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....
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...
by RetroRuth | May 6, 2009 | Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts
Welcome to this week’s Mid-Century Menu! Normally, this is where I cook a terrifiying recipe from the 1950s or 1960s and serve it to my poor husband for dinner, but if you have been reading my blog this week you know that I am visiting my parents in Wisconsin. ...
by RetroRuth | Apr 29, 2009 | Fish, Main Dishes, The WORST
Hello, everyone! Welcome to Mid-Century Menu, the weekly Wednesday post in which I pick a mid-century recipe to cook and serve for dinner from my vast collection of vintage cookbooks. And it is usually an “interesting” recipe. Interesting as in, who...
by RetroRuth | Apr 22, 2009 | Hot Dogs & Mystery Meats, Main Dishes
Happy Wednesday everyone! Welcome to Mid-Century Menu, where every week I reproduce a vintage recipe as accurately as possible, and then force my husband to choke it down no matter how bad it is. Even though he has started to enjoy it, for some strange reason....