Recipes

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    Nostalgia on a Plate: Old-Fashioned Cakes Our Grandparents Used to Make

    These days, the average home chef typically only bakes cakes for birthdays or special occasions, and a great deal of those home chefs are opting for a box of Betty Crocker cake mix. But we remember heading over to Grandma’s…

  • Recipes using Hamburger Helper

    If You’re Not Making Homemade Hamburger Helper Yet, You Should Be

    If there’s any reliable way to stretch your family’s grocery budget and get the most out of a pound of ground beef, it’s Hamburger Helper. The product was launched in 1970 and became a hit thanks to its convenience and…

  • Three images of Southern cakes: Lane Cake, Red Velvet, and 7-Up Cake

    10 Classic Southern Cakes You Need To Try

    If you had a towering, show-stopping cake at every occasion growing up, you might just be from the South. Cakes have been a way to celebrate, welcome, and love people for a long time, so they’ve been perfected over the…

  • Dessert salad

    These Dessert ‘Salads’ Don’t Have a Single Vegetable in Them

    What even defines a salad now, anyways? There are traditional, healthy salads made with leafy greens, but also pasta salads, chicken salads, and fruit salads. Who’s to say we can’t have dessert salad? These 10 recipes are a testament to…

  • Popular recipes from the 1970s: Watergate salad in a bowl, cheese fondue with skewers, and black forest cake

    14 Cheap and Delicious ’70s Recipes Due for a Comeback

    American food in the 70s was filled with some truly horrifying creations, from jellied tuna aspic to ham-wrapped banana casserole. But it wasn’t all bad, and not all retro foods people ate should go the way of the shag rug.…

  • happy young couple cooking together in the kitchen at home

    18 Sexy and Romantic Valentine’s Day Recipes

    Let’s face it, restaurants are not the place to be on Valentine’s Day. Marked-up fixed-price menus, large crowds, and backed-up kitchens are hardly the ingredients of romance. Instead, create an intimate setting at home and ramp up the mood with…