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This was originally posted on August 5, 2009 on my Modern Retro Woman blog. I love how easy this salad is to make–especially with the assistance of a food processor! Last weekend, the guys that my husband works with/for on various sculpting projects decided to have a barbecue and I was told to bring vegetables. I brought . . . → Read More: From the MRW Archives: Carrot-Cabbage-Raisin Salad A world famous chef has advised women to be daring and experiment with herbs and other seasonings. Better yet, you can have a wonderful time trying sauces others have found add to the enjoyment of desserts, vegetables, and meats. In these pages we have tried to give you a wide variety of the best known tried . . . → Read More: Theatrical Thursday: Getting Sauced When I first started cooking for my family as a young teenager, there were usually seven or more people eating dinner. I learned quickly how to double and triple recipes! And then My Honey and I set up house and it was just the two of us. It took me a while but I finally figured . . . → Read More: American Favorite Dishes, circa 1958 This post was originally published last November over at my Modern Retro Woman blog. We had the casserole for dinner last night except that I used some salmon that had been in the freezer almost too long. And, of course, I added the crispy fried onions on top. _______________________ Grandma Lois' Tuna Casserole Recipe About a month ago, . . . → Read More: From the MRW Archive: Grandma Lois' Tuna Casserole Old Cowboy At The Fall Stew-pendous and Chili Cook-off on the Fairgrounds of historic Crawfordville, Georgia…I saw the photo and just HAD to use it! I was reading Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of the American Cuisine by food studies professor Andrew F. Smith when he mentioned that chili con carne is really . . . → Read More: The Secret Chili Cookoff Ingredient My first experience with broiling was when I was a child and I made an open faced cheese sandwich. Of course, I called it a grilled cheese sandwich. I didn’t know that there was a difference between grilling and broiling…or that most grilled cheese sandwiches are actually fried cheese sandwiches. After commenting on the Facebook . . . → Read More: It Says BROIL Not Boil! Betty Crocker’s You Share cookbook with “52 menus, 226 recipes, and 369 hints on food buying, preparation, meal planning, and serving” was published in 1943 to help women cope with food rationing during World War II. “Betty” tells us that we have to make a little do where there was an abundance before…we must prepare satisfying . . . → Read More: Your Share: Pinwheel Meat Roll Meal planning can seem daunting, especially if you get psyched out by the thought of having to organize it around The Basic Seven. However, our mentor Betty Crocker tells us in the first edition of The Picture Cookbook (first published in 1950): “The basic seven is easy if you follow this pattern…” For Adequate Meals: Breakfast: Fruit, Cereal . . . → Read More: Meal Planning in Action: Braised Chicken If you’ve ever read “French Women Don’t Get Fat,” you know that French women love leek soup for its “magical” properties. Well, I had forgotten about that when I saw some leeks and decided that I hadn’t savored the delicate taste of leek soup in a very long time. The next day, I was discovering the “magical” properties. Doing a quick . . . → Read More: Potato Leek Soup I hadn’t seen my big sister for a couple of years so I was quite excited that she would be visiting So. California (she said it was to visit family and meet our new niece, but I know it was to escape the dreary upper Midwest March weather). My sister and her husband also enjoy cooking . . . → Read More: Oh Betty! You FAILED Me! |
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