by RetroRuth | Jul 22, 2009 | Hot Dogs & Mystery Meats, Main Dishes
Welcome, all! It is time for another Mid-Century Menu, the feature on my blog where I find the most unusual, strange, experimental or questionable recipe from my vintage cookbook collection, cook it up and serve it for dinner. Sometimes the results are pretty tasty,...
by RetroRuth | Jun 10, 2009 | Main Dishes, SPAM!
It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means! It’s time for this week’s Mid-Century Menu, where I crack open one of my many, many mid-century cookbooks and look for the most unappetizing meal I can find. I cook it and serve it for dinner to my...
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 | Apr 8, 2009 | Eggs, Main Dishes, The WORST
You know, I don’t consider myself to be the most orderly person. Or the most driven person. I have great ideas, but, like most people, a good majority of them never really pan out. But here it is, only three weeks into my Mid-Century Menu project, and I have...
