by RetroRuth | Jul 7, 2010 | Cake & Cupcakes, Desserts
Happy Wednesday! I hope that your holiday weekends were all fantastic. Mine…was wet. Very wet. Tom and I drove to see my parents and drop off little Clark (one of the last of the foster kittens) with them, and afterwards did some camping in the UP. Ugh. I...
by RetroRuth | May 12, 2010 | Casserole, Main Dishes, Pasta
By RetroRuth Happy Wednesday, All! This week on the Mid-Century Menu we are cooking out of a cookbook that a lucky lady in 1957 would have received with her brand new, state of the art Rena-Ware. Published in 1957, this super cute book has tons of recipes created by...
by RetroRuth | Jan 20, 2010 | Casserole, Main Dishes, Pork
Welcome to another Mid-Century Menu!! This week we are cooking out of a kind of fun little cookbook I found while on vacation this summer. It is Prize Winning Recipes (made better with American Beauty Macaroni Products) or Institutional Cooking At Home. Just...
by RetroRuth | Nov 25, 2009 | Beef, Main Dishes
Wow, check out the piece of meat on the cover of this cookbook. Appetizing, huh? It is no surprise that this is the cookbook that I chose the Mid-Century Menu out of this week. It is 250 Ways to Prepare Meat by the Culinary Arts Institute, published in 1942. This is...
by RetroRuth | Nov 4, 2009 | Main Dishes, Pork
Welcome to this week’s Mid-Century Menu! This week Tom and I picked a great recipe out of Favorite Recipes of Michigan Meats, although I am not sure if any meats, especially Michigan meats, actually do have favorite recipes or not. Hey, I don’t make them...
