Calling all Cooks!!!

So wouldn't you enjoy having a cookbook which included many of the favorites that you remember growing up but didn't know which of the Aunties or Cousin's brought to the gatherings?  Or maybe you have a personal/family favorite that you make on special occasions.  We would love to share these along with the stories about what makes them special.

These are the staple of our family Sunday faspa.  It's become a family effort.  We put the ingredients into the breadmaker shortly after we arrive home from church/lunch.  Ninety minutes later we have one adult and 2-3 children gathered around the island playing with the dough, eating the raisins before they make it into the buns and licking the brown sugar off the counter.  When they finally get assembled, they look like what you see here.  Well, they need to rise for awhile and bake first but you get the idea!  The recipe will be in the book.

These are my mom's Paska breads.  Nothing says Easter to a kid better than bread with sprinkles.  I don't have this recipe but I'll make sure to get mom to submit it!

And straight from Candice's Kitchen, we bring you the famous Mennonite

Fleisch Perishky or meatbuns.  Non Mennonite Girls can Cook too!  Candice, aka Martha Stewart, is an amazing cook, baker and crafter.  

We made these as a family in February for my Uncle Hank's funeral.  These were his favorites and Candice, Mom and I made a whole lot of them! The funeral was in Burlington, ON and thanks to mom Balkaran for allowing us to invade her kitchen and use her Kitchen Aid mixer!

Hope these stories have inpired you to share a bit of your family's culinary history with all of us.  Please submit your recipes to Candice Dueck at candice.dueck@gmail.com and she will be compiling them.  Thanks!

Candice pinching off the dough

Dana inserting the meat

Eleanor painting on the egg glaze