Schmaundt Fat (Cream Gravy)
Growing up, we ate schmaundt fat on everything. Wareneki, kielke, macaroni, boiled potatoes, we ate it on buns, beans and even rice, which wasn’t good then, and isn’t good now. But if there was a meal that I had to…
Paraguay Mennonite
Ruehrei (Mennonite Scrambled Eggs)
Ruehrei (ree-eh) is a Mennonite version of scrambled eggs, at least that’s what the internet tells me. I had a craving for it this weekend and started scrambling 😉 through a few different recipes that I had found on the internet. Sadly, none of them were…
The best bun recipe ever!
Every Saturday morning my foster mother would wake up earlier than any farmer I know and bake either bread or buns. When I smell fresh buns I can still hear AM 1250 playing on the radio and her mixer in the kitchen…
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…