Spaghetti Honduras is a spaghetti dish with warm, fragrant tomato sauce. There doesn’t seem to be anything Honduran about it. This recipe is more like Mediterranean food than anything you’d find in central America. The recipe comes to me by way of a 1949 community cookbook from the Eugene (Oregon) Welfare League. In my older……
Ingredient: chili powder
Instant Pot Eggplant Chili (adapted from Open House, 1995)
Instant Pot Eggplant Chili is a hearty vegan dinner perfect for a busy meat-free weeknight. This recipe comes to me from an unlikely source: the 1995 cookbook Open House, prepared by the National Alliance to End Homelessness. It’s a weird little cookbook. On the outside it looks like a run-of-the-mill community cookbook, down to the……
Chili Stack (1949, adapted from Sunset Cook Book)
Chili Stack is an out-of-the-ordinary savory pancake main dish with the flair of the American Southwest. I’ve never seen anything quite like it before or since. Adapted from the 1949 Sunset Cook Book of Favorite Recipes, Chili Stack is a meal of thin cornmeal pancakes and a smooth, spicy chili. The pancakes and chili are……
Lamb Conquistador (adapted from the Smart Shopper’s Cookbook, 1972)
Lamb Conquistador is an easy weeknight chili-with-beans from Smart Shopper’s Cookbook (1972) by former Betty Crocker executive Loyta Wooding. Like many recipes in Smart Shopper’s Cookbook it treats lamb shoulder and lamb chops as a budget friendly item – a cost-friendly alternative to beef. This may have been true in the 1970s but it’s hardly……