by RetroRuth | Oct 5, 2011 | Desserts, Hello Jell-O, Pie
It’s Fall! I love fall. It’s the season of pumpkins and Halloween. The season for butternut squash, fresh chestnuts and bushel baskets of tomatoes. But, most importantly, it’s the season for apples. And even more important than apples? Apple. Cider. Oh yes. Apple...
by RetroRuth | May 5, 2010 | Beef, Main Dishes
Man, nothing screams “Mid-Century Menu” like a cookbook that has a giant, rare, glistening meatloaf on the cover. And to top it off, it is Good Housekeeping’s Hamburger & Hot Dog Book, Novel Uses For America’s Favorite Meats! I love that...
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 | Jun 3, 2009 | Hot Dogs & Mystery Meats, Main Dishes
Happy Wednesday, everyone! You know what this means. Hubs and I have eaten a meal I chose out of a mid-century cookbook, not for it’s promise of deliciousness, but for it’s weird and sometimes disgusting ingredients. We ate it, and we lived to tell about...
by RetroRuth | May 27, 2009 | Hot Dogs & Mystery Meats, Main Dishes
Hello everyone! Welcome to this week’s edition of the Mid-Century Menu, where I cook terrible mid-century recipes and force Hubs…blah blah blah. You know, I need to come up with a new intro, because frankly, Hubs is starting to enjoy this. He gets a...
