Saturday, May 30, 2026

Jonesing for June

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It's almost June, which according to Home Gardener's Cookbook (Marjorie Page Blanchard, 1974) "is the first month when the gar...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Grounded and not-so-grounded beef recipes

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Since we've been thinking about economizing lately, let's look at Ground Beef Cookbook  (Favorite Recipes Press, 1967), which opens ...
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Saturday, May 23, 2026

Poppy plays a sandwich psychic

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What's your favorite way to fix a sandwich?  You didn't say "In the microwave," did you?  Okay, that display of my "p...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Stretching food dollars with the USDA

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As upset as we are over the rising price of... well... pretty much everything lately, it's not like this is the first time in history pe...
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Saturday, May 16, 2026

Don't eat that! (And I'm not just being picky this time.)

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When I initially posted about my grandma's recipe box , I noted how few of those recipes I actually remembered her making. Today's p...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Mostly stuff grandma didn't make, and one big surprise

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Today, I'm posting something very special to me. I inherited my grandma's recipe box. Here is a view of the side, which had a fruit ...
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Saturday, May 9, 2026

You could find mainstream-America-obscure veggies here in the days before Food Network!

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When I initially wrote about  The Unabridged Vegetable Cookbook  (Nika Hazelton, copyright 1976, but mine is from the 1980 Bantam printing),...
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