Monday, December 15, 2025

Recipes

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 over with and dishes are...

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....

Lettuce Eat Local: Custard’s Not-Last Stand

Amanda Miller Columnist Lettuce Eat Local   “Ooh, we love custard, and my recipe is perfect.” “Wait no, I have the perfect custard!” “And here we are pretty...

Lettuce Eat Local: Getting A Cold Shoulder

Amanda Miller Columnist Lettuce Eat Local   It happens every year, and every year, I am unprepared. The cold. It comes. It doesn’t come quite like clockwork, more like axial-tilt-work...

A Cousin’s Farewell and Autumn Chores

Lovina’s Amish Kitchen Lovina Eitcher, Old Order Amish Cook, Wife & Mother of Eight This is Tuesday morning just past 5:00. My husband Joe left for another day at...

Lovina Enjoys the Lovely Fall Weather

Lovina’s Amish Kitchen Lovina Eitcher, Old Order Amish Cook, Wife & Mother of Eight We are having lovely fall weather! The trees are getting prettier each day and are...