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Title: A great starting point for menu planning
Review: I've been using this cookbook for about 5 years. We now have a number of standards that we use every other week or so. I agree that many of the recipes are rather bland, but I figure the authors are writing for the masses and these recipes are easy enough to amp up to suit my family's tastes. Case in point, we would never, ever, use instant rice. Any recipe including such is simply revised. I see this cookbook as one very helpful tool in weekly menu planning. As with any tool, it's how you use it that dictates the results.
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