Amish Friendship Bread, Part 2

Little did we know that the Amish Friendship Bread recipe that we posted 14 months ago would become the most-viewed post on MSK ever. The comment section has grown to 130 comments, all full of great questions and creative ideas for variations on AFB. What amazing readers we have!
A few weeks ago, I got a [...]

Swedish Rye Bread

This delightful bread is part of the Christmas Eve noon meal tradition in Swedish homes of Doppa Gryta (Dip in the Kettle).  I’ll post the Doppa Gryta recipe later, but it involves cooking several kinds of meat in a large kettle, then serving the meat, and putting the kettle with the broth in the middle [...]

Christmas menus from Barb’s Kitchen, 2007

Okay, okay, okay, I’ll indulge Laura’s nosey impulses and share my Christmas menu.

Christmas menus at Laura’s house, 2007

I am incurably nosey about what people are eating, and I assume that many of you who come back to our site repeatedly are also nosey, or you wouldn’t keep coming here. So here’s a peek at what we are eating at our house in the next two days:

Eggs Hussarde

My father-in-law is an excellent cook, and it is something of a family tradition that he gets up early on Christmas morning and makes something wonderful for the family breakfast (which is often a separate affair from Christmas dinner!) My favorite of his Christmas morning offerings has always been Eggs Hussarde. We are [...]

Festive Cheese Ball

This comes from the grandmother of my friend Jeri, and appears in their family cookbook. It’s a basic cheese-ball, good for party hors-d’oevres, football nights, and Christmas brunch:

Swedish Rice Custard (Rice Pudding)

I was at a church potluck last week for the last-meeting-before-Christmas of our women’s Bible study. A sign-up sheet had been passed around in each small group, with opportunities to bring things like “egg dish”, or “some kind of bread”. There was a line for “non-egg hot dish”. I assumed that these [...]

“Dreamsicle” Fudge

My husband brought home a little plate of  “Dreamsicle” Fudge. I was, frankly, skeptical because I could tell at a glance that there was NO chocolate in that there fudge….so how good could it be? On the other hand, his colleague Ellen had made the fudge and everything SHE makes is delicious.
To my surprise, I [...]

Skorpa (Swedish Toast)

I have got this wonderful scam…er…scheme that I’ve been working. I beg people for their family Christmas recipes, and they show up at my door bearing not only the recipe, but also a plate of samples. (Some of you are making a note now to start a food blog so that you can work [...]

Dream Bars–oh MY!

My dear friend Margaret (a real live Swedish woman who actually serves and enjoys lutefisk!) brought me a plate of these Dream Bars in November, and I nearly hurt myself, because I can’t stop eating them. There is NO self-control involved here. If you have that one Christmas party yet that you [...]