by RetroRuth | Feb 23, 2011 | Casserole, Hot Dogs & Mystery Meats, Main Dishes
Welcome, welcome to the new Mid-Century Menu site! This blog is all about mid-century cooking and recipes, and the testing of said recipes. And the sometimes hilarious and horrible results. This week we chose a recipe from Favorite Recipes of Home Economics Teachers:...
by RetroRuth | Oct 20, 2010 | Casserole, Main Dishes, Pasta
Welcome again to another exciting, spine-tingling episode of the Mid-Century Menu. This is a great one for two reasons. Well…three actually. The first reason is that Sara and her husband Mike helped us make this Menu. So it was tons of fun. The second is...
by RetroRuth | May 26, 2010 | Casserole, Main Dishes, SPAM!
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....
by RetroRuth | May 12, 2010 | Casserole, Main Dishes, Pasta
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...
by RetroRuth | Jan 20, 2010 | Casserole, Main Dishes, Pork
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...
by RetroRuth | Jan 6, 2010 | Casserole, Main Dishes
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...
