Mennonite girls can cook

My friend Brenda brought a potato dish to our care group potluck recently that I just had to try making myself. I've substituted a homemade dressing for the Ranch dressing she used, so feel free to use bottled dressing if you haven't the time or inclination to make the Buttermilk dressing I used. A recipe to please all potato lovers. potatoes (1-2 per person) Buttermilk Dressing (recipe follows) bacon, cut into 1/4 inch pieces, fried until crisp and drained on paper towel Cheddar, Mozzarella…

Okay these pumpkin sweet rolls were amazing, especially with all that glaze on them. Just so you know if you want to use this much glaze for each roll you will have to make more than I have stated. You only need to drizzle the glaze over the rolls and not pour like I did, but it sure tasted good. Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups warm milk 1/2 cup butter, melted 1/2 cup sugar 1 cup pumpkin puree 1 egg, whisked 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon instant yeast 6 cups flour Method: In a large bowl, combine…

I recently made 6 times the recipe for a wedding event which gave over 700 cookies since it was one of the bride's favorite cookies and thought it would be a good Flashback Friday recipe. It is that time of year again where the home smells of sweet delights baking in the kitchen. If you like peppermint cookies, you can add 3 teaspoons of peppermint extract to make them peppermint cookies. Some cookies are just a sweet reminder of days gone by, and I have fond memories of these soft and…

20 years ago our youngest daughter sang in the Pacific Mennonite Children's Choir. She brought this recipe home after having it at one of the other choir members homes. Her note on the hand written recipe said, VERY GOOD LIGHT CAKE. She was right. Here I have used blackberries, but you could also use, blueberries, plums, apricots or peaches. Ingredients - for cake 2 eggs 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup Crisco shortening 1/4 cup milk 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp vanilla 1 1/2 cup flour…

Some of you may recognize this German Recipe. This recipe could also be referred to as Linzer Cookies. These cookies were part of a Christmas exchange, years ago from my Tanta Gertraut. My husband dived in for this gift and he finally won the gift exchange with a happy smile on his face. My aunt passed this recipe down to one of my sister in law's and she has taken the time to walk me through the steps. He has begged me for years to get this recipe... I now have the recipe, the utensils, and…

We have a restaurant here in the Fraser Valley that serves a great farmer sausage soup...using ground smoked sausage. I recently discovered that one can remove the raw farmer sausage from the casing and then brown the meat as a base for this soup. We quite enjoyed it! 1 pound raw farmer sausage (or any similar smoked sausage) 1 large onion, chopped 4-5 cups water 3 medium potatoes, cubed 3-4 carrots, sliced 2 stalks celery, chopped 3 cups corn (frozen or canned, kernels or cream corn)* 1…

Kringle is a Scandinavian pastry which developed over the years into several kinds of sweet, salty or filled pastries. My Tante Lena makes her Kringle with a buttery Zwieback (yeast) dough and I still hope to one day get together with her to see her make them. For now - I have her recipe and two methods of rolling and shaping them. This first method pictured is closer to the way she shapes them and since I was using one hand to hold the camera, I hope my explanation makes sense. I started…

Mennonite Scrambled Eggs. Rührei is what we called them when I was a kid. This was never a breakfast meal at our place, but rather a quick lunch or supper. I'd all but forgotten about them until yesterday when I was looking through the fridge to see what I could fix in no time flat, and rührei came to mind. This is a creamy version of scrambled eggs...rather like a cross between an omelet and a pancake. It pairs well with ham or sausage...sprinkled with freshly ground pepper and served with…

When I was growing up my mom always called this Klissen. . with two little dots on top of the "ss's" in German it was pronounced Kly - sen. However. . .other people called it Kielke. . pronounced Cheel - chya. I still give my mom full credit for the capture of the cutest boy in school.. .(for me) with this recipe. I invited him over for Klissen once. . .and when she realized how much he loved them. . .the noodles were made quite regularly. My mom was not a fancy cook, but Terry still smiles…