by RetroRuth | Jul 29, 2009 | Hot Dogs & Mystery Meats, Main Dishes
Hello! Welcome to the Mid-Century Menu, the feature on my blog in which I pick an unusual, interesting or strange recipe from my vintage cookbook collection, cook it, and then serve it to my husband for dinner! Poor Tom, the human guinea pig. This week’s pick...
by RetroRuth | Jul 15, 2009 | Fish, Main Dishes
Welcome to this week’s Mid-Century Menu, the special portion of my blog where I choose a hilarious or crazy recipe from my vintage cookbook collection, cook it exactly as the recipe tells me (no matter how horrible), and then serve it up for dinner. My husband...
by RetroRuth | Jul 8, 2009 | Main Dishes, SPAM!
Oh yeah, it’s that time again! Welcome to this week’s Mid-Century Menu, where I take a recipe from my collection of vintage cookbooks, cook it, and force my husband to eat it for dinner. The catch is, we don’t pick a recipe because it looks good. ...
by RetroRuth | Jul 1, 2009 | Appetizers
Happy Wednesday, everyone! Time for the Mid-Century Menu, where normally I make something horrible from one of my vintage cookbooks and force my husband to eat it. However, this week I decided to post a cute recipe just sent to me by Sablemable, which I just made...
by RetroRuth | Jun 24, 2009 | Beef, Main Dishes
Welcome to this week’s Mid-Century Menu, where I find the strangest mid-century recipe I can and I cook it up and serve it to my husband, who will eat pretty much anything. And most of the time it is even edible. This week’s recipe comes from Warm Weather...