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.…
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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…
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…
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…
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…