Category Archives: The Essential Amish Kitchen

Casseroles, The Essential Amish Kitchen, Vegetables

Remembering a beloved neighbor, and her first plate of cookies

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Remembering a beloved neighbor, and her first plate of cookies Daughters Verena and Loretta are making supper. On the menu is tater tot casserole, rare beef, and cheese. The casserole is a new recipe they are trying out. Rare beef is thinly sliced steak from our beef we butchered. It’s heavily salted and peppered, then … Continue Reading ››
Side Dishes, Soups, The Essential Amish Kitchen

Surgery for Kevin and more ahead as winter finally arrives

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 We finally have real winter weather. Snow! Cold! Wind! Needless to say it feels good to be inside a warm cozy house this morning with the outside temperature at 23 degrees. Daughter Lovina, 14, just left for school. Son Benjamin left for his job at the RV factory around 4:30 a.m. and the rest of the … Continue Reading ››
Side Dishes, The Essential Amish Kitchen, Vegetables

Sticky lessons with Gorilla glue, and happy for supper on daughter’s patio

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Head: Sticky lessons with Gorilla glue, and happy for supper on daughter’s patio It’s 8:30 p.m. and we just came home from daughter Elizabeth and Timothy’s house. Elizabeth made supper for us. She made cooked potatoes, cooked carrots, corn, Sloppy Joe sandwiches with ice cream for dessert. It was nice to not have to cook supper … Continue Reading ››
Canning and Freezing, The Essential Amish Kitchen, Vegetables

Ice cream ensures that back-to-school open house pleases even the littlest attender

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Ice cream ensures that back-to-school open house pleases even the littlest attender Happy birthday to my sister Verena, whose 52nd birthday was August 22. We wish her God’s richest blessings and many more happy, healthy years! This is Thursday morning, and it seems the hours are going faster than I can keep up! School doors opened Tuesday, … Continue Reading ››
Meats, Soups, The Essential Amish Kitchen, Uncategorized, Vegetables

Camping with the Eichers: Horses, wagons, boats and even a pontoon

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Camping with the Eichers: Horses, wagons, boats and even a pontoon Our whole family is spending this week (July 4) at a lake about 11 miles from our house. Timothy and Elizabeth and Mose and Susan’s places are only half that far from here. They came with horses and wagons. Timothy and Mose brought their boats … Continue Reading ››
Breakfast, The Essential Amish Kitchen

Painting, packing, plus home-demonstration parties

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A cold morning of 11 degrees. It’s freezing and as Abigail would say, “Brrrr – cold!” Eleven days until Christmas day. I just can’t believe how much faster every year goes by. Life goes on. Changes are made, some good, some bad. The most important part in life is to always let God guide us into … Continue Reading ››
Casseroles, Side Dishes, The Essential Amish Kitchen, Vegetables

Where Lovina hopes to be over a bug at Thanksgiving!

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Where Lovina hopes to be over a bug at Thanksgiving! It’s Wednesday morning and we have lots to do today. I think I have some kind of stomach flu. It makes me feel weak so I haven’t moved too far from my recliner yet. Hopefully I will feel better soon. I do not have time to … Continue Reading ››
Soups, The Essential Amish Kitchen, Uncategorized

Distractions from toddler are hard to resist

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A cool Wednesday evening—we finally have a break from the heat. Tonight was a nice evening to go to the local u-pick for grapes. Tomorrow we will steam the grapes into juice. We make grape juice concentrate. Sugar and water can be added to suit your … Continue Reading ››
Casseroles, The Essential Amish Kitchen

A day in Lovina’s Life: Diary of September 20, 2017

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A day in Lovina’s Life: Diary of September 20, 2017 3:00 a.m. Alarm rings telling us it’s time to start another day. Mornings come around too quick. I pack Joe’s lunch and put on a pot of coffee so he can take some to drink on his way to work. 3:45 a.m. Joe and son-in-law Mose leave … Continue Reading ››