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Chinese Roast Pork with Bean Sprouts
From "Enjoy Chinese Cooking at Home," Richard Wong, 1949. 🇨🇳 🥘 🐷 🥡🥢 Roast pork recipe follows this. "Gourmet powder" is the same as...
Brian Theis
Mar 131 min read
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Old Fashioned & Indoor Weenie Roast
Here are the latest exciting recipes from my treasure box, " The 2 in 1 International Recipe Card Collection for Mixed Drinks and Hors...
Brian Theis
Jan 291 min read
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Kentucky Colonel, Blue Grass, & Chicken Fried Steak Bites
Here are the latest tempting recipes from my treasure box, " The 2 in 1 International Recipe Card Collection for Mixed Drinks and Hors...
Brian Theis
Sep 4, 20241 min read
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Janet Leigh's Tropical Fruit Salad
Janet Leigh is best known for her iconic performance as Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 horror masterpiece, " Psycho ." When...
Brian Theis
Sep 1, 20242 min read
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Hunt's 7-Layer Casserole
A 7-layer dip with a 1950's casserole spin. 7-Layer Casserole Talk about your one-dish meals! Here's one with no pre-cooking. Just put in...
Brian Theis
Aug 1, 20241 min read
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Cuba Libre and Shrimp-Salmon Rumaki
I hereby I present the waistline-friendly Cuba Libre, with variation Cherry-Banana Libre, and Shrimp-Salmon Rumaki with Dill Mayo!
Brian Theis
Apr 18, 20241 min read
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Gran Gusto Enchilada Sauce, Stacked Beef Enchiladas
I'm excited to say this is the first time these two recipes from the Fiesta Mexicana chapter of my cookbook have been available on the...
Brian Theis
Feb 28, 20242 min read
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The Picador, and Spinach Enchiladas
Here are this week's exciting recipes from " The 2 in 1 International Recipe Card Collection for Mixed Drinks and Hors D'Oeuvre ."...
Brian Theis
Feb 28, 20241 min read
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Gebhardt Chili Powder
The ONLY chili powder for me. Gebhardt's dates back to 1894 in New Braunfels, Texas, very near where both sides of my family are from....
Brian Theis
Feb 27, 20241 min read
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Cutco Cook Book 1961
All things meat, from the nice folks at Cutco. Carin' for your meat. A whole lotta braisin' goin' on. Crown roast? Don't mind if I do. 👑...
Brian Theis
Oct 4, 20231 min read
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How to Make a Great Lasagna
What do I do? How do I do it? 🍝 🇮🇹 Take your time. This is not a sprint, it's a marathon. Get the best ingredients. None of that...
Brian Theis
Sep 21, 20232 min read
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Marcella Hazan's Iconic Tomato Sauce
Her most famous recipe. The New York Times agrees here (though they leave out the sugar.) From The Classic Italian Cookbook, Marcella...
Brian Theis
Aug 31, 20231 min read
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Red-Dressin' Creole Cocktail Sauce
I re-named this popular recipe of mine "Red Dressin' Creole Cocktail Sauce" for a WWL-TV segment featuring my party food for the Red...
Brian Theis
Aug 31, 20232 min read
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Blue Plate Mayo
I may, from time to time, enjoy some Duke's or some Kewpie, but BLUE PLATE you are the king of mayonnaise in my book! There's no other...
Brian Theis
May 30, 20232 min read
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Audrey Hepburn's Spaghetti al Pomodoro
For those days you can't make it to Tiffany's for breakfast. Recipe courtesy of The History Kitchen. 1 small onion, diced 2 cloves...
Brian Theis
Apr 5, 20231 min read
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Grim Reaper Chopped Salad
Who says Halloween’s only about candy?! My zesty, healthy, “Grim Reaper Chopped Salad” will make sure the old grim guy doesn’t come...
Brian Theis
Oct 20, 20221 min read
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Arden Farms Cookbook
This one is a gem of my vintage cookbook collection. It is undated, but based on the illustrations, photography and typefaces I'm going...
Brian Theis
Sep 22, 20221 min read
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Joan Crawford's Charcoal Broiled Steak
Care for a tasty steak? Mommie Dearest shows you how. From "What Actors Eat, When They Eat!" Kenneth Harlan & Rex Lease, 1939. Joan...
Brian Theis
Sep 15, 20221 min read
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Tuna Teriyaki
A delicious new recipe I cooked up at my beach house a few weeks ago. I hope you'll enjoy it too. This one is a website (and newsletter)...
Brian Theis
Sep 15, 20221 min read
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Family Circle Fish & Poultry Cookbook
This is a great-looking, well-researched, recipe-packed little cookbook from 1955. Fish and poultry, shellfish and game. It is big into...
Brian Theis
Jul 21, 20221 min read
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