<p>I guess you can saute onions in a microwave…</p>
<p>A couple of weeks ago my daughter and two friends decided to go to Great Adventure in NJ. We live about 60 miles north of NY. She was not driving, but the friend programmed the GPS. At about 8:30am I received a phone call. They were at SHEA Stadium. (Chosen from a drop-down list on the GPS-Hit SHEA instead of SIX Flags.) I asked why no one had noticed they were driving to Queens and not towards New Jersey. They were all clueless.</p>
<p>Scary.</p>
<p>On the way home they ended up in Harlem. I understand how that mistake was made…</p>
<p>I love the post about using the key to unlock the car door. So funny.</p>
<p>I can cook just about anything in a microwave if I have to. But I have an Indian microwave cookbook (Moghul Microwave) which is the one that regularly has me sauteing the onions. I think if it’s one onion it’s only 3 minutes of cooking.</p>
<p>Ooh mathmom - there’s an Indian microwave cookbook? Is it good? I may have to buy that.</p>
<p>If you use the key to open my husband’s beloved 1994 Toyota Previa (“Kids, it’s almost vintage!”), the car alarm goes off, and, given that it’s a 1994 vehicle with around 250,000 miles on it, it’s really hard to get the alarm to turn off.</p>
<p>Thank you zipourlips, now I have a reason to call S this weekend as he was the one who asked me how to microwave saute onions… As LIMOMOF2 said, who knew?</p>
<p>Sent son to school with 5 lbs of self rising flour so he would never be without bread.</p>
<p>3 cups self rising flour +10 oz. beer= edible bread.:)</p>
<p>This summer I was in Oregon for a soccer tourney with our D. Our 18 yr. old S calls me in Oregon. He was buying some fruit and veggies for his lizards. He asks me “if apples are 1.49 a pound, do I have to buy a whole pound?” I got a good laugh at that one, along with the other parents there with me!</p>
<p>My son has fallen victim to the whole garlic clove versus bulb confusion. He had made some recipe that called for two cloves of garlic - chopped. He said that the dish wasn’t bad but that it took forever to chop the garlic. After some questions on my part I determined that he also did not know the difference between a bulb and a clove of garlic. He was amazed when I informed him that there is also this incredible time-saver called chopped garlic that comes in the jar already chopped. It kind of amazed me that this child could have grown up in a household where lots of cooking is done on a regular basis and still be so ignorant of the basics!</p>
<p>My S made me shortbread once many, many years ago. He didn’t really understand the recipe that said add gradually add 4-6 cups of flour (it wasn’t all that clear). The thought was great & we all had a small sample of the shortbread before we decided to dump the rest. It was a thin crust of shortbread over a huge layer of plain flour. He was reluctant to bake again for quite a while. <grin></grin></p>
<p>I love the stories about kids calling and asking for directions. My secretary has a son who is a Navy Seal and he often calls her to look up something on the internet for him, usually directions to someplace. My secretary calls this MOMSTAR!</p>
<p>After learning about the microwave onion saute here, I tried last night and it worked. I will use the microwave method from now on.</p>
<p>cottonwood, isn’t CC great?!!</p>
<p>The thinks we learn at vicarious college</p>
<p>Why didn’t we think of it before? How many times have we scorched some of the onions because the pieces weren’t the same size? A real time saver and better results. Now I have to try the self rising flour/beer bread and take over to the marmots. Not today though.</p>
<p>cottonwood513 - do the onions get brown in the microwave, or do they just soften up?</p>
<p>What is the exact recipe for beer bread? Never heard of that one before this thread.</p>
<p>When my youngest was a senior in college (no, I’m not exagerating) I received a text message that said “do you know we have next Thursday and Friday off?” I replied “Yes I did. It’s Thanksgiving.” His reply: “Why was I not informed?”</p>
<p>My roommate in college (she was a senior & I was a transfer sophomore) was reading the novel, “Godfather.” She said, “Wow, this guy has a really vivid imagination! Imagine that he made up the totally fictitious idea of organized crime and a syndicate.” (She was totally serious & majoring in social work; it took many of us in the dorm a very long time to convince her that organized crime & the syndicate were alive and well.) Later that year, we taught her Christmas carols and she taught us Channakuh traditions.</p>
<p>My niece’s boyfriend (graduating college senior) was talking to her dad one day. They were talking about the sun and the young man said its tough driving into the son. The older man said, “Yea, that’s why we bought our house east of town, so we generally don’t have to drive into the sun, since the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.” The younger man mulled over this for a while and looked at the older man (who may become his FIL) and said in wonder, “You mean this happens EVERY DAY?”</p>
<p>LIMO: They were transluscent enough for me. That was the first time, I have to do it longer to see if they brown. I don’t see why they wouldn’t, with longer cook time.</p>
<p>Beer bread: No butter or oil?</p>
<p>Not informed of Thanksgiving/two day holiday: LMAO</p>