Showing posts with label steam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label steam. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

M IS FOR MICROWAVE PASTA COOKER

I love Pampered Chef’s Microwave Pasta Cooker. One reason I love it is that I live with a finicky eater. I love my wife, but she never quite knows what she wants to eat. So this is perfect for those nights when she doesn’t want what I had planned on or had already made. I can whip together a single serving of a pasta or grain or veggie in about 10 minutes.
That aside there are some features I appreciate. For example, the silicone lid has vent holes, which let steam and water escape. This means there is no water boiling over in the microwave. This means one less thing for me to clean. The silicone lid also works as a strainer when I need it to, so I do not have to dirty my stainless-steel colanders unnecessarily. Plus, everything is dishwasher safe.
The Microwave Pasta Cooker reminds me of some of my more challenging days Sometimes we all have days where life triggers us and we need safe ways of venting without making a mess. We each need spaces and people in our lives who are our vent holes. They are the ones we go to when the pressure of life is overwhelming and we need to drain off of us that which we no longer need.
Another feature is that the ceramic dish can go from the microwave to the table, so there’s only one dish to wash. When you have a busy life, anything that can save you time cooking, serving, and cleaning is helpful. It also fits perfectly in our Microwave Bowl Cozy Set, but that is a story for another time. Well maybe not – lol. You can put the Microwave Pasta Cooker inside the Microwave Bowl Cozy. This was you do not need an extra hot pad or pot holder. I love that I can just pull it out of the microwave and not have to worry about burning my hands.
I use the two together so often that I forget that they are two items and not one. A friend of mine and I were talking about sacred writings recently and I asked her what her two favorite writings were. She said the Bible and another book. I had to remind her that the Bible was a collection of smaller writings. She was so use to using them all together, that she had stopped thinking about them as separate. Sometimes practices like praying and journaling, or prayer and meditation go together so seamlessly that we forget they, like the Microwave Pasta Cooker and Microwave Bowl Cozy set, are separate items.
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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

CERAMIC EGG COOKER


Sometimes it is the simplest things in life that can inspire you and motivate you to do and see things differently. Take for example, the Pampered Chef Ceramic Egg Cooker. It is simply a ceramic vessel that allows you to cook up a healthy breakfast in just a few minutes. Put eggs in it, shake them up, and your favorite ingredients and put in the microwave. That’s it right?
Honestly, though I have come to realize there are some powerful lessons in this egg cooker. The lid has a vent hole which lets steam escape as you cook and includes a silicone gasket, which keeps the lid secure. We can easily understand why this is important when microwaving, as we do not want things boiling over and making a mess. In our own lives, we so often have moments or situations which make us want to blow a gasket, and thus we create messes, or contribute to messy situations in our lives. The vent hole reminds me that I need to ensure that I have people, places, and things I do which allow me to vent without losing my temper. One of the things which allows me to let off steam is cooking. I will pull out my manual food processor and chop up lots of onions, and other vegetables. I also meditate, sit in my rocking chair, go for a roll around the block, have a need to keep it real with the Ultimate Consciousness and go sit in my meditation and prayer garden and surrender it to the Universe.
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