It’s here! It’s finally here! I don’t know how you plan on spending your election day, but after work I’m shutting down everything that could possibly tell me anything about the election until the morning after. So tonight I will sit, glass (bottle) of wine in hand, luxuriating in blissful radio silence. But that doesn’tContinue reading Smirnoff Election Punch (1971)
Hello! Happy Sandwich Day! I honor of the occasion, I am sharing a post that first appeared in 2014. This post will be very relevant come the end of the month because it is a most excellent way to use up leftover Thanksgiving Turkey. Check it out!
Foodimentary informs me that today is National Noodle Day! In honor of the occasion, let’s take a quick trip back into the past and see some of the best and worst dinners where I used my noodle. Click on the pictures to take you back in tiiiiiime.
Round ’em up, little dogies! National Day of the Cowboy is July 24th! In honor of the occasion, Greg over at Recipes For Rebels (also the name of his James Dean-themed cookbook) decided to host an ol’ fashioned cook-along blog-along hootenanny. He was nice enough to invite me over to whip up a dish. AlthoughContinue reading Jon Voight’s Artichokes, California-Style
It’s here! It’s here! It’s the Pieathalon! My assigned recipe was sent to me by Greg from Recipes4Rebels. “Peanuts and beer are frequent partners–for snacking, at the ball park, at parties. So what a natural idea it would be to combine peanuts and beer in a sweet dessert pie…” I don’t know if it’s reallyContinue reading PIEATHALON 3: Peanuts-and-Beer Pie
I’m still on vacation. I’m still chillaxing and enjoying the fact that I am done with the 1972 cards. I’m celebrating, bitches. And what is more celebratory than a little champs? Um. NOTHING! Enter Playboy’s Host & Bar Book by Thomas Mario (1971 edition) And the recipe for the Classic Champagne Cocktail. A little bubbles, a little bitters,Continue reading Playboy’s Classic Champagne Cocktail
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I don’t have a lick of Irish in me, nor do I typically go out on St. Patrick’s Day, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t celebrate in my own, small ways. Last year I went to Rick’s house for corned beef, cabbage, and some Irish Cheer cocktails. The Irish CheerContinue reading The Emerald Cocktail
Happy Birthday, Liza! On March 12, Liza With a Z! will turn 70. Seventy!!! To celebrate one of DiS!’s most favorite-ist people ever, I whipped up LIZA MINNELLI’S POTATOE SHELLS. Yes, potatoe shells. I first found the recipe online from the April 9, 1970 edition of the Victoria Advocate. They misspelled her name. Do they spellContinue reading Liza Minnelli’s Potato Shells (1970)
A couple of months ago I made Hash a la Lubeck from the 1969 cookbook Campbell’s Great Restaurants Cookbook, USA. Two weeks ago I went out on 3 Tinder dates in a 7 day period. Both of these experiments had mixed results. When this book came out, Luchow’s was still in business on East 14th Street inContinue reading Luchow’s Hash a la Lubeck (1969)
Happy Groundhog Day! In honor of this most bizarre of holidays, I made a dish from the 1971 cookbook, Gourmets & Groundhogs by Elaine Light. I found this volume at an antique store in Bedford, PA. Bedford is not on this map. If it were, it’d be in the lower right hand corner. Actually, itContinue reading Gourmets & Groundhogs: Hot Shrimp in Vermouth
Hi. As everyone in the western world knows, Mr. David Bowie left Planet Earth late Sunday night. This made me incredibly sad. Surprisingly so. I cried in the car on the way to work today when his duet of “Little Drummer Boy” with Bing Crosby came on the radio. I dunno, it just gave meContinue reading David Bowie’s Shrimp Tempura (1978)
When I was asked to make a pasta dish in support of San Giorgio’s #PastaForGood campaign, I had to go retro. I mean, it’s my schtick. So I took to the interwebs and, on the Curly Wurly blog, found images from a 1950s cookbook published by San Giorgio back in the 1950’s called Try ItContinue reading Mrs. Ezio Pinza’s Spaghetti with Chicken
Hellooooooo! I’m back from my Christmas vacation. I hope that you all had a chance to take some time off and spend it with family–regardless if you celebrate Xmas or not. VACATION RULES! My Christmas was great. I received so many lovely presents from my family, but the items of most interest to you allContinue reading Cabbage Crown and 2015 in Review
AÂ Christmas post, kittens! This year I had a party for the Christmas parade because it goes through my neighborhood. ALL THREE HOURS OF IT. I shit you not. It was like the Macy’s Day parade. But with meth addicts and Tea Party floats. Look! There were actual balloons! And basically every marching band in Maryland.Continue reading Christmas Parade Party Buffet!
I plucked a grey hair out of my left eyebrow this morning. This surprised me; although it should not, considering that for over five years, I dye my hair, not for fun, but out of necessity (I am sitting with light ash brown on my head right now as I type. No, seriously. I am sittingContinue reading 24-Hour Salad
The first time I ever connected Vincent Price and food was when I discovered this little slip of paper tucked within the pages of my copy of The Savoy Cocktail Book (1930) I thought it was delightfully odd. But I never thought anything of it and just put it back into the book. Well, thenContinue reading Vincent Price’s Bloody Mary & Bookbinder’s Snapper Soup
You know this card. It has been passed around the internet again and again and again. It inevitably ends up on lists of bad retro foods. And rightfully so! Look at that gravy–it’s like someone poured a vat of plaster on those chickens and then garnished it with banana slices. Yes. Those are banana slices. This piece of artContinue reading I Made Milk Chicken So You Don’t Have To
PIEROGIES! One of my most favorite foods. Growing up in Pittsburgh, pierogies were everywhere. Everywhere! The best are the ones made by church ladies, and my Aunt Bonnie (goddamnit, why do I not write down the dough recipe when I see her?). My Gramsy was one of the pierogie ladies at St. Mary’s Church inContinue reading Mike Kalina’s Pittsburgh Potato Cheese Pierogies
