World's Easiest Chocolate Pound Cake (cooked in a rice cooker)

Prep time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 3 hours


Tools needed:

• Micom rice cooker with a cake setting 
• The plastic spatula that came with your rice cooker (anything else might scratch the non-stick coating)

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup sugar (109 grams)
• 1 stick melted butter
• 1 package (8 oz) melted cream cheese
• 1 egg
• 1 cup Bisquick or pancake mix (120 gm)
• 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa

Directions:

1. Mix together the cream cheese, butter and 1/2 cup (109 grams) sugar
2. mix in the egg
3. mix in one cup (120 grams) Bisquick/pancake mix 
4. Cook on the cake setting. After the cycle ends, set it for cake setting and run it again

The World's Easiest Meaty Lower-Carb Spaghetti (cooked in a rice cooker)

Can you tell I shop at Trader Joe's?

Ingredients:

1. 2 cups Pasta
2. 1 lb Hamburger
3. 14.5 oz can stewed tomatoes
4. chicken broth
5. 2 tbsp oil
6. 1 tbsp oregano (not pictured)
7. cherry tomatoes (not pictured)

Tools needed:

1. Frying pan
2. Non-metallic spoon (to protect the coating on the rice cooker bowl)
3. Micom rice cooker with non-stick bowl (i.e. not a cheapie on/off rice cooker with an aluminum bowl. (You don't want to cook tomatoes in an uncoated aluminum bowl because they can leach out aluminum.)

 Directions

Brown the meat way more than this



1. heat 2 tbsp oil on medium heat in pan
2. completely brown the meat. while the meat is browning, do the following steps
3. add stewed tomatoes to the rice cooker bowl
4. add tbsp oregano to the bowl.
5. add enough chicken broth to the bowl to bring it to the one-cup line
6. mix in 175 grams or about 1 3/4 cut penne pasta (as much as will fit in the can the stewed tomatoes came in)
7. add meat and mix in
8. put two handfuls of cherry tomotoes on top
9. cook on white rice setting



Blurry but delicious

10. add salt and Parmesan cheese if desired.

Notes: This is a lower carb meal, therefore the pasta is cooked al dente and there isn't too much tomato sauce. I think this version is tastier and heartier than the typical ooey-gooey high-carb version.