Cottage Cheese Blintze

I'm bringing back these blintzes for Flashback Friday. They are an old favorite of ours. I know there are other ways of makin…

Easter Saturday in Ellen's Kitchen

Today in my kitchen we are preparing our Easter Bread. What many of you call Paska we call Kulich. This is my mom’s Russian East…

Oma's Soft Cream Cookies

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 c…

Deb's Fleisch Perishky / Meat Buns

I had a fun baking 900 meat buns. Yes, that is right, this is not a typo, we made 900 meat buns for my sister by loves nieces wed…

Flashback Friday ~ Tante Suzie's Pork and Beans

Tanta Suzie, Feb. 25th 1912 - Jan.25, 1990          Ron Doerksen, her son carefully studies the pot. Flashback Friday brin…

Perishky (Pie by the yard)

Today for Flashback Friday  I wanted to share my Mom's recipe once more for Perishky.  I have baked Perishky in our freezer r…

Meat Buns ~ Flashback Friday

It's 'Flashback Friday' and I am re-posting one of the first recipes I submitted to this blog...back on June 10, 200…

ReiRei or Ruehrei - Gluten Free or Not

(just a note on the spelling of this dish ..  ReiRei is the closest to how I have always said it -- the correct spelling would be…

Paska Buns

Paska (based on the Hebrew word for passover) is a rich, citrussy sweet bread...baked in loaves or rolls of all shapes and siz…

Roasted Chicken with Raisin Bubbat

This is an old fashioned Mennonite method of stuffing a hen . . . no onions, no celery or sage.  The stuffing is similar to a r…

Portzelky ~ New Years Cookies

This is a recipe repost from several years ago but I think it is worth a reminder today that tomorrow is the day to heat up a po…

Platz

20 years ago our youngest daughter sang in the Pacific Mennonite Children's Choir. She brought this recipe home after having …

Roll Kuchen

2 cups of sour cream 1 egg 2 tbsp. oil 2 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt 2 1/2 cups of flour oil for deep frying Combine sour crea…

Pear Pudding Soup

I have no idea how many readers are familiar with the custard-like fruit soups that some of our grandmothers made. One that is ve…

Oma's Peppermint Cookies

Traditionally this is a Christmas cookie, but our family loves them when we have gone camping, sitting around the fire on cool ev…

Bodentorte (Fruit Flan)

In the 1930’s there were two little boys, living in Russia, who loved to play together. Through difficult circumstances, they wer…

Oma's Goulash

This is the goulash that my Oma always made. It has very few ingredients but the flavor is so good. This recipe stems back from…

Wareneki

Wareneki , Varenyky or Perogies . It really doesn't matter what you call them, they are wonderful. I grew up with cottage c…

Hilda's Glums Paska Spread

This recipe is from my friend Hilda. It is a cottage cheese and egg spread to put on Paska. As a young child I didn't appreci…

Jam Rolls (Rollchen)

I didn't realize until I was finished preparing this recipe that it is actually very much like Julie's Authentic Schnetk…