The Amish Cook from Oasis Newsfeatures

I love to make good home cooked foods for my family. Cooking has been a passion of mine for many years. Since the time I started to wean my first son, whos now 15, I loved to try out different recipes. Now Ive got 4 men in the house to feed and I still enjoy cooking for them just as much. I could happily spend a day in the kitchen baking bread, making cookies and doing dinner too, just to see the sheer enjoyment my family gets from eating what I make. The only problem is I find so many other things get in the way of cooking. There always seems to be something else that needs doing out of the house in this busy urban lifestyle. Then it ends up that I have to use foods I would rather not just for convenience. I suppose its a matter of getting a good balance and being more organised. Over the next few weeks I'm going to try my best not to buy store bought bread or cookies and I'm going to get going on making up my own home made bread(Lovina's Recipe of course ) that I will then store in the freezer to use as we need. This week when I went grocery shopping I didn't buy cookies/biscuits because I had already made a batch of 'Ranger cookies', kids really enjoyed them and there is still plenty left for the next couple of days. Going to make choc chip cookies next!! Feeling hungry now LOL.

A couple of days ago a little twenty month old amish girl drowned in a trough in the family barn while the parents were milking, so sad, I know these people and it is so hard to watch them suffer, they are hardshelled but anyone that knows them well can tell they are hurting really bad......Prayers please for them....

Kevin, your prediction of the future of newspaper hard copies has come home, too close to home, today one of our local papermills had a big layoff, they are switching production to a different product due to the downward spiral of newspapers, etc.  They say the biggest reason is because of ipod and kindle, this is scary, my hubby works in a papermill here...

Just wondering what type of vinegar of white or apple.. thanks sisterbrenda Maine

I used to live in Holmes County, Ohio, and collected many recipes from my Amish neighbors, including one for cinnamon pickles which takes about seven days to make.  Unfortunately, my home in Ketchikan, Alaska, flooded out and I lost all my cookbooks to mold.

I really do miss these pickles, and I am not finding the same recipes online from English sites.

Can anyone help me out?  I would so greatly appreciate this help.