Chicken Casserole is a low-effort sweet and sticky baked chicken dish with a sauce thrown together from canned goods and salad dressing. It bears a strong resemblance to a Russian Chicken recipe that seems to show up in a lot of my community cookbooks, all variants on a recipe created by Kraft foods, probably in the early 1990s.
Month: February 2022
Smoked Oriental Seafood (adapted from Cooking with Regis & Kathie Lee, 1993)
Smoked Oriental Seafood is a quick and tasty stir fry with a spicy, garlicky kick. The name of the recipe is misleading: if you’ve come looking for seafood infused with smoke you’ve come to the wrong place, nor are any of the supporting ingredients smoked, smoky, or even smoke-flavored. As best as I can figure……
Vinegar Peppers and Pork (Florida, 1991, adapted)
It’s important to me on this site to present vintage recipes as our parents and grandparents would have prepared them. The internet is already saturated with modernized versions of comfort food classics. I don’t want to be one more site projecting twenty-first century food trends onto vintage recipes. If I’m going to make a tuna……
Orange-Glazed Sweet Potatoes (Oregon, 1948, adapted)
Orange-Glazed Sweet Potatoes is a sweet and starchy side dish that will bring something a little bit different to the dinner table. This particular recipe dates back to 1948, one of many recipes in the U. of O. Mother’s Cookbook, a community cookbook to raise funds for the University of Oregon. Prior to finding this……
Vintage Cookbook Review: Myra Waldo’s Chinese Cookbook (1968)
I came by my copy of Myra Waldo’s Chinese Cookbook (1968) at a little antique store in Sherwood, Oregon. There was a tiny book section tucked in the back of the store with no real rhyme or reason to it. There certainly wasn’t a cookbook section, but the overall selection was refreshingly eclectic. I picked…
Creamed Beans with Dill Seed (Oregon, 2006, adapted)
Creamed Beans with Dill Seed is a simple yet elegant side dish with a unique and alluring flavor profile. The recipe comes to me by way of Recipes of the Heart, a 2006 cookbook from my home congregation. The author is a dear woman who still lives nearby and who I still see regularly. She’s only……