Today’s Kitchen is a series of posts documenting my adventures cooking through the recipes from my grandmother’s 1950′s-era cooking show of the same name. These are genuine retro recipes, updated (as needed) for a modern table. Chip Bunburgers. Isn’t that just the best name ever?? I mean, it conjures up all kinds of images...
$1,000 Egg Baskets: Today’s Kitchen Recipe
Today’s Kitchen is a series of posts documenting my adventures cooking through the recipes from my grandmother’s 1950’s era cooking show of the same name. These are genuine retro recipes, updated (as needed) for a modern table. Have you noticed how many meals are being made in muffin tins these days? You need...
Recipe: Laughing Lemon Sponge Pie
The name of this website, Laughing Lemon Pie, comes from a cooking mishap that has become the stuff of legend in my family. Many years ago, my grandmother made a lemon pie for the family, but something must have gone slightly awry in the kitchen, because as the pie was served, everyone noticed immediately...
Today’s Kitchen: Omelette Puffs
We really didn’t know what to expect with this recipe. I mean, the ingredients are innocuous enough, but with a name like “omelette puff…” Turns out, these are pretty tasty, if a little unusual. They have a nice, fluffy, slightly spongey texture. The other nice thing is that they lend themselves almost infinitely to different toppings; pretty much...
Today’s Kitchen: Green Enchilada Casserole
I’ll admit, when I got my Grandmother’s collection of more than 180 recipes from her 1950s-era television show, Today’s Kitchen, I was a little daunted. I knew I wanted to cook my way through it, but where to start? Should I start with recipe No. 1 and just work my way through numerically? Or...
Today’s Kitchen
When I was home over the Christmas holidays, I had a chance to chat with my grandmother about a certain recipe collection she had been holding on to for quite some time. You see, I come by my foodie tendencies honestly, and perhaps even genetically; my grandmother, Joan Carter Archambault, worked for the television...