My best guess is that this is a pasta salad of some kind.
You might want to check with Rena though to make sure.
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Chicken Baked
I'm surprised that with the title of this recipe, the poultry isn't cooked at 420 degrees instead...
Chocolate Pound Cake
Never one to plagiarize, you can see my granny giving Aunt Ruth the citation for this recipe.
Saturday, January 14, 2017
The Origins of the Green Recipe Box
A few months ago, we were cleaning out some nooks and crannies in our house and I stumbled upon one of my granny's recipe boxes. Through all of the things she lived through (and believe me, she lived through a lot) one constant with her was her love of cooking.
I almost hesitate calling it just cooking though. She was more of a amateur scientist that specialized in food and we (her family and many friends) were her test subjects. Some of her creations were amazing, others would challenge your taste buds to go where they should never go (I still remember her jalapeno and olive jello). No matter what it was, you could always count on a great story being born from every recipe.
Instead of leaving these in storage to collect dust and be lost in obscurity, I wanted to share these with the world. Some of these she wrote herself, others were ones she collected from friends, newspapers, magazines, and even post cards. You are seeing the recipes as I see them, complete, incomplete, and everything in between.
So now it's your turn to be the amateur scientist. I'll be posting more of these of the coming weeks until I finish all that were included in the little green recipe box. I'm looking forward to seeing your comments, photos, triumphs, and failures. Help me bring these back to life and create some great stories of your own.
Veggie Dip
Mrs. Beck was a good friend of my granny and lived in the same apartment complex. Mrs. Beck's husbands nickname was "Foxy". They had a room in their apartment full of slides that documented their entire life. I spent untold weekends watching the slides with Mr. and Mrs. Beck. From living on an Native American reservation, to fighting in the Korean War, I got to see it all. Just one of the benefits of being a surrogate grand kid.
Before you ask, I have no idea what the back of this card has anything to do with the front...but that's the adventure right?
Liver
My only guess to the origins of this paper is that it is somehow related to my granny's mother (my great grandmother). Interesting how one word seems to stand out above the rest.
La-Choy and Hamburger
My granny had a huge can of La-Choy vegetables in her canned food cabinet.
The same cabinet I organized for her dozens of times when I was growing up.
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