I don’t really like convenience foods. I like cooking from scratch. I also like reverse-engineering foods. I mean, I started reading Cook’s Illustrated magazine 20 years ago! I’m sure you see where this is going. I LIKE reverse-engineering vintage convenience foods, and making my own from-scratch or convenient versions. And I’ve had a lot of […]
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Happy Thanksgiving Week! I love Thanksgiving, and every year, I make a giant vintage dinner — appetizers, turkey, 8-10 sides, pie. I do it pretty much all myself, although I finally have teenagers old enough to help, thank goodness! Anyway, for this week, we all still have to eat (and eat, and eat), so here
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Meal planning is the hardest part of eating at home all the time. Being creative, coming up with new ideas, and then getting those meals onto the table on time is tough. Here are 7 vintage dinners for mid-November to inspire your adventures in square meals. A Week of Menus for Mid-November There are many
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One of the ways that I save money on food is to bake my own bread. The ingredients for bread are much cheaper than the bread you buy at the store. In fact, this easy vintage bread recipe, with all its variations, can replace almost every fancier bread you might buy, as well. Vintage Bread
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Happy Easter! Here are the menus for Holy week. During this week, I finish my spring cleaning (by Wednesday), and then spend Holy Thursday preparing for Easter. On Good Friday, I fast and make a pilgrimage, so those menus also look different than usual. And on Holy Saturday, the children and I finish preparations and
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It’s Spring Cleaning Week! It’s also super windy this year — but at least all my bedding and mattress are getting well-aired! And on top of that, I am sick! But since Spring Cleaning is time-limited by Easter (traditionally), I am doing my best to clean anyway. I will try to rest a lot the
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March doesn’t appear to be going out like a lamb — it came in like a lion and is leaving like one as well. But next weekend is supposed to be nice, so an outdoor excursion with a sporty picnic is planned for Saturday. So welcome Spring with some delicious square meals! Mid-Century Meal Plan
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Spring is here! Of course, it is still supposed to snow — but the sun says it is Spring! It is also almost April, so it is time to put away the fur hat and get out the picture hat! Once we hit 12-hour-days, I wear hats all the time. I don’t wear chemical sunscreen
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I H-A-T-E Daylight Savings time. Actually, the time doesn’t bother me so much — but the groaning and misery from my kids when the time changes do bother me! Fortunately, there are 2 “holidays” this week, so the food makes up for it. Monday, we celebrate Pi Day (because math and education), and of course,
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So, this year March apparently decided to come in like a lion — and it feels like winter this week. I mean, we are still having single-digit (Fahrenheit) temps at night (that’s negatives for all the Celsius housewives.) So for this week, I included a lot of warming, wintery-sort-of-meals. Nothing like a dinner hot from
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