Kevin is a chocolate-on-chocolate-on-chocolate dessert kind-of-guy. He loves chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and if you can get a little more chocolate in there somehow – GREAT! He also is partial to having a raspberry compote sauce to run his…
Easy Homemade Soft Pretzels recipe
Years ago, Kevin had a craving for soft pretzels. He was so intent on having those billowy, soft morsels that he decided to make a special trip to the grocery store to find some. He came home empty-handed. Since the…
Easy Cut Out Sugar Cookies Recipe
These easy cut out sugar cookies recipe 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…
Roasted Cherry Tomato Salsa with fresh tomatoes
This easy Roasted Cherry Tomato Salsa is delicious and a great way to use up an abundance of cherry tomatoes! It’s a simple salsa with fresh tomatoes. What could be better? Save this recipe! Salsa was one of my…
Delicious white cake recipe with buttercream frosting
My daughter loves white cake and it really came as a total surprise to me. She’s a sweets girl. She even says, “Can I have some sweets,” which is really cute and one of those sayings that only kids…
Irish Soda Bread Recipe
I ate Irish Soda Bread for the first time about 7 years ago. It was this delicious, dense, biscuit-like bread that I slathered with butter and enjoyed with a good cup of coffee. A friend made Irish Soda…
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…
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…
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…
Caramelized Onion & Tomato Tart Recipe
Summer tomatoes are something every gardener waits for with anticipation – like kids waiting for fireflies and warm, summer nights with no school the next day. They signal the peak of summer, the abundance of memories to be made and…
Chopped Thai Chicken Salad with peanut dressing
When I first started this website, I thought that I would stick to creating food that was quintessential Americana. But, that’s just not who I am. In fact, I plan to veer more Italian and Mediterranean this year. But I…
Honey Ginger Lemonade
With summer headed our way, I’m getting excited about all the summertime food and drinks. Lemonade is the one quintessential summer drink that’s on everyone’s menu when the weather warms up. And if you love trying different varieties of lemonade,…
