While I (slowly) write a detailed post on meal planning I thought I would share a few recipes with you. These recipes come from The Congressional Club Cook Book, 10th edition, published in 1982.
The book is a monument to truly awful eating.

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It was horribly cold tonight. I had no intention of going out shopping so I ransacked the fridge and pantry instead. I have no idea how this happens when I dutifully write a meal plan and shopping list every week, but I digress. So we had risotto cakes all wrapped up [...]

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Before we go any further, spinach doesn’t come in boxes.  Green icy stuff in cardboard boxes is the stuff of childhood nightmares.  Please leave it there.
You need only the tiniest most minuscule skerrick of water to cook spinach.  Rinse spinach well and dry the leaves in a half-assed fashion.  The little bit of water clinging [...]

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Everybody likes cupcakes.  Besides being tragically cute, the small portions make us feel a little less Miss Piggy and a little more Grace Kelly.  And I’ve never met a man who has refused one of my cupcakes, even when decorated with pink fluffy clouds of buttercream icing.
The best bit is that cupcakes are as easy [...]

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