My Family’s Favorite Thanksgiving Recipes & FREE Turkey from ButcherBox

My Family’s Favorite Thanksgiving Recipes & FREE Turkey from ButcherBox

It’s time for me to share my favorite Thanksgiving recipes with you. These are the recipes that appear on our Thanksgiving table year after year. I hope that you’ll invite one or two of them to your celebration this year.

Onion Tarts Made with Puff Pastry

Onion Tarts Made with Puff Pastry

This is my favorite sort of recipe. It’s simple, easy to adapt to what you have on hand, and can be assembled ahead of time. These delicious Onion Tarts are perfect for an afternoon snack or party with friends and family. I was invited to Read More

ButcherBox: Building a Better Food System Together

ButcherBox: Building a Better Food System Together

We’re proud to be a #ButcherBoxPartner here at 1840 Farm. Their products are of the highest quality and bring 100% grass-fed beef, free-range organic chicken, crate-free raised pork, and wild-caught seafood right to your doorstep.

How to Make Your Own Vanilla Extract

How to Make Your Own Vanilla Extract

A good quality vanilla extract can add so much to a recipe. Once you know how to make your own vanilla extract, you’ll never find yourself without ample supply in your baking pantry. You’ll also find that it makes a delicious gift!

Cookies and Cream Buttercream Frosting

Cookies and Cream Buttercream Frosting

This cookies and cream buttercream frosting is a delicious way to add flavor and texture to cakes, sheet cakes, or cupcakes.

Béchamel Sauce

Béchamel Sauce

Béchamel is one of the five French mother sauces. It is a roux thickened sauce that can be very useful when making cream sauces, cheese sauces, or milk-based soups and chowders.

Dijon Mustard Sauce with Dill

Dijon Mustard Sauce with Dill

I love the fresh acidity that a mustard vinaigrette adds to a bowl of tender salad greens. Toss steamed new potatoes in that mustardy concoction and you’re not far from the warm potato salad I make that was inspired by Julia Child. Don’t even get Read More

Celebration Potatoes – Cheesy Potato Casserole

Celebration Potatoes – Cheesy Potato Casserole

I don’t remember when I first came across this recipe. I only remember that I was taken by it immediately. The ingredients reminded me of a dish from my childhood in Kansas City where a bubbly dish called cheesy potato bake was often served with Read More

Brown Butter Shortbread Biscuits Ted Lasso Style

Brown Butter Shortbread Biscuits Ted Lasso Style

I didn’t expect to fall in love with Ted Lasso, but I did. He’s that guy you meet in some innocuous way. You like him well enough but don’t expect to like him so much. Yet you just can’t help yourself. He’s just so, well, Read More

Pulled Pork and Potato Hash

Pulled Pork and Potato Hash

When we sit down at our farmhouse table to enjoy a meal featuring Crispy Pulled Pork or Beer and Brown Sugar Braised Pork, I can count on someone to ask if there will be enough pork to make hash for dinner the next evening. I Read More

Peach Cobbler with Buttermilk Dumpling Topping

Peach Cobbler with Buttermilk Dumpling Topping

Ripe peaches are a sure sign that summer is rounding into form here in New England.  A few years back, our region’s entire peach crop was lost to a late spring freeze.  Local orchards found themselves without a single peach to harvest. It was devastating Read More

Crispy Pulled Pork with Brown Sugar and Cinnamon Spice Rub

Crispy Pulled Pork with Brown Sugar and Cinnamon Spice Rub

This recipe is a slightly different version of my Beer and Brown Sugar Braised Pork Roast.  While I love to braise that pork roast all afternoon on a chilly winter’s day, I try to avoid running the oven for hours during the summer.  The old Read More