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Filed under: Recipes, Soups/Salads Have you ever been torn between the flavors and textures of a potato salad, and those of your usual tossed salad? If so, I strongly recommend the following recipe -- a great way to have the best of both worlds. The Provencal Salad from Epicurious is a mix that gives you the creamy chew of potatoes and eggs, ...

Filed under: Vegetables, Beef, Recipes, Soups/Salads, Fall, Winter For years I considered soup making a rewarding, but time-intensive process. This is mainly because I grew up watching my mother make her insanely good turkey noodle soup after Thanksgiving -- one that involved a lot of carcass simmering, cooling, and straining before adding the ...

Filed under: Beef, Recipes, America, Retro cookery, Soups/Salads From The Heinz Book of Meat Cookery (1930), HJ Heinz Company I'm interrupting the semi-regularly scheduled Midnight Sausage series to share molded food images and recipes from my personal collection of early-to-mid 20th century cookbooks. There will be aspic. There will be mousse. ...

Filed under: Dairy, Beef, Recipes, Eggs, Retro cookery, Soups/Salads From The Best of Taste: The Finest Food of Fifteen Nations (1957), The SACLANT-NATO Cookbook Committee I'm interrupting the semi-regularly scheduled Midnight Sausage series to share molded food images and recipes from my personal collection of early-to-mid 20th century ...

Filed under: Poultry, Recipes, Retro cookery, Soups/Salads From Dainty Desserts for Dainty People (1915), Knox Gelatine I'm interrupting the semi-regularly scheduled Midnight Sausage series to share molded food images and recipes from my personal collection of early-to-mid 20th century cookbooks. There will be aspic. There will be mousse. There ...

Filed under: Recipes, Retro cookery, Soups/Salads Over the last year, I've posted quite a few of my grandma Bunny's recipes here on Slashfood. There was her recipe for Lemon Thing last summer, Zucchini Bread in August, Apple Cake in the fall, Shrimp Curry Improv for those quick weeknight dinners and her recipe for Kheera ka Rayta just last week. ...

Filed under: Recipes, Soups/Salads As a bit of a veggie fiend, I eat a lot of salads. While I rarely change up the ingredients in the salad mix, I sometimes like to change up the dressing, because the same ol' vinaigrette or caesar dressing can get old after a while. One of the best and easiest flairs that I've found for salad dressing is mustard ...

Filed under: Recipes, Soups/Salads, Summer One of the dishes I look forward to making when summer rolls around is the tomato salad you see above. It's nothing particularly special, just some chopped tomato (I use whatever I have on hand that is ripe, this time it was a bunch of sweet grape tomatoes) tossed with some roughly minced onion (I like ...

Filed under: Recipes, Soups/Salads, Summer One of the dishes I look forward to making when summer rolls around is the tomato salad you see above. It's nothing particularly special, just some chopped tomato (I use whatever I have on hand that is ripe, this time it was a bunch of sweet grape tomatoes) tossed with some roughly minced onion (I like ...

Filed under: Recipes, Soups/Salads, Memorial Day, Spring, Summer Warmth is great and all, but one of the best things about summer is potatoes -- growing, barbecuing them, and of course, lathering them in all sorts of tasty things and making a potato salad. For years I didn't go near the German variety of tater salad -- I was a strict mayo and ...