Recipe Rolodex

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See! Something healthy! A salad! What? Hmmmmm? There’s no vegetables in this recipe? Oh and soda is an ingredient? Oh hush….it’s yummy! Millie’s Holiday Salad (no holiday is required – serve when something calls for a “festive” dessert, like when you are celebrating a day with a vowel in it) 1 tall can crushed pineapple [...]

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Also called: Summer Spaghetti I do not remember ever eating this dish, but it was in the part of Millie’s rolodex for “leftovers” and that struck me as interesting and possibly helpful. I don’t often have leftover spaghetti, but I thought this might be a great recipe for making the entire box. Use some for [...]

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If you live in some houses you wake up on Easter morning and discover that the Easter bunny has left you baskets of candy-coated chocolate eggs, jelly beans, and oh my lands, marshmallow peeps. Some kids wake up and these delicious nummies are just waiting for them. But other kids, ahem, had to do some [...]

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So full disclosure, I don’t eat ham. I just don’t. But I’ve never had an Easter lunch without ham at the table and there always seems to be leftovers. The obvious option is to turn things into a sandwich or maybe toss into an omelet, but I found a recipe in Millie’s Rolodex that takes [...]

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This recipe has seen better days. I have no idea how it came to be so discolored and delicate – but I hope it means that it was a recipe that was made often. And a recipe made often must mean that it is good. It reads like another version of the earlier posted Pineapple [...]

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With Spring in full swing I decided to flip through Millie’s rolodex and look for some yummy sounding citrus cakes. I was going to say “light” cakes – but ha, these cakes aren’t exactly light. (note the amount of butter) Pineapple Mandarin Cake 3 cups Plain Flour ½ tsp. Baking Soda ½ tsp. Baking Powder [...]

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