1980s RECIPES FOR SUMMER ☀️ trying Pillsbury Recipes!

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  • Looking for summer cooking ideas? These low-cook and no cook recipes for summer are easy, delicious, and won't heat up your kitchen.
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    MARINATED GREEK SALAD (pg 58)
    2c cauliflowerets
    2c broccoli pieces
    1c sliced fresh mushrooms
    3/4c pitted ripe olives
    3/4c salad olives
    12 cherry tomatoes
    8oz bottle Italian salad dressing
    4oz feta cheese, crumbled
    In large bowl, combine all ingredients except cheese. Cover and refrigerate several hours or overnight. Just before serving, gently stir in feta cheese.
    TACO DIP (pg 14)
    1 ripe avocado, peeled
    8oz cream cheese, softened
    1/2c sour cream
    2Tbsp milk
    1tsp lemon juice
    1/8 to 1/4tsp chili powder
    dash salt
    1c shredded lettuce
    2 medium tomatoes, chopped
    1 small onion, chopped
    4oz shredded cheddar cheese
    In blender, combine avocado, cream cheese, sour cream milk, lemon juice, chili powder and salt. Process until smooth and creamy. Spread dip evenly on a large plate with sides. In layers, sprinkle with lettuce, tomatoes, onion and cheese. Serve with tortilla chips.
    REFRIGERATOR PISTACHIO DESSERT (pg 105)
    1 1/4c all purpose flour
    1/2c butter or margarine, softened
    1/2c shelled pistachios, finely chopped
    8oz cream cheese, softened
    1c powdered sugar
    8oz carton frozen whipped topping, thawed
    2 - 3oz packages pistachio instant pudding mix
    3c cold milk
    Heat oven to 350. Grease (not oil) a 13 x 9 pan or baking dish. In small bowl, combine flour and butter until crumbly. Stir in pistachios, pat into prepared pan. Bake at 350 for 18 to 22 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool.
    In small bowl, combine cream cheese and powdered sugar until smooth and creamy. Fold in 1/2 carton of whipped topping and spread over cooled crust. In medium bowl, combine pudding mix and milk. Beat thoroughly. Pour carefully over cheese layer. Frost with remaining whipped topping. Refrigerate several hours or overnight. makes 12 servings.
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    0:00 Intro
    0:47 Marinated Greek Salad
    4:29 Taco Dip
    9:18 Refrigerator Pistachio Dessert
    16:54 Cookbook Chat: Pillsbury's Summertime Favorite Recipes (1981)
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  • @lgaines4086
    @lgaines4086 23 дні тому +30

    Every time you say "Hello, this is Anna" I imagine you poking your head in the neighbors door and saying "Hello, this is Anna" in the exact tone you say it in here 😂

  • @gidget8717
    @gidget8717 23 дні тому +54

    When you were talking about the long drive for feta in the 90s, it reminded me how many times in the comments I've seen people lose their snit over cottage cheese in lasagna. I'm not even sure you could find ricotta and Italian sausage in some states in the 1970s. The closest thing we could find was cottage cheese and ground beef with Italian seasoning 🤷‍♀️

    • @cooking_the_books
      @cooking_the_books  23 дні тому +18

      We were a ‘cottage cheese in lasagna’ family too! 😁

    • @SarahRenz59
      @SarahRenz59 23 дні тому +6

      I'm half Italian-American on my father's side; my mom was able to get ricotta in suburban Chicago in the 1960s, but I think she had to special order it -- she was on a first name basis with the manager of our local Jewel grocery store, and he was super accommodating. My aunt (Dad's sister) lived in Dallas and she had to use cottage cheese in her lasagne; I remember her saying it was because of the Texas heat making shipping/storage more difficult, but more likely there simply weren't enough Italian-Americans to create demand.

    • @gidget8717
      @gidget8717 23 дні тому +3

      @@SarahRenz59 it really was demand. In the 60s and 70s grocery store were small and often local owned unless it was a good size city. They stocked what the majority bought. I never saw a container of ricotta until the early 2000s in our local grocery. And I lived in central Virginia! As larger companies built larger stores there was more variety.

    • @marcilk7534
      @marcilk7534 23 дні тому +3

      Cottage cheese and ricotta are nearly the same anyways.

    • @Lucinda_Jackson
      @Lucinda_Jackson 23 дні тому +3

      Strange. I lived in a medium sized town/city (40-50,000) in Indiana. In 1968, we took a trip to DC and ate at an Italian restaurant. It was the first time I had lasagna - there weren't many Italians where I lived. When we got home, my mother and I were determined to make lasagna so took a trip to the A&P and found everything we needed. Italian sausage, ricotta, lasagna noodles - all things we'd never even noticed on the shelves.
      Five years later we moved to New York State and half of the town/city of same size was Italian (the other half was Swedish!). It was amazing to be able to buy freshly made ricotta in the deli and freshly made Italian sausage (hot, mild & sweet in links, patties or bulk) in the meat case at the grocery store. And so much more! Within another 5 years, everyone in Indiana was eating lasagna.

  • @Miss_Kisa94
    @Miss_Kisa94 23 дні тому +57

    As someone from Texas I will tell you that spring is no longer here 😩 it left back in April. It's all summer right now!

    • @kathyradford7187
      @kathyradford7187 23 дні тому +8

      Same in Florida !😮

    • @joelanderson7118
      @joelanderson7118 23 дні тому +3

      Yes you're right I'm from Texas too and yes its summer already

    • @cindytrayer4279
      @cindytrayer4279 23 дні тому +3

      @@kathyradford7187yes, I’m in SWFL and it’s brutal! Makes me want to move back to Ohio

    • @bettyir4302
      @bettyir4302 23 дні тому +4

      Yep, it's 93 right now so I'm calling it Summer. Don't we all have a couple of Pillsbury booklets.

    • @sandihj
      @sandihj 23 дні тому +1

      Hardcore summer here, too, so I’m all about these summery meals.

  • @kaytiej8311
    @kaytiej8311 22 дні тому +6

    There are some reasonably priced editions of that book on Amazon, both hardcovers and spiral bound.
    I love the irony of a Greek Salad with Italian dressing 😂 We’ve come so far in a few decades!

  • @ahhhlindsanityyy
    @ahhhlindsanityyy 23 дні тому +16

    I love how customizable that dessert is!
    Have to admit that I'm laughing my ass off imagining ding dong ditching someone's house but leaving a platter of hot dogs 😂

  • @Leguminator
    @Leguminator 23 дні тому +27

    We also made the "Pudding Dessert" (that's what we called it, we weren't a creative people) in a 9x13 pan with two different flavors of pudding, one on each half. It was usually two of chocolate, pistachio and butterscotch. The middle pieces were the best where the two flavors came together.

  • @alexg1668
    @alexg1668 23 дні тому +23

    Thanks for the idea of having the Greek salad in the fridge to up one’s veggie intake.

  • @staceyn2541
    @staceyn2541 23 дні тому +17

    Pistachio pudding dessert has been a staple at all our family gatherings since the 80s. My mom used to make it, but it's my contribution now. I made it for 20 years before I got an offset spatula. That spatula changed my life! You did it the only way that works, plop all the toppings in the middle and spread it out from there. Otherwise, the crust will break away and infect your lower layer. We always used walnuts in the crust. The lazy version I make now uses premade graham cracker crusts. The full recipe fills 2 crusts. I do one small box of pistachio pudding and one of chocolate. Super easy way to satisfy everyone's tastes! I have also added a cup of peanut butter to the cream cheese layer and used chocolate pudding. Even better, use the oreo cookie crust and chocolate. Those were incredible, no leftovers. This dessert lasts several days in the fridge before it starts going weird. I got a great pyrex 9x12 clear glass pan with a lid and a hot/cold carrying case for my wedding 25 years ago, and that dish is known as the pistachio pudding pan. Sure, I use it for other things but I have never made pistachio pudding dessert in any other dish. Well, until I got lazy and started using the graham cracker crusts. :) I wonder if you could use vanilla pudding and a layer of sliced banana and make banana pudding. Would it be too rich and creamy? I do like your idea of butterscotch, too.

    • @kikihammond5326
      @kikihammond5326 23 дні тому +2

      My mother only made banana pudding pie using vanilla pudding, sliced bananas, graham cracker crust and whipped cream. It was light and delicious. My brother really loved bananas, so he'd put a layer of thinly cut banana on top of the crust, then the pudding, more banana, and then the whipped cream.

  • @susanhammitt7080
    @susanhammitt7080 23 дні тому +18

    I had that cookbook. I had a large trove of those books. They came out once a month in 70's and 80's and were at the checkout stands in grocery stores for 2 or 3 dollars. I used tons of the recipes and kept some of them in the rotation. Took that Greek salad recipe to a family reunion one year. I added marinated artichokes. Of course the pistachio recipe is one of my favorites and still make it on occasion. I really enjoy pistachios. Pistachio ice cream is one of my favorites. Thanks for another fun stroll down memory lane.

    • @DJ-nh6wq
      @DJ-nh6wq 23 дні тому +1

      Yes! That was the best part of grocery shopping for me, getting one of those little cook “booklets” is what I called them. Lost them all in a flood 🥲

    • @susanhammitt7080
      @susanhammitt7080 22 дні тому +1

      @@DJ-nh6wq Sorry about the flood. How devastating. But glad you were safe.

    • @ryanhilliard1620
      @ryanhilliard1620 17 днів тому

      But did you make hot dogs broiled with cottage cheese and green onion?🤔

    • @susanhammitt7080
      @susanhammitt7080 15 днів тому

      @@ryanhilliard1620 No, but I bet that is good. Has to be an all beef hot dog these days for me, now that I have matured. But I ate a ton of hot dogs, split down the middle with a piece of velveeta in it. Yum.

  • @wolchfam
    @wolchfam 23 дні тому +18

    I think that Greek salad would be good with garbanzo beans. Yum

    • @redrooster1908
      @redrooster1908 23 дні тому

      I agree. And "Good Seasons" packet/ freshly made salad dressing in Italian or Garlic & herb flavor would be yummy, imo.

  • @madcitywendy
    @madcitywendy 22 дні тому +10

    I have been binge watching your videos for the last two days. I’ve been missing my mom, who was an epic cook during my childhood and young adulthood in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Thank you for all the great videos.

    • @cooking_the_books
      @cooking_the_books  16 днів тому +2

      So sorry you are missing your mom right now. Glad my videos could help spark some nice memories. ❤

  • @christinan7183
    @christinan7183 День тому +1

    In SWFL everyday feels like summer ❤❤❤

  • @lauramills2398
    @lauramills2398 23 дні тому +4

    I use to buy these cookbooks when I was at the store. Wish I still had them.

  • @dmbalsam
    @dmbalsam 23 дні тому +12

    I also use Italian dressing as a chicken marinade.

  • @sarabelden7092
    @sarabelden7092 23 дні тому +28

    We don't have big plans this summer, but my 14 year old and I are going to be experimenting with cookie recipes and making art/junk journals. He's really into science so I'm attempting to help him see cooking as a science experiment so by the time he goes off to college he can feed himself if needed. 😂

    • @susans9491
      @susans9491 23 дні тому +5

      Not sure if this appeals to you, but I’m a botanist, always was fascinated by science. I taught our boys to make soap. They loved the chemistry and learned a useful life skill along the way!

    • @redrooster1908
      @redrooster1908 23 дні тому +7

      Cooking... baking, candy making, very Scientific!! Rock candy is a fun young Scientist's project.

    • @kikihammond5326
      @kikihammond5326 23 дні тому +6

      Yes. That is a life skill that will get him very far. Check out Alton Brown's books and his original show. He'll teach your kid that cooking is ALL science.

    • @melissalambert7615
      @melissalambert7615 23 дні тому +2

      Great idea. The amount of sugar in a cookie will give you very different results. More sugar, softer. I've always told young people to learn to cook. Even just a few dishes. You will eat better and save money.

    • @marcilk7534
      @marcilk7534 23 дні тому +2

      A good experiment would be to make chocolate chip cookies with different types of fats (solid butter, melted butter, shortening), flours (AP, almond, gluten free blend), or any other ingredient that has variations. Then compare how each option changes the final product.

  • @redrooster1908
    @redrooster1908 23 дні тому +9

    Cookbook from 1981, wow, that was when I really felt I was a cook. I had mastered so much.

  • @debbiedugay8574
    @debbiedugay8574 23 дні тому +3

    I grew up in Central Texas with no A/C.......recipes that require no oven and very little cooking on the stove were always appreciated. I now live in the UK and very few people have A/C here because it does not get hot enough often enough. Those feww days where we hit the higher temps, I fall back on my grill and no to little cooking recipes !! I am a child of the 60's so these older recipes are my comfort food. Thanks for posting my memories, lol !!

  • @jonhillman871
    @jonhillman871 18 днів тому +1

    i've always loved the chop and chat tv shows. since tv no longer does shows with that format i'm grateful to people on youtube picking up the torch and continuing the tradition. i love your videos and think you have a great personality for this...not too chirpy or permanent fake-smile mawkishness. but sincere and pleasant. thanks, anna.

  • @9ramthebuffs9
    @9ramthebuffs9 23 дні тому +3

    back then, fresh mushrooms only existed at the all you can eat salad bar in the big city you were visiting. Those were tough times we were raised in.

  • @The3GMom
    @The3GMom 23 дні тому +8

    I’m making that Greek salad this week!

  • @thomasvee5021
    @thomasvee5021 23 дні тому +9

    I love low cook, summer recipes. I want to try all three. Thank you for sharing the recipes. Very fun! 🎉

  • @mamabirdie734
    @mamabirdie734 23 дні тому +3

    I really like your apron! The colors are so vibrant and shows well!

    • @cooking_the_books
      @cooking_the_books  16 днів тому +1

      Thank you! It was an anniversary gift from my husband - a smock apron from Hedley & Bennett.

  • @lauraliviola7028
    @lauraliviola7028 23 дні тому +10

    ❤😊I love all the recipes...my wonderful godmother who has since passed, made that wonderful pistachio dessert.🎉🎉Thank you, Anna!👍😘💕🌞⛱🌈

  • @conniepharr7426
    @conniepharr7426 23 дні тому +3

    I love that dessert , the possibilities are endless. You could also make a fruit topping rather than a pudding, using a raspberry jello and frozen raspberries. Allow the jello to thicken up a bit before topping the cream cheese mixture. When I first encountered this recipe it went by the name better than sex…I took it to a church potluck and changed the name to layered dessert 😄 obviously a much more appropriate name. This dessert remains one of my favorites

  • @kellygarrity1910
    @kellygarrity1910 23 дні тому +2

    I eat sliced hot dogs (good ones, all beef preferred) with a side of cottage cheese. There's something about the hot well seasoned dog, and the cold creamy cottage that just makes it a freaking delicious easy lunch when in the run. I'll also eat cottage cheese with canned mandarin oranges, yum!

  • @Jaydit7
    @Jaydit7 23 дні тому +17

    OOH, I have that little book somewhere in my house...bless your for the reminder..

    • @Lucinda_Jackson
      @Lucinda_Jackson 23 дні тому +1

      Me, too! I had gotten married in January of that year and picked it up in the checkout! I remember making the dip (no avocado - the hubby wouldn't have eaten it 🙄) and the Greek marinated salad. That booklet was one I actually used!

  • @BrowneyedGirlmjd
    @BrowneyedGirlmjd 23 дні тому +8

    I had that book. It’s one of my many many lost ones, but I still appreciate it this sweet trip down memory lane. And yes, at the time that book was published that would’ve been considered Greek Salad. Man I’m old LOL.

    • @rcdoodles6214
      @rcdoodles6214 23 дні тому +2

      Where do the years go? I was 30 years old in 1981. In my head I still feel young but my body doesn’t always agree!

  • @TuckerSP2011
    @TuckerSP2011 22 дні тому +3

    Oh all those recipes looked so good! Yes, summertime! 🏊🏼

  • @Jess-fp2wf
    @Jess-fp2wf 23 дні тому +4

    I’m so glad I’m not the only one who appreciates the offset spatula and also the specific sandwich/chip combo 😆

  • @searre
    @searre 22 дні тому +3

    I would love to see you test some of the crazier cocktails and beverages. That’s typically a section in vintage cookbooks that I tend to gloss over, but the vividly green one from the photo that you showed from the summertime booklet reminded me of just how … experimental … my parents and grandparents were.

  • @sarahpauline4904
    @sarahpauline4904 23 дні тому +2

    My grandma mae this. She always made pistachio, lemon or butterscotch.

  • @ski-yq9ur
    @ski-yq9ur 22 дні тому +3

    I like that salad at the beginning. Needs some red onion. I like cucumber, I could add that. good start! taco dip looks great. wow, good job on the icebox dessert.

  • @lisapop5219
    @lisapop5219 23 дні тому +7

    It's definitely summer weather where I live. Appreciate this.

  • @Kay_Watermelon
    @Kay_Watermelon 23 дні тому +3

    Oh my god taco dip!!! I sort of forgot about its existence, but it was an absolute party or gathering staple in the early 90s. But we never had avocado in it... that's news to me! I don't think we even had access to avocado back then. It's such a delicious dip, it's going to have to make a comeback in my life.

  • @justme5544
    @justme5544 23 дні тому +8

    YES! I am a total chiponista! Subway foot long, 1st day with Mrs. Vickies Jalepeno chips, 2nd day with Harvest Cheddar Sun chips. Bologna with mayo/mustard and regular Lays chips piled on inside the sandwich. Ruffles with chip dip and fritos with bean dip. Thank you for making me laugh! I am a total chip "snob".

    • @Dindasayswhynot
      @Dindasayswhynot 22 дні тому +1

      Me too. Take everything else that matters to me away, but mitts off my chips.

  • @RedJulesFire
    @RedJulesFire 23 дні тому +3

    That pistachio pudding dessert is my absolute favorite of all time. My grandma made it every time I would visit her when I was little. Since I’ve grown up, I’ve made it with lemon pudding and other flavors, but the pistachio one is still my favorite.

  • @juni_pearl_9591
    @juni_pearl_9591 22 дні тому +2

    Great looking recipes! And Spring still here in Wyoming…it’s only in the 40’s and raining.

  • @susans9491
    @susans9491 23 дні тому +8

    Wonderful ideas! We are invited to an early Memorial Day barbecue later this week and I’m asked to bring chips and a salad. I think I’ll also make the dip because I’m fancy like that, and no one has planned a dessert so I sense a pistachio pudding dessert in my future! Thanks for the ideas, you never fail to inspire me!❤️❤️❤️

  • @PROUDMOMMA61
    @PROUDMOMMA61 23 дні тому +3

    You could drizzle some taco sauce on the taco dip to spice it up a little.

  • @madzabinga8382
    @madzabinga8382 23 дні тому +5

    Bizarrely, I grew up eating a pistachio dessert exactly like this, but with Ritz instead of flour in the crust, and we called it GED(rhymes with bed). I have absolutely no idea why it was called that, nor why we continue to call it that? I think it means "green, exotic, dessert".😂 However, it's delicious! Your videos often bring up nostalgic food related memories, and I love that!!

  • @paulc9643
    @paulc9643 15 днів тому +1

    that taco dip was my summer... my aunt would make that every party

  • @sweetlifehappywife3460
    @sweetlifehappywife3460 22 дні тому +2

    I grew up with that dessert. To Midwest. ❤ you’re right. Butterscotch is soooo good in it!!

  • @susanhammitt7080
    @susanhammitt7080 23 дні тому +6

    Do you remember 1-2-3 Jello. I loved that stuff-why did it disappear. I know you like cottage cheese if you want a quick delicious snack warm up a mug of sliced tomatoes, can be cherry, cottage cheese and some italian seasoning. It takes a like lasagna.

    • @susans9491
      @susans9491 23 дні тому +2

      I remember that and I loved it too! I’d love to see it brought back!

    • @susanhammitt7080
      @susanhammitt7080 23 дні тому +1

      @@susans9491 DIRECTIONS
      Stir boiling water into JELL-O in a bowl until dissolved.
      Add 2/3 of frozen COOL WHIP to same bowl one spoonful at a time, whisking until it is melted and blended.
      Pour into small clear drinking glasses.
      Refrigerate at least 3 hours, until set.
      Top layered dessert with remaining whipped topping and ENJOY! supposedly this will mimic the dessert

    • @susans9491
      @susans9491 23 дні тому

      @@susanhammitt7080 Thank you thank you thank you!❤️❤️❤️

    • @susanhammitt7080
      @susanhammitt7080 22 дні тому +1

      @@susans9491 You are welcome. I should have included it is 3 ounce box of jello and 1 1/2 cup water and 8 ounce cool whip.

  • @maureensigler6271
    @maureensigler6271 23 дні тому +3

    Thanks for another great episode. ..all these recipes and books really makes me miss my mom 😢..in a good way ❤ keep up the great work !

  • @lynnbogdanovich5284
    @lynnbogdanovich5284 23 дні тому +7

    I always notice when you choose recipes from 1963 ( year I was born) and 1981 ( year I graduated high school). I thought of you recently when I was in a vintage shop in Cuyahoga Falls and they had some old cookbooks. Tfs.

    • @geriland5
      @geriland5 23 дні тому +1

      We are the same age. I notice those dates as well 😊

    • @MelanieCravens
      @MelanieCravens 18 днів тому +1

      @@geriland5 I notice them too, for the same reason!

  • @kathrinekerns8398
    @kathrinekerns8398 23 дні тому +9

    That Greek salad looks very good.

  • @redrooster1908
    @redrooster1908 23 дні тому +7

    Taco dip is a Wisconsin favorite, all year long, and especially during football season. Adding sliced black olives on the dip is wonderful.

    • @DJ-nh6wq
      @DJ-nh6wq 23 дні тому +3

      Was going to say we make this in the Midwest and put Black Olives on top. 😂 Also, I put a layer of Refried Beans on the platter first. Makes it even more filling so it goes farther. Haha.

    • @redrooster1908
      @redrooster1908 23 дні тому

      👍 ​@@DJ-nh6wq

  • @pickingupsticks6767
    @pickingupsticks6767 22 дні тому +2

    All of your dishes are beautiful.

  • @Sheltiemama55
    @Sheltiemama55 23 дні тому +3

    Great video! Love all the recipes. The taco dip reminds me of that layered dip with refried beans on the bottom! Yumm! I’m going to make that pistachio dessert for sure!!!

  • @LDFine
    @LDFine 23 дні тому +4

    Love the dip and that dessert (we preferred chocolate)! With the salad, dip with chips and the dessert, all we need now are some favorite cold summer sandwiches or gyros and you have a great meal! Thank you, Anna!

  • @mrangryface
    @mrangryface 14 днів тому

    Yeah 1980s! my childhood letz go!

  • @BrigitofBergental
    @BrigitofBergental 23 дні тому +6

    Add pepperoncini and toss over Romaine and that Greek salad looks pretty close to what Greek-owned pizza place in my town called Greek Salad.

  • @gidget8717
    @gidget8717 23 дні тому +5

    The tomato cheese pie is delicious. I haven't looked through that little book in a long time, I needed to dig it out of my cooksbooks and give it a look again.

  • @user-pg1vm8ds4e
    @user-pg1vm8ds4e 6 днів тому +1

    I have made the refrigerator pie many times using pecans and chocolate pudding! Delicious!! I had forgotten about it…already have the ingredients in my shopping cart for next week:)))

  • @amyspeers8012
    @amyspeers8012 23 дні тому +6

    I used to host cocktail parties for a group I volunteered with. I have several of those little books and they were great.

  • @lisapop5219
    @lisapop5219 23 дні тому +4

    There's a channel called she's in her apron, last spring/summer she hosted a hot dog cookout for her 2nd son & his friends (I think they were finishing jr year). There were various combinations that you could make and she put a menu up for them to get inspiration. It was a cool idea & she said that the kids enjoyed the combinations.

  • @eleanor3508
    @eleanor3508 23 дні тому +6

    I love green color too. I made dessert with the same pudding.with marshmallows and cool whip and crushed pineapple.

  • @kellimshaver
    @kellimshaver 23 дні тому +4

    Haha, so I'm not the only one who calls. it shredduce. That dip looks great. I think I'd also throw some black beans on top. We're doing a beach trip next week and these are some great ideas for snacks at the beach house. I want to do that last dessert with coconut pudding and add some pineapple tidbits.

  • @abunchahooey
    @abunchahooey 23 дні тому +6

    Anna! I’ll be back to watch your video later, but had to jump on here and let you know about a UA-cam channel that is right up your alley. It’s called Cavalcade of Food and I don’t know the backstory but the guy that runs it collects old appliances, cookbooks and kitchen gadgets. Maybe you’ve heard of that channel but you’re the first person I thought of when I ran across it. It’s really fun to watch. 😊

    • @cooking_the_books
      @cooking_the_books  16 днів тому +1

      Yes! I'm a big fan of Cavalcade of Food. Kevin's collection and the space in which he houses everything is just incredible!

  • @katladee
    @katladee 23 дні тому +2

    I love that every time you get out the ‘green flowered’ plates that I think of my grandma because she had that whole set of plate ware and cutlery when I was a child

  • @laurac5451
    @laurac5451 23 дні тому +7

    yes that looks like my pasta salad without the pasta

  • @Mylacbell
    @Mylacbell 21 день тому

    It’s feeling like summer here in Texas! I appreciate a no oven recipe. Funny enough, I am itching to use my oven! It was broken for a while and it just got fixed. During the time it was broken I relied heavily on my toaster oven, air fryer, instant pot and my stove top.

  • @latitude1904
    @latitude1904 23 дні тому +7

    Hi Anna and all. Happy Sunday

  • @macsarcule
    @macsarcule 23 дні тому +1

    Anna! This was such a fun video! So great!😃
    Imma testify on feta & cherry tomatoes here: I was in 4th grade in 1981, and I can tell you coming from a small rural place, (but even for my cousins in larger cities like Chicago) feta cheese would have been incredibly unusual, not only to find, but even know it existed. There was American, Colby, cheddar, Swiss, and the only Parmesan was in a shakey can for pizza and pasta. Yes.
    Heck, olives being part of a dish, other than Pizza Hut pizza or a holiday relish tray, would have been unusual. Try to imagine this, younger viewers: unless you lived in a major city like New York or LA, even having very Americanized Mexican or Chinese food at a restaurant was still considered a bit worldly and exotic in 1981.
    This would change swiftly through the rest of the 80s to the point that Chinese and Mexican food had become passé in the 90s. The new hotness was Indian food, Middle Eastern food, and African food. With no Internet, you either learned about some of these things in libraries or maybe your family had the funds to travel outside the US.
    Another great example of how forward leaning some ingredients of these recipes were, the salad calls for cherry tomatoes. Unless you had a garden, even cherry tomatoes were a pretty special, cool thing!
    And if you went out to a very nice restaurant, your salad almost certainly had cherry tomatoes, and the number of cherry tomatoes would tell you how fancy it was (sometimes you only got one).
    The cherry tomatoes in restaurants were never sliced. I suppose it was to show that you had an actual cherry tomato and not part of another larger tomato like a Roma?
    It was such a thing, that there was often a tired part of conversation about cherry tomatoes, and how to approach one in your salad, and that they would squirt on your clothing, because no one had considered you could use the steak knife at the table to cut your cherry tomato in half. It was also common to advise people to carefully and quickly pierce your tomato with a fork and just eat it whole to avoid squirting it on your clothing. Honest to God, this cherry tomato thing was talked about way more than you could imagine.
    Often the cherry tomatoes back then weren’t that good either. They were either too sweet or flavorless. The breeding of grape tomatoes through the 90s and the industrialization of the production of grape tomatoes are a welcome part of my weekly groceries. But if I see actual cherry tomatoes somewhere, I still buy them. They still seem special, maybe because the grape tomato has made them rare again. 🙂
    Omg, that pistachio dessert took me right back to happy good flavors! We usually had a chocolate version too, sometimes with nuts, sometimes not. I totally forgot about this - I’m making this for visitors this weekend! So good!!! 😃
    That hot dog ideas photo! That is so familiar. I think lots of magazines ripped off that layout later - those lined up dogs with chips or other things! Lookin’ at you, Martha Stewart! 😄 Cottage cheese hotdogs- I’M IN! No broil necessary for me 🙂
    It always makes me so happy to see how happy party food makes you! Pure joy! ✨
    Thank you, Anna! I hope you are well and being kind to yourself. 😌✨

    • @janelleclark4458
      @janelleclark4458 23 дні тому +1

      We must be very close to the same age, because you took me back in time with your comment! I got to fly on a plane for the first time and eat Mexican food for the first time on a very one-of-a-kind family trip in 1983 when I had just turned 13. People in my income group did not eat out--our splurge was Sunfay lunch at Burger Chef after church!
      And I do remember the cherry tomato conundrum. Lol. Anna's channel stirs up so many small, special memories.

  • @ccl6192
    @ccl6192 23 дні тому +1

    I haven’t had cottage cheese on a hot dog but I grew up on Seattle dogs outside of sports games. It’s cream cheese spread and carmelized onion with spicy mustard. I bet the cottage cheese one would have a similar vibe

  • @debbieblaylock9997
    @debbieblaylock9997 23 дні тому +4

    All 3 look good.

  • @rebeccajustis8826
    @rebeccajustis8826 23 дні тому +1

    We're still getting Spring in SoCal! it's hard to believe that superior tortilla chips come from Michigan, but you've never steered me wrong before so I'm ordering some. Then we'll see...

  • @pammienakh
    @pammienakh 23 дні тому +1

    The chocolate version of this is my husband’s fav dessert. But he loves pistachios so I’m gonna try it. Thxs Anna!!

  • @simply_sheri
    @simply_sheri 23 дні тому

    I feel like you could toss all of the ingredients for the salad together with some pasta and make an amazing pasta salad!!!

  • @harechick
    @harechick 9 днів тому

    I own this book, thanks to my mom.

  • @user-hu9jy7cb7o
    @user-hu9jy7cb7o 14 днів тому +1

    My aunt makes a pistachio torte that we all love that is very similar to the dessert you made. I wonder if the book you referenced is where she got it from. We have no idea, and she doesn’t remember. I was given the recipe for Christmas a few years ago, and it’s one of my most prized possessions.

  • @StacieT
    @StacieT 23 дні тому +5

    Another fun video and I love your floral apron! ❤

  • @lisaschneider7493
    @lisaschneider7493 23 дні тому +1

    I, too, was published in 1981 😊

  • @dianaw.571
    @dianaw.571 23 дні тому +1

    The dessert looks cool and refreshing.🍰

  • @tracysmith9546
    @tracysmith9546 18 днів тому +1

    Butterscotch is really good, love the chocolate as well.

  • @msullivan3531
    @msullivan3531 6 днів тому +1

    I still buy those!

  • @fallenangel3460
    @fallenangel3460 20 днів тому

    The broccoli salad has always been one of my favorite salads... I find it to be even more amazing if it sits in the fridge for an hour or two... This was the only way I would eat broccoli also.. lol

  • @thelemicgal
    @thelemicgal 22 дні тому

    My Mom frequently made a marinated vegetable salad which was the recipe you showed minus the olives and feta. Our extended family loved it when we went to our lake house.

  • @paulandbenny
    @paulandbenny 23 дні тому +3

    All three of these dishes are super pretty looking.
    It's funny when people say, That's not authentic, like they decide. I watched a documentary on taco bell, and the lady that started it was from Mexico, but lived in Northern California and used what was available there. That's about as authentic as you can get🤷‍♂️

  • @Petra-vs3ov
    @Petra-vs3ov 22 дні тому +2

    Very much enjoyed this weeks video. My children were born in the late 70's and early 80's. I bought these booklets and still use some of the recipes. I counted how many I still have and it's 43! I know I've gotten rid of some from which I never used a recipe. Those booklets were a real eye-catcher at the grocery check-out stand!

  • @geelizzie
    @geelizzie 23 дні тому +1

    As a late 70s 80s and 90s mom I was a sucker for those little themed cookbooks from the grocery store. From what I remember they came out once a month like a regular magazine. I wasn’t and still am not much of a cook but I really enjoy looking at cookbooks.

  • @annettefournier9655
    @annettefournier9655 23 дні тому +2

    Not only do I not like turning the oven on, I don't like hot food in summer either. I made an icebox pie today. 2 ingredients and a store bought Graham cracker crust. The epitome of no bake. Sweetened condensed milk and lemon juice. Viola instant lemon pie.😅

  • @thehauntedmansionfan
    @thehauntedmansionfan 23 дні тому +2

    I was such a sucker for those little Pillsbury cookbooks. 😆 I bought a plethora of them in the 90s and early 2000s. I still have them all.

  • @camerajen
    @camerajen 22 дні тому +1

    My mom made the pistachio pudding ❤❤❤❤

  • @vickiecrouch6041
    @vickiecrouch6041 23 дні тому +3

    All 3 look great!

  • @dreamweaver3406
    @dreamweaver3406 23 дні тому +7

    I'm going to a lady's luncheon soon. that Greek salad looks just the thing to bring! The other two dishes also look good! We are going to a family reunion this summer-our family likes to eat well so it will be great! Happy Spring/summer. It's getting warm here and our birds are singing also. Be thankful you don't live in Tennessee where my daughter lives-they have swarms of cicada bugs now and it is deafening!

  • @Rei.Eatsfoods
    @Rei.Eatsfoods 14 днів тому

    I really want to make taco dip now lol, giving me all the nostalgia even though I grew up in the 90s. I love the photos in that book!

  • @BookHen-xn2bh
    @BookHen-xn2bh 23 дні тому

    Someday do an episode of vintage centerpieces for the table. I think in the past people made a bigger deal out of centerpieces for the table.

  • @genehaney9191
    @genehaney9191 23 дні тому +1

    greek side dish.....looks very good......i would add pasta and some chicken from the store

  • @lorilxn1597
    @lorilxn1597 23 дні тому +3

    We used to make that taco dip a lot

  • @plumicorn
    @plumicorn 23 дні тому +1

    I really want to try the dessert with macadamia/almond and citrus pudding and hazelnut/rasberry combo

  • @LDFine
    @LDFine 23 дні тому +5

    Yay! I love this cookbook! Okay, ready to watch!! 😋

  • @enyab.6939
    @enyab.6939 23 дні тому +4

    Mom would make green jello salad with pecans. It can be changed according to the taste.

  • @jessabee3370
    @jessabee3370 22 дні тому +2

    I got so excited to see the pistachio squares (which is what my family calls them) in the thumbnail! This is a favourite in my family in Atlantic Canada. My mom makes them for New Years gatherings or whenever she hosts a family dinner.

  • @jchow5966
    @jchow5966 23 дні тому +2

    It is definitely still spring here in Minnesota! Thank you for these spring retro recipes. I remember in the 89s how we just did not have or know about all of the ingedients that we have and know about now. I liked how you reminded people about the historical perspective - which is really (to me) one of the most fantastic things about watching your channel. ☮️💟

  • @tsmith6250
    @tsmith6250 23 дні тому +1

    Love the pudding dessert. We always had it with chocolate or butterscotch but we love pistachio so will be trying it!

  • @suzanneleonard5485
    @suzanneleonard5485 23 дні тому

    Greek salad is my favorite! Thank you. Luckily, my local grocery has a bagged broccoli and cauliflower mix in the produce section, so no waste. I also add sliced roasted red peppers.

  • @gidget8717
    @gidget8717 23 дні тому +4

    My husband favorite flavor of the dessert was butterpecan. I used pecans in the crust and jello used to make a butterpecan pudding. They discontinued that flavor.

  • @littleblackcar
    @littleblackcar 22 дні тому

    The taco dip --there is a similar one that also includes bean dip and salsa (drained) and it's amazing. Seven-layer dip: Beans, guac, salsa, sour cream, shredded cheese, lettuce, tomato, olives, which I guess is sort of eight layers but the olives are more of a garnish?

  • @jeanholley5820
    @jeanholley5820 5 днів тому +1

    Yes - do a video on fancy drinks!

    • @cooking_the_books
      @cooking_the_books  5 днів тому +1

      Just did one last week! 😊 Thinking about making a few fancy drink shorts as well.