Hello, retro food lovers!  Today’s post features the letter L and Delicious Magazine from April 2004.  Our meal today has a slightly Indian feel with a lassi, some lamb and a lovely lemony dessert!  But before we get to the food, let’s set the scene. The Da Vinci Code was the best-selling book of […] The post April 2004 – The Letter L first appeared on Retro Food For Modern Times ..read more

Hello friends!  Get ready for a delicious trip down memory lane, fueled by none other than guacamole-stuffed tomatoes! As a quirky only child, I spent a lot of my time lost in the magical worlds found between book covers. Every week, the local library became my wonderland. It was on one of these adventures that […] The post Guacamole Stuffed Tomatoes first appeared on Retro Food For Modern Times ..read more

Hello, retro food lovers! Today we are stepping back in time for a fun theme.  Remember the childhood book “Ghosts and Crows and Things With O’s?  Well, today is the opposite. My aim today was to create a menu where none of the recipes contain the letter O in its name.  Weird?  Yes but so […] The post March 2004 – No O’s first appeared on Retro Food For Modern Times ..read more

Hello crime readers and food lovers!  Today’s Dining With The Dame novel, The Hollow, contains many references to food so I did not have to resort to any terrible puns.  The novel was published in 1946 which makes me wonder if, despite rationing continuing well into the 1950s, there was a sense of post-war abundance […] The post Caramel Custard – The Hollow first appeared on Retro Food For Modern Times ..read more

Hello, cocktail lovers and Agatha Christie readers. While this post might not be our usual “Dining With The Dame” feature for March, fret not! Instead, consider it a literary aperitif, a tasty prelude to the main course.  Today’s recipe is a cocktail called “Malice in The Hollow.” This concoction is a playful riff on Hedda Hopper’s […] The post Malice In The Hollow first appeared on Retro Food For Modern Times ..read more

Hello friends and welcome to another post on what posh people ate in the 1980s. Spring has sprung in many parts of the world. I have been holding over the recipe for Fresh Asparagus with Rouille for months as I think it is a perfect dish for the season.  Why Is Fresh Asparagus with Rouille […] The post Fresh Asparagus with Rouille first appeared on Retro Food For Modern Times ..read more

Hello crime readers and food lovers. Let me start right off with an apology for the atrocious pun. I am so sorry. But…I was racking my brains to think of what to cook for Towards Zero and, as is my want, I started searching for a pun. “What rhymes with Audrey..tawdry…no cancel that one. Battle […] The post Neviled Eggs – Towards Zero first appeared on Retro Food For Modern Times ..read more

Hello friends! Today I am sharing a recipe for a super easy sweet vintage treat. The recipe for Cherry PomPoms comes from the 1986 book 250 Quick and Easy Recipes. And as the name suggests they are quick and easy, not to mention absolutely delish!  They also look adorable. And I absolutely 100% did not […] The post Cherry PomPoms first appeared on Retro Food For Modern Times ..read more

Hello friends and welcome to a return to the wonderful vintage cookbook, The A-Z of Cooking. The last time I visited this book was back in 2016/17 when I cooked a LOT of recipes from it. There were only a few recipes left that I wanted to cook and this one for spinach pancakes with […] The post Spinach Pancakes first appeared on Retro Food For Modern Times ..read more

Hello, retro food lovers and welcome to 2004!  This month the random number generator chose Pink as the theme for our menu via the pages of Good Taste Magazine. Before we start though, maybe let’s throw around some phrases usually more prevalent in corporate speak than around here… Maybe we just need to redefine what […] The post Jan 2004 – Pretty in Pink? first appeared on Retro Food For Modern Times ..read more