As much as it may look like we have a magical farm life where we eat fresh food from the garden, and the kids play outside all the time and work of craft projects, the truth is we are a…
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…
Homemade Vegetable Soup recipe
After every holiday – year round – I always feel like I need to step back and reset my body with food. Whether it’s Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, New Years, Memorial Day weekend, the 4th of July, etc. “celebrating” to me…
Free Kitchen Conversion Chart printable
Math has never been my strong suit. So when I’m creating recipes or doubling them or halving them, it helps to have this handy dandy Kitchen Conversion chart printable hanging in my kitchen. Sometimes it’s tough to calculate all the…
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…
Savory Turkey Soup recipe
When I was younger, we would all go over to my grandma’s the day after Thanksgiving – even if we had just been there for the holiday – to eat the leftovers. I’m fairly sure many members of my family…
Homemade cranberry sauce
Cranberries and have traditionally been one of those holiday dishes that I would pass on. Growing up I thought they were much too tart. They always seemed to get in the way of the delicious, savory foods like stuffing and…
Pumpkin Cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
Are you a pumpkin person? I am. Frankly, I don’t need it to be a certain season to eat pumpkin. I’m the kind of girl who could happily eat it year-round and savor each bite of it. Each bit of…
Creamy Zucchini Soup
This is the time of year when my garden always goes from quaint, farmhouse garden to the jungle from Jumanji. All the vegetables are expanding and pushing out of their little spaces into the aisles and encroaching on each other….
Mini Blackberry Lavender & Lemon Icebox Cake
Summer can often feel too humid, too hot and too busy to fit in a meal. Here it’s been in the 90’s for weeks and the humidity has been intense. You start sweating the second you walk out the door,…
Homemade Blueberry Danish
I’m not a big breakfast person, but I am a big coffee-at-3-p.m.-with-a-side-of-something-sweet-person. When I can get it and let myself indulge, one of my favorite things to have with my coffee is sweet, flakey, buttery Blueberry Danish. It’s funny how…
