Here's what's for dinner in my house tonight!

[Bouncy Ball]

This is coffee jello, by the way:

[achtung_circus]

1. What IS that on the plate

with the asparagus and cheese stuffed tomatoes?

[Bouncy Ball]

2. Stuffed wieners, of course!

[achtung_circus]

3. DO, do send me that recipe.

[Warpy]

8. BouncyBall, where have you been?

Check out http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html

It's the Gallery of Regrettable Food. "Meat, meat, meat" is my favorite, although "10PM Cookery" is also a fave. The commentary is priceless.

[cmf]

4. I own some cookbooks from the 50's and 60's

And they have all sorts of stuff like that in them.

Molded gelatin salads were evidently very big back then.

[wildeyed]

7. I have a few 50's cookbooks I bought on ebay, too.

Single serving food was big, as well as gelatin stuff. Presentation was important, too.

Every now and again, I will make an entire meal from one of those cookbooks. I collect mid-century pottery, so I serve it up on the period dishes, too. The kids think it is a hoot.

on edit: The blue dishes with the weird baked apple stuff in pic #2 are "Town and Country". I would kill for T & C. Worth a fortune today, too.

[housewolf]

5. Bouncy! Don't tell me YOU'RE going to eat all that !!!

PLEASE don't tell me that you are going to eat all that!

Sweetie you'll be SO sick, you won't even be able to sit at your computer, we'll miss you too much...

Don't do it, okay??? Don't do it...

[grasswire]

6. some of the recipes from the 1950s are hilarious

I especially like the ones where they "tried" to do ethnic foods before anyone knew how. Like tortillas made from Bisquik.

[Warpy]

9. EEEEEW!!!

Every once in a while, my unenthusiastic cook of a mother would read one of those things in the newspaper and try it. My dad's comment was "Should I or did I?"

We ate in cheap cafeterias a LOT...