We are missing out on the cheese balls more often now! You couldn't throw a rock without hitting one during the holidays of the 80s & 90s. Now it seems everyone either buys their potluck offering already prepared or tries to make something for Instagram or Pinterest. Break out the cream cheese, people. Like our ancestors intended. 😂😂😂😂😂
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Oh Anna, I am a retired chef, and a doggy daycare bus driver. I grew up around my mom’s giant collection of cookbooks and your channel really speaks to me! Thank you so much for giving me good Content to watch and listen to as I’m working with the pups.❤
I definitely remember that veggie pizza from the 1980s. Crescent roll dough pressed in a pan, baked, and covered with the cream cheese mixture and the finely chopped fresh veggies like broccoli and red peppers and carrots on top with shredded cheddar. Good stuff!
One Halloween party I did ( I'm a banquet chef) an 8 lb cheese ball shaped like a pumpkin, covered in sharp Cheddar. 😂 200 guests ate about 2/3 of it with crostini, pretzel pieces, & crackers. 😂
It was crazy. About a foot high with the stem ( from bell pepper) , on a bed of spinach, mixed greens & celery leaves ( I know, I know). We bought paint/ drywall spatulas to act as spreaders. But as some one who caters professionally, it's the holy trinity of appetizers: cream cheese, bacon, and puff pastry. 😋
I think "1980s Cream Cheese Party Food" is officially my favorite food group. The cheese ball and Wheat Thins on the Spring Blossom dishes I grew up with was most delightful nostalgia hit, so thank you for that! We make one with green olives, cheddar, cream cheese, a bit of mayo, and Worcestershire sauce-- my mom got the recipe from a work friend in the early 80s and we still make it every Christmas. The pineapple one reminded me of the spread that we also make that has cream cheese, crushed pineapple, green pepper, and green onions-- I think I need to make that one soon.
Nice. I like the idea of the green olives! And it reminds me that my mom made a black olive spread. I'm pretty sure it was just cream cheese & mayo or maybe sour cream (?) with lots of chopped black olives. I don't know if it had any seasonings.😟 Great on crackers.
@@cooking_the_books Is it weird to leave a recipe in a TH-cam comment? WE'LL FIND OUT! Cheese Ball For when you need an appetizer that looks like a brain with eyeballs on it. Also, it’s insanely delicious. 2 cups grated sharp cheddar cheese 3 oz. cream cheese, room temperature 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 3 tablespoons mayonnaise 1/4 cup chopped green pimento stuffed olives Mix ingredients, form into ball. Roll in (or, realistically, just squish on) additional sliced olives. Serve with crackers (Wheat Thins are our go-to).
My family still makes a cheese ball with Buddig beef and tons of green onions. May I recommend from experience never straying from Philadelphia cream cheese - the store brands are never the same! It’s gotten so expensive but worth it.
I totally agree about getting the Philadelphia cream cheese. A little more pricy but it's not like you are eating it every day (well, maybe not....teehee).
My family still does cheese balls! My favorite one has Worcestershire, green onion, garlic powder, and onion powder wrapped in the beef you used in the Hot Beef dip. We server them with chicken biscuits. So good!
This is my family's traditional cheeseball too! It is a feature of every Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Day, but only with wheat thins, never any other kind of cracker 😂
I love that veggie pizza. An oldie but goodie. I made it for an appetizer last Thanksgiving and my son’s M-i-l asked “what IS that”. I brought the whole thing home, (minus 1 slice), and threw it away. Lost generation of good stuff.
Anna, cheese balls can be frozen. It's a great hack for a quick appetizer when you are super busy during the holidays. Make them now then wrap them tightly with plastic wrap and place in an air tight container then toss it in the freezer. Place it in the refrigerator overnight to thaw.
I used to use pillsbury sheet, baked, a container of cream cheese with garden veggies ( the round containers), spread over the cooled crust, then I minced broccoli and cauliflower and sprinkled over the top. Quick, easy and yummy. It’s been years, I may make it for Thanksgiving.
My mother got a recipe from a coworker in the 80s for hamburger noodle bake, it probably came from a philly cream cheese book. I loved it as a kid and still make it today. Basically you make a red meat sauce, then cook egg noodles which are then mixed with cream cheese, sour cream & scallions. Layer half the noodle mix in a casserole dish then half the meat sauce then shredded cheddar cheese, repeat and bake for 1/2 an hour. It is so good and the perfect comfort food, and you can freeze it as well. You can also prep it ahead then bake it off. I add shredded parmesan to the noodle mix & add some on top as well. I really enjoy your channel! I love old recipes, food is such a strong connection to our past and memories. My mother has alzheimers, cooking dishes from my childhood is such a comfort & helps me remember the real her.
Our ladies Bible study group had a luncheon just the other day and someone brought a cheese ball that was decorated like a turkey with pretzel sticks. It was so cute!
As an 80's kid, I thought the cheese balls were the most delicious thing on the table. You knew things were fancy if my parents took me somewhere that had a cheeseball. That meant best behavior- otherwise I would have torn into that cheeseball with a spoon! As an adult, I have bought them but never thought about making one. I assumed they were complicated and involved magic.
I’m oddly obsessed with your channel - even tho most of your recipes are things I remember eating or still eat . When I was in grad school in the 80s I used to sprinkle mixed herbs, garlic powder, salt and pepper on plastic wrap then roll half a brick of cream cheese in the mixture until all of the sides were coated. Wrap it in the Saran and chill. It simulates Boursin herb cheese for a fraction of the cost and you can customize the herb mix to suit your palate or your menu
My husband reminded me of other cream cheese recipes we ate back in the day - a layered Tex Mex dip with cream cheese and chili, fondue made with cream cheese, Brie and butter, chicken bundles made from cream cheese and chicken wrapped in crescent rolls…. I’m going to make a whole cream cheese retro meal now 😂
My mom made great cheeseballs every December in the 70s & 80s (my childhood & teen years). We'd have a couple on hand for when people came over to visit, and would also take to the couple of Christmas gatherings we'd go to. I'm realizing that I miss the cheeseball, and though it's the beginning of February 2024, I'm making one soon, after my next grocery trip. I've made 2 batches of traditional Chex Mix over the past 3½ months (which was another Christmas tradition at our house when I was growing up), and it's as amazing as I remember-SOOOOO much better than store-bought (which didn't exist, that I recall, until the mid-90s[?]). Wonderful video!
I cannot even count the number of times my mom brought that crescent roll veggie pizza to a function. She used to add broccoli and red bell pepper to it. But that really brought back some serious memories of the late 80s and early 90s picnics, showers, birthdays, potlucks.
Wee! Anna! 1980 gal here…. And yes.. my mom used to make whet she called a vegetable pizza and it’s exactly what you described. Crescents, cream cheese, ranch packet, with veggies on top. SO good. I can taste it now! 😁 Thank you so much for all the hard work that goes into making these videos so fun and nostalgic! You are a hoot! And don’t worry about those crazy commenters… they are just hungry! 🤣
I just discovered your channel .I have hundreds of cookbooks , unfortunately I'm too disabled to cook much anymore but I still enjoy looking at them and watching you.
My MIL makes an amazing cheese ball for nearly every holiday. Last Christmas she made an extra one just for me because she knows how much I like them! There's chopped ham, pimentos, and chopped canned oysters in it, and she rolls it in sesame seeds. It sounds weird but the flavor is so good!
I love your videos! I used to make cheese balls all the time. Now I use those same recipes to make cheese spreads. When I coated my cheese balls I would put the nuts or whatever in a glass pie dish and roll the ball around until it was coated
Our holiday/special occasion dip was garlic dip ~ just softened cream cheese with garlic powder creamed with milk until you could dip a potato chip into it without the chip breaking. My sister was the queen of making it as she creamed it by hand for what felt like forever to me! It tasted really good stuffed into celery sticks too!
I dont have the dishes, but I did have those biwls. Unfortunately after 50 years of marriage the last remaining bowl broke 2 years ago. Oh well. LOL. We definetly had the veggie pizza. The cream cheese block with the hot pepper jelly, as well as the cream cheese with chili sauce and shrimp. Yum party food!
My mom used to take cream cheese and crushed pineapple and put it on celery for Christmas eve every year as something special growing up. I love watching you make dishes that remind me of growing up.
My mom would do those snack squares with cream cheese, bacon, shrimp and green onion plus a bit of sweet thai chili sauce.. so good.. she'd also do them with just cream cheese, chopped pimento and chopped almonds or pecans... so good...
I would help my mother make cheese balls and kept scarred knuckles during the holidays from grating cheese. I had scarred knuckles the rest of the year from helping her make pimento cheese.
I loved this episode! I’ve saved this in my holidays folder. Everything looked so yummy. I think my family and friends will love them. I hope you feature at least one more episode from this book. So many recipes sounded delicious.
I have that cookbook!! The Marble Squares on page 146 are amazing! I can’t make them at Christmas anymore because I eat too many before they make it to our family gathering!
Something that my mother used to make was cream cheese and celery logs. I know, not your kind of thing. I love them myself, and they are so easy to make. Get some celery and cut it into logs about 4 or 5 inches long. Spread softened cream cheese into the slot in the celery logs. Sprinkle on some paprika and serve.
I still snack on celery filled with cream cheese or peanut butter, Ala 'Ants on a Log' which I'm pretty certain came from our Betty Crocker Boys and Girls Cookbook circa 1967
I have to say, and no, i am not paid to say this, i prefer Philadelphia cream cheese over all others. I have tried other brands that say they dont have the additives that Philly has, but none deliver the tang that i look for in a cream cheese. Maybe its due to my being a 70s child, but thankfully, I am still happy with my bagels and appetizers made with it.
A popular dip was sour cream and crushed pineapple and sour cream and a packet of french onion soup in australia 1970 s/ 1980 s 🇦🇺 i loved the pineapple dip 🇦🇺🇦🇺❤️
gotta sell that bar pan. I will say if you have the pampered chef hostess cookbook, there is a breakfast ring that has you scramble the eggs with some cream cheese and then bake it into a ring of crescent roll dough. It is the only recipe I've ever had with baked scrambled eggs that dont come out weird textured and disgusting. I should call my mom for the recipe.
Your not old. I graduated in 1981 & far from old. I will never be old. People are obsessed about "old". Also using the word "vintage" I have always considered " vintage" the Victorian era.
Our family is big into kolaches. The dough is basically 1/2 cream cheese. What we’ve learned over the years is the versatility from savory appetizers to the cooky everyone knows & loves. So if you’re interested you can take pretty much any dip or filling you can think of then bake off the dough as a lil’ cupcake shell1/2 way fill & bake till toasty. Of course you can make it any shape you can think of. Merry Christmas all you retro foodies🎄
The plates you think your! Mom and Dad had, we had the full set of dishes . l have noticed them on some of your other videos. It makes me happy to see them. I really like your videos.
I make my cheeseball and put diced bell peppers on the outside! Orange peppers and shape it like a pumpkin for Thanksgiving and red/yellow/orange peppers and shape it like a Christmas tree for Christmas
Pamp**** Che* cookbooks were awesome for this type of recipe..cut out parts of using their cooking items you're ok in a new recipe! just found like everyone ever put out along with hostess & vendor recipes..you would have thought I found a million bucks!! my fav books!! also back of cans, boxes, bags!! lol thank you for the momories!!
I was a young adult in the 1980’s and remember these type of recipes. Very nostalgic. I was thinking about the hot beef dip recipe, and was wondering if there was a version using deli ham or smoke turkey instead of beef.
I realised a few years ago that every potluck appetizer or food I know is cream cheese based! They are just so good. We have a cheese ball every holiday, the kind with the beef you used here. Philadelphia cream cheese freezes really well, the cheaper varieties can be iffy. I highly recommend a hot reuben dip. Super easy, different, and a crowd pleaser. I also do a deconstructed jalapeno popper dip that my family loves. Another great dip is just cream cheese, mayo, frozen corn, a bit of green salsa and green onion, shredded cheese, bake 20 mins, serve with tortilla chips. Perfection. I have a super easy dessert recipe called pistachio pudding dessert. I have to make it every holiday, too. I started doing a chocolate version and everyone loves it. The sad thing is, I only have leftovers because our family has gotten smaller in recent years. :(
Please, please make a whole cream cheese extended universe series on this book. I'd try to eat a flop-flop if it were slathered in cream cheese, I swear. lol
I loved cheese balls until I found out I was allergic to nuts but I just now realized I could use pumpkin seeds. Bringing the nut-free cheese all back!!
The BEST holiday party I went to a young adult (23-ish) was thrown by a friend who asked all the guests to bring a cheeseball & bottle of wine. 🎉 Shenanigans ensued, but we had so much damn fun.
Hostess had veggies, potato chips, crackers, & tortilla chips. We voted on the best and they won a prize. Do it! Best party idea ever, and lower cost. Wine is optional.
I really have to stop watching your videos! I’ve bought 2 cookbooks from Etsy after seeing you cook from them. I have also started looking “in the wild” for vintage cookbooks now. Thanks a lot, Ana🙄 I’m hooked ❤❤❤
Great job on another fun video! In my area of the south, pineapple/cream cheese sandwiches are extremely popular for showers, teas, etc. They are even easier to make than pimento cheese and always a hit.
I remember the cream cheese veggie pizza, I would always ask to buy it. We had it for summer parties and baby/ wedding showers, and sometime for a special dinner ( mom didn't want to cook).
My favorite 1980s cream cheese appetizer was one my sister's neighbor and best friend used to make. A block of softened cream cheese mixed with a can...yes, a can, of salad shrimp, chopped and half a jar of cocktail sauce, one that is quite generous with the horseradish. Mix that all up, and top with more cocktail sauce. Serve with crackers. Absolutely yummmmmmy! I tried making it with fresh shrimp, but in this recipe I actually liked the canned better. I guess my taste buds were attuned to it from growing up in a landlocked state without much access to good fresh seafood.
Yes! We used to have a shrimp ball put out for every Christmas get together ! I’ve been wanting to make one for the past few years, but the only problem is that I can’t seem to find a can of deveined shrimp in a can in any grocery store I go into. 😢
Oh my gosh, I’d love to have that cookbook! Everything you made sounded delish. If you like cream cheese and pineapple, then here’s my all time favorite cheese ball recipe. First time I had it was over 30 years ago at my baby shower, we all fondly call it “Crack Ball” because it’s so addicting, and I wonder if it’s in your cookbook. 2 8oz bars of softened cream cheese, 2 level teaspoons Lawry’s seasoned salt (the best, imo) 3 heaping tablespoons well drained crushed pineapple, 2 tablespoons very finely minced onion (can use green onion) and two tablespoons chopped pecans. Combine it all, and roll in additional chopped pecans. This tastes best when it’s had a few hours in the fridge. I serve with Townhouse crackers, but the Wheat Thins would be good too. The recipe I was given called for 2 tablespoons pineapple, I always throw in an extra. I’m telling you, you won’t be able to stay out of it! And now I will have to try your recipe, as I have a jar of candied ginger I need to use up!
When my husband and I were married in 1983, we received 3 cheese boards with glass dome covers! Of course, by the time I made a cheese ball, none were still in our house. Lol
My family lives on cheeseball lol every party someone always brings one. The crescent roll dish you were talking about, I also grew up eating. We called it veggie pizza haha and my mom was just talking about making some for a Christmas party we have in a few weeks😋
YUM! Cream cheese is a favorite and I always have a block or two in my frig. I love it so much that once, I had a bridal shower for a lady who happened to be 'allergic' to cream cheese. I had a hard time coming up with snacks to make for the shower because most of my go to receipts have cream cheese as an ingredient. As a young wife in the 80's I can contest that all gatherings did have some kind of cheeseball at it. Though most of them were cream cheese, Buddig meat (beef), green onion, with black or green olive slices as the covering.
I loved this reminder from the 80’s and 90’s, I was one of the people that always brought a cheese ball. I think that I need to bring cheese balls back to our family occasions. I very much enjoy your channel.
yes to veggie crescent roll pizza- and the recipes look yummy! We made ham and Swiss pinwheels. The crescent dough was spread with mustard and mayo combined and layered with thin ham and Swiss. Rolled up. Brushed with egg and rolled in sesame seeds. Firm in fridge and slice into pinwheels and bake on nonstick until browned. yummy
Veggie pizza! My mom's staple church potluck contribution through the 90s and 00s, and still one of my favorite snacks - I've been craving it recently actually so this must be a sign I need to go buy some crescent rolls and go nuts. All of these were excellent snacks and party ideas. Hugely agree we need more excuses to eat cheese balls, the Ultimate Party Food. Thanks so much for this!
I'm loving these recipes. There's a reason they popular, they're good! I made a cheese ball for a party I attended last night. It's the one that has the chopped up Buddig beef lunch meat in it. My mither always made it. I rolled minenin chopp3d pecans but I remember my mother occasionally rolling it in a dried parsley & herb mixture.
My aunt always makes “cold veggie pizza” for every family event! It’s still one of my favorite appetizers! I’ve even made a small batch and ate it for lunch throughout the week. Delish! I’d be interested to see what recipe you use for it.
Yes, I have had the crescent roll cream cheese and veggie concoction, we used to call it room veg Pizza, because it was usually room temperature and it had veggies on it and yes it was delicious! In the 80s we made a dip similar to one of the ones that you made here, my sister and I also nicknamed that one "hotdip", because it was served warm... Very simple and I don't have the actual ingredient list, but it consisted of, softened cream cheese, green bell peppers, the cute little cup of I think it's Hormel dried beef.(chopped) garlic powder, maybe some tiny diced onions. Perhaps a little bit of onion powder instead I can't recall. And crushed pecans, toasted in butter and salt. The way you would put the dip into a shallow rectangular Pyrex baking dish, top it with the pecans, and bake. It was delicious on Ritz crackers.
I think the Hot Beef Dip would be great with chipped beef, if you are not familiar with it it is in a very small jar on the canned meat isle. I believe it is made by Armor Foods. Dried Beef, not chipped!😇
We are missing out on the cheese balls more often now! You couldn't throw a rock without hitting one during the holidays of the 80s & 90s. Now it seems everyone either buys their potluck offering already prepared or tries to make something for Instagram or Pinterest. Break out the cream cheese, people. Like our ancestors intended. 😂😂😂😂😂
Break out the cream cheese indeed! 😂
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Give the people what they want!!
Crazy. They are sold on the daily at my local grocery store
Haha!
Pro tip: leave the bottom of the cheese ball uncoated with nuts, so it will stick to the plate and not slide around. I love cheeseballs too!
The fact that her mixer has a light on it is genius!!! I need it. I could make cake in the dark!!
I agree!
WE “”NEED”” INFORMATION TO LOCATE & PURCHASE IT, LIKELY FROM ANAZON ✔️
ALSO NOTICE THE BOTTOM OF THE MIXER/ATTACHMENTS WERE THE BLACK SILICONE TO (( PREVENT ))
SCRATCHING BOWLS AS IT MIXED THE INGREDIENTS…
😂😂😂
Oh Anna, I am a retired chef, and a doggy daycare bus driver. I grew up around my mom’s giant collection of cookbooks and your channel really speaks to me! Thank you so much for giving me good Content to watch and listen to as I’m working with the pups.❤
so glad you're enjoying my videos! ❤
Doggy Daycare driver!!! That sounds like a little piece of Heaven 🙂
Oh how nice to be working around doggies!
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lucky you. my dream job...doggy day care driver...
I definitely remember that veggie pizza from the 1980s. Crescent roll dough pressed in a pan, baked, and covered with the cream cheese mixture and the finely chopped fresh veggies like broccoli and red peppers and carrots on top with shredded cheddar. Good stuff!
So good! My grandma brought that to just about every family gathering in the 80s.
Yes veggie pizza all the way! I remember it well. So yummy
Yes i loved that stuff!! Every couple of years I make it just for the nostalgia :)
I love that stuff
I still make it every couple of years! Love veggie pizza:)
One Halloween party I did ( I'm a banquet chef) an 8 lb cheese ball shaped like a pumpkin, covered in sharp Cheddar. 😂 200 guests ate about 2/3 of it with crostini, pretzel pieces, & crackers. 😂
WOW. That is one impressive sounding cheese ball!
It was crazy. About a foot high with the stem ( from bell pepper) , on a bed of spinach, mixed greens & celery leaves ( I know, I know). We bought paint/ drywall spatulas to act as spreaders. But as some one who caters professionally, it's the holy trinity of appetizers: cream cheese, bacon, and puff pastry. 😋
My Mom never let a holiday go by without a cheese ball rolled in pecans. Great memories.
Yes! Let’s bring the cheese ball BACK! Haha!
I second that.
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Me too and I come with professional taste testing experience lol
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Me!!!
I think "1980s Cream Cheese Party Food" is officially my favorite food group. The cheese ball and Wheat Thins on the Spring Blossom dishes I grew up with was most delightful nostalgia hit, so thank you for that! We make one with green olives, cheddar, cream cheese, a bit of mayo, and Worcestershire sauce-- my mom got the recipe from a work friend in the early 80s and we still make it every Christmas. The pineapple one reminded me of the spread that we also make that has cream cheese, crushed pineapple, green pepper, and green onions-- I think I need to make that one soon.
Oh my gosh, that olive cheese ball sounds incredible. 😋
Nice. I like the idea of the green olives! And it reminds me that my mom made a black olive spread. I'm pretty sure it was just cream cheese & mayo or maybe sour cream (?) with lots of chopped black olives. I don't know if it had any seasonings.😟 Great on crackers.
@@cooking_the_books Is it weird to leave a recipe in a TH-cam comment? WE'LL FIND OUT!
Cheese Ball
For when you need an appetizer that looks like a brain with eyeballs on it. Also, it’s insanely delicious.
2 cups grated sharp cheddar cheese
3 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
1/4 cup chopped green pimento stuffed olives
Mix ingredients, form into ball. Roll in (or, realistically, just squish on) additional sliced olives. Serve with crackers (Wheat Thins are our go-to).
Cream cheese and olives - a classic!
My family still makes a cheese ball with Buddig beef and tons of green onions. May I recommend from experience never straying from Philadelphia cream cheese - the store brands are never the same! It’s gotten so expensive but worth it.
I totally agree about getting the Philadelphia cream cheese. A little more pricy but it's not like you are eating it every day (well, maybe not....teehee).
Our family makes the same cheese ball, since 1973 😊 curious which crackers you serve it - we are Wheat Thins stalwarts lol
My family still does cheese balls! My favorite one has Worcestershire, green onion, garlic powder, and onion powder wrapped in the beef you used in the Hot Beef dip. We server them with chicken biscuits. So good!
This is my family's traditional cheeseball too! It is a feature of every Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Day, but only with wheat thins, never any other kind of cracker 😂
My cousin breaks this recipe out at every holiday party. It wouldn’t be a party without it. Seems to me it was at the very first Super Bowl party!
I’ve made the same cheese ball
Cream cheese and brown panelling, aaaah the 80s. I do sincerely miss it!
I love that veggie pizza. An oldie but goodie. I made it for an appetizer last Thanksgiving and my son’s M-i-l asked “what IS that”. I brought the whole thing home, (minus 1 slice), and threw it away. Lost generation of good stuff.
Anna, cheese balls can be frozen. It's a great hack for a quick appetizer when you are super busy during the holidays. Make them now then wrap them tightly with plastic wrap and place in an air tight container then toss it in the freezer. Place it in the refrigerator overnight to thaw.
id say YES DO MORE RECIPES!!!!!!!!!!! I CANT Iimagine how anyone could go wrong with cream cheese ideas
I would be thrilled to see this cookbook in the spotlight again!
This book has been on my mind lately! Maybe I'll try some more of the main dish recipes next time.
I used to use pillsbury sheet, baked, a container of cream cheese with garden veggies ( the round containers), spread over the cooled crust, then I minced broccoli and cauliflower and sprinkled over the top. Quick, easy and yummy. It’s been years, I may make it for Thanksgiving.
My mother got a recipe from a coworker in the 80s for hamburger noodle bake, it probably came from a philly cream cheese book. I loved it as a kid and still make it today. Basically you make a red meat sauce, then cook egg noodles which are then mixed with cream cheese, sour cream & scallions. Layer half the noodle mix in a casserole dish then half the meat sauce then shredded cheddar cheese, repeat and bake for 1/2 an hour. It is so good and the perfect comfort food, and you can freeze it as well. You can also prep it ahead then bake it off. I add shredded parmesan to the noodle mix & add some on top as well. I really enjoy your channel! I love old recipes, food is such a strong connection to our past and memories. My mother has alzheimers, cooking dishes from my childhood is such a comfort & helps me remember the real her.
Wishing you and your family peace as you navigate the years ahead with your mom and her Alzheimers. It's so hard ❤ sending hugs
Our ladies Bible study group had a luncheon just the other day and someone brought a cheese ball that was decorated like a turkey with pretzel sticks. It was so cute!
As an 80's kid, I thought the cheese balls were the most delicious thing on the table. You knew things were fancy if my parents took me somewhere that had a cheeseball. That meant best behavior- otherwise I would have torn into that cheeseball with a spoon! As an adult, I have bought them but never thought about making one. I assumed they were complicated and involved magic.
I’m oddly obsessed with your channel - even tho most of your recipes are things I remember eating or still eat . When I was in grad school in the 80s I used to sprinkle mixed herbs, garlic powder, salt and pepper on plastic wrap then roll half a brick of cream cheese in the mixture until all of the sides were coated. Wrap it in the Saran and chill. It simulates Boursin herb cheese for a fraction of the cost and you can customize the herb mix to suit your palate or your menu
My husband reminded me of other cream cheese recipes we ate back in the day - a layered Tex Mex dip with cream cheese and chili, fondue made with cream cheese, Brie and butter, chicken bundles made from cream cheese and chicken wrapped in crescent rolls…. I’m going to make a whole cream cheese retro meal now 😂
Note to anyone who wants this cookbook... it's free to borrow from the Internet Archives... I got so many new recipes from it!
Hubby and I had that design as our very first dishes, so cool to see it again. P.S. been married since 1972😊
My mom made great cheeseballs every December in the 70s & 80s (my childhood & teen years). We'd have a couple on hand for when people came over to visit, and would also take to the couple of Christmas gatherings we'd go to.
I'm realizing that I miss the cheeseball, and though it's the beginning of February 2024, I'm making one soon, after my next grocery trip.
I've made 2 batches of traditional Chex Mix over the past 3½ months (which was another Christmas tradition at our house when I was growing up), and it's as amazing as I remember-SOOOOO much better than store-bought (which didn't exist, that I recall, until the mid-90s[?]).
Wonderful video!
I cannot even count the number of times my mom brought that crescent roll veggie pizza to a function. She used to add broccoli and red bell pepper to it. But that really brought back some serious memories of the late 80s and early 90s picnics, showers, birthdays, potlucks.
It's such a classic! 😊
Wee! Anna! 1980 gal here…. And yes.. my mom used to make whet she called a vegetable pizza and it’s exactly what you described. Crescents, cream cheese, ranch packet, with veggies on top. SO good. I can taste it now! 😁
Thank you so much for all the hard work that goes into making these videos so fun and nostalgic! You are a hoot! And don’t worry about those crazy commenters… they are just hungry! 🤣
I've done that veggie pizza, and I've also used plain cream cheese, and topped it with assorted fresh berries.
Yummy!
Core childhood memories unlocked! :D Watching these makes me miss my mom and grandma, thank you for this!
I just discovered your channel .I have hundreds of cookbooks , unfortunately I'm too disabled to cook much anymore but I still enjoy looking at them and watching you.
I’m dairy free and I’m living vicariously through this video. I’m looking forward to seeing the other recipes in this book.
I’m motivated now to try a cheese ball from vegan cream cheese lol
My MIL makes an amazing cheese ball for nearly every holiday. Last Christmas she made an extra one just for me because she knows how much I like them! There's chopped ham, pimentos, and chopped canned oysters in it, and she rolls it in sesame seeds. It sounds weird but the flavor is so good!
Swingin' 70s parents served these types of nibbles at cocktail parties. 😊 We kids got to taste some but not the cocktails.😂
Where have these cheese balls been all my life?! Oh my!
I love your videos! I used to make cheese balls all the time. Now I use those same recipes to make cheese spreads. When I coated my cheese balls I would put the nuts or whatever in a glass pie dish and roll the ball around until it was coated
Omgosh, I love this apron!!! : )
This channel has been my happy place lately. I always turn on this channel whilst cleaning the kitchen LOL.
Our holiday/special occasion dip was garlic dip ~ just softened cream cheese with garlic powder creamed with milk until you could dip a potato chip into it without the chip breaking. My sister was the queen of making it as she creamed it by hand for what felt like forever to me! It tasted really good stuffed into celery sticks too!
Yes, make another video with that book!! ♥️
I dont have the dishes, but I did have those biwls. Unfortunately after 50 years of marriage the last remaining bowl broke 2 years ago. Oh well. LOL. We definetly had the veggie pizza. The cream cheese block with the hot pepper jelly, as well as the cream cheese with chili sauce and shrimp. Yum party food!
My mom used to take cream cheese and crushed pineapple and put it on celery for Christmas eve every year as something special growing up. I love watching you make dishes that remind me of growing up.
.....So how many remember a block of cream cheese with a bottle of chili sauce dumped on it followed by a pile of baby shrimp?
My mom would do those snack squares with cream cheese, bacon, shrimp and green onion plus a bit of sweet thai chili sauce.. so good.. she'd also do them with just cream cheese, chopped pimento and chopped almonds or pecans... so good...
I would help my mother make cheese balls and kept scarred knuckles during the holidays from grating cheese. I had scarred knuckles the rest of the year from helping her make pimento cheese.
I loved this episode! I’ve saved this in my holidays folder. Everything looked so yummy. I think my family and friends will love them.
I hope you feature at least one more episode from this book. So many recipes sounded delicious.
Instead of cheese balls we are all fancy now with Charcuterie Boards.
Oh man I love all things cream cheese! I also find myself doing recipes from my childhood. I love your channel I watch all the time! Thank you!
I have that cookbook!! The Marble Squares on page 146 are amazing! I can’t make them at Christmas anymore because I eat too many before they make it to our family gathering!
Something that my mother used to make was cream cheese and celery logs. I know, not your kind of thing. I love them myself, and they are so easy to make. Get some celery and cut it into logs about 4 or 5 inches long. Spread softened cream cheese into the slot in the celery logs. Sprinkle on some paprika and serve.
I still snack on celery filled with cream cheese or peanut butter, Ala 'Ants on a Log' which I'm pretty certain came from our Betty Crocker Boys and Girls Cookbook circa 1967
I had some appetizers with cream cheese and crushed pineapple piped into dry salami slices,,,couldnt stop eating them! Sooo gooood!
I have to say, and no, i am not paid to say this, i prefer Philadelphia cream cheese over all others. I have tried other brands that say they dont have the additives that Philly has, but none deliver the tang that i look for in a cream cheese. Maybe its due to my being a 70s child, but thankfully, I am still happy with my bagels and appetizers made with it.
A popular dip was sour cream and crushed pineapple and sour cream and a packet of french onion soup in australia 1970 s/ 1980 s 🇦🇺 i loved the pineapple dip 🇦🇺🇦🇺❤️
Oh yes I've had and made the vegetable "pizza" it was a big thing at PAMPERED Chef parties a while ago. So good
Oh yes those Pampered Chef parties!!
gotta sell that bar pan. I will say if you have the pampered chef hostess cookbook, there is a breakfast ring that has you scramble the eggs with some cream cheese and then bake it into a ring of crescent roll dough. It is the only recipe I've ever had with baked scrambled eggs that dont come out weird textured and disgusting. I should call my mom for the recipe.
@@adbreon I remember that recipe!
Just can’t go wrong with anything cream cheese! Everything looks delicious!
1981…aka Grade 11….. good lord I’m old, LOL. These kind of recipes are my favourite I could literally live on cheese anything and crackers!
Your not old. I graduated in 1981 & far from old. I will never be old. People are obsessed about "old". Also using the word "vintage" I have always considered " vintage" the Victorian era.
I freakin love cream cheese.
Our family is big into kolaches. The dough is basically 1/2 cream cheese. What we’ve learned over the years is the versatility from savory appetizers to the cooky everyone knows & loves. So if you’re interested you can take pretty much any dip or filling you can think of then bake off the dough as a lil’ cupcake shell1/2 way fill & bake till toasty. Of course you can make it any shape you can think of. Merry Christmas all you retro foodies🎄
I’d never heard of cream cheese before I went to college in 1988! Boy was I missing out.
The plates you think your! Mom and Dad had, we had the full set of dishes . l have noticed them on some of your other videos. It makes me happy to see them. I really like your videos.
I want cheese balls to come back in style cause I love eating them
I make my cheeseball and put diced bell peppers on the outside! Orange peppers and shape it like a pumpkin for Thanksgiving and red/yellow/orange peppers and shape it like a Christmas tree for Christmas
Pamp**** Che* cookbooks were awesome for this type of recipe..cut out parts of using their cooking items you're ok in a new recipe! just found like everyone ever put out along with hostess & vendor recipes..you would have thought I found a million bucks!! my fav books!! also back of cans, boxes, bags!! lol thank you for the momories!!
You say cream cheese and I say "I'm all in!"
I was a young adult in the 1980’s and remember these type of recipes. Very nostalgic.
I was thinking about the hot beef dip recipe, and was wondering if there was a version using deli ham or smoke turkey instead of beef.
I realised a few years ago that every potluck appetizer or food I know is cream cheese based! They are just so good. We have a cheese ball every holiday, the kind with the beef you used here. Philadelphia cream cheese freezes really well, the cheaper varieties can be iffy. I highly recommend a hot reuben dip. Super easy, different, and a crowd pleaser. I also do a deconstructed jalapeno popper dip that my family loves. Another great dip is just cream cheese, mayo, frozen corn, a bit of green salsa and green onion, shredded cheese, bake 20 mins, serve with tortilla chips. Perfection. I have a super easy dessert recipe called pistachio pudding dessert. I have to make it every holiday, too. I started doing a chocolate version and everyone loves it. The sad thing is, I only have leftovers because our family has gotten smaller in recent years. :(
I have a friend who makes the reuben dip and it is SO delicious! 😋
I should add, that my aunt stopped 'balling' her cheese ball and just serves it in a bowl. We don't care, still great spread on townhouse crackers.
Please, please make a whole cream cheese extended universe series on this book. I'd try to eat a flop-flop if it were slathered in cream cheese, I swear. lol
Cream Cheese Extended Universe has me cracking up 😂
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I loved cheese balls until I found out I was allergic to nuts but I just now realized I could use pumpkin seeds. Bringing the nut-free cheese all back!!
This is such a good idea!
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The BEST holiday party I went to a young adult (23-ish) was thrown by a friend who asked all the guests to bring a cheeseball & bottle of wine. 🎉 Shenanigans ensued, but we had so much damn fun.
That sounds amazing!
Hostess had veggies, potato chips, crackers, & tortilla chips. We voted on the best and they won a prize. Do it! Best party idea ever, and lower cost. Wine is optional.
Yum Yum, nothing better than cream cheese recipes from the 80's!! Soooo good. I still make some of these to this day. Always a hit.
The 80`s was definitely the era for cheese cakes. Love your videos!
I really have to stop watching your videos! I’ve bought 2 cookbooks from Etsy after seeing you cook from them. I have also started looking “in the wild” for vintage cookbooks now. Thanks a lot, Ana🙄 I’m hooked ❤❤❤
Yes bring cheeseballs back
Great job on another fun video! In my area of the south, pineapple/cream cheese sandwiches are extremely popular for showers, teas, etc. They are even easier to make than pimento cheese and always a hit.
Love these recipes.
You had me at cream cheese. 😂
Wheat thins and cheese dips are my family’s favorite apps.
I remember the cream cheese veggie pizza, I would always ask to buy it. We had it for summer parties and baby/ wedding showers, and sometime for a special dinner ( mom didn't want to cook).
My favorite 1980s cream cheese appetizer was one my sister's neighbor and best friend used to make. A block of softened cream cheese mixed with a can...yes, a can, of salad shrimp, chopped and half a jar of cocktail sauce, one that is quite generous with the horseradish. Mix that all up, and top with more cocktail sauce. Serve with crackers. Absolutely yummmmmmy! I tried making it with fresh shrimp, but in this recipe I actually liked the canned better. I guess my taste buds were attuned to it from growing up in a landlocked state without much access to good fresh seafood.
Yes! We used to have a shrimp ball put out for every Christmas get together ! I’ve been wanting to make one for the past few years, but the only problem is that I can’t seem to find a can of deveined shrimp in a can in any grocery store I go into. 😢
Oh my gosh, I’d love to have that cookbook! Everything you made sounded delish. If you like cream cheese and pineapple, then here’s my all time favorite cheese ball recipe. First time I had it was over 30 years ago at my baby shower, we all fondly call it “Crack Ball” because it’s so addicting, and I wonder if it’s in your cookbook. 2 8oz bars of softened cream cheese, 2 level teaspoons Lawry’s seasoned salt (the best, imo) 3 heaping tablespoons well drained crushed pineapple, 2 tablespoons very finely minced onion (can use green onion) and two tablespoons chopped pecans. Combine it all, and roll in additional chopped pecans. This tastes best when it’s had a few hours in the fridge. I serve with Townhouse crackers, but the Wheat Thins would be good too. The recipe I was given called for 2 tablespoons pineapple, I always throw in an extra. I’m telling you, you won’t be able to stay out of it! And now I will have to try your recipe, as I have a jar of candied ginger I need to use up!
Thank you for this. I bet it would be even better with the dried chipped beef!
When my husband and I were married in 1983, we received 3 cheese boards with glass dome covers! Of course, by the time I made a cheese ball, none were still in our house. Lol
You have become my favorite channel to watch! Thank you!
our grocery store sells those cheese balls every holiday! so good!
My family lives on cheeseball lol every party someone always brings one. The crescent roll dish you were talking about, I also grew up eating. We called it veggie pizza haha and my mom was just talking about making some for a Christmas party we have in a few weeks😋
YUM! Cream cheese is a favorite and I always have a block or two in my frig. I love it so much that once, I had a bridal shower for a lady who happened to be 'allergic' to cream cheese. I had a hard time coming up with snacks to make for the shower because most of my go to receipts have cream cheese as an ingredient.
As a young wife in the 80's I can contest that all gatherings did have some kind of cheeseball at it. Though most of them were cream cheese, Buddig meat (beef), green onion, with black or green olive slices as the covering.
I loved this reminder from the 80’s and 90’s, I was one of the people that always brought a cheese ball. I think that I need to bring cheese balls back to our family occasions. I very much enjoy your channel.
Do I need to do another video from this cookbook? Yes please!!!!!😊
yes to veggie crescent roll pizza- and the recipes look yummy! We made ham and Swiss pinwheels. The crescent dough was spread with mustard and mayo combined and layered with thin ham and Swiss. Rolled up. Brushed with egg and rolled in sesame seeds. Firm in fridge and slice into pinwheels and bake on nonstick until browned. yummy
I have never heard of a tropical cheese ball before, but I've also never met a cheeseball I didn't like hahaha
New subscriber. I love old cookbooks. They have great recipes.
Veggie pizza! My mom's staple church potluck contribution through the 90s and 00s, and still one of my favorite snacks - I've been craving it recently actually so this must be a sign I need to go buy some crescent rolls and go nuts.
All of these were excellent snacks and party ideas. Hugely agree we need more excuses to eat cheese balls, the Ultimate Party Food. Thanks so much for this!
The holiday cheeseball is a holiday staple with my family. We do a blue cheese bacon cheeseball.
My Aunt has the same red Pyrex dish with lid.
I'm loving these recipes. There's a reason they popular, they're good! I made a cheese ball for a party I attended last night. It's the one that has the chopped up Buddig beef lunch meat in it. My mither always made it. I rolled minenin chopp3d pecans but I remember my mother occasionally rolling it in a dried parsley & herb mixture.
Never heard of a cheese ball until about a month ago now that I work at a deli.
My aunt always makes “cold veggie pizza” for every family event! It’s still one of my favorite appetizers! I’ve even made a small batch and ate it for lunch throughout the week. Delish! I’d be interested to see what recipe you use for it.
Yes, I have had the crescent roll cream cheese and veggie concoction, we used to call it room veg Pizza, because it was usually room temperature and it had veggies on it and yes it was delicious!
In the 80s we made a dip similar to one of the ones that you made here, my sister and I also nicknamed that one "hotdip", because it was served warm...
Very simple and I don't have the actual ingredient list, but it consisted of, softened cream cheese, green bell peppers, the cute little cup of I think it's Hormel dried beef.(chopped) garlic powder, maybe some tiny diced onions. Perhaps a little bit of onion powder instead I can't recall. And crushed pecans, toasted in butter and salt. The way you would put the dip into a shallow rectangular Pyrex baking dish, top it with the pecans, and bake. It was delicious on Ritz crackers.
This is so interesting, as usual. I was three years old in 1981.
Watching again, and they do look tempting.
I think the Hot Beef Dip would be great with chipped beef, if you are not familiar with it it is in a very small jar on the canned meat isle. I believe it is made by Armor Foods. Dried Beef, not chipped!😇
Yes you should do another video from this recipe book.