Let’s be honest – Chili Wheat is not a particularly appetizing name for a supper dish. It sounds like it ought to be a snack food or some kind of hipster breakfast cereal. Or maybe even a bad joke. The truth is more mundane: think Chili Mac but with wheat instead of macaroni. To understand……
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Cabbage-Cheese Chowder (Oklahoma, 1970s)
Cabbage-Cheese Chowder is a strange little recipe from that encapsulates everything I love about community cookbooks. As with any church cookbook, most of the recipes in Adventures in Food feel as though they are meant to establish one’s place in a hierarchy. People are prone to share recipes that they might prepare for fancy company, or……
Airy Light Casserole Bread (Oklahoma, 1970s)
Airy Light Casserole Bread is a simple yeast bread that resembles focaccia, but with much less work. The recipe comes to me by way of Adventures in Food, a community cookbook compiled by my parents’ Oklahoma congregation in the late 1970s. I’ve never been particularly good with yeast breads, but was intrigued by the unusual……
Orange-Spiced Pot Roast (Oklahoma, 1970s adapted)
Orange-Spiced Pot Roast is an international approach to the traditional Yankee pot roast. The recipe comes to me by way of Adventures in Food, a 1970s cookbook from my parents’ Oklahoma congregation. It’s a surprisingly adventuresome dish for this cookbook, where most of the main dish recipes are practical weeknight meals. Like most 1970s……