by RetroRuth | Mar 8, 2019 | Hot Dogs & Mystery Meats, Main Dishes
Sometimes you just feel like using hot dogs to make a circle on the top of your dinner and then filling that circle with shredded cheese. What? You don’t feel like that? Well, never mind. Maybe that’s just me. In any case, this is Frank-A-Roni Dinner!! From Dollar...
by RetroRuth | Feb 22, 2019 | Holiday, Salads, Side Dishes & Salads, Valentine's Day
So, this was supposed to be a Valentine’s Day post, but I missed it by a week. Which is ok, since this isn’t technically a Valentine’s Day dessert. Er…salad. Valentine’s Salad. Instead of the ubiquitous strawberry, the pink in this dessert actually comes from...
by RetroRuth | Feb 8, 2019 | Bread and Pastries
Alex had a ridiculous number of snow days in a row recently, so I haven’t got much recipe testing done. But I did have some bananas that were going black, so I decided a good snow day activity would be making banana bread! From How America Eats by Clementine...
by RetroRuth | Feb 1, 2019 | Beverages, Cocktail Party
Since Tom has been under the weather lately, I decided it would be a good time to make him some tea. No wait. I thought it would be a good time to make him some beef tea. No, wait. I thought it would be a good time to make him some Cranberry Beef Tea! From Mix Around...
by RetroRuth | Jan 25, 2019 | Main Dishes, Soup
It seems cruel to make someone test recipes while they are sick, and this week Tom had the flu. So I made him a nice bowl of hot chicken noodle soup. With Fried Bananas on top! This was one of those crazy topping ideas I got from a 1941 book entitled, Easy Ways To...
