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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. 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. …
