After being invited to many of Karens' Mid Century Supper Club parties, we were finally able to make it to the wonderfully crazy Holiday party!
What the heck is the Mid Century Supper Club? It started off as a Flickr group, which Karen is a part of. Karen decided to share the fun with all of her friends and start hosting MCSC parties. Here is the blurb from Flickr about the club:
"Have you ever been curious about aspic? Perhaps you’ve itched to try out a Spam casserole? This is a group for those of us who collect vintage cookbooks, or for those of us that merely wish to pay homage to the dietary delights of our parents' generation. Let’s put those mid-century cookbooks and magazine spreads into action! You are invited to prepare dishes and photograph them with the source page -- or if that's not practical, please provide a link to the scan of the page in your stream, or put the finished product photo and the original scan together into one image.
If you've ever looked through vintage cook books and booklets, you know that in the mid-century era, creative and stylish presentation was almost as important as the taste of the food ... judging by some of the ingredients, maybe more so! That's why we're not worried in the least about any substitutions you may want to make ... meat substitutes for the vegetarians, relplacements due to allergies, heck, even shortcuts like cake mix are fine! The point is to make the dish look more-or-less like the original image, or in the mid-century spirit!
From the chef at the swankest supper club, to Mom and her Sunday supper, mid-century cooks aimed to reflect the grace, charm, and inventive spirit of the times in the dishes they served. Whether whimsical or elegant, every plate set before a valued patron or a dearly-loved one demonstrated an attention to detail seldom seen today. Let's revive some of that artistry and creativity!"
If you've ever looked through vintage cook books and booklets, you know that in the mid-century era, creative and stylish presentation was almost as important as the taste of the food ... judging by some of the ingredients, maybe more so! That's why we're not worried in the least about any substitutions you may want to make ... meat substitutes for the vegetarians, relplacements due to allergies, heck, even shortcuts like cake mix are fine! The point is to make the dish look more-or-less like the original image, or in the mid-century spirit!
From the chef at the swankest supper club, to Mom and her Sunday supper, mid-century cooks aimed to reflect the grace, charm, and inventive spirit of the times in the dishes they served. Whether whimsical or elegant, every plate set before a valued patron or a dearly-loved one demonstrated an attention to detail seldom seen today. Let's revive some of that artistry and creativity!"
So Sunday afternoon was the MCSC Holiday Extravaganza. We made two appetizers from a 1955 Planter's Peanut recipe booklet, Matthew did the pineapple appetizer server with cheese balls and I made the bologna stack ups. Yum! (Okay, not really).
-Here are our appetizers in action.
-Image of the appetizer spread from our Planter's cookbook.
This party was so much fun and it had it all!
-fancy aprons, check
-crinolines, check
-mice, check
-creepy lute playing elf, check
-aluminum christmas tree, check
-viking boat, check
-chocolate covered bacon, check
-lots of champagne, check
Here are some more images from the party:
To get the full effect you can check out Karens' Flickr set, there are even two videos (one where I am saying Happy Halloween?!). I will leave you this last picture of my sassy husband pouring some sparkly for the ladies:
A big thank you to both Jon and Karen for hosting such a fab party and for the use of all the images in this post! I love you.
