Trad Wife Cooking

 It may seem that America's home chefs may want to return to traditional cooking. They are turning to a relatively new phenomenon,  trad or traditional wives. These women bring cooking back to simpler times when everything was home made not jarred or prepackaged.

Regular contributor Julia Moskin wrote about one in particular in today's Wednesdays New York Times Food section.Hannah Neeleman is taking TikTok viewers and America by storm with her eerie take on being a good wife.The Kamas Utah mother of eight is showing how to do everything women did a century ago.She not only makes the herded noodles for her beef stroganoff she also slaughters the cattle for the beef.Yet in some ways she's more the indulged wife married to the son of Jet Blue Founder David Neeleman.She could just be,another privileged influencer who performance work masks the real involved work. Yet she is serious about being a farmer as well. She shepherds her sheep, as well as taking care of pigs and cows on her farm. There are plans for a creamery since she already makes her own yogurt and her protein powder is the number one best seller on Tiktok.If anything, she claims she' s following in the Mormon wife tradition of cooking, baking and being a good wife and mother. This appeals to many who follow her.

Yet this former Juillard trained dancer, whose farm Balkerina reflects her past is serious about her role.she does care what her children, five girls and three boys eat .Her recipes are included and there are the unusual herb laced noodles redolent with parsley  basil and dill.They go with the Stroganoff, which is a marriage of beef tips and mushrooms along with full fat Greek or Icelandic yogurt Flour is added for thickening and Dijon mustard and Worcestershire sauce bring in more flavor.This IA a hearty dinner for anyone , especially during the cold weather.A TikTok video of hers that is worth watching is her recipe for scratch apple cider doughnuts. SHe goes through a lot of work, including cooking the apples down to a slurry and adding them to the dough. From there it's rolling it out and shaping into rings which are then fried in hot oil. After they've cooled a bit she dredges them in a mix of cinnamon sugar. it is Labor intensive however nothing beats the taste of homemade doughnuts.

Will trad wife cooking be a trend.Probably.As long as Hannah Needeman is there to turn out scratch recipes