by RetroRuth | May 25, 2011 | Casserole, Pork
Tom and I just got back from a trip to see his sister graduate from medical school (go Maggie!). The trip had it’s good and bad parts. Good parts: We got to visit family. The weather was pretty good. We got to spend a lot of time together. Bad part: We BOTH got a...
by RetroRuth | May 11, 2011 | Beef
Welcome to this week’s Mid-Century Menu, a fun feature where Tom and I make a mid-century recipe chosen from our vast collection of vintage cookbooks. This week we pulled a recipe from one of our “newer” books that we recently found for 10 cents at a recent rummage...
by RetroRuth | Apr 13, 2011 | Fish, Main Dishes
Welcome to this week’s Mid-Century Menu! This week we are trying Tuna Barbecue, a strange recipe that comes from Fish and Shellfish Over The Coals, which was published by National Marine Fishery Service in 1977. This cute little book contains basically what the title...
by RetroRuth | Apr 6, 2011 | Main Dishes, Pasta, The WORST
Welcome to another fun episode of the Mid-Century Menu. This week we picked a recipe from The Day Before Cookbook, which was published in 1968. We picked this recipe because, well, it looked pretty weird. Not to say the whole book was weird. The cookbook is based on a...
by RetroRuth | Mar 23, 2011 | Main Dishes, Pasta
Hello, All!!! We have a fun recipe to try out today. This week we are cooking from Food From Famous Kitchens: The Brand Names Cook Book, which was published in 1961. Everyone who collects vintage cookbooks or has ever seen any vintage cookbooks in their life knows...
by RetroRuth | Mar 16, 2011 | Eggs, Main Dishes, Pasta
Whew. How’s your week been? Here at the Mid-Century Menu, things have been a little crazy. Maybe it is spring, or a full moon or something, but things here have just been going wrong left and right. I am just glad that we got the computer back. We got the same...
