Sunday, February 8, 2026

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Lettuce Eat Local: Bierocking and Rolling

Amanda Miller Columnist Lettuce Eat Local When I share the baby’s due date (June 8), people with close-by birthdays are always quick to suggest I have Green Bean on their special day....

Lettuce Eat Local: We’re Walking On Eggshells Over Here

And *crunch crunch* I do mean literally.  It’s not that the figurative, emotional sense isn’t frequently applicable too, as my two- and four-year-old have significant...

Observing Old Christmas/Epiphany and Celebrating Kylie’s First Birthday

It is a nice sunny January morning with the temperature at 30 degrees. My husband Joe, son Benjamin, and son-in-law Daniel Ray all left...

Lovina Shares About Christmas Dinner, Pork Butchering and Much More

Lovina’s Amish Kitchen Lovina Eitcher, Old Order Amish Cook, Wife & Mother of Eight Christmas 2025 will be here in a few days already! This year our family will...

Lovina Shares About Winter Days and Memories Held Close

Lovina’s Amish Kitchen Lovina Eitcher, Old Order Amish Cook, Wife & Mother of Eight It is Monday evening, just after 7 p.m. here at the Eicher homestead. Supper is...

Daughter Verena Writes About Hosting Thanksgiving In Their Home

Lovina’s Amish Kitchen Lovina Eitcher, Old Order Amish Cook, Wife & Mother of Eight This is Verena writing. Mom is in the middle of frying chicken for supper. I...

Lettuce Eat Local: Making a list, Chex-ing it twice

Amanda Miller Columnist Lettuce Eat Local The last weeks before Christmas are here, and the air is filled with sweet anticipation — and sweet everything. Forget visions...

Lovina Shares her Mother’s Column from 31 Years Ago

For this column I'm going to share some excerpts from my mother Elizabeth Coblentz’s columns from November 1994. Joe and I lived in a...

Lovina’s Family is Busy with Church Services, Shared Meals and Successful Hunting

Lovina’s Amish Kitchen Lovina Eitcher, Old Order Amish Cook, Wife & Mother of Eight   It is Monday evening and we just finished eating supper. It was an easy supper...

Lettuce Eat Local: Here’s Pumpkin I’ve Been Thinking About

Amanda Miller Columnist Lettuce Eat Local   Zucchini spice latte, anyone? What about a nice gingersnap cucumber cheesecake? Still no takers, hm, we could always do a squash...

Lettuce Eat Local: Two Good To Be Pretty

Amanda Miller Columnist Lettuce Eat Local   It’s a good thing two-year-olds aren’t too picky.  Let me take that back; that is a ridiculous thing to say out loud....