2frus - how are you getting on with just a microwave or do you now have some other means of cooking now ?
I thought of you whilst looking thru the lakeland catalogue. They have a thing called a Remoska you might be interested in. click on
www.lakeland.co.uk and do a search for remoska. It is an electric pan with lid and you can cook cakes, toasted sarnies, pizzas, chicken potatoes, etc etc. I believe they sell asimilar thing on ebay - or perhaps Americans call it somethig different. It is from a czech factory. It has had very good reviews. I haven't bought one myself yet.