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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Pork Chow Mein

I have made several chow mein dishes over the years. All the recipes have some similarities. I really liked how the pork was treated in...

Jun 12, 20242 min read

Chili Mac

There is always a dish that gives me pause. Every week I plan out my menu. I include any recipe that was leftover from the previous week....

Jun 11, 20242 min read

Cheesy Stuffed Potatoes

I served this recipe with the Chicken Breasts Paprika. The recipe is simple, but it does take some time. Baking the potato took about an...

Jun 10, 20241 min read

Rich Paprika Sauce

Finally a recipe that doesn’t call for a whole chicken. Just the breasts. Of course, they are split breasts, so they still have bones....

Jun 9, 20242 min read

So Disappointing

I try to accompany the weird food night dish with a recipe I think will be perfectly normal. I thought this would be the one to balance...

Jun 8, 20241 min read

Weird Food Night

Because of this blog, we have weird food night in our house. Admittedly, some of the recipes in my file are a bit strange. This is the...

Jun 7, 20241 min read

Amazing Apple Treat

There is just something about a baked apple that makes me smile. I used a combination of granny smith and red delicious apples for the...

Jun 6, 20241 min read

Weird Spaghetti

I am not really sure why someone would want to make spaghetti oriental. If you want an oriental dish - just use oriental noodles. Which...

Jun 5, 20242 min read

One Of My Favorites

My mother wasn’t a great cook. She really only made a few things and none of them very well. But she did sometimes bake. And she was good...

Jun 4, 20241 min read

Delicious and Simple Dinner

This is the recipe I made with the Creamed Chicken I made yesterday. As I said in yesterday’s post, the creamed chicken was super thick...

Jun 3, 20241 min read

Thick Chicken Gravy

I have made creamed meats before. I grew up eating hamburger gravy - which is basically creamed hamburger. Generally, the recipe is a...

Jun 2, 20241 min read

Shockingly Good

I put this recipe on my list of things to make because I had a jar of sauerkraut in my cabinet that I wanted to use up. I had in in the...

Jun 1, 20242 min read

Orange Oatmeal Cookies

Every once in a while, I really enjoy an oatmeal cookie. But sometimes they can get boring. These cookies are not boring at all. The...

May 31, 20242 min read

Coffee Cookies

I am a big fan of coffee. And I am not talking about fancy fro fro coffee. I mean, coffee - coffee flavored - not sweet, not cold. Just...

May 30, 20241 min read

Thick and Hearty Soup

This soup is packed full of vegetables and flavor. I did not soak my beans overnight. Frankly I forgot. . . But I still wanted to make...

May 29, 20242 min read

Spice Drop Cookies

What an interesting cookie! The base of the cookie is a pretty simple sugar cookie. Nothing really special to it and pretty easy to make....

May 28, 20241 min read

Strange Gloopy Mess

This was a strange one. It didn’t taste bad, but it certainly didn’t look good. First, why springtime? There is nothing about this recipe...

May 27, 20242 min read

Perfect With Pasta

We were having yet another dinner party - the third in the span of a week. I find that when you don’t know the people coming for dinner,...

May 26, 20242 min read

Six Layers Of Boring

This recipe did not work out as planned. I wanted something that I could put together quickly and then forget about. In those aspects, it...

May 25, 20241 min read

Delicate Lemon Cookie

I love lemon. Lemon flavored anything really. Lemon chicken - lemon dessert - just lemon. There’s something about the tartness I find...

May 24, 20242 min read