What recipes are trending in the final week of November? Typically a few turkey leftovers make it into the mix and a few early birds who want to jump on Christmas recipes push those ones into the top slots. Plus, a few tried and true comfort foods. Let's see what is trending!
🍲 Trending Meals
Delicious Amish Meatloaf: Good old-fashioned comfort food like meatloaf is appealing after a week of gorging on turkey, stuffing, yams, and other once-a-year treats! Click here for an easy meatloaf!
Wet Burrito Casserole: Tex-Mex is also a nice change from turkey and stuffing, so I'm not surprised to see this easy comfort dish trending! Here is a bit more about it:
I have written a lot about the nexus between Amish culture and south-of-the-border cuisine in recipes like this Delicious Wet Burrito Casserole. How did tacos and tortillas become such a part of Amish culinary culture? Let's explore...
Back when I first started visiting Amish communities almost 30 years ago, jalapeño peppers were starting to be seen in Amish gardens and homemade salsas were just starting to become popular. A couple of things drove this trend among the Amish.
First, rural America, where the Amish live, was experiencing an influx of Hispanic newcomers, taking jobs in processing plants and factories. The two culinary cultures bumped up against one another and the Amish discovered many Hispanic foods were to their liking and natural fits. For instance, most Amish homemakers grew plenty of tomatoes. Well, what’s the main ingredient in salsa? Tomatoes. There were just a lot of natural overlaps like this
Click here for Wet Burrito Casserole.
🍗 Trending Turkey Leftovers
Turkey Frame Soup: Use the whole turkey carcass for a nice soup!
Delicious Turkey Omelet: Great way to make a scramble out of turkey!
🍰 Trending Desserts
Old-Brethren Raisin-Filled Cookies: These start trending every year as Christmas approaches. Here is more about this one:
I have a love-hate relationship with raisins. For instance, I don't like when people ruin a perfectly good loaf of cinnamon bread by sticking raisins in it. And, Heavens, don't pollute my oatmeal cookies with raisins. No need for them. On the other hand, Amish raisin pie is something I can more than tolerate. It actually is pretty good.
I suppose we all have food inconsistencies. For example, my sister-in-law won't eat sliced tomatoes, but she'll enjoy tomato sauce. Anyway, I have a feeling that these raisin cookies are probably pretty darn good. This is an old recipe that comes from a German Baptist settlement in Indiana. I'd be tempted to leave the walnuts out of this, but that is just me...I might be pushing it have two foods that I have love-hate relationships with crammed into the same cookie: raisins and walnuts. Anyway, SIGH, the German Baptist woman who sent me the recipe did what many Plain people do in the instructions, she wrote simply "bake until done." Not the most helpful instructions in the world.
World's Best Brownies: A lofty title, but these are really good. Click here for the recipe!
Old-Fashioned Prune Cake: A delicious, and unique, holiday recipe. I mean, very festive. Prunes can sometimes work on the digestive system, but if you can get past that, this is a super cake! Click here.
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