Food

Lots of comfort food, and 3 stick-to-your-ribs, home-cooked square meals a day. Honestly, one of my favorite things about winter in a cold climate is the food! Vintage menus, cozy vintage tablescapes, and making sure that the whole family is comfortable and fed — no wonder serving your family 3 square meals a day is […]

September killed my meal planning y’all. I mean it happens every year, so you’d think I’d get used to it, but I never do. Every back-to-school, my Betty Crocker Good and Easy Cookbook gets way more use than it should in a month. Anyway, in an effort to get back on track, I am making

This is the last week before we start school. School for us always starts on the 1st of September and ends on the last day of May. And excitingly, here is the meal plan for Mid-Century Menu Monday for August 24th to 30th. Mid-Century Menu Monday for August 24th to 30th Monday’s Meal Plan Breakfast

Another planning-and-preparation week. I’ve almost got my homeschool lesson plans for the year locked down! Here is the meal plan for your Mid-Century Menu Monday for August 17th to 23rd. Mid-Century Menu Monday for August 17th to 23rd Monday’s Meal Plan Breakfast Lunch Dinner Tuesday’s Meal Plan Breakfast Lunch Dinner Wednesday’s Meal Plan Breakfast Lunch

August is here! This is my back-to-school month. Even though we homeschool, I take summers off (I’m old-fashioned if you hadn’t noticed!), and we start school at the beginning of September. This is one of my weeks for planning and preparing, so my notes for this week are simple, but here is the meal plan

It’s the end of July already! I’m actually publishing this menu after the fact because LIFE, so no notes, just a weekly meal plan to keep up with my goal of having an archive with a meal plan for every week. Here is the meal plan for your Mid-Century Menu Monday for July 20th to

I’m trying something new this week. I am adding notes on exactly how I alter the menus and recipes to suit the ingredients I have on hand, etc. For example, I am replacing at least one vegetable dish a day with zucchini since it is clearly a zucchini year!

Summertime, summertime, sum-sum-summertime! Time for cute summer dresses, iced tea, and watermelon! Cool vintage dinners planned for the summery 50s housewife. Feed your family good old-fashioned meals with your vintage weekly meal plan, Mid-Century Menu Monday for July 6th to 12th.

Hey, sweet readers! For the last half of 2020, I am bringing back my Mid-Century Menu Monday, starting with Mid-Century Menu Monday for July 4th! So, I have a few menu-cook-books from the 40s and 50s now, plus a number of cookbooks that contain menu plans, and a whole lot of Better Homes and Gardens