Microwave fun for a crisp fall day

I usually go for older cookbooks, but the cover for Kenmore Microwave Cooking (1985) was so perfectly '80s, and I adore microwave cookbooks anyway, so here we are.

So what might a 1980s microwave owner eat on a crisp fall day? We'll start off with breakfast. How about some eggs benedict?

Sure, you could poach the egg in conventionally-boiling water, but then you wouldn't have the fun of trying to pierce the yolk to avoid an explosion in the microwave. And you could enjoy crisp freshly toasted English muffins as the base, BUT YOU HAVE A MICROWAVE! So you will make those toasted English muffins soggy and rubbery by microwaving them under a slice of ham before assembling your breakfast. 

For lunch, we need something cozy. How about French onion soup? Sure, it usually takes quite a while to get the onions properly browned and and the broth full of flavor, but you've got a microwave! You can get that shit done in just barely over half an hour.

As long as you don't mind that the onions don't really brown, so they won't get much flavor. Or that the cheese on top will only melt-- not get browned and delicious. Or that you will be eating microwaved toast. Again.

Then for dinner, let's have this.

No, we're not going for dessert first with a microwaved fruitcake. This is family meat loaf ring!

It's admittedly a pretty boring meat loaf. I just initially mistook the picture for a fruitcake and wanted you to have that fun too. 

We can have some apple-stuffed acorn squash as a side.

At least this is recipe that actually makes sense for the microwave. The squashes will cook faster (and be easier to halve partially-cooked than they are when they're raw). 

And if a side dish full of apples, cinnamon, and honey isn't enough of  a dessert for you, end your meal with a peanut colada sundae!

Hopefully the cream of coconut will help you forget about eating all that microwaved toast! And then you can go to bed and dream about going to see Freddy's Revenge when it comes out next month. I mean, I love microwave cookbooks, but they weren't the best part of 1985.