by RetroRuth | Jul 22, 2009 | Hot Dogs & Mystery Meats, Main Dishes
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,...
by RetroRuth | Jul 15, 2009 | Fish, Main Dishes
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...
by RetroRuth | Jul 8, 2009 | Main Dishes, SPAM!
Oh yeah, it’s that time again! Welcome to this week’s Mid-Century Menu, where I take a recipe from my collection of vintage cookbooks, cook it, and force my husband to eat it for dinner. The catch is, we don’t pick a recipe because it looks good. ...
by RetroRuth | Jun 24, 2009 | Beef, Main Dishes
Welcome to this week’s Mid-Century Menu, where I find the strangest mid-century recipe I can and I cook it up and serve it to my husband, who will eat pretty much anything. And most of the time it is even edible. This week’s recipe comes from Warm Weather...
by RetroRuth | Jun 17, 2009 | Main Dishes, Pork
Hello everyone! Welcome to this week’s mid-century menu. This week I tried a recipe from one of my new cookbooks that I recently bought at the Midland Antiques Festival. I was lucky enough to find a whole pile of these little cookbooks for pretty cheap at one...
by RetroRuth | Jun 10, 2009 | Main Dishes, SPAM!
It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means! It’s time for this week’s Mid-Century Menu, where I crack open one of my many, many mid-century cookbooks and look for the most unappetizing meal I can find. I cook it and serve it for dinner to my...
