by RetroRuth | Jan 13, 2010 | Hello Jell-O, Salads, SPAM!
I love the Mid-Century Menu for so many reasons. Well, not for taste reasons, but there are a lot of other good reasons the Mid-Century Menu is awesome. One of them is that it gives me an excuse for my ridiculously huge cookbook collection. Another is that it gives...
by RetroRuth | Aug 19, 2009 | Main Dishes, SPAM!
Happy Mid-Century Menu, everyone! Oh, wait. I guess I mean, happy Wednesday. Wednesday has pretty much become Mid-Century Menu day around our house. And what is the Mid-Century Menu? Take one vintage cookbook, add one man who will eat anything and you have the...
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 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...
by RetroRuth | May 20, 2009 | Main Dishes, SPAM!
Welcome to this week’s edition of Mid-Century Menu, where I willingly make mid-century recipes that I know will be terrible or inedible, and then Hubs and I eat them for dinner. Most of the time we can even eat all of them. This week we have a special treat....