Garlic Soup
When I was younger, my foster mother was convinced that garlic was a cure-all for many different ailments. And she used to eat raw garlic every morning because she thought it would keep her healthy. She would tell the story…
soups
Beet Borscht
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…
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…
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…
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). …