Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Time Traveling with Vegetables

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The Unabridged Vegetable Cookbook  (Nika Hazelton, copyright 1976, but mine is from the 1980 Bantam printing) is both exactly what I expecte...
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Saturday, April 11, 2026

Surprise! Casseroles!

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If there's one thing home ec teachers and I have in common, it's love of a casserole. (Of course, theirs is genuine and mine is ofte...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Stay slim the vintage way, with iceberg lettuce, canned peaches, and low-cal pudding mix!

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Swimsuit season is just around the corner! And back when women were required by law to care about such nonsense, they might have pulled out ...
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Saturday, April 4, 2026

Have an extra-sweet Easter!

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Hosting Easter this year? Worried your menu might not include sufficient amounts of pie filling on this high holy day of sugar?  Easy Homema...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Thinking about dinner and the lawn in April

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I thought that April might have a few more recipes than the earlier months in  Home Gardener's Cookbook  (Marjorie Page Blanchard, 1974)...
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Saturday, March 28, 2026

"Surprise!" The recipe is supposed to be a prank somehow...

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April is almost here, so there's no better time to post some fun April Fool's Day tricks for the kitchen! Honestly, though, part of ...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Spring suggestions from Women's Circle

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I usually focus on pre-1980s cookbooks (partially because the presentation and photography started getting slicker in the 1980s, and I prefe...
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