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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.

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!

Our Favorite Holiday Recipes from The 1840 Farmhouse Kitchen

Our Favorite Holiday Recipes from The 1840 Farmhouse Kitchen

Each holiday season, we turn to our favorite family recipes.  It simply wouldn’t feel like the holidays without them.  From the sweet chocolate crinkle cookies that remind me of my childhood to the savory tomato and onion jams that we will enjoy with our appetizers Read More

Dark Chocolate Butter Cookies with Stout Buttercream Frosting

Dark Chocolate Butter Cookies with Stout Buttercream Frosting

What can I say about a chocolate butter cookie topped with buttercream frosting infused with the flavor of a great stout beer?  The word delicious comes immediately to mind.  In the end, maybe I don’t need to say anything.  Maybe I just need to share 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

Chili Season

Here we sit at 1840 Farm.  It is almost the end of November.  The garden has been put to bed for the winter.  The leaves have been corralled into their leaf compost bins.  Well, at least most of them.  Summer is over and fall is Read More

Carrotoni and Cheese, Please

I’ve made my share of macaroni and cheese in the 1840 Farm kitchen. From the homemade to the (I’m sorry to say) character-shaped pasta shapes in cheese sauce the color of a dayglo orange construction cone.

Roasted Eggplant Lasagna

I have always liked eggplant. Problem is, I have always disliked the way it was prepared. I never understood the point of covering it in a coating of breadcrumbs an inch thick and then frying it in oil. What ended up on my plate tasted of oil and stale bread without even a hint of the eggplant lying in repose underneath.