My Foster Mother
There was a time in my life when I was growing up, when we went to church 5 days a week. It wasn’t a short walk or drive get there, but a 30 minute drive out of town. And my…
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Plumi Moos (Cold Fruit Soup)
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…
Old Fashioned Chicken and Dumplings (Bubbat Balls)
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
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…
Cottage Cheese Cakes (Glums Koki)
I don’t actually have a story to tell involving cottage cheese cakes, but I do remember my foster mother making them for us one or two times growing up and I really enjoyed them. They are kind of like pancakes…
Mennonite Cracklings (Grieva)
When I was a kid, we used to butcher all of the meat that we ate. The only time that I appreciated helping was when we butchered pigs because I was the one that got to mix the mier gropa…
Mennonite Glums Wareniki or Vareniki (Cottage Cheese Perogies)
Another one of my favorite recipes is wareneki (perogies). It wasn’t until I moved out on my own, that I tasted potato filled perogies for the first time. I had heard about their existence, but had never actually eaten one.…
Gellete Buns
Gellete. Pronounced ga-le-ta. When I grew up, there were a handful of foods that we always had on hand. Gellete being one of them. For those of you that don’t know what gellete is, they are small, hard, dry buns. …
Schmaundt Fat (Cream Gravy)
Growing up, we ate schmaundt fat on everything. Wareneki, kielke, macaroni, boiled potatoes, we ate it on buns, beans and even rice, which wasn’t good then, and isn’t good now. But if there was a meal that I had to…
Ruehrei (Mennonite Scrambled Eggs)
Ruehrei (ree-eh) is a Mennonite version of scrambled eggs, at least that’s what the internet tells me. I had a craving for it this weekend and started scrambling 😉 through a few different recipes that I had found on the internet. Sadly, none of them were…