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Even though I try not to cook out of the same cookbook twice in a row, the Prize Winning Recipes from American Beauty  Macaroni was calling to me again this week. Since the mediocre sucess that was Mexican Macaroni Casserole last week, not much has changed for this cookbook.  It is still kind of creepy, and [...]

 Welcome to another Mid-Century Menu!!  This week we are cooking out of a kind of fun little cookbook I found while on vacation this summer.  It is Prize Winning Recipes (made better with American Beauty Macaroni Products) or Institutional Cooking At Home.  Just kidding about the last one guys. Kind of.
Anyway, this cookbook was put [...]

I love the Mid-Century Menu for so many reasons.  Well, not for taste reasons, but there are a lot of other good reasons the Mid-Century Menu is awesome.  One of them is that it gives me an excuse for my ridiculously huge cookbook collection. Another is that it gives me new techniques and recipes to [...]

This post is for you Ruth, our Goddess of MCM cooking! I am constantly amazed at all of your awesome MCM meal posts and the guts you have to make some of those crazy sounding meals. You know we all love to read them – and we especially love to see Tom’s reaction when he [...]

Welcome to the first Mid-Century Menu of the year! I know you all have eagerly awaiting this moment, as Tom and I both have, to see if this will be a good meal or a bad one.  See, I kinda figure this is like Groundhog’s Day for the Menu, if this Menu sees its shadow, [...]

Ah!  So many choices!  With over 40 Mid-Century Menus to choose from, Tom and I had a tough time deciding what was the best and worst of this year.  We couldn’t really come up with an overall best or an overall worst, so we came up with a couple of categories  in each choice, and sometimes [...]

Merry Christmas early, everyone!!!  We are getting ready for a great holiday, so I thought I would give you all a treat this week.  I know how much everyone likes my husband Tom’s reactions to the first bite of the Mid-Century Menu, so I thought I would put together a best of Tom post as [...]

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  Well, the countdown to Christmas is in full swing and everything around here is about as chaotic as it can get.   I like getting ready for Christmas, which is really good news because otherwise I might go completely insane.  Did I mention that I bought 9 lbs of butter the other day [...]

Well, it is snowing like crazy right now, but I must say we are doing better than most here in Michigan.  At least there isn’t a blizzard beating a path to our door like my poor parents in Wisconsin!  In any case, it is a good day to stay in and bake cookies, or eat [...]

Happy Wednesday, All!  So, for this Christmas I decided I was going to give Tom a break from the Mid-Century Menu for dinner for a month.
I decided it would be a nice change to do something GOOD for a while.  Besides, with Thanksgiving past and done my mind has switched gears over to Christmas cookies.  [...]