All posts by Lovinas Amish Kitchen

Cakes, Desserts

Daughter Verena updates all the Eicher family doings: from cleaning to pontooning

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Hello! I hope you are all doing well. This is Lovina’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Verena, writing. Mom was so tired so I told her I’ll take her place for this week. Loretta received this lovely birthday gift for her 17th birthday July 1 from her mother … Continue Reading ››
Breads and Muffins, Breakfast, Cakes, Casseroles, Desserts

With husband and children on vacation, Lovina serves up extra recipes

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We recently butchered our old laying hens and canned around fifty quarts of chicken broth. My husband, Joe, and our children are home on vacation the week of July 4. So this week I’m sharing some extra recipes. The Eicher family canned chicken broth … Continue Reading ››
Salads

That time the toddler conspired to free the baby from the playpen . . .

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Another week has gone by, and it’s time to get another column on its way. This will wrap up June already. Half of 2017 is now history. We are invited to a wedding in Berne, Ind., tomorrow for Lana, the daughter of one of Joe’s cousins. She is getting married to my cousin’s son, Abe. It … Continue Reading ››
Cakes, Desserts, Vegetables

What happens when Lovina accidentally sleeps in—until 6:30 a.m.

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It is already Thursday forenoon, and I still don’t have this column on its way! I made an attempt to write it last night after everyone went to bed, but I kept dozing off. I finally gave up and decided I would write it this morning. Well, my day didn’t start out as intended. I woke … Continue Reading ››
Cakes, Desserts

Hot, humid days mean it’s time for haying—and a water fight

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June 14, 2017: Twenty-three years ago today my husband, Joe, and I became parents for the first time. We were blessed with a little girl. We named her after my mother, Elizabeth. Since her marriage on August 14, 2015, she goes by the name Mrs. Timothy (Elizabeth) Bontrager. A little girl, Abigail, was born to … Continue Reading ››
Casseroles, Meats, Noodles

Son’s eighth-grade graduation tugs at Lovina’s heartstrings

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It’s a sunny pleasant evening in June. The temperature stayed in the low 70s today. Tomorrow evening we will be putting in hay. It has been a good week for haymaking. Last night our family attended the eighth-grade graduation for the class of 2017. Son Joseph was among the twenty students who graduated. Sixteen boys and … Continue Reading ››
Casseroles, Noodles

Pie-baking, wagon-riding and book-signing usher in the month of June

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We turn another page on the calendar today. Month number six already in 2017! Tomorrow is the big day for niece Rosa and Menno. I wish them many happy, healthy years together. May God be their guide through the good and bad times in their marriage. It takes effort from both sides to make a marriage … Continue Reading ››
Cookies, Desserts

Remembering the deep grief of seven years ago

May 24—this date always takes my thoughts back to May 24, 2010. The day started out just like any other day. I was out on the porch watering the flowers while the children waited for the bus. The bus came and I could hear our phone ringing in the pole barn. I decided to finish … Continue Reading ››
Cookies, Desserts

Never a dull moment: remembering when baby Lovina was born

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Today, May 18, is daughter Lovina’s thirteenth birthday. She is now a teenager. We now have five teenagers in the house so you can imagine there isn’t one dull moment. I will never forget the day Lovina was born. I had gall bladder attacks before I had her which turned into pancreatitis. Lovina came three weeks … Continue Reading ››
Side Dishes, Vegetables

Corralling nine horses: all in a day’s work for Lovina

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Diary of May 10, 2017 7:00 a.m. Lovina and Kevin leave for school with the bus. Joseph bikes to school because he can be home 45 minutes longer. With the chores he does, biking doesn’t make him so rushed. School is only three miles from here so it doesn’t take him long. 7:30 a.m. I made grilled … Continue Reading ››