Lenten Menu Ideas - easy dinners at home from a vintage cookbook !
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2024
- If you're looking for easy ways to make fish for Lenten meals (or any time of year), look no further than this Fish Day Favorite menu. This dinner was well balanced, quick to assemble, and delicious. Who doesn't love easy dinners at home?
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:20 Sour Cream Coleslaw
3:14 Strawberry Yogurt Medley
4:46 Fish Fillets Olé
8:04 Book Talk - Better Homes & Gardens Oven Meals (1974)
11:16 Plating and taste tests
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Sour Cream Coleslaw
1/2c sour cream
1.5tsp vinegar
1tsp sugar
1/2tsp salt
Dash pepper
1/4c shredded carrot
1Tbsp thinly sliced radish
1Tbsp finely chopped green pepper
1Tbsp finely chopped green onion
3c shredded cabbage
Strawberry Yogurt Medley
1/2c strawberry yogurt
4oz whipped cream cheese
2Tbsp sugar
Fish Fillets Olé
2c cooked rice
10z frozen Mexican style vegetables
1/4tsp chili powder
1/4tsp cumin
Dash garlic salt
1/4c chopped onion 1Tbsp butter
1 - 15oz can tomato sauce
3/4c water
14oz haddock or other fish fillets
Combine cooked rice, vegetables, chili powder, cumin, and garlic salt, and place in 11 x 7 casserole dish. In saucepan, cook onion in butter until tender. Stir in tomato sauce and water. Top the vegetable and rice mixture with fish fillets. Sprinkle with salt. Spoon tomato sauce mixture over fish fillets. Bake at 400 for 20 minutes.
*to make this a freezer meal, use frozen fish fillets (do NOT thaw them) and a casserole dish or pan that can go safely from freezer to oven. Cover tightly with foil and freeze. When ready to bake, bake at 400 degrees for about 1.5 hours.
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I LOVED all of the dishes from this menu. These recipes will definitely go into my regular dinner rotation!
What's your verdict about the coleslaw? Do you like the sour cream better than mayonnaise?
This is Tom's wife, using his account. I just started following you. I love how you collect and use all of the old dishes. And, I love how you talk about the pictures/lay outs in the cookbooks.
I have a question... If you could bring back one retro recipe and make it popular again, what would you choose? (I can't wait to hear your answer)
Hello and welcome! First off, thank you so much for watching. As for your question, I recently made Chicken a la King from Betty Crocker's Picture Cookbook (the 1950 edition) in my 'Day of 1950s Meals' video. That's the dish I would popularize. It was so delicious and SO easy and quick to put together! Plus, it had pimento in it, which is one of my favorite 'retro' ingredients. We don't seem to use it nearly as much in recipes today as it was used in the past. It adds such a nice zing and pop of color to dishes!
With Lent approaching, this is a good resource. My mom used to make tuna gravy over biscuits or tuna noodle casserole during Lent and I always loved, loved them. There's the dilemma...if I love them that much it isn't a sacrifice to eat them but rather a treat. The 70's earth tones were a reflection of the focus on our environment begun by the book Silent Spring in the 60's. I was a kid during Expo '74 in Spokane and the theme was 'Celebrating Tomorrow's Fresh New Environment'. (We know how things went, right?) I guess by the 80's we were all ready for a new color palette, haha.
Thinly sliced radishes with the rest of the ingredients is something I make and I absolutely love it😊
Love that you shop at Aldi, I do 99% of my grocery shopping there
I'm a long time Aldi gal! There was brief period of time where we lived in a place that didn't have one and I missed it so much.
Yup, me too 🇬🇧. I only go to other supermarkets to get things I can't source at Aldi. Lidl has a fab bakery, for instance, and the only brand of cat biscuits my moggy will eat comes from Asda.
We have that toaster oven! My parents got it new in 1969 and cooked in it all through grad school. My dad rewired it in the early 1980s, and when we found another one at a yard sale we bought it in case we ever need parts!
Oh my gosh my Mom has those plates!! We still use them!!
The first kitchen I had as a new Bride, in extreme North Florida was the brown stove and sink with bright yellow (gold) Formica counters. The Refrigerator was white, though. I did a lot of good cooking in it!
Way late to this party, but I just found my copy of this book! Oy!
Fish is so hard to make, I love this idea.
My dishes! My grandma gave me 4 place settings of Corelle Spring Blossom as a wedding gift in 1974! I still have them, packed away in the basement. Love your videos!
choosing the slaw OR the fruit would suit me, as lenten meals are also supposed to be minimal. (In the Catholic tradition, which of course is not everyone's).
I used to have several of the BHG cookbooks. I used to have a ton of cookbooks, but I sold them at a yard sale or donated. It would be awesome if 1 ended up in your hands. 😊
I tried the fish and loved it. I omitted the tomato soup and used garlic butter.
I used the Better Homes and Gardens cookbooks when I first got married. I had their “Cooking for Two” cookbook. They had a seafood soufflé recipe that I cooked. It was so impressive and I was so proud of myself! There was also a recipe for Steak Diane. It was another good recipes.I liked their recipes better than Betty Crocker.
I'll have to see if I have that one in my collection. I love the various BH&G books! They published so many over the years.
Like the idea of the sour cream slaw. Often have trouble using up a whole container of sour cream and not a huge mayo fan.
Some of these retro recipes were popular when we were kids. We also had those same Corelle "Green Daisy" dishes and we still have a set now! Your food looks great and we are living for your colorful apron. Well done!
Thank you!! This meal was so delicious. A pleasant surprise, as not all of my recipes turn out so well. 😄 The daisy pattern is one of my favorites. So cheerful!
Re under-seasoning, I just think in the 50s-70s it was assumed 90% of readers/cooks were moms. Kids generally don't like spice (apparently this is a universal thing - so says Google, - even in, say, Mexico and India). Anyway, you get my point... Love these vids! xo.
I have that grater. Haven't used it in ages. I just found where I put it and now I will use it again.
I love using it for carrots and cheese!
Roasted radishes are delicious
Hooray!
Oh I like that carrot shredder! Super handy! Looks like that book has a ton of great stuff in it! The photos and the actual dishes used in there are so charming! Nice that the recipes feel fairly contemporary as well. This whole meal came out wonderful! The dessert just looks like springtime heaven! Thank you for this great one Anna!
The dishes and plates used in the photos was just dreamy. Who got to select it? Because that is my dream job of the past. 😄
Talk about serendipity! I just found your channel and subscribed about a week ago. I am loving every single video! You rock. And OMgosh, I just bought the BH&G Oven Meals cookbook from my local thrift store the other day. Then I watched this video and whooo! Same book! I am making the carrot-cheddar casserole from it right now. I am now a huge fan of your channel and can't wait to see more videos!
OH MY! This is right up my alley! I am going to be trying these SOON! I love a good fish recipe!!!
Nice fish recipe. Thank you for sharing 🤗
That slaw looks great. I've never thought to use sour cream. Also the layout of your video didn't go unnoticed. I think putting the cookbook review in the middle is a great idea.
The sour cream dressing made for such a nice change in the slaw. And thank you for noticing! I'm trying to change things up a bit.
I completely agree about the reviews being in the middle. When they are at the beginning, my mind is asking "when is Anna going to get this show on the road and start cooking?", but with them later, it's saying "OK, THAT is what we are doing!" Good recipes, excellent episode.
Probably could use anything from rotes to tomato soup. Maybe mix with a bit of butter. Looks so good.
Thanks so much for another great video and something easy and yummy for lunch or dinner. Hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy, and Debbie. Watch the video from beginning to the end very well done really enjoyed and kisses from grandma Sandy and Debbie.
Such a delicious menu! I have a similar coleslaw recipe that claims to be the best and it includes sour cream with the mayo…it’s very yummy. I am going to try the fish recipe, but use tofu instead. All I can think of is that coleslaw…I want some now, LOL.
"The theme of this book is 'oven'."
Wow. REALLY, Anna??
(Please let all readers of this comment know that I know Anna and she knows the tone in which the comment was made! LOL)
ps- that little casserole dish is ADORABLE!
Oh Tommy, I am SO offended. 😂 The little casserole dish was a VERY lucky Goodwill find a few years back. It was 50% off, so I think it ended up being $2.50! 😱
Looks real delicious
Anna I adore bake fish dishes. This one look very tasty and love how easy it is to prepare. I also love cole slaw and love the added sour cream idea. The fruit with yogurt topping looked wonderful and yummy. Thank you so much for placing complete recipes in description box. MmmmYum 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
So glad you enjoyed this one! It really was a delicious and easy to prepare menu. I was pleasantly surprised!
@@cooking_the_books That is wonderful Anna. Anytime it's easier to prepare that is great too. Thank you for sharing idea.
A very interesting fish recipe. I love how you do vintage recipes. Keep up the great videos😋😋😋😋
Thank you so much! This ended up being really delicious.
Looks very yummy & love the old cookbooks & dishes! Well done!
Thanks so much! 😊
Eat radishes spread with butter and sprinkle w salt. Delicious
Looks fabulous 👌
Thank you 😊
I love the Aldi product use!!
I've been an avid Aldi shopper for many years! We lived in an area without one for a year and it was VERY sad. 😂
Thanks so much enjoyed what you did
Thanks Doris! Glad you enjoyed it. ❤️
This looks quick and easy! I’m glad it was tasty too!
You should make it! NO OLIVES!
Hi Anna! This meal looks delicious! I always enjoy your vintage cook books and recipes 😊❤
Thanks so much! 😊
I love coleslaw so will have to try that one. Yummy looking meal!
Ok yes this coleslaw was SO GOOD. I was surprised. I like coleslaw, but this one was so different and delicious!
Whole Foods had a great deal on cod so Im going to try this fish dish and possibly do a few variations to fit our tastes. I didnt know it could be baked over rice.
That fish dish looked as if it needed a good sprinkle of buttered breadcrumbs.
Very nice recipe 👋
Thank you!
Looks wonderful! Yes, there was a lot of earth tones during that time and lots of wood paneling!😅
Thank you! We definitely had some of that wood paneling in our house when I was a kid! 😄
Glad they tasted great! There’s a lot of red on that plate. 😜
I'm enjoying the new backgrounds, angles, lighting, etc that you're using. I do miss your bookshelf! 😄 I seldom cook fish--not sure why--and I've never put tomato sauce on it, but that looks terrific. Everything looked terrific, actually! I think I'll try the fish, rice and slaw for sure, and maybe the fruit medley, too.
Thank you, Janelle! I'm really trying to change things up and keep it interesting. The bookshelf will make appearances in the future! I was so pleased with this meal. I didn't think it would be bad, but also didn't expect to enjoy everything as much as I did. You just never know with these vintage recipes!
Love these videos! I just found a copy of BH&G's Jiffy Cooking. Very similar layout, wonderful menus, and each page had me saying, "I'd love to make that!"
So funny you mention Jiffy Cooking…I’m filming a few recipes from that very book this week! 🤭
@@cooking_the_books ooh, can't wait!
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I bet the fish would be good with red enchilada sauce instead of tomato sauce.
The yogurt and coleslaw look cook but I think I’d sub chicken lol since I don’t like fish
You probably could! I'd say season the chicken a little more and you'd have to cook it for longer, but it would likely work.
That meal looks delicious! I'm in love with your yellow bowl! What style is that and where did you get it from?
The pattern is called Butterfly Gold, and I was lucky enough to find it at a local thrift store.
Will definitely give this menu a try but maybe with salmon rather than a white fish.
Could you please let me know what book is displayed to the left (from viewer's perspective) of your pretry stacked Pyrex bowls? 1950s something...with teens standing around in the kitchen? I love the look of that cover! Love seeing how you display your cookbooks!
Sure thing! It's a Home Economics textbook from 1956 called Experiences with Foods. I thought the cover coordinated well with my new Pyrex primary bowls!
@@cooking_the_books Thank you!
And it DOES look great with the Pyrex
I noticed a recipe for poppy seed rolls. Would you mind sharing it? 😊
Hi there! I’d be happy to share, but am currently out of town all week. Would you mind sending me an email at alsbuchholz@gmail.com? I’ll email the recipe to you when I get back home. 😊
@@cooking_the_books sure thing! Thanks so much! Just discovered your channel and have been binge watching! I LOVE all cookbooks, too.😁
Hey Anna - did you prep the veggies (that went underneath the fish) yourself or were you able to buy those prepared? Just curious what I could buy if a shortcut is available; I've never bought fire roasted veggies before! Many thanks. :)
Hi there! I was able to buy frozen fire roasted peppers and onions at Trader Joe’s. They worked out really well and I didn’t have to roast them myself.
@@cooking_the_books I can do that!! Thanks for replying so quickly!
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It's like you're resurrecting a part of the past. Like when scientists did 3D cranial scans of ancient Egyptian pharaohs except it's casseroles.
Are a lot of them freezer meals?
They do have a section of freezer meals, but not all of the recipes in the book are freezer meals.
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That thumbnail looks like someone put tomato on fish…at 25 seconds in, this sea food-loving New Englander is skeptical.
AN HOUR AND TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES! 😮
Even if frozen, this is a sinful way to prepare fish. Tomato AND over-cooked. Good grief!
Glad you baked only 20 minutes. 😂
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