Food

Hello again! Time for the 3rd-week-in-November menus. Do you ever feel like this week gets short shrift, while we spend all our time thinking about next week’s Thanksgiving dinner? I do. But, once more unto the breach, dear readers, for this week’s Mid-Century Menu Monday! On to the 1950s meal plan! A Week of Menus […]

Does the idea of planning for regular family dinners on top of planning for holiday cooking stress you out? Did you know that your family will sit down to 1095 meals a year — mostly made by you? That’s enough to make ANYONE sick of meal-planning! Luckily, I have several vintage cook books with menus

Another Monday, and it’s time for another installment of 1950s Meal Plan Monday! Menu planning help for the mid-century mom in the last week of October. Of course, that means a Halloween supper. And if you are Catholic, it also means All Saint’s Day and All Soul’s Day. But, all undaunted, the modern 1950s housewife

1950s vintage menus are so much fun! I thought that it would be exciting to start a 1950s Meal Plan Monday for all my readers who might be wondering about making a proper 1950s dinner part of your daily meal plan. Here are the menus for October 21-27. Menus Monday Chicken tetrazzini, peas, rolls, apple-nut

Even in the 1930s, housewives were trying to find a way to spend less time in the kitchen. In 1939, Marjorie Abbott published Half Hour Dinners, a book of quick, three course meals. She addressed this book to the busy housewife, the business woman, the bachelor, and anyone who has to cook in summer. Now, my