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Mennonite Girls Can Cook

Charlotte Penner, one of the cooks for the Mennonite Girls Can Cook cookbook and blog is the guest on Shaping Families this week. Mennonite Girls Can Cook is the brainchild of ten cooks from Canada (and one from the U.S), begun by Lovella Schellenberg. It features Mennonite cooking, especially recipes these women learned from their mothers and grandmothers of Canadian/Russian heritage, but includes tastes from all over the world as these superb and dedicated Mennonite cooks search widely for the best of local, simple, and sometimes fancy recipes and foods.

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My Turn

This week's My Turn author

Potluck

Rebecca Thatcher Murcia

In general I am a word-oriented person. I started reading novels when I was about eight and never stopped. I did not miss the pictures in traditional children’s books because I could imagine the action just by reading the words. But when it comes to cookbooks, I LOVE pictures.

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This Week's Resources

WEBSITES
Mennonite Girls Can Cook Blog 
Mennonite Girls Can Cook Facebook page

BOOK
Mennonite Girls Can Cook – Cookbook 

VIDEO
Video interview with Lovella Schellenberg on Mennonite Girls Can Cook on Global BC morning news.

Related Resources

BOOKS 
More Mennonite cookbooks from Herald Press 

Other Mennonite cookbooks from Good Books  

Whatever Happened to Dinner: Recipes and Reflections for Family Mealtime, by Melodie Davis with Jodi Nisly Hertzler and Carmen Wyse, Herald Press, 2010. 

A Christian View of Hospitality: Expecting Surprises, by Michele Hershberger, Herald Press, 1999. 

One Year of Dinner Table Devotions and Discussion Starters: 365 Opportunities to Grow Closer to God as a Family, by Nancy Guthrie

WEBSITES 
Third Way Café Glossary entry on “Mennonites and Food” 

All of the royalties from sale of Mennonite Girls Can Cook go to Good Shepherd Shelter a temporary shelter for street children in the Ukraine, a program supported by the global relief agency, MCC. You can donate here.

To see a glimpse of the ministry of Good Shepherd Shelter and the needs of children in Ukraine today visit their website.  

Other proceeds from the book support MennoMedia (www.mennomedia.org) the publishing/media agency of Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada.

Burton's Blog

Food Outlasts Words

Burton Buller

Families, in order to be families, must act like families. It is essential for a family to gather as a unit to realize itself. For nuclear families this usually happens at mealtime. Mealtimes most vividly reflect the relational dynamics of a family. That is why we at Shaping Families emphasize the importance of families regularly sitting down to eat meals together.

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Next Week

Taking Time for Family. Martin Marty, for many years a columnist in Christian Century, is a church historian and prolific author and speaker. Marty joins Shaping Families to talk about his personal life: his upbringing, raising his own children, what he holds near and dear and important in raising a family.

Favorite Family Recipes

Butter Soup

Butter SoupLovella Schellenberg, one of the authors of Mennonite Girls Can Cook writes this about Butter Soup: "When my beloved began coming over for dinner when we were dating, my mom would make this soup for him. I often think that this soup secured the eventual proposal of marriage. I still make it for him when I want to serve him something special." 

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