By Kevin Williams Okay, admittedly, this has nothing to do with food or the Amish but I find that I really love looking at buildings. Each structure has a story to tell through its windows, bricks, and doors. Whether it’s a soaring tower or a squat, angular brick beauty, the history and beauty conveyed through […] Read more
THE AMISH COOK BY GLORIA YODER Hi to all of you. How I would love meeting you all in person. Amazing how one can “get to know” people without actually meeting them! By now I feel like I know some of you quite well! We have plans this weekend of traveling to Ohio where […] Read more
Two Amazing Things: Onion Dishes & Daily Life This time of year we are digging around in our pantry, trying to find something fresh to cook with, our spring palates having been already primed by the planting of early spring crops, but there’s nothing to harvest yet. And all we find is root vegetables from […] Read more
By Kevin Williams It’s that time of week again! Trending recipes! These are the Amish365 recipes that ranked highest on Google searches this past week. The recipes are a great “snapshot” of Amish cooking/baking as a whole. No seasonal contours this week that I can discern, but just good comfort food classics that are […] Read more
CHAPTER EIGHT – BERNE, INDIANA “When the first breath of spring touched the Limberlost… and the pulse of the newly resurrected season beat strong in the heart of nature, something new stirred in the breast of the boy” – Gene Stratton-Porter Much of what I have learned about the Amish occurred in what […] Read more
By Kevin Williams Often surprised by how often I’ll run into an Amish reference in the most unexpected places. I was visiting an indoor play area with my girls last week (one of those play areas with an indoor slide, plenty of bouncy balls, etc) and as we were leaving this truck was right in […] Read more
By Kevin Williams We have a whole lot to get to today, so let’s do it! AMISH BABY PEARL TAPIOCA: Meemaw has been a wonderful supporter of Amish365 and, I tell you, she tackled a good topic this week: tapioca. If anyone can make tapioca good, it’s MeeMaw. If I recall correctly my great-grandmother used […] Read more
