New Year’s Cookies (Portzelky)
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…
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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…
Moist, Delicious Banana Bread
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…
Cream Gravy with Tomatoes Recipe
Tomato fat is my favorite type of schmaundt fat. By the time I was 14, Green Valley School and I had had enough of each other. Well, to be honest, I loved going to school, and I’d try to always…
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…
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…