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Show & Tell Friday

Well friends it's show and tell Friday again                                                                                                           This week I am going to share my collection of Amish books and cookbooks.These are special to me as I have friends who live in a conservative Mennonite community.

I collected these at various places.I just love the pictures they are so cute,especially of the little kids.                                                                 I'll tell you what you haven't tasted good food until you've had some Amish cooking.One of the things I love about their cookbooks is that everything is in large quantities.Normally I would have to double or triple a regular recipe,but not with these.Some of the things I've made out of these has been: peach cobbler,coconut cream pie,toffee apple pie,molasses cookies,Amish mashed potatoes loaded with cheese and butter and several casserole type dishes.YUM!                                   My favorite is Cooking from quilt country,by Marcia Adams                      Lastly I have this small collections of chickens and roosters. These belonged to my husbands mother who passed away  9 years ago.My husband remembered them as a child and when he and his siblings went to their mom's house to retrieve momentos he wanted these.We have them displayed on top of these curtain boxes above our windows.   I can tell there needs to be a tad bit of dusting up there.  Show & Tell Friday is done at  http://kellishouse.blogspot.com/                                                         Okay,okay I'll fess up the Amish cooking is definately not for those watching their waistlines.Almost everything has loads of butter,so they're not something I cook out of everyday,but mainly I use them a lot on special occasions.

Sorry I have been AWOL for so long.

To use a military term.My 19 year old son decided several months ago that he wanted to go serve his country.This was quite a shocker for us not to mention a lot of stress on a mama's heart.It shouldn't have really surprised us all that much.Our kids have been homeschooled all their lives and have been taught to love and respect God,family and country.Due to the fact he is homeschooled he had to jump through a lot of hoops and go through a lot of red tape to get in.I see now that the military is not very homeschool friendly,even though they see what good recruits the kids make.Anyway Bret had to score atleast a 50 on his test where as public school kids only had to get a 35,talk about discrimination. But he passed all his tests has a totally clean record as he's never smoked,drank,done drugs anything and so he is going to be a military police officer,which is no easy task to get into.He also passed a test,so he goes in with a stripe already.We are so proud of him.                                                                             Congratulations Bret,we will miss you.