Convenience Was the Name of the Game | Recipes From the 1960's
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Happy Birthday Julian! πππππΆπΆπΆππ₯³π₯³
I imagine that the meatball recipe would also be yummy with chilli sauce and Asian plum sauce!π€·ββοΈππ»
My favourite 1950βs/1960βs meal that I still cook all the time is βapricot chickenβ another 3 ingredient cheap recipe!ππ»π₯°
I was a child in the 60's and my aunty and uncle would throw parties throughout every year. Christmas time/ New years eve in particular were the biggest ones. Proper cocktail parties, but held outdoors. The star of the show food wise were Devils on horseback, ( prunes stuffed with cream cheese and wrapped in bacon), baked in the oven. Cheese cubes, green stuffed olives, crackers and green, red and white cocktail onions, along with cabanossi, or kabana sausage. Always served on a plate with toothpicks. French onion dip. Such elegance for a young child.!!! I loved those parties. All my cousins would be there too. Got to love the 1960's, for many reasons. Party food included.! I am Australian.
Was thinking it might be fun to refer to it as Era cooking. Just has a different ring to it than period cooking. π Also, when my mom made this dip she would use the hand held electric beaters to "whip" the cream cheese first to make it light and airy before adding the soup mix. This might have helped with that sense of heaviness you had that called to you for sour cream. π
Happy 5th Bd.
Iβm not sure if you have ever had an olive burger (very popular in Northern Michigan where I grew up) but if you love green olives Iβm sure you will love it. Itβs just a burger topped with green olives and mayonnaise. It is absolutely delicious and a burger I get every time I go back home but itβs super easy to make at home. We make them as sliders for parties a lot and people absolutely love them because they are so different from anything they have in Tennessee.
I always use a fork to get olives out of the jar.
Hey Maria! Awww, Happy Birthday Julian!π₯³π I absolutly love olives. Yum! Looks so good with that celery. That's a great idea bc I don't always have sour cream either. Great recipes! Hope you have a wonderful day!π₯°
I make a dirty martini dip for the holidays that is amazing. Agreed. Olives are delicious!
Where is the jello with weird stuff in it? The 60s had lots of that!π€£π
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I love this combination!! My younger brother ate cream cheese and olive sandwiches for lunch every day, for the first part of his childhood! My parents had cocktail parties every weekend on Saturday nights. We were allowed to serve one appetizer to everyone when they first arrived but then we had to go upstairs and stay up there!! Such great memories of that time!!
Happy Birthday cutie!! Have fun today!!π₯³πππ
When I was a kid in the 90's, my mom would cook lil smokies w/ chili sauce & grape jelly in the slow cooker for a Christmas appetizer.
this onion soup dip is still a favorite here in germany too! ( i never tried it ^^)
I make the olive cream cheese for me and my mother in law.. I use a package of cream cheese, chop olives and use some half and half. I whip it up and itβs so good! It goes on our bagels
As adorable as your kids are, it might not be prudent to show them in such a public forum for their own safety.
Happy birthday to Julian! My aunt always made stuffed celery for holidays. She made the green olive kind, but she also made "pink celery." She chopped maraschino cherries and mixed them with the cream cheese, stuffed into the celery sticks. We loved it!
Awesome recipes, thanks for sharing πππ
Happy Birthday Julian, yay
Happy Birthday Julian, yay
Happy Birthday sweetie!!!
Iβm almost 70. I donβt recall pre-made meatballs at the store. π€·ββοΈ
Creamed cheese with sliced green olives and mayo. Black pepper. On white bread sandwiches, I recall this from back then !
Looks Great and delicious! Thanks! And Happy Birthday to your son!ππππ
my mom used to make the dip and it was yummy
Stuffed celery is still one of my favorites that my family still makes, usually at holidays. My favorite to stuff the celery with are the Kraft tiny jars of cheese…cheddar/bacon, old english, pineapple, all so yummy, but I'm going to have to try your recipe because I love green olives too. Thanks for the idea. Also, my family has always made the meatball recipe with the chili sauce and grape jelly…it is really good served as a meal over white rice too.
I always heard that California dip was made with a packet of vegetable dip mix instead of the onion soup mix. Kinda like the California Sushi ( no raw fish…everything cooked along with vegetables in it). Way back in the late 80βs we had a Christmas party. I had never made the meatballs like you did. My husband at the time was a hunter and loved venison. I mixed half ground venison and half pork sausage and made little meatballs. Baked them in the oven first to brown, then put in the crockpot to cook with the sauce mixture you made. It was a big hit with the hunters at the party. Nothing was left! I also made sausage balls. I had never heard of them until the 80βs. Men love anything with meat in it. My mother would always use cream cheese to make dip…not sour cream. An 8 oz block of cream cheese, little milk to make it creamy enough for a chip not to break and crushed garlic through a garlic press, along with S& P to taste. Only way we thought dip was made! Lol. Finger sandwiches was always made with chicken salad. For a special dessert at Christmas my grandmother would have vanilla ice cream in her fancy compote glasses with Creme de Menthe drizzled over it with a sprig of mint on the side to make it look pretty. Funny how things from your childhood stands out.
We always did celery with peanut butter,saltines with margarine on them was a great snack and chicken salad window panes sandwiches stacked on a nice paper doily lined plate.
I stuff celery with peanut butter with raisins on top. My kids used to call it ants on a log. No thanks to the wedge salad. I don't eat ice berg lettuce nor am I a fan of blue cheese. So I'll pass on the salad. I've done little smokies like you did the meatballs. Mom used to use cream of mushroom soup and 1/4 cup BBQ sauce with her meatballs. Maybe microwave 30 second at a time till cream cheese is soft enough to stir.
Love these!
My favourite, not sure if from the 60βs or 70βs, mix equal amounts of mayo and sour cream and a packet of Lipton on Knorr vegetable soup mix. Let it sit in the fridge for an hour or longer for the flavours to meld! Serve with veggies or chips. Yum yum
Current jelly was the hot ticket back then, but they stopped making it.
Look up muffaletta dip. Really awesome.
We stuffed our celery with peanut butter. Crunchy was the best!
My grandmaw in FLorida had olive spread sandwiches made for my mom and her siblings when they went to visit her in 2009. We ahd never heard of it. when mama came back home she made it for us and we loved it. we have it often. we use 1 block softened cream cheese, 1 jar drained but reserve a little juice of pimento stuffed green olives and 1 table spoon of mayo. chop the olives,mix the cream cheese and mayo wel and mix in the chopped olives. we eat it on bread. good on crackers as well.
those meatballs looked good!