Prepare yourself. December is shaping up to be a month full of cookies here at 1840 Farm. I will make no apologies for tempting you with photos of decadent looking cookie treats in the coming weeks. I will not shy away from posting recipes for batches of cookie dough that involve Julia Child-like quantities of butter. Consider yourself warned.
There are certain foods that scream summer to me. At the very top of the list is my beloved heirloom tomato. I long ago confessed …
Heirloom tomato, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways starting with the first ripe Purple Calabash of 2011.
Two words: heirloom tomatoes. I will freely admit to being giddy this morning. Why? I have spotted the first ripening heirloom tomatoes in our greenhouse. …
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 …
Sometimes Mother Nature really irks me. This is one of those times. We finally tasted the beauty of the spring of 2011 only to be …
Life here at 1840 Farm can get pretty dirty. Spring has only been here for a few weeks, yet the never-ending trail of garden soil …
Seriously. More snow? I am tired of snow. I have snow fatigue. I’ve already posted about The Winter of My Discontent. Yet here I sit, …
One of my earliest cooking memories involves my mother and chocolate fudge. I was sitting on the kitchen counter a safe distance from the bubbling …
Bah, humbug. It just hasn’t seemed like the holidays here at 1840 Farm this year. First, there is not a single flake of snow on the …
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 …
