hot cross buns

green beans

Dutch caramel cookies

Yes, there is a day just for eating and celebrating the joys of pie making: March 14. I encourage everyone to make a pie on pi day; or come to our pie class. I am celebrating Pi Day with an old-fashioned bright green pie that makes me think of spring. Grasshopper Pie has a chocolate […]

chicken piccata

smoked pork tenderloin, pear marmalade, spaetzle, angel food cake

By this time in February, the larder is empty from the last harvest. We’ve eaten all of our home-grown white potatoes, sweet potatoes, and green peas (which we shelled and froze). We still have some garlic left, but the cloves are soft and sprouting. What should we eat on these dreary days? Spaghetti Carbonara, of […]

Baby, it’s cold outside; time to use the dutch oven. What is a dutch oven and what’s the point of using it? A dutch oven can be used on top of the stove (direct heat), in the oven (indirect heat), and is pretty enough to serve at the table. Enameled cast iron is the most […]

fresh homemade pasta

caramel sauce recipe