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Squirt Chicken Barbecue
Welcome to this week's Mid-Century Menu! For those of you who don't know, this is my favorite feature on the blog, the one where I get to cook weird things out of vintage cookbooks and feed them to my husband for dinner. Delicious. In any case, this week's recipe...
Cheezy Beans and Onions Casserole
Welcome to this week's Mid-Century Menu! Since we are doing Mid-Century Christmas here at the blog, I decided to do a holiday meal to fit in with the theme and get everyone into the spirit! Hubs was pretty excited when he found out that I would be making pumpkin...
Tuna-Mushroom Scallop
Welcome to this week's Mid-Century Menu, the "fun" feature on the blog in which I get to pick a recipe from my collection of vintage cookbooks, make it, and then feed it to my husband for dinner. Poor Tom! And this week it really is poor Tom, because I am cooking out...
American Chop Suey
Hello everyone! Welcome to this week's Mid-Century Menu, where I pick a recipe from my vast array of vintage cookbooks and make it for dinner, forcing my husband to eat it no matter what. In all fairness, he is excited to eat the sometimes noxious concoctions, but...
Welch’s Grapelade Cake
Welcome to this week's Mid-Century Menu! I have to confess to a bit of poor planning on my part. I didn't put two and two together on this one, and I planned Menu night for the same night that we were suppose to go to a ballgame and eat hot dogs for dinner! Ah...
Chevron Rice Bake
Happy Mid-Century Menu, everyone! Oh, wait. I guess I mean, happy Wednesday. Wednesday has pretty much become Mid-Century Menu day around our house. And what is the Mid-Century Menu? Take one vintage cookbook, add one man who will eat anything and you have the...
Spaghetti Timbales
Happy Wednesday everyone! Today is a great day for many reasons. The first is that Tom's fever broke sometime last night and he is feeling much better. I am really glad, because he was pacing around driving me crazy because he couldn't go to work! So, after...
Fish Sticks Polynesian
Welcome to the Mid-Century Menu where every week blah blah blah vintage cookbooks, blah blah blah interesting recipes, blah blah blah serve it to my husband for supper. You get the idea. 🙂 The recipe, or should I say set of recipes, that Tom and I chose this week...
Hawaiian Frankabobs
Hello! Welcome to the Mid-Century Menu, the feature on my blog in which I pick an unusual, interesting or strange recipe from my vintage cookbook collection, cook it, and then serve it to my husband for dinner! Poor Tom, the human guinea pig. This week's pick for...
Sky High Braunschweiger Towers
Welcome, all! It is time for another Mid-Century Menu, the feature on my blog where I find the most unusual, strange, experimental or questionable recipe from my vintage cookbook collection, cook it up and serve it for dinner. Sometimes the results are pretty tasty,...
The Mid-Century Menu Featured in the Midland Daily News
More exciting news! The Mid-Century Menu featuring the None-Such Ham Loaf is in the Accent section of the Midland Daily News today. Hopefully, this won't be the last Mid-Century Menu that appears in the paper, either. Depending on the interest level, I might get to...
Salmon Egg Casserole
Welcome to this week's Mid-Century Menu, the special portion of my blog where I choose a hilarious or crazy recipe from my vintage cookbook collection, cook it exactly as the recipe tells me (no matter how horrible), and then serve it up for dinner. My husband has...