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 | 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 3, 2009 | Hot Dogs & Mystery Meats, Main Dishes
Happy Wednesday, everyone! You know what this means. Hubs and I have eaten a meal I chose out of a mid-century cookbook, not for it’s promise of deliciousness, but for it’s weird and sometimes disgusting ingredients. We ate it, and we lived to tell about...
by RetroRuth | May 13, 2009 | Appetizers, Main Dishes, Sandwiches & Pies
Hello, everyone! Welcome to the Mid-Century Menu, a small torture that I foist on my husband every week in which I find the weirdest mid-century recipe I can from my collection of vintage cookbooks, make it, and then force him to eat it. Poor Hubs. This week’s...
