Christmas is always a time to celebrate, even if it’s a little different this year. For me, celebrating almost always means special food and special drinks that you don’t get to have throughout the rest of the year. One of…
Delicious Mulled Wine Recipe
A million years ago – when Kevin and I were dating – we went to Christkindle Market in Chicago on a date. Even though I had lived in the Chicago suburbs all my life, I had never been. It was…
Sheet music Christmas signs
Last year I was on the hunt for sheet music Christmas signs to fill a space on the living room wall. Due to timing, sizes and an unfortunate bout of pneumonia, I never found what I was looking for. That…
Lemon Shortbread Cookies
Last Christmas Eve – our first Christmas Eve on the farm – the kids and I were making a Christmas cookies to bring back to Illinois for Christmas Day. We were making cut cookies and my Cranberry Shortbread cookies when…
Gifts for cooks
Throughout the years I’ve developed a love for specific cookware and bakeware. After making hundreds of recipes for my Instagram account @rachelquenzer and my old mom blog, there are very specific pots, pans, baking sheets and even spoons that have…
Cut Out Sugar Cookies
Cut out sugar cookies are a family tradition for us at Christmas time. I remember making them with my mom, my aunts and my grandma while I was growing up. It was always one of my favorite times of the…
Cranberry Upside Down Cake
I originally published this Cranberry Upside Down Cake recipe on my old mom blog in December 2017. But I love it so much. And, it’s made from scratch so I feel like it belongs over here on the farm blog…
Sneak peek: Farmhouse Christmas decor
It will probably be a few more days until I feel like I can give you a full tour of any room in the house for Christmas. But, I’m so excited to show you this little space in the barn…
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…
How to make dried orange slices
There’s a good chance that every year our Christmas decor will go more and more natural. As much as I am a fan of all the sparkle and twinkle the store bought things bring with them each Christmas season, I’m…
