Today's quick 'n' easy vegetable appetizer recipe: Pure comfort food, warm squares of an artichoke and cheddar mix, with a little holiday color from pimento and fresh parsley. ~recipe & photo updated & reposted 2012~
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2006 Original Post: So there's a blog party and we're all invited! The theme is 'retro appetizers' so pick your decade. I picked mine, the 80s, after encountering slim-pickin' ideas from my small collection of vintage cookbooks.
My grandmother's first cookbook, Meals Tested and Approved, published in 1920 by Good Housekeeping, devoted a chapter to 'cereals for breakfast' and another to 'baking powder biscuits and shortcakes' but not one word to appetizers. The 1938 American Woman's Cookbook had seven pages of appetizers in a 900-page book, all lobster, caviar, anchovy and foie gras. The 1959 Electric Cook Book ('your complete guide to cooking electrically') - nothing. The 1968 Salads, Sandwiches & Hors D'Ouevres seemed certain paydirt except that it was similarly enamored with lobster, caviar and anchovies except for a big nod to northern Europe with the sandwich-cake works of artistry which have appeared, just this week so hardly retro, over at Nami-Nami and cat in the kitchen. So I turned to a likely source, a cookbook from Canada's Best of Bridge series of cookbooks written by 'ladies who lunch' and yes, play bridge. I figure: with recipes that rely on little more than tins of mushrooms and cream of shrimp soup, retro, it is. Plus, my mom's margin note for the Cheesy Artichoke Nibblers read, "Delicious, had at Lynda's 8/82, made 12/83".Keep Reading ->>>
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