Easy Ways to Good Meals - or What? Soup? Again?
(Click on any of the images for a larger version ... if you dare!)
99 dishes made with soup. They couldn't come up with 100?
Now let's be truthful here: What housewife isn't seduced by the idea of easy meals - especially when they involve congealed masses of starch resting upon vegetable soup? (As long as she isn't seduced by the tango-dancing yam.) But that's okay, as long as the requisite sprig of parsley is present.
I confess to having succumbed to this particular temptation. Yes, I'm afraid I have to cook the green bean casserole on an annual basis, and I admit that I have bathed chicken breasts in Cream of Mushroom Soup until everything was a congealed mess. But the latter act was just being thrifty! I needed to use up that can o' soup leftover from Thanksgiving, right?
Or not.
The copy inside the book suggests that you use soups as - soups! This book was published in 1941, before there was a war on. It was okay to use a food product for the purpose for which it was originally intended.
Let's see what horrors await:
Bride's Chicken Loaf is on the far right. Don't forget to click for a larger picture. As we know, brides can't cook, so the food manufacturers took great pains to show newlywed women that it was possible to prepare good meals - as long as they were accompnanied by barf on slabs of concrete.
Now here we have six alien refugees from an early Dr Who episode masquerading as Ham and Egg Shortcake. Watch out, Doctor! Those radishes are radioactive!
As if those glowing condiments weren't enough, the aliens can follow up with mushy eyeballs!
... and here's the crown for the alien monarch! Either that, or it was used as a prop in a 1950s sci-fi film. I'm not sure which.
Here's the perfect dish for your next dinner party - gumbo topped with a pineapple ring and unidentifiable garnish.
And for your next al fresco luncheon, why not food that represents the outdoors? Of course! A lawn chair and a beach umbrella!
It's time to get festive! Party patterns with soup! Red, white and lime green for that festive touch that says, "I've spent the day at the radium plant and brought you a gift!"
