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Rena-Ware’s Macaroni Republic Casserole
By RetroRuth Happy Wednesday, All! This week on the Mid-Century Menu we are cooking out of a cookbook that a lucky lady in 1957 would have received with her brand new, state of the art Rena-Ware. Published in 1957, this super cute book has tons of recipes created by...
All-In-One Meat-Loaf Ring
Man, nothing screams "Mid-Century Menu" like a cookbook that has a giant, rare, glistening meatloaf on the cover. And to top it off, it is Good Housekeeping's Hamburger & Hot Dog Book, Novel Uses For America's Favorite Meats! I love that name!!! With a cookbook...
A Heinz Feast With Toledo Ham, Spicy Vegetable Casserole and Pink Peach Sundae
Holy Cow!!! We have a ketchup-covered whopper of a Mid-Century Menu for you guys today. Gah. This weekend during our thrifting trip, we stumbled on what just might be one of the craziest mid-century cookbooks ever: 57 Prize-Winning Recipes From H.J. Heinz Co. I...
Oscar Mayer Sausage and Vegetable Ranch Logs
It's Wednesday again, and time for this week's Mid-Century Menu! This week Tom and I decided to have a little fun and dive back into a cookbook that we found absolutely hilarious. A victim of the "Western" phase, 101 Ideas for a Quick and Easy Lunch printed by...
Bisquick Meat Sandwich and Peach Pinwheels
Welcome to another Mid-Century Menu!!! This week we are again cooking out of the Bisquick Cook Book, which you all remember is the origins of the amazingly delicious Hot Fudge Pudding Cake, which was made by me and by Sara with great results. Today we are going...
Macaroni With Peanut Butter and Egg Noodle Pudding
Happy Wednesday, All! Welcome to the Mid-Century Menu, where this week we are delving way back to the 1930's, where Mueller's has been "keeping faith with the American Housewife ever since the Sixties." And yes, that would be the 1860's. 1867, to be exact. And...
Macaroni Loaf
Even though I try not to cook out of the same cookbook twice in a row, the Prize Winning Recipes from American Beauty Macaroni was calling to me again this week. Since the mediocre sucess that was Mexican Macaroni Casserole last week, not much has changed for this...
Mexican Macaroni Casserole
Welcome to another Mid-Century Menu!! This week we are cooking out of a kind of fun little cookbook I found while on vacation this summer. It is Prize Winning Recipes (made better with American Beauty Macaroni Products) or Institutional Cooking At Home. Just...
Spam and Egg Gelatin Mold
I love the Mid-Century Menu for so many reasons. Well, not for taste reasons, but there are a lot of other good reasons the Mid-Century Menu is awesome. One of them is that it gives me an excuse for my ridiculously huge cookbook collection. Another is that it gives...
Carnation Corn and Sausage Casserole
Welcome to the first Mid-Century Menu of the year! I know you all have eagerly awaiting this moment, as Tom and I both have, to see if this will be a good meal or a bad one. See, I kinda figure this is like Groundhog's Day for the Menu, if this Menu sees its shadow,...
The Best And Worst of 2009
Ah! So many choices! With over 40 Mid-Century Menus to choose from, Tom and I had a tough time deciding what was the best and worst of this year. We couldn't really come up with an overall best or an overall worst, so we came up with a couple of categories in each...
The Best of Tom 2009
Merry Christmas early, everyone!!! We are getting ready for a great holiday, so I thought I would give you all a treat this week. I know how much everyone likes my husband Tom's reactions to the first bite of the Mid-Century Menu, so I thought I would put together a...
