20 Vintage Recipes Just Like Grandma Used to Make

eatingwell ^ | 11/12/2024 | Camryn Alexa Wimberly

[ChicagoConservative27]

Take a trip down memory lane with these vintage recipes featuring classics your grandma grew up with. If you're searching for a simple appetizer, main course or dessert, we add a fun, modern spin to vintage recipes like stuffing chicken salad in avocados or making an everything bagel-flavored cheese ball. Other recipes like Macaroni Salad with Creamy Avocado Dressing, ​​Skillet Chicken Potpie and ​​Baked Mac & Cheese are delicious, filling and the perfect nostalgic bite.

[ChicagoConservative27]

The List,

Skillet Chicken Potpie

Easy Lasagna

​​Baked Mac & Cheese

Old-Fashioned Sweet Potato Casserole

Slow-Cooker Braised Beef with Carrots & Turnips

Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup with Rotisserie Chicken

Slow-Cooker Corn Casserole

Chicken & Mushroom Shepherd's Pie

Old-Fashioned Meatloaf

Quick King Ranch Chicken Casserole

Pear-Pecan Cheese Ball

Macaroni Salad with Creamy Avocado Dressing

Classic Zucchini Casserole

Classic Deviled Eggs

Slow-Cooker Green Bean Casserole with Crispy Onions

Roast Chicken with Parmesan-Herb Sauce

Chocolate-Fudge Pudding Cake

Spinach & Tuna Noodle Casserole

Lemon Icebox Pie with Coconut-Graham Cracker Crust

Instant Pot Chicken Soup with Root Vegetables & Barley

[Daveinyork]

It’s not pot pie unless it’s made in a pot.

[LouAvul]

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[dinodino]

My Grandma didn’t make me any of this crap.

[Vaquero]

[Tommy Revolts]

Two things required for our Holiday dinner...homemade sweet potato casserole and deviled eggs.

[j.havenfarm]

Any grandma who foisted wretched cheeseball on her family should even now be given the Pope Formosus treatment
https://daily.jstor.org/the-cadaver-synod-putting-a-dead-pope-on-trial/

[Migraine]

My grandma dang sure never made anything with avocados.

[BlackbirdSST]

Slow Cooker is in there several times.

My Granny never had a slow cooker unless for some reason she let Gran Daddy in the kitchen.

[fwdude]

Most grandma recipe stuff is gross, in my opinion. I just remember summer squash casserole and ox-tail soup (German grandma). Yuck!

[albie]

Every one of the recipes that involves soup is made with Campbell’s. Sodium is thru the roof! A lot of this is processed crap and is the reason for 75% of Americans being overweight and/or obese. We eat exactly the opposite of this and we eat very well. Mostly Mediterranean.

[70times7]

It’s not pot pie unless it’s made in a pot.

But what if I added ...

nevermind.

[albie]

Jello salads with vegetables and Watergate salad was big in my house. Both sucked. My mother bought us Froot Loops because she thought it had real fruit. I told her “mom…there’s a reason it’s spelled Froot”

[bobbo666]

Well, not you. All the rest of her beloved grandchildren, yeah. But, YOU were SPECIAL!! :)

Have you ever compared notes with others in your family about how they were invited to lots of more family getogethers that you never heard of?

[caver]

Most all of those sound great.

[FamiliarFace]

I’m enjoying the lists you’ve been sharing lately. Thank you. Always food for thought. Some recipes look interesting enough to try. I also like perusing other articles at the Eating Well website. There’s a spinach and mushrooms crustless quiche that I’m thinking of trying. Not that I can’t make a great crust. I can and do. Just trying to cut out some of those extra calories.

[dinodino]

We’re a small family, and my grandmother actually knew how to cook...so, there’s that.

[ChicagoConservative27]

You are welcome FRiend

[Pollard]

Instant Pot Chicken Soup with Root Vegetables & Barley

Grandma didn't have an Instant Pot

[Liz]

Ready to toss.

Creamy Avocado Macaroni Salad / A dish no one can stop eating
Stars avocado ranch dressing, egg/chicken option, bacon, stays green for days.

Ingredients 1 lb spiral pasta (or fave) 1 tbsp ea cooking oil/ k/salt (for cooking water). Avocado Dressing: 1 1/3 cups avocado ~ 1 1/2 avocados, 1/2 cup buttermilk (sub yogurt + milk), 1/3 cup whole egg mayo (just a bit) 3 tbsp lemon juice (sub cider vinegar) 1 1/2 minced gar/cloves, 1/2 tsp onion powder, s/p, 1/4 cup minced dill. Cooked chicken. Add-ins 8 oz streaky bacon 6 hd-cooked egg quarters option 8 oz cherry tomato halves 1/4 red onion, very finely sliced 1 celery rib, finely sliced 1/4 cup minced dill.

Steps Crisp bacon slices on oven rack 20 min, then cool – will get crispier; chop into 1/3" pieces. Dressing: Blender ing except dill til smooth. Add dill and pulse to mix thru. Taste and adjust salt. Place the pasta and dressing in server along with everything else EXCEPT eggs. Toss/combine gently. Add eggs option, then toss gently to disperse. Serve.

Notes: 1. Scoop avocado flesh into measuring cups for accuracy. 2. Buttermilk – near-perfect sub is half yogurt + half milk. 3. whole egg mayo has a smoother flavor than normal mayo. Kewpie mayo is great here. Substitute with sour cream or yogurt for a lighter version. 4. Fresh dill – Coriander/cilantro and chives are also used in the same quantity. 5. Cooking pasta – overcook the pasta until it’s extra-soft because pasta firms once cool. 6. Keeps 4 days in fridge, and stays green thanks to the lemon.