Culinary Adventures with Camilla

Today's #SundaySupper task: "Share recipes for food popular in the 50's, 60's, or 70's. Share recipes for food popular in the 50's, 60's, or 70's." Hmmm...okay.  Given that I have no memories before the mid-70s, and what I do remember wasn't particularly inspiring, I started by looking at food advertisements from those decades. There was lots of cooking with Jello and Miracle Whip. Wow. I laughed at the Five Star Casserole recipe featuring Armour Vienna Sausage. Nope, not going there. But then I saw this ad for Campbell's - for Creamy Baked Pork Chops. If you can't make out the content, it's essentially pork chops, cream of celery soup, and water. I knew I could make this completely in my style, that is to say from scratch. No cans in sight. Campbell's Soup ad from 1963 Ingredients serves 4 4 T butter, divided in half olive oil 3 C chopped celery 1-1/1 T white whole wheat flour 1 C organic heavy ...

Get ready...I'm about to show my age. Do you remember these popsicles? On the rare occasion that my mom and dad gave me money for the ice cream truck on a hot summer afternoon, these are the popsicles I would get.  I didn't eat chocolate at the time, so I always opted for this one. My friends and I would hear the music coming around the housing development, grab our coins, and sprint over to the truck from whichever front yard we were playing in. We would crowd the ice cream man, waiting impatiently for him to pull our selections out of the cooler. Then we would plunk ourselves down on the curb and greedily devour our summertime treats.  I whipped up this 50-50 chia pudding for breakfast this morning and was instantly transported back to those summers with these flavors.  My boys were intrigued, but each played with their serving, adding in more orange juice. R preferred the 70-30 ratio while D said that 60-40 was his preference! So, we got in a goo...