Retro Recipes Tested Here!
Hello all!!! I am super-hungry for doughnuts this week, so I thought I would dig into the archives and pull out this great gem for some homemade banana doughnuts. This post originally ran in March of 2011, and it was so good I have made these several times since. Just a tip, leftover slightly stale banana doughnuts make killer French toast! This week we have a fun Mid-Century Menu for you! We are cooking out of Better Living Thru Good {Read More}
Happy Halloween!! Since this is a day of thrills, chills and tons of candy, I thought it would be appropriate if I told you all a Halloween tale today. This is a tale of mystery, magic, mashed bananas and heroism. This is the tale of: THE BANANA SPOOK CAKE! Once upon a time… It was a typical weekday in a small town in Michigan. An unsuspecting girl walked into her local Salvation Army and, as she normally did, headed straight {Read More}
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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 and pans. Prudential Wares was eventually purchased by ECKO, which went out of business in 2000. Prudential Wares cookware was good quality and sturdy, and came with a 50-year guarantee. {Read More}
Hoooweee. We really pulled out all the stops this week on the Mid-Century Menu. I can’t wait until you guys get a load of this one. But I am getting ahead of myself. *Ahem* This week on the Mid-Century Menu, we are cooking out of this cute book we found while on a trip in the Petosky area earlier this year. (Go Morels!) It was published by McCall’s in 1972, and is a cookbook made up completely of, you guessed {Read More}
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