Sliced Radish Tartine

Sliced Radish Tartine

It’s been raining for days on end here at 1840 Farm.  I know that we desperately needed the rain.  I know that it is technically spring or as we like to call it in New England:  mud season.  None of that matters.  I still don’t Read More

Grilled Cheese for Everyone

The World English Dictionary defines the word sandwich as a noun meaning “two or more slices of bread, usually buttered, with a filling of meat, cheese, etc.”  It’s hard for me to argue.  I’ve been eating sandwiches for a long time and most versions stay Read More

Red, Wine, and Blue All Over Grilled Cheese Sandwich

I have been making Caramelized Onion and Red Wine Jam for several years.  It makes a lovely accompaniment to a cheese course or topping for a gourmet grilled cheese sandwich.  It is also perfect for gift giving and one of my most requested recipes. Once Read More

Sunrise Grilled Cheese Breakfast Sandwich

Sunrise Grilled Cheese Breakfast Sandwich

If you have read a few of my recipes, then you may have correctly deduced that I like to tinker.  I find it incredibly difficult to leave a recipe as I found it. I have had great successes.  A vegan brioche loaf made without eggs Read More

Mocha Bread

Mocha Bread

I think that by now it may be painfully obvious that I love to cook and bake.  What may not be so obvious is my extreme tendency to try and make something less than ordinary into something extraordinary.  My complete inability to leave well enough Read More

Espresso Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies

Espresso Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies

I wish that I could take the credit for this recipe.  If you believed that I had dreamt this cookie batter up in our farmhouse kitchen, I might be elevated to genius status in the opinion of my readers.  Alas, I did not create this Read More

Peppermint Humbugs

For anyone who needs a little inspiration in the holiday baking department, may I suggest an 1840 Farm favorite?  How about a few peppermint humbugs? Originally posted December 9, 2010 Bah, humbug.  It just hasn’t seemed like the holidays here at 1840 Farm this year.  Read More

Coconut Macaroons

Coconut Macaroons

These toasted coconut macaroons are delicious with a cup of coffee or pot of tea. They’re so simple to make and can be in the oven in minutes.

Cookie Memories – Chocolate Malt Crinkle Cookies

Cookie Memories – Chocolate Malt Crinkle Cookies

We have been baking a lot of cookies lately.  No one here at 1840 Farm seems to mind.  So far we’ve had chocolate crinkles, chocolate mint meltaways, oatmeal white chocolate chip, coconut macaroons, espresso chocolate chip shortbread, and Mr.1840 Farm’s famous chocolate chip.  When I Read More

Roasted Heirloom Tomato Tart

There are certain foods that scream summer to me.  At the very top of the list is my beloved heirloom tomato.  I long ago confessed my deep-rooted love of tomatoes, especially the heirloom variety.  During the summer, heirloom tomatoes take center stage in the 1840 Read More

Raspberry Crumble Bars

We’re deep into raspberry season here at 1840 Farm.  Every day for the past few weeks, we have found ourselves out in the raspberry patch reaching into the brambles to pluck the ripe berries and tenderly place them in their berry baskets.  It’s not a Read More

Clementine Marmalade

Clementine Marmalade

Sometimes Mother Nature really irks me.  This is one of those times.  We finally tasted the beauty of the spring of 2011 only to be pulled straight into an unending succession of rainy, damp days.  Then came heat and humidity the likes of August in Read More