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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!
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.❤
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. 😂😂😂😂😂
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. 😋
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 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 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 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.
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).
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 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!
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! 🤣
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 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😋
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
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 ex mil used to make the garden veggie pizza but also made a sweet version with sugar cookie dough crust, sweetened cream cheese filling and various sliced fruit. Anyways I love your videos so much! Thank you for this channel it’s honestly awesome!
This is so kind, thank you!! Very glad you are enjoying my videos. I grew the sweet version as well! We used cream cheese mixed with Cool Whip for the topping. Delicious! 😋
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 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!
Those dishes were my Mom and Dads too - I bet she didnt get rid of them until the 90s (We had them throughout the 70s and 80s) Seeing them brought a tear to my eye!!
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.
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!
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 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
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. 😢
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🎄
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!
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 🇦🇺🇦🇺❤️
Just discovered your channel yesterday. I love it so much! I've been kinda sad the last couple years thinking about all the recipes from these cookbooks just disappearing because of the Internet. So glad you bring these to light! Thank you!
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.
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.
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!
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 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.
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 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 ❤❤❤
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.
Have you come across a chicken roll up recipe from the 60's or 70's. YUMMY! Crescent rolls, sour cream or cream cheese, chicken, scallions, etc. I gotta go find that recipe. Haven't made it in years.
Oh, veggie pizza! You mentioned that, and I've not had that for years. I graduated in 1983, and cheese balls were at everything in the 80s. Thanks for the memories!
Yes, cream cheese! Just made my fave one. Hot cream cheese and artichoke dip. Use canned whole artichokes, drain, rinse and chop. Add chopped scallions and grated parm cheese. Served with bread, sliced (blanched) carrots, celery (sorry). You should do more from this book. The treasure brand muffins, scones, bread.
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.
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.
I make a pineapple jalapeño Cheeseball, rolled in toasted pecans. I’ve added crushed macadamias before to the outer layer, too. Love the sweet and spicy combo.
I can't wait to try all 3 of those recipes for the holidays. I used to make a cheese ball for Christmas every year, I don't remember why I really stopped. I probably got more interested in trying new recipes from Pinterest. But who doesn't love a good cheese ball?
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).
This sounds like a great option for a party, and think I will make it to try with friends for a crochet group, it would make a great change from cheese and crackers and the usual things. I don’t remember cheeseballs (great idea to shape it with waxed paper) but I do remember my mother making cheese logs with cream cheese, cheddar, one rolled in nuts, another rolled in paprika. They were about an 1 1/2 inches wide and maybe 8 or so inches long.
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!
I'm not a big cheese ball consumer because I'm lactose intolerant and have to watch my dairy intake, but one of my favorites is a fairly old one. It's just cream cheese, green onion, and dried beef, 2 things of each. Very simple, but also very good. I'd typically add an extra stalk of green onion because I like it. That last recipe sounded very similar with the bacon and chive. I might try that one. The beef spread (2nd recipe) also sounded good too! I don't know why we turned away from cheese balls. They're simple to make, but tons of room for creativity and variation. They're also easy to eat, which I think is necessary for a party food!
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.
Great video and great recipes. That beef dip I use to devour when I was a kid. My mother made it all the time 😄. Thank you for sharing these. Have a blessed day. It took me awhile to watch this as I was watching a movie. Had to start and stop. 🤗
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 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.
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’ve actually never eaten a cheese ball let alone make one . Looks good I loved the pastrami in those meat packages and the dip looks good I’ve never heard of the snack squares but looks good! Thanks for sharing
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.
Cream cheese is a staple in my home! It is such a quick and tasty item that can go from appetizers to desserts. Great to have for unexpected guest or to take to parties. Great cookbook. I remember my mother had that same cookbook when I was growing up and not sure who took it when she passed. But I know she used it at all holidays or if guest where coming over for game night. Cream cheese fudge was a must at Christmas.Great memories!
Thanks Anna for sharing these appetizer recipes. It's interesting that you started with the cheese ball saying that we don't have them like we used to. Last year my sister brought an old favorite party cheese ball to our family Christmas dinner. She had forgotten how big the recipe was. Even with a lot of family attending, she took home more than half of it. 😂 We've been serving a tuna pate that has cream cheese in it for years. It is at all our family holiday celebrations. Most of the women in our family know how to make it since it is such a family favorite. Looking forward to more holiday recipes in the coming weeks vlogs.
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…
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Where can I get a mixer like that?
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!
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...
Yes! Let’s bring the cheese ball BACK! Haha!
I second that.
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!
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:)
My Mom never let a holiday go by without a cheese ball rolled in pecans. Great memories.
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. 😋
id say YES DO MORE RECIPES!!!!!!!!!!! I CANT Iimagine how anyone could go wrong with cream cheese ideas
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 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 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
Hubby and I had that design as our very first dishes, so cool to see it again. P.S. been married since 1972😊
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! 😊
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
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
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I’d never heard of cream cheese before I went to college in 1988! Boy was I missing out.
Cream cheese and brown panelling, aaaah the 80s. I do sincerely miss it!
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!
Love these recipes.
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!
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 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😋
Core childhood memories unlocked! :D Watching these makes me miss my mom and grandma, thank you for this!
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 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
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 ex mil used to make the garden veggie pizza but also made a sweet version with sugar cookie dough crust, sweetened cream cheese filling and various sliced fruit.
Anyways I love your videos so much! Thank you for this channel it’s honestly awesome!
This is so kind, thank you!! Very glad you are enjoying my videos.
I grew the sweet version as well! We used cream cheese mixed with Cool Whip for the topping. Delicious! 😋
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 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!
I had some appetizers with cream cheese and crushed pineapple piped into dry salami slices,,,couldnt stop eating them! Sooo gooood!
Those dishes were my Mom and Dads too - I bet she didnt get rid of them until the 90s (We had them throughout the 70s and 80s) Seeing them brought a tear to my eye!!
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.
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!
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 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
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. 😢
Just can’t go wrong with anything cream cheese! Everything looks delicious!
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
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🎄
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!
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 🇦🇺🇦🇺❤️
Yes, make another video with that book!! ♥️
Just discovered your channel yesterday. I love it so much! I've been kinda sad the last couple years thinking about all the recipes from these cookbooks just disappearing because of the Internet. So glad you bring these to light! Thank you!
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.
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.
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!
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 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.
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 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 ❤❤❤
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.
Have you come across a chicken roll up recipe from the 60's or 70's. YUMMY! Crescent rolls, sour cream or cream cheese, chicken, scallions, etc.
I gotta go find that recipe. Haven't made it in years.
Oh, veggie pizza! You mentioned that, and I've not had that for years. I graduated in 1983, and cheese balls were at everything in the 80s. Thanks for the memories!
Thank you for this. I bet it would be even better with the dried chipped beef!
Yes, cream cheese! Just made my fave one. Hot cream cheese and artichoke dip. Use canned whole artichokes, drain, rinse and chop. Add chopped scallions and grated parm cheese. Served with bread, sliced (blanched) carrots, celery (sorry). You should do more from this book. The treasure brand muffins, scones, bread.
Wheat thins and cheese dips are my family’s favorite apps.
I have this book and have never made anything from it! I will pull this out and play around. Thanks for reminding me of it.
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.
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!
I make a pineapple jalapeño Cheeseball, rolled in toasted pecans. I’ve added crushed macadamias before to the outer layer, too. Love the sweet and spicy combo.
Cream cheese is my spirit animal ❤
I can't wait to try all 3 of those recipes for the holidays. I used to make a cheese ball for Christmas every year, I don't remember why I really stopped. I probably got more interested in trying new recipes from Pinterest. But who doesn't love a good cheese ball?
I’ve added horseradish to the beef dip and it’s really tasty!
our grocery store sells those cheese balls every holiday! so good!
I freakin love cream cheese.
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).
Swingin' 70s parents served these types of nibbles at cocktail parties. 😊 We kids got to taste some but not the cocktails.😂
This is so interesting, as usual. I was three years old in 1981.
I hadn’t thought of vegetable pizza in ages! My mom made that, and I always loved it. It must be 25 years since I’ve had it.
This sounds like a great option for a party, and think I will make it to try with friends for a crochet group, it would make a great change from cheese and crackers and the usual things. I don’t remember cheeseballs (great idea to shape it with waxed paper) but I do remember my mother making cheese logs with cream cheese, cheddar, one rolled in nuts, another rolled in paprika. They were about an 1 1/2 inches wide and maybe 8 or so inches long.
More cheeseballs! Yum
Yes! more from this cookbook PLZ!
That cheese ball looks amazing. Love cheese balls.
The holiday cheeseball is a holiday staple with my family. We do a blue cheese bacon cheeseball.
Yes make more videos with this cookbook!
My mom has made Hollywood Cheesecake every year for my dad's birthday for as long as I can remember. Would highly recommend!! 😊😊
You have become my favorite channel to watch! Thank you!
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!
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.
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!
Omgosh, I love this apron!!! : )
This channel has been my happy place lately. I always turn on this channel whilst cleaning the kitchen LOL.
I'm not a big cheese ball consumer because I'm lactose intolerant and have to watch my dairy intake, but one of my favorites is a fairly old one. It's just cream cheese, green onion, and dried beef, 2 things of each. Very simple, but also very good. I'd typically add an extra stalk of green onion because I like it.
That last recipe sounded very similar with the bacon and chive. I might try that one. The beef spread (2nd recipe) also sounded good too! I don't know why we turned away from cheese balls. They're simple to make, but tons of room for creativity and variation. They're also easy to eat, which I think is necessary for a party food!
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.
Great video and great recipes. That beef dip I use to devour when I was a kid. My mother made it all the time 😄. Thank you for sharing these. Have a blessed day. It took me awhile to watch this as I was watching a movie. Had to start and stop. 🤗
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.
These all look great! I think people today would enjoy a holiday appetizers party. Drinks and nibbles.
I love seeing all your vintage pyrex and when you use the atomic plates. Great nostalgic recipes.
Oh, yum to all of these. Yes, please, more from that cookbook! ❤
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.
My best friend and I were making these back when our kids were pre-teens! Thanks for the memories!
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’ve actually never eaten a cheese ball let alone make one . Looks good
I loved the pastrami in those meat packages and the dip looks good
I’ve never heard of the snack squares but looks good! Thanks for sharing
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.
Cream cheese is a staple in my home! It is such a quick and tasty item that can go from appetizers to desserts. Great to have for unexpected guest or to take to parties. Great cookbook. I remember my mother had that same cookbook when I was growing up and not sure who took it when she passed. But I know she used it at all holidays or if guest where coming over for game night. Cream cheese fudge was a must at Christmas.Great memories!
Thanks Anna for sharing these appetizer recipes. It's interesting that you started with the cheese ball saying that we don't have them like we used to. Last year my sister brought an old favorite party cheese ball to our family Christmas dinner. She had forgotten how big the recipe was. Even with a lot of family attending, she took home more than half of it. 😂 We've been serving a tuna pate that has cream cheese in it for years. It is at all our family holiday celebrations. Most of the women in our family know how to make it since it is such a family favorite. Looking forward to more holiday recipes in the coming weeks vlogs.