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Mid-Century Menu Contest Finalist #3 – Creamed Eggs in Corned Beef Crust
Holy Cow! The Worst Mid-Century Recipe Contest marches onward, and there are plenty of horrible recipes still to choose from. Finalist #3 is a peach of a recipe from Sharon, aka Charm and Poise on Flickr, and the curator of the hilariously horrible group Gee, That...
Mid-Century Menu Contest Finalist #2 – Lemony Salmon Towers
Ohhhhhh, baby. Check this out! This week we have excitement, mayhem, craziness and canned salmon! In gelatin! Seriously! The finalist for this week's menu is really something else. I got this horrifying recipe from Adriane L., who wrote: I'm submitting the most...
Mid-Century Menu Contest Finalist #1 – Summer Salad Pie
Ladies and Gentlemen! Boys and Girls! Mid-Century Aficionados of All Ages! Let me present to you the first Finalist for the Worst Mid-Century Menu Contest: Miss Marwood and her horrible Summer Salad Pie! *Muted cheering. Some gagging* I know, I know. I said I wasn't...
Corn Pancakes with Hot Dog Sauce and Tangy Marshmallow Pie
Okay, okay, first things first. Before we get to the corn/hot dog mess, I have to ask: Have you entered our Mid-Century Menu Worst Recipe contest yet? No? Then you should!!! The deadline for entry is TOMORROW at midnight! Email your entry to me at...
None Such Mince Meat Cupcakes
Happy Wednesday! I hope that your holiday weekends were all fantastic. Mine...was wet. Very wet. Tom and I drove to see my parents and drop off little Clark (one of the last of the foster kittens) with them, and afterwards did some camping in the UP. Ugh. I...
Mid-Century Menu Recipe Contest – Send Us The Worst Mid-Century Recipe!
Well, I think this contest has been inevitable, don't you? Only a matter of time until we sent out this request: Tom and I want to hear from you guys, and we want the most creative, bizzare, weird, nasty, ugly, retch-inducing recipe you have. In short, we are looking...
Seafoam Cantaloupe Pie
Oh God. You know we are going to make something truly terrible when we recieve a mid-century recipe from reader that has fascinated and horrified them for months, but also freaks them out too much for them to make it! Thanks to reader Miss Marwood, who sent us this...
Miss Marwood Makes The All-In-One Meat-Loaf Ring!
We interrupt our regularly scheduled post to bring you: MEAT! Meat from Miss Marwood, to be exact. 🙂 I just received this heroic Mid-Century Menu recreation of the All-In-One Meat-Loaf Ring, so I thought I would share with all of you, so we could all bask in her...
Ham-Banana Casserole
Hoooweee. We really pulled out all the stops this week on the Mid-Century Menu. I can't wait until you guys get a load of this one. But I am getting ahead of myself. *Ahem* This week on the Mid-Century Menu, we are cooking out of this cute book we found while on a...
East End Bars
Hello, All! Welcome to this week's Mid-Century Menu. I have kind of a sweet tooth this week, so I thought this would be a good chance to bake from one of my more interesting cook book finds, Mail Box News, a baking and cake decorating monthly newsletter from Maid of...
Lazy Lady’s Casserole
Hi, Everyone!! Welcome to another great Mid-Century Menu. This week Tom and I decided to go back to one of the basics of mid-century cooking. But not gelatin. We aren't feeling crazy enough this week to go that far. We decided to pick a tamer basic. Spam. *Muted...
Stroganoff Pizza
Welcome to the Mid-Century Menu, Ladies and Gentlemen! Prepare to be amazed as I waive the wand of Mid-Century Magic over humble, (mostly) nutritional ingredients and turn them into something never before seen by man! What will the magic produce this time? A piece of...
