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Pea Soup (Sivet)

Here's one crockpot recipe that's a standby at our house--pea soup. We often eat it with cornbread.

Dawn and Edward Berkelaar
Broccoli Salad

This salad can be prepared in many ways. Perhaps Bev is including her recipe that she shared with us when we visited John and Gena in 1985. I used memories of that and the recipe Nellie Ann shared with at our Christmas 1992 to mix up a version we enjoyed for dinner at Lyle’s apartment in Sioux City, on the day of his graduation from Morningside College. We also made a similar salad for Sunday dinner at Lisa and Lana’s apartment after helping them move in Iowa City. On that occasion I enjoyed an early morning walk about 12 blocks each way to get sunflower seeds and dressing.

Elda Vander Schaaf
Pizza

This is the recipe we use for our pizza crust every Saturday night. Dawn made it at Dordt once and when she had the pizza in the oven, opened the microwave and found the margarine. The pizza tasted fine, so now we just leave out the margarine.

Gert Bakker
Glenmount Wild Rice

I developed this recipe for a dinner party which featured all Canadian foods (puffball mushroom soup, venison, salmon, fiddle heads, mushrooms, squash, and thimbleberry pie). Since then I have made it often for special occasions. The kids don’t like it yet.

Gena Van Dorp
Fidget Pie

The first time we made Fidget Pie Lana was highly amused to find me separating the 15 lb. bag of potatoes (she bought it because she just couldn’t see paying more money for fewer potatoes) into 15 piles to determine how many made 1 pound. We enjoy this recipe as much for the process of putting it together and the scent in the kitchen, as for its taste. We use it for winter holidays like this Thanksgiving, when we put up Christmas decorations while it was baking. Our cat, Snowflake, goes wild while we are at work on Fidget Pie. We think it is the smell of diced ham that makes her so eager to get in on the action.

Lisa and Lana Vander Schaaf

Pea Soup (Sivet)

Broccoli Salad

Pizza

Glenmount Wild Rice

Fidget Pie