Side Dishes & Vegetables – A Coalcracker in the Kitchen

Holidays, Meatless, Pa Dutch/Amish, Recipes, Salads, Side Dishes & Vegetables

Mustard Potato Salad

July 13, 2021

I grew up eating really good potato salads (to my taste, your taste may not agree). Heck, I grew up eating good potatoes. I am […]

Main Dishes, Meatless, Recipes, Side Dishes & Vegetables

Ricotta Gnocchi

June 21, 2021

I am a true lover of anything “dough-y”; PA Dutch pot pie, soft and squishy homemade bread, Homemade halushki, and more. My late husband used […]

Pa Dutch/Amish, Recipes, Salads, Side Dishes & Vegetables

Famous Walp’s Creamed Cabbage

March 15, 2021

Located on the corner of Union Boulevard (Old U.S. Route 22) and Airport Road in east Allentown, PA, Walp’s Restaurant and Guest House was a […]

Holidays, Pa Dutch/Amish, Recipes, Side Dishes & Vegetables

Creamed Lima Beans

December 7, 2020

There were two green vegetables I would eat without question as a kid: green peas and Lima beans; the large Fordhook Lima beans in particular. […]

6 Ingredients or Less, Holidays, Pa Dutch/Amish, Recipes, Side Dishes & Vegetables

Cope’s Dried Sweet Corn – A Thanksgiving Icon

November 24, 2020

In The Anthracite Coal Region and throughout Pennsylvania, we hold tradition in high esteem, particularly when it comes to our holiday meals. When families and […]

6 Ingredients or Less, Eastern European, Main Dishes, Pa Dutch/Amish, Recipes, Side Dishes & Vegetables, Soups

Hungarian Farina Dumplings (Griz Galuska)

August 10, 2020

I recently received two requests for a recipe for a much loved “dumpling” many of my readers remember from their Nana’s (grandmother) kitchen; farina dumplings. […]