It’s been one year since we moved into our farmhouse. One year since we waved goodbye to Illinois, the suburbs, city sewer lines and our friends and family there to start a new life here. One year since we started…
Christmas table decor
With the new year now here, I wanted to share the last of my holiday inspiration, the Christmas table decor. You can pin it for next year’s inspiration and very ahead of the Christmas season. 🙂 I promised a second…
Our first Sugar Maple Farmhouse Christmas
While so much of my energy has been focused on the barn this year and then the outside area in the spring, it’s sometimes easy to forget I have a whole house to decorate too. This Christmas – before I…
Barndominium Farmhouse Christmas Decor
While Christmas may be over, we are still knee deep in holiday spirit over here. We have some friends and family coming for New Year’s and just after and they requested that we leave the farmhouse Christmas decor up so…
Farmhouse Christmas Porch Decor
As we prepare to mark our first year here at Sugar Maple, I’m pulled back into memories from last Christmas. It was a difficult holiday being on the precipice of moving the day after Christmas. We threw up the tree…
Farmhouse Christmas Kitchen Decor
In our previous house, decorating the kitchen for the holidays isn’t something that would have crossed my mind. While the kitchen was central to providing delicious holiday food that everyone dreams of, I’ve always seen it as more of a…
Woods and whites holiday tablescape
Growing up my grandmothers always had the most beautiful holiday tables. My maternal grandmother’s table was (and still is) always eclectic. With a big Italian family, holidays always had 30 people or more per celebration. We had nice table clothes…
Bacon & Goat Cheese Mini Popovers
When I was 25, I worked in corporate America at one of the leading fast food chains in the world. It was a grueling world, where my optimism, can-do attitude, lack of a MBA and youth were always working against…
Caramelized Onion & Rosemary Ricotta Dip
I could make a meal of appetizers. When I’m out at a restaurant, I like to order a bunch of appetizers verses a full meal. I love to taste different types of cuisine and experience different types of food. Appetizers…
Crunchy Apple Coleslaw
We literally live right off of a street that’s named for its abundance of fruit farms. We have fresh blueberries, pears, peaches and probably enough apples to supply half the country growing up and down the street. You can also…
Whipped Cranberry Butter
Butter is one of those condiments that’s necessary to me. It’s something that instantly can brings out flavor in food, you can bake with it, you can add it to meat, you can make it a sauce and perhaps best…
Perfect Instant Pot pulled pork sandwiches
Before fall ends and winter officially sets in in Michigan, I wanted to share one of our favorite fall recipes. However, since the lines here between our seasons tend to blur in the Midwest, I think you’ll find my Instant…