Today is National Pineapple Upside Down Cake day, an unexpected addition to our Earth Week series on baking. I made mine with leftover crushed pineapple, and added dried Michigan cherries for color and extra sweet-tart flavor.
I discovered these round Pyrex glass baking dishes, which work great for this kind of recipe. A favorite Mikasa salad [...]
Pineapple Upside Down Cake With Cherries: Sweet!
April 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: baking
Vintage Mikasa china meets macaroni salad - cool for summer
July 27th, 2009 · No Comments
Cool summer salads can hit the spot on these hot, dog days, and all year round. And it’s especially fun to eat from a charming vintage bowl — in this case, a macaroni salad in a cereal bowl by Mikasa, Sumay pattern, Eclipse line.
This ware looks like it’s from the 1960s or 1970s. The colors [...]
Tags: vintage
Casserole on a Mikasa Gem - and vegetarian, too
May 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments
A while back, I posted a recipe for Hamburger Noodle Corn casserole that Mom used to make on another one of my web ventures. As we did at home, I baked in a big, yellow Pyrex bowl. It feeds a crowd.
My colleague Lynette - shyflea to all fellow Queen’s Court members - made a vegetarian [...]
Tags: vintage
Mikasa Potters Art - classic vintage china
October 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments
After visiting the cider mill (see last post) I went out and found a favorite dinnerware line, Mikasa Potters Art.
Thirty years ago, there was another “green” trend in the marketplace. One of the results was the Potters Art line by Mikasa. This is heavy dinnerware with a handmade look and feel. The dinnerplates, for example, [...]
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