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    Home » Recipes » Everything Amish

    Weekly Blogroll: Easy Baked Chicken Thighs, Amish Banana Cake, Tasty Amish Recipes, Horse Progress Days, and Mennonites

    Published: Jul 7, 2015 · Updated: Jul 7, 2015 by Kevin Williams | 2 Comments

    By Kevin Williams

    We have a slate of interesting stories to dive into on this week's Blogroll, so let's get right into it!

    BRIANA'S BAKED CHICKEN THIGHS:  Talented young (okay, when does a person quit being "young"...I think she's 19....that's young, I think, by everyone's definition.  But would I apply that same moniker if she were 25?  32?  Where does young end?  Okay, just a random tangent) Mennonite writer, Briana Thomas, shares an amazingly flavorful-sounding and easy recipe for an economical and delicious supper.  Click here to take a look

    HOMEMADE BANANA CAKE:  Let's check out a recipe this week from Patricia's Patchwork....I think I could eat this whole cake.  There's something about "banana cake" that just pushes all the right taste bud buttons for me.  But I guess not everyone.  My mother-in-law, for instance, is allergic to bananas.  Click here for the recipe.

    These horses would feel right at home at Horse Progress Days.  These beauties were seen on an Amish farm near Berne, Idiana

    These horses would feel right at home at Horse Progress Days. These beauties were seen on an Amish farm near Berne, Idiana

    HORSE PROGRESS DAYS:  Read author Thomas Nye's account of visiting "Horse Progress Days".   I am not sure if I've heard of this event or not, but it sounds like an amazing gathering of Amish and equine enthusiasts.  Click here to read Nye's account and see some fun photos.

    AMISH RECIPES - Meatloaf, macaroni salad, and homemade bread...well, beam me up, a sci-fi blogger posted some traditional Amish recipes on her website this week that might be worth checking out.  The bread recipe is intriguing because even by Amish standards it is pretty basic, but the blogger reports good results, so check out all three recipes here.

    SUNDAY DRIVE - MENNONITE OR AMISH?   This was a post and blog I really enjoyed.  The blogger and his wife live an RVing life, a life on the open road and that just really has an appeal to a restless soul like myself.  The reality, though, is I could never do it.  Why?  I don't think I could handle driving an RV...it's too big.  My depth perception is horrid.  My eye doctor once told me it was the worst he has ever seen in someone.  When I am backing up, for instance, it may look - to me - like I am about to hit something when in reality the fire hydrant or other car or whatever is still 15 feet away.  This impacts my ability to parallel park and all sorts of other stuff.  I'm hoping, though, maybe by the the time I am the age of the blogger in this post that eye advances have progressed enough that perhaps they can do something....so maybe I will be driving an RV 30 years from now...we'll see:)  Okay, back to his post.  The Bayfield Bunch posts some beautiful photos from a Sunday drive through "Mennonite country."  But I almost wonder if the blogger is mistaken, based on the photo he posted where you can see the buggy occupants and it looks for all the world like the  man has a beard.  In 95 percent of cases that would mean they are Amish, not Mennonite (with a few exceptions, generally Old Order Mennonite men do not wear beards)  Anyway, enough of my ranting....it's a fun post,click here to enjoy some serene scenes.

     

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    Hi, my name is Kevin Williams and I am owner of Oasis Newsfeatures and editor of The Amish Cook newspaper column.

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    1. carla

      July 07, 2015 at 12:01 pm

      Reading the Horse Progress article, I noticed Thomas Nye also has an Amish related book of fiction called "Under the Heavens". Has anyone read that?

      BTW Kevin, hope you saw my order for your book. I can't wait to read it! The excerpt drew me in!!

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    2. Carol

      July 07, 2015 at 11:56 pm

      Kevin,
      Just wanted to comment that there are also some groups that have members that have come from various walks of life including Mennonite and Amish that look like Amishmen with the beard etc. Members of the Charity Fellowship Churches are one such group. There is also a small group whose church name I cannot recall in Northern Missouri. I know you were not making an all inclusive type statement but thought this info might interest someone out there.

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