vintage recipes

  • Old-Fashioned Creamy Lettuce Salad with cucumber, red onion and homemade creamy dressing

    Old-Fashioned Creamy Lettuce Salad

    April Lee Wiencek

    A Crisp and Creamy Salad With a Sweet and Tangy Cucumber Onion Topper Old-Fashioned Creamy Lettuce Salad is one of those simple recipes that proves you do not need a dozen fancy ingredients to make a really good salad. Crisp iceberg lettuce is topped with a sweet and tangy homemade creamy dressing, then finished with a chilled cucumber and red onion mixture that has been marinating in rice vinegar, sugar, dill, and celery salt. The contrast is what makes this so good. You get cold, crunchy lettuce, rich creamy dressing, tangy pickled vegetables and plenty of black pepper in every…

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  • Retro Whole Roasted Cauliflower with Lemon Anchovy Butter

    April Lee Wiencek

    A Throwback to Great Veggie Sides This vintage-inspired whole roasted cauliflower is steamed until tender, roasted until golden, and finished with a rich, savory butter sauce made with anchovy paste, capers, Dijon mustard, lemon. and red pepper flakes. I recently realized something while going through and updating some of my…

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