by RetroRuth | Apr 28, 2010 | Desserts, Pork, The WORST
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...
by RetroRuth | Dec 30, 2009 | The BEST, The WORST
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 ...
by RetroRuth | Nov 11, 2009 | Desserts, Hot Dogs & Mystery Meats, The BEST
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...
by RetroRuth | Apr 29, 2009 | Fish, Main Dishes, The WORST
Hello, everyone! Welcome to Mid-Century Menu, the weekly Wednesday post in which I pick a mid-century recipe to cook and serve for dinner from my vast collection of vintage cookbooks. And it is usually an “interesting” recipe. Interesting as in, who...
by RetroRuth | Apr 15, 2009 | Main Dishes, Pork, The WORST
Welcome to the weekly Mid-Century Menu, where my adventurous husband and I cook and eat an “interesting” recipe we find in my collection of vintage cookbooks. Hooray. Sorry for the lack of enthusiasm, but last night’s dinner was…interesting to...
by RetroRuth | Apr 8, 2009 | Eggs, Main Dishes, The WORST
You know, I don’t consider myself to be the most orderly person. Or the most driven person. I have great ideas, but, like most people, a good majority of them never really pan out. But here it is, only three weeks into my Mid-Century Menu project, and I have...
