by RetroRuth | Jan 4, 2019 | Holiday, New Years
I hope everyone had a great holiday! Also…it’s 2019. Jeez, 2018 was a blur. Anyway, I had some grand plans for NYE and was going to do a whole mid-century spread, but…life. Kids. You know how it is. So I ended up just arranging store-bought food to make it look...
by RetroRuth | Jan 17, 2018 | Beef, Main Dishes, Pork
This week we are making meatloaf! This is Jubilee Meat Loaf! From Recipes From Checkerboard Square, Ralston, 1959 [cooked-sharing] This is from the Ralston pamphlet, Recipes From Checkerboard Square from 1959, which contains a bunch of recipes that have lots of cereal...
by RetroRuth | Sep 19, 2012 | Casserole, Main Dishes, Pork
Tom and I can never say “no” to a food challenge. If you dare us to eat that chocolate-covered grasshopper, we eat it. If you tell us we can’t finish that sandwich, we finish it. And if you send us a crazy vintage recipe, we make it. No one knows this better than...
by RetroRuth | Jan 4, 2012 | Appetizers
Holy Cow, it’s 2012. I can’t believe it. Can you? I mean, I had just gotten used to 2011 when 2012 jumps into my lap and expects to get it’s ears scratched. But Tom and I had a whopper of a New Year’s Eve party to ring in 2012. And by “party” I mean it was just the...
by RetroRuth | Jan 6, 2010 | Casserole, Main Dishes
Welcome to the first Mid-Century Menu of the year! I know you all have eagerly awaiting this moment, as Tom and I both have, to see if this will be a good meal or a bad one. See, I kinda figure this is like Groundhog’s Day for the Menu, if this Menu sees its...
