Here are some slightly updated recipes for good old-fashioned Italian-American dishes.

For a moment, the idea of being able to dine on a well-prepared old-fashioned dish like this was moving.

It's not healthy - all those heavy old-fashioned German dishes.

Indeed, few things are as comforting as this old-fashioned dish, which is good with plenty of carrots in the company of noodles.

But today, many Americans proudly spread an array of old-fashioned home-style dishes on the holiday table without doing all the cooking themselves.

For consistency, we kept to the regular menu and were wowed by an old-fashioned, homey dish of short ribs.

The sauce may be a little skimpy, but there is nothing wrong with the lobster in this luxurious, old-fashioned dish.

Like every other old-fashioned dish, dried beans, peas and lentils have been updated.

Like its predecessors, it features large portions, low prices (that 65-cent bowl of spaghetti costs $6.75, not bad by current day standards) and old-fashioned dishes.

Her easy recipes are a blend of old-fashioned, homestyle dishes updated with modern flavor combinations.