Hoover Stew was served in soup kitchens across the country during The Great Depression in the early 1930’s, designed to give even the poorest families […]
Main Dishes
Bigos (Hunter’s Stew)
A national dish of Poland, bigos is a traditional one-pot meat-and-cabbage stew, often referred to as a “hunter’s stew” and usually made during the winter months or […]
Coal Region Bundookies
Bundookies (aka “Bundukies”, “Bundukas”, “Lithuanian Meatballs” depending on who you’re speaking with) are a Coal Region comfort food notably in the Schuylkill County section. These […]
Super Easy Spaghetti Pie
When my Mom cooked spaghetti, she always dumped the entire one-pound box of dry strands into the pot. Always. It did not matter if she […]
Leniwe Pierogi (Lazy Pierogi)
Welcome to the Coal Region of Pennsylvania. As I might have mentioned a time or two – we LOVE pierogi! We’ll stand in long lines […]
Porcupine Meatballs
Here in my Coalcracker Kitchen, the temperatures are climbing as we head into summer. Heat and humidity make doing the simplest of tasks miserable. But […]