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 This is from the Ralston pamphlet, Recipes From Checkerboard Square from 1959, which contains a bunch of recipes that have lots of cereal in them. It’s...
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...
