Heirloom Tomato Bruschetta with Basil
In the early days of writing this blog, I shared a recipe for traditional tomato bruschetta. It’s a family favorite during heirloom tomato season here …
Raspberry Pie
I adore fresh pie. I love to make it as much as I love to enjoy a slice with my family. One bite of a …
Oven Baked Polenta with Heirloom Tomato Sauce
Several months ago, I was invited to participate in The Grain Mill Wagon Challenge sponsored by The WonderMill Company. As a participant, I was sent …
Bourbon Peach Pie with Brown Sugar Topping
Pie was among the first recipes I taught myself to make. I was in junior high when I finally mastered pie making. It had taken …
Great Grandma’s Daffodil Cake
Angel food cake was one of the first recipes that I taught myself to bake. I was around twelve years old when I first separated …
Chocolate Cupcakes with Strawberry Buttercream Frosting
There’s something about the flavor combination of chocolate and strawberry that seems perfect for Valentine’s Day, or any day for that matter, We do our …
Smoked Cheddar Gougères
It’s time for me to face the facts: fall is here. The air is unmistakably crisp, the summer garden is dwindling, and leaves are beginning …
Chocolate Chip Gooey Butter Cake
Legend has it that Gooey Butter Cake happened by way of a baker’s accident. The story places a German baker in or around St. Louis …
Heirloom Tomato Profile: German Johnson
The German Johnson Heirloom Tomato is a potato leaf variety of tomato plant with an indeterminate growing habit. It produces large, round, Beefsteak shaped fruit …
Refrigerator Dill Pickles
If cucumbers are being harvested from the garden at 1840 Farm, then you will find multiple jars of refrigerator dill pickles chilling in our fridge. …
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 …
Ciao, Summer
It’s official. It’s fall. I know, I know. I’m supposed to embrace this change. I should get out my favorite sweater, go apple picking, and buy a pumpkin. I don’t want to. Instead, I want to invite summer to stay a while longer. I want to thumb my nose at Mother Nature. I want her to understand in no uncertain terms that she can keep her beautiful foliage if I can keep my tomato patch a while longer.
