Living and writing in a circa 1840 New England Farmhouse with three generations of my family
I keep this chocolate mug cake mix in the pantry so that I can make a single serving of chocolate cake any time I want. It only takes minutes thanks to the microwave which means that you’re only moments away from warm, gooey chocolate cake!
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
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
We have been living with food allergies here at the farmhouse for more than a decade. Peanuts and tree nuts are off limits, but we don’t let that stand in our way of our celebration of the seasons and the holidays. The candy parade that Read More
What could be better than a combination of rich, chocolate cream made from scratch over a graham cracker crumb pie crust topped with vanilla bean whipped cream? For a pie lover like me, adding shaved chocolate to the mix sends this recipe for chocolate cream pie to the top of my favorites list.
Boston Cream Pie has always been one of my favorite desserts. It’s difficult to beat the combination of a light sponge cake layered with vanilla pastry cream and topped with chocolate ganache. It wins on flavor and appearance in my book. Sure, it isn’t really Read More
I have long believed that any day can be made better with a homemade cookie. If the cookie happens to a perfectly made chocolate chip cookie still warm from the oven, all the better. While I make many different types of cookies in our farmhouse Read More
When we need a warm and comforting dessert, this brownie recipe immediately comes to mind. I’d love to take credit for baking them, but these are my daughter’s triumph. She began making them a few years ago and quickly became the brownie baker in our Read More
As a child, every Thanksgiving and Christmas was celebrated with my paternal grandmother’s homemade pies. She always had a collection of them fresh out of the oven, ready to mark the end of another family meal. I could always count on finding some sort of Read More
