- [Hannah] Oh my God.

There are scales

- Tastes kinda like chicken nuggets

- [Hannah] pasta salad, shall we?

Oh boy.

- Strong pot pie vibes.

- [Hannah] our dinner, party feast.

(upbeat music)

- [Hannah] Hi, I'm Hannah. I'm the world's Okay-est mom,

and the other night I had a thought.

Thank you. Pregnancy, insomnia.

I love making wacky foods for my kids

and interesting new foods for them to try.

So for an entire week I'm gonna only cook recipes

from the 1950s.

I really wanna put myself to the test and see

if I can withstand this 1950s challenge.

Well, I tried my best to get a variety of proteins

really get a good sense of what the cuisine was like

in 1950s America.

So I really wanted to accumulate this week

with a giant 1950s dinner party.

So of course I had to reach out to my mom.

I had to find all of my old vintage cookbook.

I had to definitely pick her brain for some advice.

Hi Mom.

[Mom]Hi Honey.

- [Hannah] So I need some help because I'm planning to

host a 1950s themed dinner party for my friends

and I just wanted to know if you have any advice

- [Mom] Time of the party, have your hair done,

your makeup done.

You're ready you know

you've got your little hostess apron on

and have all the ambience like fifties, right?

- [Hannah] I don't have a tablecloth or an apron.

Is that necessary?

- [Mom] Yes. Yes honey, it is.

You don't do fifties without that.

I wanna buy that for you cause I know you probably won't.

I don't wanna send you the cash for though.

Which should I do?

- [Hannah] Oh you can actually

just send me the money with Zelle.

Cause we already enrolled you.

Do you Remember?

- [Mom] I do remember.

- [Hannah] It makes it so easy.

All you have to do is add my phone number

and click the money will go to my bank account in minutes.

[Mom] Oh my God

You've trying to get me to buy a tablecloth.

- [Mom] I know you won't regret it.

It's gonna be so much fun.

[Hannah] Thank You for sending me money,

even though I'm in my thirties

- [Mom] Anytime, honey.

- [Hannah] All right, love you mom.

- [Mom] Love you honey bye.

- [Hannah] I'm armed with a very lengthy grocery list

and we'll see if I can find anything.

It wasn't complicated, but there were a lot

of items that I had never purchased before.

So I'm gonna head home and sort through all these groceries

and hope I didn't forget anything and we will see what's up.

It is dinner time and I'm gonna make something that actually

sounded really fancy when I saw the recipe title

but it actually is really, really simple.

So the first recipe I wanted to try was chicken croquettes.

I've never made a croquette personally and I definitely

wanted to start this week off with something that everyone

would enjoy and so it's got some of those core

foods that everybody likes.

A lot of these fifties recipes are very chicken heavy, lot

of chicken going on.

There's not a whole lot of vegetables.

So I think I'm gonna have to pair this with a salad

of some sort.

Two tablespoons of minced, celery, which is basically

the equivalent of like if I thought about celery

while I was eating this dish, there are some ingredients

that feel like they're just there to be there.

I was a little confused over the celery, but at the end

of the day it was something fresh.

This feels very under seasoned.

I will just say that.

Okay,

one

patty.

(kids playing in background)

Now these are not cooked in butter.

These are fried in

shortening.

How very fifties

- [Henry] Put food on there

- [Hannah] Oh, are you hungry?

- [Henry] Yeah.

- Hannah] Okay.

- [Wyatt] Tastes kind like chicken nuggets.

- [Jackson] It's amazing.

- [Hannah] You like it?

- [Matt] What would you give it out of 10?

What number?

10?

- [Henry] Two.

- [Matt] Two?

- [Henry] Yeah.

- [Hannah] Oh, well he's going in for another bite,

so that's good.

Okay, let's see what the biggest kid likes.

- [Matt] Mm. You know what I'm getting Like strong

pop pie vibes.

- [Hannah] Oh

Poultry seasoning is very thyme.

It's very good.

It was something that my family didn't even

realize might have been out of the norm for this day

and age.

It's all ingredients that everyone's very familiar with.

Everyone enjoyed it, everybody ate it.

It was really tasty and really easy.

This morning I'm making a classic fifties breakfast.

You see it at every American diner.

It's kind of still here, like the classic fifties breakfast.

But what I did not factor in is that I have a 9:00 AM

doctor's appointment and I didn't time manage well enough.

I was very tired this morning, so I'm a bad fifties

housewife. What do you think of when you think

of like a classic American breakfast?

cause for me it's eggs, bacon, and pancakes.

Okay. Jackson requested a smiley face.

This reminds me of a goofy movie.

Look how cute.

- [Jackson] ooo I like it.

- [Hannah] It's lunchtime

and you know what we're having for lunch.

Vegetables? No, no.

Some hardy ham sandwiches.

I mean, sometimes in life you just throw together

a ham sandwich and that's lunch.

And so I felt very realistic to me.

Are you redressing your sandwich?

- [Jackson] Yes.

- [Henry] yes

- [Hannah] I dunno if mustard is something that...

- [Henry] yes.

- [Hannah] Oh yes.

- [Jackson] Oh yes?

- [Hannah] You have a deconstructed ham sandwich.

Wouldn't be a fifties week without a little bit of tuna.

I couldn't let the week go by

without making a tuna noodle casserole.

- [Henry] Tuna?

- [Hannah] It's tuna

Yes. What do you think?

- [Henry] It good.

- [Hannah] It's good.

Oh, this is a little full.

Okay. What am I doing?

Oh, I made a mistake.

The final thing

that

my mom said

I cannot forget

is crushed potato chips on top.

Close your mouth.

What do you think?

You don't like it?

Do you like it?

Yeah. Okay.

But with Henry and Wyatt, we're hesitant to try it at first

I think just cause tuna is a strong smell.

But once everyone got that first bite in

everybody loved it.

What do you think?

- [Jackson] Really good

- [Hannah] Tasty?

- [Jackson] Yeah.

- [Hannah] Oh yeah

While we were on a roll with fish casserole

I had to try one other fish casserole that I had seen

in a couple recipe books, which is a salmon surprise.

My hope is that the surprises, it sounds very bland

but it's actually very flavorful.

I bought this like bougie can

of salmon and when I opened it

it had all of the bones and skin in it.

Oh my god.

There are scales

but I wasn't gonna let this salmon go to waste.

So I spent a lot of time picking out all of the bones.

I realized my mayo's vegan, I hope this is okay.

Parmesan. So I found a lot

of these recipes from family recipes and I feel

like the Parmesan is an addition after the fact.

That doesn't seem too authentically fifties.

maybe we're cheating a little bit with this Parmesan

but most of the recipes I've seen are

like American cheese or cheddar.

So basically what I think the surprise was is

like layered almost scallop potatoes on top of the salmon

two layers down and one to go.

I had to add the green salad.

I just had to, It was there were so much beige

but I think the green salad is allowed.

I didn't add anything to it.

It's just greens.

Jackson is my garbage disposal.

I say it all the time.

He loves everything I make.

He's really easy to please just give him a plate of food

and he's happy.

So he was thoroughly impressed with all of these fifties

recipes because it was something new.

Here you go.

Love Jackson's not feeling so good.

So we're just being careful.

Yeah, and there's your

surprise.

- [Jackson] It really looks like scalloped potatoes.

- [Hannah] It does, right?

You like it?

- [Jackson] Yeah.

- [Hannah] Oh good.

Oh my goodness.

You like it.

You got creamy potatoes and cheese.

It's gonna be good.

And the salmon honestly was very mild.

It wasn't super fishy.

The tuna casserole was a lot fishier in taste.

What do you think of your dinner?

Do you like it more

than the other meals or what's your favorite so far?

- [Matt] think I like the chicken........

- [Hannah] Croquettes?

- [Matt] croquettes.

- [Hannah] Today's dinner sounds interesting

but it actually looks very good.

It's a ground beef biscuit casserole

and it actually has quite a few vegetables in it

so I'm very excited.

You we're really on a casserole streak here.

I feel like it's not all casserole this week.

I promise.

It's about one cup of celery and one cup of carrots.

It honestly, it was almost like the beef version

of a pop pie or like a drop biscuit pop pie.

I was supposed to drain and discard the grease

and I just added my butter to the grease.

Ugh, hold on.

Oh geez.

I dropped you.

I'm sorry.

What do I put this in?

Oh boy.

So I really wasn't equipped

with the amount of cooking utensils needed

or maybe I just wasn't a good enough fifties housewife.

Keeping up with the dishes quick enough.

Don't mind my beater.

Whisk. My whisk is always dirty these days.

Trying to mix this butter with the flour.

Nobody panic.

I'm gonna add these veggies

seasoning with a little garlic powder

and I'm gonna bring this

to a boil so I don't have a cookie cutter

so I'm cutting the biscuits out with a glass.

This is not as pretty as I envisioned