by RetroRuth | Sep 2, 2009 | Beef, Main Dishes
Hello everyone! Welcome to this week’s Mid-Century Menu, where I pick a recipe from my vast array of vintage cookbooks and make it for dinner, forcing my husband to eat it no matter what. In all fairness, he is excited to eat the sometimes noxious concoctions,...
by RetroRuth | Aug 19, 2009 | Main Dishes, SPAM!
Happy Mid-Century Menu, everyone! Oh, wait. I guess I mean, happy Wednesday. Wednesday has pretty much become Mid-Century Menu day around our house. And what is the Mid-Century Menu? Take one vintage cookbook, add one man who will eat anything and you have the...
by RetroRuth | Aug 5, 2009 | Fish, Main Dishes
Welcome to the Mid-Century Menu where every week blah blah blah vintage cookbooks, blah blah blah interesting recipes, blah blah blah serve it to my husband for supper. You get the idea. 🙂 The recipe, or should I say set of recipes, that Tom and I chose this week...
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 | Apr 15, 2009 | Main Dishes, Pork, The WORST
Welcome to the weekly Mid-Century Menu, where my adventurous husband and I cook and eat an “interesting” recipe we find in my collection of vintage cookbooks. Hooray. Sorry for the lack of enthusiasm, but last night’s dinner was…interesting to...
