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Potato Candy & Divinity Fudge
Happy Wednesday, everyone! Well, the countdown to Christmas is in full swing and everything around here is about as chaotic as it can get. I like getting ready for Christmas, which is really good news because otherwise I might go completely insane. Did I mention...
Tomato Soup Cookies and Jim Dandies
Well, it is snowing like crazy right now, but I must say we are doing better than most here in Michigan. At least there isn't a blizzard beating a path to our door like my poor parents in Wisconsin! In any case, it is a good day to stay in and bake cookies, or eat...
Betty Cass’ Brown Sugar Cookies
Happy Wednesday, All! So, for this Christmas I decided I was going to give Tom a break from the Mid-Century Menu for dinner for a month. I decided it would be a nice change to do something GOOD for a while. Besides, with Thanksgiving past and done my mind has...
Meatloaf Ring with Creamed Mushrooms
Wow, check out the piece of meat on the cover of this cookbook. Appetizing, huh? It is no surprise that this is the cookbook that I chose the Mid-Century Menu out of this week. It is 250 Ways to Prepare Meat by the Culinary Arts Institute, published in 1942. This is...
Chicken Pirozhki
Welcome to this week's Mid-Century Menu! I hope everyone is getting excited about the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. I know I am. My parents are coming up to spend Thanksgiving with us and then spend a few days hanging out with us and watching movies and stuff. It...
Pizza Boats and Hot Fudge Pudding Cake
Welcome to another week of the Mid-Century Menu! Honestly, I am surprised this feature has gone one as long as it has. I thought for sure that it would become too disgusting for us to continue, but Tom and I have persevered through all the stinky, nasty dishes and...
Pineapple Hamettes
Welcome to this week's Mid-Century Menu! This week Tom and I picked a great recipe out of Favorite Recipes of Michigan Meats, although I am not sure if any meats, especially Michigan meats, actually do have favorite recipes or not. Hey, I don't make them up here, I...
Stuffed Eggs on Rice
Rice, rice, rice, rice! This week on the Mid-Century Menu, we dive into the field of rice recipes and rice preparation. The book on the left is 75 Glamorous Rice Dishes Economical, Too published by the Louisiana State Rice Milling Company, Inc., makers of Water-Maid...
Meat-Crusted Corn Pie
You know, even though the Mid-Century Menu is sometimes freaky, sometimes creepy, and sometimes downright disgusting, there are a lot of redeeming qualities to it as well. Hmmm...this description kinda reminds me of an ex-boyfriend. And like that ex-boyfriend, the...
Cottage Cheese-Pickle-Peanut Sandwich
Hello, everyone! Welcome to this week's Mid-Century Menu. I am happy that all the regular readers have decided to come back for more, and for those of you who are just joining us this week, I can already answer the question that will be floating around in your head....
Noodle Ring Filled With Creamed Chicken
Welcome to this week's Mid-Century Menu! After last week's Jellied Egg debacle, I am happy to report that this week there is not a bit of gelatin to be found in any of the dishes this week. At all. Thank goodness. That being said, it doesn't mean this week's menu is...
Jellied Stuffed Eggs
Well, we've finally done it. I didn't think the Mid-Century Menu could sink any lower, but it has. This is it people, the final 1950's culinary atrocity. Gelatin. You heard me. I am breaking into the 1950's gelatin salad craze, quite possibly one of the scariest...
