Microwaves are awesome.

Want to know how my first foray into more interesting eating went?

I decided to try making potatoes au gratin in my microwave using this recipe. Here's how it went in blurry phone pictures:

Ingredients. The ice cream can contains salt, not ice cream.

Pre-nuking

Post-nuking

It was less like a gratin and more like cheesy baked potato slices, probably because I didn't cut the potatoes thinly enough and used less cheese than advised. But it was still excellent. I could have passed out from joy.

The very next night, I had pasta topped with pork and beans. Hehe. Baby steps, friends, baby steps.