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adventures in microwave cooking

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This refers to the 1977 edition also published by Mongomery Ward, but editted by Dianne Young. I believe that this cookbook is an expanded later edition as title and publisher are the same. However this one has significantly more pages than mine.

As a highschooler I used to mock this 70's cookbook, which among other things explains how to boil a cup of water in a microwave, not to microwave metal and informs you that you should never microwave with the door open. Apparently microwaves were a new appliance so they had to break everything down. However when crunch time came and I had to cook, having never used an oven and not being totally comfortable with anything other than a microwave, I turned to Adventures in Microwave Cooking.

This is the best book for cooking if you don't have an oven or are living on your own and are making small amounts of food such that it would be a waste of energy to heat an oven up. It has a table with cooking times for various vegetables that includes more unusual vegetables. I have used this as a reference for steaming artichokes and other less common vegetables. There are also a number of complete recipes for various dishes. What makes these recipes so awesome is that they are from scratch. There are many entrees, sauces, soups and sides. When this was written convenience foods were less common, hence the from scratch recipes.

It is so practical to have a good from scratch microwave cookbook. My advice is to try to find mid-70's microwave cookbooks at thrift stores.