Hi Anee,
  Since I'm the appointed chef on the list, I invite you to visit my Appliance
Addicts Central link - http://www.brunnet.net/terrier/cook.htm - lots of good
recipes there.

  I find counter top appliances the best. Most of my main dishes take no more
than 15 mins prep time and 30 mins cook time. Best thing I have is a multi-pot by
Toastmaster (US/Canada) it's a steamer, slow cooker and deep fryer in one. Also,
my microwave-convection oven makes meal prep very fast. Toaster ovens are great
for cooking for one person, and you can find all kinds of recipes on line that
uses one.

  Hope this helps.

Cheers!

Carla
http://www.brunnet.net/terrier

Anee Stanford wrote:

> Hi All-
>
> I want to see if any of you have some cooking tips/recipees for me.  Now I
> have cooked quite a bit before and look foward to doing some cooking for
> myself in college.  I don;t care to eat out every single night and I want to
> invite my friends who live there over, they already said they would invite me
> over and I said I would have them over so that is already a given.
>
>  My bigest problem is...well...like the time I made chickeen fingers and
> gravey...that should have taken about 30 miutes but it took me over a hour!
> I either spill someting and then have to cleen it up and get more of it
> measured out or I don't know just a hundred things like that are always
> happening when I cook.  I am shue that you all are very experienced with
> these problems.  Pluss alot of times I am very low on stamina in the evenings
> and can't stand to be taking 45 minutes to prepar a meal.
>
>  I tend to like one dish meals...like dump every thing in one pot...cook and
> serve...and cutting stuff is really difficult (I try to buy prescliced but
> they have yet to invent presliced onions).  Basicaly take the total prep time
> and dubble or tripple it for me.
>
> I would be intrested in any cooking tips or quick resipees, gadgets that you
> have come accross that work well for you...ect.  What have your experiences
> been?
>
> Yours,
>
> Anee Stanford
> Webmaster of CPIC
> http://www.geocities.com/aneecp/CPIC.html