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Image courtesy of Larry Page Hash Browns Plural Noun (Merriam-Webster): boiled potatoes that have been diced, mixed with chopped onions and shortening, and fried usually until they form a browned cake —called also hash brown potatoes, hashed brown potatoes, hashed browns First Known Use: 1951; Like many words, hash browns is a . . . → Read More: Modern Retro Wordpower: Hash Browns 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 . . . → Read More: Modern Retro Recipe: Sloppy Devils 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 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 . . . → Read More: Is This Recipe a Keeper? Pumpkin Muffins 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 . . . → Read More: Is This Recipe a Keeper? Banana-Pineapple Passion Here is a sampling of things that have come across my desk or piqued my curiosity or are just random thoughts… I think cabbage is my new favorite vegetable. Sorry artichoke hearts. It all started innocently enough with the Carrot-Raisin Salad and just grew from there. We’ve been having it a lot recently just . . . → Read More: Odds and Ends Yesterday, I shared with you how we used to make styrofoam Christmas ornaments, amongst other things, when I was a child. Like many other families, we also used to make and decorate cookies. It is a tradition I still try to maintain with my nieces and nephews. One year, we made candy cane cookies. . . . → Read More: Candy Cane Cookies True confession. As I child, I adored Swanson’s pot pies…you know, those little individual frozen meat pies that burn the roof of your mouth if you try to eat it right out of the oven. I would eat the insides first and then savor the crusty goodness. Alas, the last time I ate one, . . . → Read More: Chicken Pot Pie (Or, What to do with Leftover Turkey) 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Cooking, Recipe, updated vintage recipe chicken pot pie, turkey leftovers After our friend Deborah Laux had mentioned that she was the keeper of a family recipe for Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake, I begged her to send it to me so that I could share it with the Modern Retro Woman community. In her email she writes, My childhood was littered with Chocolate Mayonnaise Cakes – . . . → Read More: Chocolate Mayo Cake 2 comments - (Comments are closed) Baking, Cooking from Scratch, Recipe, Vintage Recipe chocolate mayonnaise It’s autumn, my favorite time of year! And, even though it means triple digit temperatures caused by winds off of the desert where I live now, all of those years of living in locations with four seasons has changed my DNA so that I start craving a good homemade soup. So, in honor of . . . → Read More: It’s Autumn and that Means Soup! One comment - (Comments are closed) Cooking from Scratch, Recipe, updated vintage recipe vegetable soup |
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