Glynn Christian introduces a series of imaginative microwave dishes.

Seventy per cent of households in Britain own a microwave cooker and yet only 40 per cent use it for real cooking. In this series Glynn Christian attempts to save the microwave from use simply as a household reheater. It offers culinary ideas and new angles on traditional dishes to suit all tastes and occasions. The recipes range from real onion soup to Tequila-soused goujons with advocado salsa and a "Chocolate Cheats" cake.—Robert Carrier's sous-chef