(Before I start let me just say that the formatting here is a hot mess and I can’t seem to fix it. I mean, it’s really messed up. If there is a missing picture in the middle, it may or may not be at the bottom of the post) My friends over at the BookClubContinue reading More Cowbell! Chicken Vindaloo
Do you ever have a OMG I need to eat that craving but then realize that you don’t have the money to go out to dinner so you gotta do it yourself? Well, that was me with this Marsala dish. Big craving and I already had chicken and mushrooms on hand. So I had theContinue reading Veal (Chicken) alla Marsala (1978)
I know that I start so many of my posts with “sorry I haven’t posted in so long, but…[insert reason here]. But I don’t particularly have a reason this time. None. I can’t even come up with one. This made me think of my friend Richard. He has always told me that I’m an nihilist.Continue reading 144. Macaroni-Beef Topsy Turvy
OMG. Can it be? Can it really be? Can it be FALL?*** It sure feels like autumn this weekend–although I am skeptical that it’s going to stick around. I mean, it was 90+ degrees less than a week ago. But regardless, I am going to say that it IS fall! And how should I welcomeContinue reading 122. Hash Squash Bake
Jenny Hammerton, the author of Cooking with Columbo and Cooking with Joan Crawford, and the mastermind behind Silver Screen Suppers is at it again with the upcoming Murder, She Cooked: a Cabot Cove Cookbook. In anticipation of the book, cooks all across the interwebz were assigned recipes from the cavalcade of celebrity guest stars onContinue reading Murder, She Wrote Cookalong: Thomas Magnum’s Crunchy Tuna Melt
If you are a regular reader, then you know that I love me a good party punch. Seriously, if I throw a party–there will be punch. I cannot recommend making a party punch enough. Have wine, beer, and punch. You just fill it up throughout the evening and add frozen fruit to chill it andContinue reading Happy National Punch Day!!!
So, almost one month later, I decided to try to re-make my Chopped appetizer—same ingredients and same time frame. In case you forgot—the ingredients were pork chops, apple sauce, frozen mixed vegetables, and cheese ball. This is was my television result: For the re-do the only thing I had to buy was the pork.Continue reading Re-Chopped: Polynesian Pork & Pineapple Skewer with Applesauce Puree
With mayonnaise it’s a salad, but with whipped cream, it’s a dessert! You laugh, but that’s how the 1963 edition of The Joys of Jell-O intended it to be! When you serve them as desserts, garnish with prepared dessert topping or whipped cream. As salads, unmold them on crisp greens and top withContinue reading Two-Way Recipes: Cherry Waldorf Salad (1963)
Greetings and salutations! To those of you who are here because of my stellar appearance on Chopped– Welcome to Dinner is Served 1972! After reading about the show I hope you’ll stick around a bit and peruse the site–eight years of cooking up food from the past–both delicious and disgusting! And then maybe you canContinue reading I Was Chopped!
If you follow me on social media, I know you that you know that Dinner is Served 1972 is going to appear this week on Food Network’s Chopped. But if you don’t follow me on social media–guess what? Dinner is Served 1972 is appearing on Chopped! The episode is called A Very Brady Chopped. SoContinue reading Florence Henderson’s “Wessonality” Chef Salad (1980)
It’s the Pieathalon!!! I cannot believe that I’ve been coordinating this shindig for six whole years. Bravo to me. This year, my assignment comes from Peter over at Vincent Price Legacy UK. Like Vincent Price, Surrealist artist Salvador Dali had a cookbook published in the 1970s. Also like Vincent Price, Dali’s cookbook was published onlyContinue reading Pieathalon 6: Salvador Dali’s Oasis Leek Pie (1973)
This is the dish that you chose as the grand finale of this Wiener Wednesday revival! This recipe was sent to me by Mr. Sauce, Esq.’s mom. She will henceforth be known as Mother Sauce. Once Mother Sauce found out that I was a hot dog enthusiast, she started emailing me frankfurter recipes and thisContinue reading Wiener Wednesday: Chili Dog Bread Ring
Happy National Day of the Cowboy! I am once again participating in the Recipes 4 Rebels cookalong. In the past I have featured Jon Voight, and Elvis Presley, but this time I am featuring Clint Eastwood. Eastwood totally qualifies to be featured on Cowboy Day because he got his start on the television show Rawhide.Continue reading #CowboyDayCookalong: Clint Eastwood’s Spaghetti Western (1996)
No, I have no idea why I did this. But I did. For the past month I have been, bit by bit, hiding stuff in my office. As in taking my personal items and hiding them as though I have been moving them/throwing them away. It started when I gave my office a really goodContinue reading Wiener Wednesday: Teenie Weenies (National Day of the Hot Dog)
Happy Wiener Wednesday! This week, Mr. Sauce, Esq. chose the frankfurters, which explains why this week’s selection is a little bit on the safe side. Sometimes you don’t want to go all crazy and make a Jellied Hot Dog Loaf or some other insane dog dish, amiright? So here is a nice and easy weenieContinue reading Wiener Wednesday: Frankfurters with Macaroni and Cheese(1966)
My frankfurter-loving friends, I need your help! I want you to decide what hot dog dish ends up on the blog next week. You have until Friday to make your choice from 4 options. Zelda’s Frank Casserole was submitted by Alan over at the Informal Association of Cookbook Collectors & Foodists. It is a recipeContinue reading You Pick Next Week’s Wieners!
So, I don’t like rum. At all. The smell of rum is enough to make me queasy. And this isn’t even one of those “well, I had a bad experience in college with it….” It’s not. Because I would never drink rum in the first place. But I don’t hate it in a Mojito. IContinue reading Happy National Mojito Day!
This is from THE MEATS COOKBOOK from Southern Living Magazine. I’ve been holding onto this one for a while, just waiting for the best moment to break it out. Look at the cover and you can see why. Quick background–my former co-worker Valerie gave this to me. I do not know to whom in herContinue reading Wiener Wednesday: Kraut & Frankfurter Plank Dinner (1971)
