Fruit ‘N Filbert Pork Chops is easily my favorite recipe from A Treasury of Prize Winning Filbert Recipes, transforming a usually bland and dry pork loin into a delicious weeknight meal. The fruit is arguably central to the flavor profile, but the recipe still showcases the toasty bitterness of roasted hazelnuts. It’s also deliciously old……
Ingredient: chopped sweet onion
Spam Puffs (adapted from Sunset Cook Book, 1949)
Say what you will but I’m a big fan of Spam. No irony, no poverty cuisine voyeurism, no pining for some lost Hawaiian vacation: fried Spam is a genuine treat for our family. At any given time we’ll have a half a dozen cans on hand, ready to whip up a quick batch of musubis……
Tuna Cashew Casserole (Various, 1960s-1970s)
Tuna Cashew Casserole is an odd amalgam of cashews, canned tuna, cream of mushroom soup, and fried chow mein noodles. I’ve seen at least half a dozen variants of this recipe spread across different church cookbooks. The proportions and details vary but the key ingredients are the same. There’s usually a crunchy vegetable in there……
Hay & Straw (adapted from Pasta Cookbook, 1990)
Hay & Straw is a creamy weeknight pasta dish with a unique visual flair. one of my favorite recipes in the Country Kitchen Collection’s Pasta Cookbook. The hay and straw in Hay & Straw refer to the two different colors of pasta used in the recipe. The spinach fettuccine is hay and the regular……