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Dear Friends, This recipe for sloppy joes is a variation of a recipe for “deviled hamburgers” that I found in a “calorie friendly” cookbook that belonged to my husband’s grandmother. I have found that if any recipe says “deviled” in it, there will be mustard and/or horseradish (such as deviled eggs). I doubled the seasonings . . . → Read More: Modern Retro Recipe: Sloppy Devils Dear Friends, As I write this letter to you, I am giddy with delight! Put on your party hats, crank up Dino and Frank, and join with me in celebrating the launch of the first issue of the Modern Retro Recipes eNewsletter today! The twenty page newsletter is filled with vintage and retro inspired . . . → Read More: Bring Out the Party Hats: It’s a Retro eNewsletter Launch Party  6 comments - (Comments are closed)  Cooking, Cooking from Scratch, updated vintage recipe  chicken, Vintage baking, Vintage cooking
Dear Friends, Within the next few days, I will be publishing my first issue of the Modern Retro Recipes Cookbooklet. For the past couple of months, I have been having a great time sorting through pre-1960s recipes, trying them out, updating them, taking photographs, and getting feedback from my taste-testers. Oh, yes, and actually . . . → Read More: Retro Recipe: Bran Muffins (They’re Not Just For Old Folks) That's my Grandma Lois in the corner. Doesn't she look like she should be a grandmother? Dear Friends,
I know I’ve shared this recipe with you before. However, it is one of The Mister’s favorite casseroles and as I prepared it for dinner Sunday night, I decided I should share it with . . . → Read More: Modern Retro Recipe: Grandma Lois’ Tuna Noodle Casserole 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Cooking, Cooking from Scratch, Recipe, updated vintage recipe Tuna Noodle Casserole Dear Friends, After being in a cooking rut for the past couple of months, I pulled out my vintage cookbooks and browsed through them for some inspiration. In my “250 Ways to Prepare Meat” cookbook from the Culinary Arts Institute (1954), I found a recipe for stuffed flank steak. The only time I remember having . . . → Read More: Modern Retro Recipe: Stuffed Flank Steak 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Cooking, Culinary Arts Institute, updated vintage recipe Main Dish, Meat, Stuffed Flank Steak Dear Friends, I chuckled to myself as I sat down to write to you. The irony that I’m sharing a cake recipe just two days after Jack LaLanne told us to go easy on the sweets is not lost on me. The truth is, I baked this cake on Sunday and I think Mr. LaLanne . . . → Read More: Peach Upside Down Cake Lady Luck is not the presiding genius in a kitchen any more than she is in a chemistry laboratory. ~ The Home Economics Omnibus, p. 12 I was cleaning scraps of muslin and patterns and other assorted design class doo-dads off of my office bookshelf next to my desk when my eyes alit upon . . . → Read More: Luck, Be a Lady Tonight! My large family of origin gets together on Christmas Eve for a huge dinner, reading of the Christmas story from Luke, and unwrapping of what seems like a bazillion gifts stashed under the tree (even though we draw names). Oh, and we laugh a lot. It is not a sedate and formal affair by a . . . → Read More: Is This Recipe a Keeper? Pumpkin Muffins Did you hear a squeal of delight emanating from Los Angeles the other day? It was me. I checked my mailbox and there was a big envelope with my name on it from my former-student-turned-friend Erica (as an aside, I already told my higher ups at the graduate university that if anything happens to me, . . . → Read More: Is This Recipe a Keeper? Smothered Hamburg Patties Banana Pineapple Passion image courtesy of kraftrecipes.com Date: Labor Day, September 6, 2010 Time: 3:30 PM *ring….ring…ring* Me: Hello? The Mister: We’ve been invited to a barbecue with [the bachelor artists]. I’ll be home at 5:30 to pick you up. We really should take something. Me: Ummm, what? It’s not like this is a . . . → Read More: Is This Recipe a Keeper? Banana-Pineapple Passion |
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