by Erica | Feb 2, 2014 | Casserole, Chicken, Guest Bloggers
A mid-century recipe is just slightly more fun with a strange name. This, for example, looks like “insane pasta chicken corn casserole,” but Del Monte’s marketing department felt that “chicken cornetti” would be a much more appealing...
by Erica | Jan 26, 2014 | Desserts, Guest Bloggers
In Dante’s Paradiso, he describes nine spheres of heaven. The seventh is for the contemplatives, people who dedicated their lives to ascetic contemplation; as a reward, they get to live on Saturn. And, according to Del Monte, the seventh heaven also has...
by Erica | Jan 19, 2014 | Bread and Pastries, Guest Bloggers, Pork
By Erica According to the advertisement, this is going to be a “man-pleasin’ main dish.” And unfortunately all I have running through my head right now is highly inappropriate jokes about sausages. Sausage Corn Bread Supper – Mid-Century Recipe Guest...
by RetroRuth | Jan 13, 2014 | Best & Worst, Vintage Cooking
2013 was a pretty crazy year for Mid-Century Menu! We tested about 75 vintage recipes, most of them gelatin and not enough of them cocktails. We took about 3000 pictures of food, spent hundreds of hours editing and writing and in the end our blog tripled it’s...
by Erica | Jan 12, 2014 | Cake & Cupcakes, Guest Bloggers
Buzz and I both like babka, which is a traditional Jewish dessert from eastern Europe with cinnamon or chocolate braided throughout a sweet bread-cake. There’s another related dessert called baba, which is essentially the same cake but with fruit or chocolate...
by Erica | Jan 5, 2014 | Guest Bloggers, Main Dishes
Bean Surprise! The surprise is… um… that there are things besides beans in it? Or perhaps the surprise is that there are beans in it. I promise they’re in there. Somewhere. Bean Surprise Author: A&P Serves: 4 Ingredients 4 firm tomatoes 1 can Ann...
