Lovina’s Amish Kitchen
Lovina Eitcher,
Old Order Amish
Cook, Wife &
Mother of Eight
It is Monday afternoon and what a lovely March Day it is! The temperature is almost 70 degrees. The sun is shining but it’s windy. I have clothes hanging on the lines which was a little bit challenging to hang up, especially bed sheets and blankets. I love the Polygrip clothes pins. I still don’t have enough for a big laundry so I still need to use some wooden ones. The Polygrip is so much stronger.
This weekend was busy but enjoyable. Friday around 11:30 a.m. daughter Lovina and Daniel brought 6-month-old Brooklyn here while they traveled an hour to go to a doctor appointment. She was very content here. She’s getting so active and really chatting now. On Fridays my husband Joe is usually home by 1:00 pm so he was here to help spoil her too.
Around 3:30 pm daughter Elizabeth brought Timothy (TJ), Allison, and Andrea here while they went to town for an appointment. While at the hospital they had to take safety because of a tornado warning. Daniel and Lovina were on the way home while the tornado sirens were going off in every nearby town. It did a lot of damage in several nearby towns. Our prayers go out to everyone that lost their homes and especially to the families that lost their loved ones. The sun was shining here and it was hard to believe that only twenty miles away there was such devastation. I cannot imagine what they must have experienced to have their homes ripped apart and their belongings all scattered around. Elizabeth picked up their children around 7:30 pm. It was enjoyable to have the grandchildren here.
Saturday morning daughter Susan and Ervin brought Kaitlyn, Jennifer, Isaiah, Ryan, Curtis and Ervin Jr here to stay with us while they went to town to get groceries. Baby Sharlene went with them. I made breakfast for the children. We had breakfast casserole, pon hoss (that was given to us from niece Emma and Menno), toast, butter and jelly.
Son Joseph and Grace came before lunchtime. They brought their bacon sides from the pig they had butchered last weekend. Joe sliced the bacon for them with our meat slicer while Grace vacuum sealed it. Joseph and Daniel Ray installed a new door in our kitchen that needed to be changed. The old one was letting in a lot of cold air this winter. This was the first door we had to change since we built the house twenty years ago. This is the main door used. Joanna (son Benjamin’s special friend) helped daughter Verena with their laundry so Daniel Ray could help Joseph. Son Benjamin was working out in the barn. We have four weeks from Sunday to get cleaned up to host church services here.
Our supper guests were Joseph and Grace, Daniel Ray and Verena, Dustin, Loretta and children and Joanna. Joseph and Grace stayed the night here. Joe grilled chicken and wings and I made a noodle soup to go with that. We played games after supper. Marble chase and Rook were the games we played.
Sunday, I made brunch and our guests were Joseph and Grace, Daniel Ray and Verena, Dustin, Loretta and children, Daniel, Lovina and Brooklyn, and Joanna. Also, son Kevin had a few friends here for the weekend. Brunch was fried eggs, potatoes, bacon (we sampled Joseph and Grace’s bacon), cheese, hot peppers, toast, butter and jelly. Also milk, coffee and orange juice, donuts, cookies, and coffee cake. In the afternoon Daniel and Lovina, Joseph and Grace, Benjamin and Joanna went to nephew Ben and Crystal’s house to meet baby Brinley Ranae. Joseph and Grace and Benjamin and Joanna stayed there for supper and son Kevin joined them later on.
Granddaughter Abigail gave me a note to add in my column. She was so excited and never expected all the books she received.
Hi, this is Abigail. Thank you for all the books people sent to me. I am making thank you notes but I do not have everybody’s address. I was so surprised when people sent me books. I did not know I was going to get some. I was so excited. That is so nice of them.
Thanks again for being so thoughtful. Tim and Elizabeth had to throw away so much of their belongings due to the mold that took over their house including books. May God bless you for your kindness. They are in the process of getting the house emptied so it can be torn down. Anything they can save has to have a special treatment to preserve it from mold.
God bless!
PIZZA BURGERS
1 ½ pound ground beef
1 pound of processed cheese
1 can chopped tomatoes, drained
1 tablespoon butter
¾ teaspoon onion salt
1 tablespoon oregano
Hamburger buns
Melt butter and cheese. Add tomatoes and spices to cooked and drained beef. Mix everything. Put on half a bun. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.
Lovina’s Amish Kitchen is written by Lovina Eicher, Old Order Amish writer, cook, wife, and mother of eight. Her three cookbooks, The Cherished Table, The Essential Amish Cookbook, and Amish Family Recipes, are available wherever books are sold. Readers can write to Eicher at Lovina’s Amish Kitchen, PO Box 234, Sturgis, MI 49091 (please include a self-addressed stamped envelope for a reply); or email [email protected] and your message will be passed on to her to read. She does not personally respond to emails.
