Living and writing in a circa 1840 New England Farmhouse with three generations of my family
Molasses. It’s a flavor beloved or reviled. I adore it. I love it in bread, barbecue sauce, baked beans, and the old fashioned molasses cookies that I have been trying to perfect a recipe for this holiday season. Molasses cookies seem to take as many Read More
A batch of warm homemade cookies are pure comfort food. If those cookies happen to be snickerdoodles, all the better. The aroma of cinnamon and the delicate crunch of sugar that each snickerdoodle is rolled in before baking make them an old fashioned and delicious treat.
Biscuits. Just reading the word brings up thoughts of flaky, tender biscuits still warm from the oven topped with a pat of butter and a drizzle of honey. My mouth waters just thinking about it. I hear from readers quite often who have struggled to 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.
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
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
Have you ever stumbled across a delicious recipe only to discover that it requires cake flour? If you have it in the pantry, hooray. If not, you can make your own cake flour substitute in minutes.
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
The other day, my son mentioned that he would love to have jelly donuts for breakfast over the weekend. It’s a seemingly simple request with a delicious treat for the whole family. Unfortunately, his food request isn’t quite that simple here at our house. With 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
It was almost five years ago that I first discovered that I could create completely nut free baked goods in our farmhouse kitchen that had the delicious nutty flavor we were missing due to nut allergies. Our home has been nut free for nearly a Read More