Homemade potato chips are sliced potatoes, fried to golden perfection, and dipped in your favorite sauce. I remember being a young boy, maybe 4 or 5, and I was shopping with my foster mother at Penner Foods in Steinbach Manitoba.…
Scalloped potatoes is the perfect comfort food! But this is a scalloped potato recipe with a mennonite twist. Warm and creamy, cheesy potatoes with the smokey flavor of the mennonite farmer sausage, this recipe is sure to warm your belly…
Anyone who is familiar with me and my childhood knows about my love/hate relataionship with soups. And if you don’t know, let me recap: we ate soup so often as a child, that while walking home from school, we would…
When I was growing up, we always had some type of baked good or fresh fruit to snack on. When my foster mother would buy fruit, she would usually buy way too much and it would end up going bad…
Tomato fat is my favorite type of schmaundt fat. By the time I was 14, Green Valley School and I had had enough of each other. Well, to be honest, I loved going to school, and I’d try to always…
If you’re familiar with my blogs, you know that macaroni with schmaundt fat and farmer sausage is one of my favorite meals. I make my schmaundt fat many different ways. One of my family’s favorite versions is schmaundt fat…
Plumi moos is like a cold fruit soup. If I remember correctly, my foster mother would make moos every Sunday morning before church so that we could eat it with Sunday lunch. When I was really young, a story went…
Growing up in an old school Mennonite home with a foster mother who knew very little English meant that we were told a lot of wrong information. With no internet to confirm or deny what we were told, we had no…
Platz. Pronounced plowtz. Like grieva, either you love it or you hate it. I personally despised this dessert, but it was requested that I do a post on it, so here it is. Growing up, this was my foster mothers main go-to dessert for…
