Healthy Recipe

Have you opened any older cookbooks lately? They usually have great recipes for real food that are easily modified to meet you family's dietary choices. "Oleo" can be replaced with real butter. "Wesson® Oil" can be replaced with olive oil or any cold-pressed oil. "Salad dressing" can be replaced with real mayonnaise. "Salt" means dried sea salt or Celtic salt abounding with trace minerals and iodine.

The following recipes come from a 30-year-old church cookbook from St. Andrew's in Fort Worth, TX. Ah, the simplicity of food - real food.

Tropical Chicken
By Ann Moran

1 1/2 cup chopped celery
2 cups chopped banana
1 cup chopped pineapple
4 Tbsp chopped sweet pickles
2 cups diced chicken
Salt to taste
2 Tbsp mustard
2 Tbsp salad dressing

Mix celery, bananas, pineapple, pickles and chicken. Add salt to taste, mustard and salad dressing. Pour over chicken mixture. Chill. Serve on a bed of greens.

Cauliflower Salad
By Sara Dacy

1 head cauliflower
1/2 head cabbage
1 small onion
1/2 cup stuffed olives
1/2 cup Longhorn cheese
1/2 cup pecans

Chop all ingredients in food grinder or blender. Mix together and season with salt, pepper, vinegar and oil.

Blue Cheese Dressing
By Sara Jane O'Brien

3 or 4 oz package blue cheese
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/2 pint sour cream
2 Tbsp wine vinegar
1 to 2 cloves garlic, crushed

Mix the blue cheese thoroughly with the other ingredients. Let stand overnight if possible. If it becomes too thick, add a tbsp of milk and stir.

Just for fun, here are some household tips for stay-at-home moms from the back of this vintage cookbook.

Spread all the undone ironing around the dining table. This arouses sympathy, despite the fact dinner is not yet prepared.

Children's artwork is good camouflage for soiled walls.

Never wash your ceilings. No one looks up there except the in-laws, and it serves them right.


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