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Hearty Corned Beef Salad – 1975
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Mid-Century Menu – Voting for WORST Mid-Century Recipe!
August 18, 2010 By 6 Comments
This is it!!! And so begins the voting for the Worst Mid-Century Recipe Contest. To bring everyone up to speed, these are the recipes that were submitted by YOU, the readers, for the dubious honor of being crowned the Worst Mid-Century Recipe, and this stunning vintage prize pack: *Note: Fabulous Conant-Ball Table not included! There was a flood of responses. Tom and I sat down with our laptop and a barf bag, and pared the entries down to a lean, {Read More}
Mid-Century Menu Contest Finalist #3 – Creamed Eggs in Corned Beef Crust
August 4, 2010 By 14 Comments
Holy Cow! The Worst Mid-Century Recipe Contest marches onward, and there are plenty of horrible recipes still to choose from. Finalist #3 is a peach of a recipe from Sharon, aka Charm and Poise on Flickr, and the curator of the hilariously horrible group Gee, That Food Looks Terrible. Though her submitted recipe has blessedly few ingredients (and no gelatin), this baby is still a horror to behold. Sharon writes: Hi Ruth, I’ve gone a bit out of the box on this {Read More}
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