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Modern Retro Recipes Winter Edition! New Year’s Day is just a few days away. About 20 years ago, I learned of the Southern tradition of serving Hoppin’ John on New Year’s Day to bring good luck. What I’ve learned over the years is that there are about as many versions of Hoppin’ John as . . . → Read More: Modern Retro Recipe: Hoppin’ John  2 comments - (Comments are closed)  updated vintage recipe, Vintage Recipe  Cooking, homemaking, Hoppin' John We will be celebrating Thanksgiving here in the United States next week. This Turkey Glace recipe was originally published on December 9, 2008. It really is a great “what do I do with all of these leftovers” recipe. And it is easy to tweak, too, depending upon the amount of leftovers you have. Enjoy! The . . . → Read More: From The Archives: The Ultimate Turkey Leftovers Recipe: Turkey Glace 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Cooking, Recipe, updated vintage recipe, Vintage Recipe Cooking, turkey leftovers, Vintage cooking Modern Retro Recipes Holiday Edition! I was looking through my vintage cookbooks for a fun Halloween dessert (that didn’t involve a pumpkin) for the Modern Retro Recipes eNewsletter’s holiday edition when I came across these adorable guys. Using oranges instead of pumpkins, you create little jack-o-lanterns cloves, licorice, and maraschino cherries and fill them . . . → Read More: Modern Retro Recipe: Goblin Frosties 4 comments - (Comments are closed) home economics, updated vintage recipe, Vintage Recipe dessert, Halloween, recipes This article was originally posted on April 21, 2008: There was a time when women would shop downtown at department stores. These department stores were monuments to fashion and femininity. You could meet your friends for lunch and eat in the elegant dining rooms. It was glorious! Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I . . . → Read More: From the Archive: Department Store Dining Rooms 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 The sauce looks better in person…trust me. I could not find the roast for last night’s dinner in the refrigerator. I looked in one drawer and then another and behind my husband’s collection of grapefruit and cranberry juice bottles. Where could it be??? I finally found it. In the freezer. Frozen solid. It was . . . → Read More: The Plan B Dinner |
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