by RetroRuth | Aug 24, 2011 | Contests, Fish, The BEST
This is the reason that Tom and I make crazy vintage recipes. Because everyone once in a while, a horrible, disgusting-looking recipe will be made. And it will turn out well. Like this one: Deviled String Beans and Tuna, which was submitted by Amy. Congratulations,...
by RetroRuth | Apr 20, 2011 | Desserts, The BEST
This week we have a fun Mid-Century Menu for you! We are cooking out of Better Living Thru Good Cooking with Prudential Wares, published in 1953. For those of you who are in the dark about Prudential Wares (like I was), it was a cookware company that made mostly pots...
by RetroRuth | Jan 19, 2011 | Chicken, Main Dishes, The BEST
What can I say? Sometimes the Mid-Century Menu is just good, clean fun. Well, most of the time it’s not good or clean (teats!). But heck, it’s always fun. This week we get to have good AND clean fun, because nothing in this week’s Menu even remotely looks like a...
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 | Sep 23, 2009 | Chicken, Main Dishes
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...
