Curly Fries with Cream Gravy (Schmaunt Fat)
I grew up in a strict Mennonite home in the 90s, which had more rules and harsher punishments than my peers. So once I hit my teenager years, and seeing as I was a bit immature, I started to rebel.…
main dishes
Easy Neapolitan Pizza Dough Recipe
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…
Mennonite Scalloped Potatoes (with Farmer Sausage)
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…
Cabbage Borscht Recipe
Before I get into this blog post, I’d like to thank everybody for checking out my blog! It’s really crazy to see how much positive feedback I’ve been getting from everyone and seeing how many people continue to discover and…
Summer Borscht
Growing up, Summer Borscht (Zumma Borscht) was one of my favorite soups. As it started to get colder, and throughout winter, soup would be on the menu at our house almost every day of the week. After school, as we…
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…
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.…
Mennonite Chicken Noodle Soup
Today’s recipe goes hand in hand with the recipe I posted yesterday. Heina sup? (chicken noodle soup) was the one dish that growing up we knew was always going to be consistent (my foster mother tended to switch up her recipes a lot). …
Homemade Egg Noodles (Kielke)
So as this is my first blog post, I thought, what better recipe to start off with, than the meal that started it all (well, part of the meal anyway). Egg noodles, or kielke as the Mennonites call it. Though I was…