Aenigma´s nightmare is coming true!!  

 TC has become a recipe and (God forbid) language site???

Elisabeth, you should know by now that it´s your task as wife to make different and healthy dishes for your hubby!

Literally as I am reading this...I am eating a bowl of oatmeal.  Here is how I make mine during the week:

Lazy Way

1 Packet of Quacker 50% Less Sugar Cinnamon

Run water..I don´t measure to cover oatmeal

Put in microwave...making sure it doesn´t boil over

Top it off with flaxseed, nuts or sometimes blueberries

I also like organic and have cooked it on the stove many times in a regular pot.  It still tastes the same to me, so I opt for the microwave.  But I have never tried a double boiler before.

I would like to know what type of cookingware people use...I just bought a conventional oven & flat burner stove (electric) and my pots and pans are not heating up as I like.  I get consumer guides and have read reviews and I think Calphalon is suppose to be pretty good.  I don´t want the stainless steel but the hard anodized.  Le Crueset..something like that just opened an outlet near me, however I´m not sure what their cookware is good for.  I need domesticated, obviously.

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Hmmm....grill veggies?  Spoken like a true Texan.  Pray tell, what veggies do you grill? As for me, I mostly steam or sautee them.  The only veggies I can think of that grill well are things like bell peppers, onions, nopal, potatos, tomatoes, corn, squash.......what am I missing? When I think of veggies my mind goes more to things like okra, string beans, asparagus, chard

Rice cookers are nice, they cook perfect (sorta) rice, and you can cook so much more in them.  However that said....I prefer my little cast iron Dutch Oven for that. The rice gets crispy on the bottom.

UUghhh I hate grilled veggies, those that can be eaten raw are to be eaten raw and others end up cooked in water, in a soup or a stew (Mr Daydreamer makes best stews ever!). I love casserole too, Lis.

In Poland I used to have a cooker with ceramic top and it was a nightmare. First of all, I´m a lousy cook and keeping an eye on the things not to boil over was a disaster, and I couldn´t get my frying pans to lay flat on the heating spot (they´d always tilt a bit so I had to keep the right balance with the food), even if the producer said they would! Now I have electric plates on my cooker and it´s way easier...

As for oatmeal, I can´t remember the last time I had it I tried a few times to make one for my son but he hated it (and I couldn´t eat it as it was with his special formula for children with cow´s milk allergy).

I know veggies from a steamer are healthier, I was meaning to buy one a while ago but somehow never did. besides, where would I keep it? Don´t you ever have the feeling that you keep buying kitchen appliances that you use only occassionally and you mainly use it to clutter the space? I´ve got food processor I use no more than twice a year or a juicer used not more than twice. Not to mention blender that is still unpacked...i hate it when I feel like I really need something and after I buy it, I never use it

AE, dear. How are you? Don´t grind your teeth so hard

Grilled tomatoes, peppers and aubergines are delicious , i mean mangal version

Teaschip,

Le Creusuet is very high end cookware.  I have used it, but prefer the old fashioned season yourself cast iron.  The reason is I´m hard on my cookware and I´ve found the Le Creusuet is easy to damage the enamel.  After you have broken the enamel, you might as well throw it away. 

Lodge currently makes great cast iron cookware. As for any type of aluminum, some of the questions concerning the dangers of aluminum toxicity keep me away from it.

I find cooking on an electric stove difficult. I like seeing the flames.

Porridge. (suitable for vegetarians)

1 small glass oatmeal (not rolled)

4 glasses water

leave to soak overnight

bring to boiling point and reduce heat

simmer for 3 minutes stirring all the time

salt and ground black pepper to your taste

pour and add a little milk

Afiyet Olsun!

A double-boiler? Cooking now seems to me even more complicated!

What´s more I have never seen this before. I have grown up with usual classical pots and just the usual pressure cooker. I think we can do what we want in a healthy way in a short time with these cookers.

Are these double-boilers a new phenomenen and popular in USA? Sorry I did not read all the messages.

My pots and pans list that I use the most!

1 double steamer (to steam my veggies)

1 extra large saucepan

1 large saucepan

1 medium saucepan

2 small saucepans (one for boiling milk)

Large frying pan

Small frying pan

Paella pan (nearly forgot that  

A pirex roasting/caserole dish with lid

Roasting tin (for the Turkey at Christmas)

Roasting dish for my roast potatoes

Lasagne dish (for uhmmmm my lasagne but also for roasting veggies)

and various other little dishes and pirex caseroles dishes

phewwwww now I have got that off my chest