It’s Meal Plan Monday again, and here is a new 1950s Meal Plan for you! This will be the last of the weekly menus from Family Circle. I have a new cookbook treat for next month! Anyway, here is the Mid-century Menu Monday for February 24 to March 1. Mid-Century Menu Monday Dinners Monday Layers […]
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Do you struggle with a morning routine? Especially with kids? The struggle is real! I used to despair that I would ever be able to get my home and my life running smoothly. It wasn’t until I started reading vintage books, trying to figure out how the 1950s housewife did it, that I realized she
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It’s Mid-Century Menu Monday again! This week we have a President’s Day dinner for a celebration. Also, it’s almost the end of February! Woot! Here’s a chipper set of menus for 1950s Meal-Plan Monday: February 17-23. Mid-Century Menu Monday Dinners for February 17-23 Monday (President’s Day) This inviting casserole stars Swedish meatballs, potatoes, cucumbers, and
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This is my recipe for Valentine’s Day muffins! Vintage Cherry Vanilla Actually, the idea for doing cherry-vanilla flavors for Valentine’s Day came from my February 1952 issue of McCall’s magazine. It had an ad from the Dairy Council, promoting cherry-vanilla ice cream dessert in the middle of the feature on making a Valentine’s Day tea.
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Mid-Century Menu Monday is back! It was a long break, but since I wasn’t cooking, I didn’t make the menus either. But now we are back to normal. I am doing all the cooking once again. This time, however, I have a new baby again, so I have simplified the menu plans somewhat, and changed
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Well, I haven’t updated this project in a week! I didn’t have even a Mid-Century Menu Monday post this week. I didn’t do anything all week! (I lie — I did do the cooking and cleaning. And the homeschooling. Just no Christmas projects.) My midwife told me to take some time off, so I took
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So, at least through this weekend, I will be doing 2 days at a time in my project posts, just to try to catch up properly! Everyone got over being sick, but I had ALL the laundry, and washing out the sickrooms — and at almost 40 weeks, I’m a little slow. Really, I only
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Well, I can tell you that I didn’t EXPECT to fall behind this far. But “needs must when the Devil drives!” (My grandmother used to say that all the time when her plans were disrupted.) All 7 of my kids came down with stomach flu on Tuesday. Yeah. So, I mostly let my projects go
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It was lovely to spend Sunday quietly! Now I am back and ready to go with another day of vintage housekeeping, crafts, and cooking! Let’s get this week started with Very Vintage December, Day 9! Housekeeping: 1950s Mom Meets the Very Vintage December So after a week of tweaking, I think I’ve got my 1950s
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Hello! It’s the second week of December already! This ended up late, because I spent WAY TOO MUCH TIME diving into rabbit holes, looking for the Betty Crocker’s Frankly Fancy recipe booklet from 1959. I thought it would be fun to coordinate my menus this week with the 1959 Holiday Almanac for my Very Vintage
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