Easter bread, otherwise known as Paska bread, is a sweet, citrusy bread topped with buttercream icing. Every year around Easter, there has always been Easter bread in the house, somehow. Whether it was bought, made by us, or given to…
The reason that I started this blog is to share my foster mother’s recipes and other Mennonite family recipes that you can’t find on the internet. Now that she has passed, there are times when I would like to call…
Full Disclosure: I was ill-prepared this Easter, and we didn’t have the right ingredients to make a proper Easter post (I actually thought Easter was next weekend). My children all wanted Paska (Easter Bread), and have been asking daily for…
Neapolitan pizza has a thin crunchy outside, with a soft, airy middle that is thin at the base and puffs up around the edge. This recipe is the closest that you will get to a wood fire pizza while still…
Artisan bread is a no-knead bread that usually consists of 4 ingredients: flour, water, salt and yeast. And it uses time while proofing to do the kneading for you. It is cheaper and easy to make than most bread recipes…
Every now and then over the past year, I have been checking my stats and comments on this blog, and am really surprised, and grateful for all of the comments and support that this blog has been getting. I haven’t…
I was hemming and hawing on making a blog post about paska. Because to be honest, I’ve always hated paska. When it started getting close to Easter, my foster mother would start baking loaves and loaves of paska in…
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…
Every Saturday morning my foster mother would wake up earlier than any farmer I know and bake either bread or buns. When I smell fresh buns I can still hear AM 1250 playing on the radio and her mixer in the kitchen…
