teenager, I always made what I assume is a souffle omelette, not that I can see the video. But it was fluffy and light and rose, but only had eggs, salt and pepper in it, topped off with a tasty cheddar in those days. It certainly had the same or similar texture to a souffle.

Buy sadly eggs are off the agenda next week because i have blood tests due at the end of the week and my body is very sensitive to them when it comes to certain figures and results in blood tests! Grrrowl

In the recipe the eggs are seperated, the whites whipped, the yolks seasoned and folded back in before gentle frying under a lid.

 

[badjak]

In the recipe the eggs are seperated, the whites whipped, the yolks seasoned and folded back in before gentle frying under a lid.

I remember having done that a long time ago.
I should give it a try again.

Omelettes in the steamer are also very nice