Posted in 25 Things, Architecture, Everyday Art, Food, Fotoblog, Home, Photography, Practice, Topic Writing, Writing Practices, tagged 1950s appliances, appliances, Big Chill refrigerator, Chambers stove, FridgeFotos, images of appliances, Mid-Century Modern, old ovens, old stoves, outside refrigerators, ovens, refrigerator shots, refrigerators, retro refrigerators, stoves, Thermador oven, What's outside your fridge? on October 6, 2010| Leave a Comment »
My appliances: Chambers stove, Thermador oven, Big Chill fridge
(front and side), photos © 2010 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
Chambers, Thermador, Big Chill
hot, hot, cold
duck, duck, goose
-Related to posts PRACTICE: My Refrigerator and FridgeFotos – Assateague Island To Frozen Trolls
Posted in 25 Things, Everyday Art, Food, Laughing, Life, Photography, Practice, Topic Writing, tagged everyday objects as muse, fridge typography, FridgeFotos, inside out, inside refrigerators, inspiration, outside refrigerators, refrigerator shots, refrigerators, trolls, What's inside your fridge?, What's outside your fridge?, writing about refrigerators on September 25, 2010| 13 Comments »
My Refrigerator, photo © 2010 by chickenlil. All rights reserved.
From chickenlil:
This is a photo I took last summer, my grandson decided to play a practical joke on us by loading the fridge with trolls! Had to take a picture of that!
My Refrigerator, photo © 2010 by reccos62. All rights reserved.
From reccos62:
What is on my D or no D? BITE ME from Assateague Island, two PSU football player cards that match the jerseys my daughter and I have, a picture of my honey, weight loss ideas, a school photo of my bonus son.
When we posted WRITING TOPIC — MY REFRIGERATOR on red Ravine last week, our readers were inspired to take photographs of their refrigerators. The above are a few of the images we received. Hope you enjoy them as much as we do. We’d love to see the inside/outside of your refrigerator. If you are so inspired, send your FridgeFotos to info@redRavine.com. Or make a list of what’s inside/outside of your refrigerator and join us in a Writing Practice. When inspiration strikes, follow the Muse!
Posted in Family, Family Recipes, Food, Gratitude, Growing Older, Holidays, Home, Life In Letters, Memoir, Photography, Relationships, Seasons, tagged advertising icons, BlackBerry shots, cell phone photography, connecting through handwriting, food memories, giving thanks, granddaughters, Holiday recipes, importance of grandmothers, influence of grandmothers, Jell-O salad, lime Jell-O, memories in food & cooking, Morton Salt, Morton Salt Girl, Morton Umbrella Girl, mothers and daughters, oliverowl, passing down family recipes, recipe cards, recipes, refrigerator shots, Thanksgiving, vintage ads, what's left behind, When it rains it pours on November 22, 2009| 20 Comments »
Liz Really Liked It!, BlackBerry Shots, vintage recipe card, November 2009, all photos © 2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
It’s almost Thanksgiving, a time of gratitude for our many blessings. And a time for good food. I walked over to the fridge this morning and under a Morton Salt “When it rains it pours” magnet was this faded recipe card for Chicken L’Orange. Liz’s mother (oliverowl) mailed it to us after a discussion on Memories, Writing & Family Recipes.
She told us that Liz’s maternal grandmother, Frances Oliver Biggs, loved that Liz liked the Chicken L’Orange. So much so, that she handwrote her comment on the back of the family recipe card she sent to Liz’s mom:
Does Liz remember the recipe for “Chicken L’Orange” that her Nana sent me? I still have the card in my recipe box. At the end is her comment, “Liz really liked it!” (Sent after Liz’s visit to CA.) It is probably similar to what you had on the Cornish game hens.
My contribution to yesterday’s meal was Grandma Caroline’s Green Salad (OLD family recipe) and a Cranberry Sauce that had orange juice and a whole jar of Orange Marmalade cooked with the fresh berries!
Now the recipe card with Liz’s grandmother’s handwriting hangs on our fridge. I told Liz I want to try Grandma Caroline’s Green Salad this year. It reminds me of my family’s version of Jell-O salad with whipped cream. Below is the recipe that Liz’s mom Marylin dropped into the red Ravine comments.
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1 large box of Lime Jell-O
1 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese
1 cup heavy cream, whipped
1 14-15 oz. can crushed pineapple, including juice
Take the cream cheese out of the fridge, so it begins to soften. Prepare the Jell-O, using 1 less cup of water than the recipe calls for. Chill it until it begins to thicken, but don’t let it solidify, or you’ll have a mess!
Since I only have one mixer, I whip the cream and place it in a small bowl. Then I cut the cream cheese in small chunks and place them in the mixer bowl and beat it well. When the Jell-O is a thick syrupy consistency, I add it to the cream cheese and mix until they are homogenized! (You’ll have to scrape down the sides of the bowl several times.) Next, the pineapple is mixed in and then the whipped cream, both at the slowest speed. Refrigerate until firm. Enjoy!
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We’re going to stop at the store today for last minute ingredients. What traditional recipes will you be sharing this Thanksgiving week? Are there any that have been passed down by your grandmother? Bob mentioned he’s making Aunt Annie’s Scalloped Oysters. ybonesy’s family always makes tamales for Christmas. And my family makes Southern Banana Pudding for almost every family gathering. Old recipes are invaluable to memoir writers. Family flavor.
Hope you enjoy Grandma Caroline’s Green Salad. And if you put together the two front and back photos of the recipe card in this post, you’ll have the Biggs family recipe for Chicken L’Orange — two great family recipes, one post. And any leftover turkey? Try Amelia’s Soft Dumpling Recipe.
Chicken L’Orange, When It Rains, It Pours, BlackBerry Shots, vintage recipe card, November 2009, all photos © 2009 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Post Script: The Morton Salt girl has always been a favorite icon of mine. She’s officially called the Morton Umbrella Girl and according to the Morton website, the slogan, “When it rains it pours” first appeared on the blue package of table salt and in a series of Good Housekeeping magazine advertisements in 1914. The slogan is adapted from an old proverb, “It never rains but it pours.”
You can read more about the history of Morton Salt, view vintage ads, and see the transition of the Morton Umbrella Girl from the roaring twenties to the 1968 image that we still view on packaging today. They’ve also got a recipe section with Winning Kosher Salt Recipes.
-posted on red Ravine, Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
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