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Bringing the food, fashion, and decor of the Mid Century to today through a delightful blog.
Welcome to Amanda's Atomic Home
Welcome! I am Amanda Kennedy, an avid Mid Century Lover! I started this blog to share the recipes I recently discovered at an Estate Sale. I hope you enjoy discovering these recipes as much as I do!
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I think we all grew up eating sloppy Joe sandwiches. I remember the hamburger mixed with Manwich. They were basic really. Not a huge...
- May 6
- 2 min
Brings Back Memories
I believe I have said before that my mother is not a great cook. She made the same five or six things over and over to varying degrees of...
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- May 5
- 1 min
Rich Chocolate Oatmeal
What a great cookie! The base of the cookie has a very rich, chocolate flavor. I think the brown sugar enhances that chocolate flavor....
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- May 4
- 2 min
Cabbage and Wursts
Every once in a while I like to go through my pantry and make a list of everything I have on hand. Then I try to find recipes to use it...
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- May 3
- 1 min
Brownie Crunch
I wasn’t sure what I was going to get with this recipe. But, chocolate and coffee - two of my favorite things - so I gave it a try. The...
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- May 2
- 1 min
Simple Potatoes
I served this dish with the Burgundian Beef. I wanted a simple side dish to just add a little something to the beef. I also wanted...
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- May 1
- 2 min
Wine Baked Beef
There is something comforting about slow cooked food. The aroma of the cooking permeates your kitchen, sometimes your whole house. And it...
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- Apr 30
- 2 min
Almost Key Lime
I seem to make a lot of dessert items. But very rarely do they stay in my house. I give a lot away either through the community meal or...
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- Apr 29
- 2 min
Basic Bread
I get tired of buying bread. My daughter is still in high school, well, at least for a few more months. She has always taken a packed...
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- Apr 28
- 2 min
Rich Honey Cookie
This recipe makes a lot of cookies! I used a 2 inch cutter and ended up with about four dozen. This was a good thing as I used these...
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- Apr 27
- 2 min
Lots Of Bacon
I have made several chop suey recipes over the past few years of doing this blog. Honestly, I had never even heard of chop suey before...
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- Apr 26
- 1 min
Chocolate Chip Oatmeal
Sometimes you want a little more than just a chocolate chip cookie. Sometimes you don’t want raisins in your oatmeal cookies. So why not...
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- Apr 25
- 2 min
Hard Vegetables
I absolutely love scalloped potatoes. I always have. Probably always will. Of course, growing up with my culinary challenged mother, we...
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- Apr 24
- 2 min
Traditional Polish Cookie
I have seen these cookies around over the years. I have never tried to make them though. I was a little surprised that the cookie base...
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- Apr 23
- 1 min
Unexpected Cheese
I enjoy cheese danish and things like that. Imagine my surprise when I found out that the cheese used is cottage cheese. That’s right,...
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- Apr 22
- 1 min
Very Prune
I know that kolachy has a traditional prune filling. That is why I made this recipe - to fill the kolachy I was making. This is very...
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- Apr 21
- 1 min
Super Easy
This week I made Kolachy. So I needed some fillings. I chose the apricot, prune and cottage cheese fillings - they are the most...
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- Apr 20
- 1 min
This Was A Strange One
So I had some leftover franks from a dish I made last week. I was searching for a recipe to use them in and landed on this one. It is...
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- Apr 19
- 2 min
Delicate Pecan Shortbread
I love the simplicity of a shortbread cookie. They are delicate and light, but always have the rich buttery flavor. I loved that the...
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- Apr 18
- 2 min
Delightful Vanilla Cookie
My husband and daughter went on a college tour trip this week. It is my daughter’s spring break, so it was the perfect time. I wanted to...
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