Living and writing in a circa 1840 New England Farmhouse with three generations of my family
Pumpkins are front and center at the farmhouse once October arrives. I use them to decorate the inside and outside of the farmhouse. I also love to create sweet and savory recipes with them. The simplest is one of my favorites: classic pumpkin bread.
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
This quick and easy buttermilk cake can be mixed by hand and will be ready for the oven in minutes. It’s as easy as making a cake from a boxed mix.
There are few recipes as versatile as a great sponge cake to have in your recipe collection. It can be used with so many different combinations of fillings, frostings, and toppings that the possibilities are deliciously endless. D
Can you ever have too many chocolate chip cookie recipes? I hope not, because I have a new one to share with you. I set out to create a chewy, cakey cookie with just the right amount of chocolate and these cookies exceeded my expectations. Read More
Crème brûlée is a recipe that seems so much more complicated than it really is. It’s a mesmerizing combination of smooth, silky custard topped with burnt sugar that shatters when you dig your spoon into it. It seems as if a little magic and a Read More
Raspberry is the flavor that marks our early summer here on the farm. While we grow an assortment of fruits and vegetables, the raspberries provide our first significant harvest of the summer. Every year without fail, our raspberry patch provides more than twenty pounds of Read More
Now you can make your own magic baking pan release spread to keep at the ready whenever you have a bit of baking to do.
