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Mushroom Toast

Mushroom Toast

This recipe isn’t fancy, but don’t let its simplicity fool you. Mushroom toast is so flavorful and astonishingly easy to make.

Pumpkin Bread

Pumpkin Bread

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.

Easy Instant Pot Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Easy Instant Pot Mashed Sweet Potatoes

Making mashed sweet potatoes isn’t difficult, but it’s even easier to make Instant Pot mashed sweet potatoes. Let your Instant Pot do all the work and move straight to enjoying the yummy mashed sweet potatoes on your dinner plate.

Quick and Easy Buttermilk Cake

Quick and Easy Buttermilk Cake

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.

Creamed Corn with Fresh Dill

Creamed Corn with Fresh Dill

This creamed corn is one of my favorite ways to serve fresh corn. It’s simple and uncomplicated, all about the natural deliciousness of corn and dill. It’s spectacular.

Rustic Bread Baked in a Cast Iron Skillet

Rustic Bread Baked in a Cast Iron Skillet

Most no knead bread recipes require a covered Dutch oven pan for baking. Not this one. You can make a delicious loaf of rustic bread baked in a cast iron skillet without any special tools, ingredients, or equipment.

Barbecue Baked Beans

Barbecue Baked Beans

As a child growing up in Kansas City, barbecue baked beans were always on a plate with barbecue meals. As an adult living in New England, the beans are a bit different but no less prominent on dinner plates.

Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes

Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes

When it comes to breakfast, there are few recipes more popular than buttermilk pancakes here at the farmhouse.  Everyone in the family loves to eat them almost as much as I love to make them. When I announce that pancakes are what’s for breakfast, lunch, Read More

The Secret to Making Meringue

The Secret to Making Meringue

more about technique and patience than anything else.

Pork and Kimchi Wonton Soup

Pork and Kimchi Wonton Soup

Earlier this fall, I was invited by JSL Foods to enter the Twin Dragon Asian Wrapper Blogger Recipe Challenge. I love to create new recipes, so it didn’t take me long to join the challenge. Within a week, a package arrived at the farmhouse filled Read More

Bierock (Ground Beef and Cabbage) Eggrolls with Dill Sauce

Bierock (Ground Beef and Cabbage) Eggrolls with Dill Sauce

Thanksgiving is the season for leftovers.  While many people dread leftovers, I rather enjoy them.  Growing up as an only child, we almost always had leftovers from the previous night’s dinner.  They were a welcome night off from cooking dinner after a long day. When Read More

Bierock Skillet – Ground Beef and Cabbage

Bierock Skillet – Ground Beef and Cabbage

I have a grand assortment of food memories from my childhood.  Both of my grandmothers loved to cook and bake and many of those memories involve dishes they made.  Somewhere near the top of the list is my paternal grandmother’s bierock.