My next recipe box recipe is for carrot cookies. It comes from a black Chinese themed recipe box and it is a recipe that was typed on an index card. My favorite part of the card is that by the end of typing it, the writer was completely over it and was not about fixing … Continue reading Recipe Box: Carrot Cookies
Phyllis Diller was a comedian who one of the first female standups to be a household name making many appearances on such shows as Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and What's My Line?. Her self deprecating and eccentric stage persona was known for her crazy hair, clothes and her exaggerated laugh. She had a long career that … Continue reading Phyllis Diller’s Stuffed Mushrooms
Monday I talked about Poppy Cannon and the inspiration behind her most popular cookbook The Can Opener Cookbook. Today and Friday I will be talking about the recipes you can find in the cookbook. Most recipes in the book use a convenience product to cut down the time it takes to create a meal. It … Continue reading Poppy Cannon and a Can of Corned Beef Hash
Today's recipe box recipe comes from a vintage Bisquick box that amazingly still has the original dividers and recipes that came with it. This is not one of those such recipes but instead a recipe giving to the owner by a Ms. Ruth Schwartz. It most likely is a recipe card from the 70s but … Continue reading Recipe Box: Cheese Cookies
When I was younger Peach Melba was a dish that held such mystery to me. What was a melba and how did it connect to the peach? I was quite surprised when I found out as I got older that it was a pretty simple dessert! Who and where was the Peach Melba created? … Continue reading History of Peach Melba
Liza Minnelli is the daughter of famous movie actress and singer, Judy Garland and director of some of the best musicals, Vincent Minnelli. Liza is also in one of my favorite movie Cabaret and this is her recipe for the decadent Potato Shells. These are not your normal potato skins which is usually topped with … Continue reading Liza Minnelli’s Potato Shells
The day finally came..... Today is the day that I picked a savory gelatin salad out of the jar. Luckily (...sort of I guess) it was a simple salad that just mixes some raw veggies into the gelatin mixture that is flavored with vinegar and grated onion. So no crazy deviled egg or seafood gelatin … Continue reading The Gelatin Diaries: Vegetable Salad
Yesterday I talked about the 1956 musical High Society and today I am following up about the cocktail and canape that I made to go with it. I knew something champagne had to go with this movie which was a good call as that champagne was drunk quite a bit by the characters. I found a … Continue reading Champagne Fizz and Blue Cheese Balls
The next recipe I am making from my recipe box collection is Apple Pudding Pie. It hails from a Syndicate Manufacturing Company box that has bright blue and yellow flowers with accents of green. This particular recipe was cut out of a newspaper and glued on to an index card. Unfortunately there is no indication … Continue reading Recipe Box: Apple Pudding Pie
In Peg Bracken's Appendix to The I Hate To Cook Book, there is a dessert recipe simply titled "The Cake". No descriptors or cute names just The Cake. It sat there in the back of my mind wondering about this cake recipe. It uses a box cake mix that she doctors up with some instant … Continue reading Peg Bracken’s The Cake
