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.
Author: Jennifer at 1840 Farm
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
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.
Grilled Romaine Salad with Tuna, Pickled Grapes, and Quick Vinaigrette
During the heat of the summer, I actively look for meals that I can make for our family table that don’t involve me heating up the farmhouse. The reality of living in a circa 1840 farmhouse is that there’s no central air conditioning to rely Read More
Rustic Dutch Oven Bread Baked on the Grill
During the summer, bread baking can become tricky. For starters, our days jam-packed with all of the activities that need to be accomplished during the fleeting days of summer. Another contributing factor is that the farmhouse doesn’t have central air conditioning. When the mercury climbs Read More
Quick Pickled Grapes with Rosemary
allow me to have a batch of whatever I’m pickling finished and chilling in the refrigerator in minutes. A few summers ago, I learned how to make quick pickled grapes.
Crispy Pulled Pork with Brown Sugar and Cinnamon Spice Rub
This recipe is a slightly different version of my Beer and Brown Sugar Braised Pork Roast. While I love to braise that pork roast all afternoon on a chilly winter’s day, I try to avoid running the oven for hours during the summer. The old Read More
Special Sauce
For years, I was under the impression that the Special Sauce on a Big Mac was just Thousand Island dressing. I was wrong. Special Sauce includes a special ingredient that makes it unique from Thousand Island: yellow mustard. Side by side, the differences are easy Read More
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.