This weekend, my Dad had a birthday and I have made it tradition to bake birthday cakes myself. I don’t bake cakes often (birthdays only, usually), so when I do… I want…
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Fresh Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Caramel Sauce is the most delicious cake I’ve ever eaten. In fact, this may be my MOST favorite recipe to date. I promise. Growing up, each fall when…
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My ultimate comfort food is any type of yeast bread (see: Simple Farmhouse Bread), but quickbreads like cornbread and apple bread come in a close second. This cornbread recipe was born out…
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Pork Belly + Whiskey + Honey + Curing and Smoking = Bacon Fantasia. Seriously, could life get any better? We butchered a pig recently, a Duroc barrow (Cookie Dough’s bro) and we…
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Sweet and salty Kettle Corn is our family’s number one, favorite snack. My husband grew up eating lots of popcorn and he’s passed down his love for it to the kids. A couple…
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As promised! The sticky-roll version of pumpkin cinnamon rolls. These were the favorite of my Dad. I snuck him a warm roll up into the combine and he took a mini-break to…
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I have been nipped by the ‘baking bug’ as I’ve spent quite a bit of my time recently with my family, helping bring the crops in for Harvest 2014. Time in the…
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Perfect caramel sauce is hard to come by. This sauce is wonderful for dipping apples, or for making a caramel apple sundaes. It comes together easily and pretty quickly too! Candy thermometers need…
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We’re deep in the heart of harvest time and as many of you know, that leaves little time to get healthy meals on plates at the end of the day. I frequently get asked…
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Plain and simple, here are some snapshots of harvest so far this year. It has been damp recently so we haven’t been able to get out to the field and harvest the crops… but…
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Cherry D is one special pig. She’s the newest addition to our small show pig family. When I win a baking contest, it is now tradition to buy a pig (usually a…
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It certainly doesn’t get any more “Iowa” than mac ‘n cheese dish that is made with bacon AND sweet corn. I wanted to create a pasta dish that had bacon flavor in it,…
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If you are a member of my family or have ever ridden along during harvest, you know about Tractor Trail Mix. I’m not usually one to post recipes that are THIS STINKIN’…
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Birth to the Kill Floor: 12 dynamic bloggers experience 100% through the #farmtopork Blogger Tour in NC. *I was a sponsored guest of Animal Ag Alliance on the #farmtopork US Blogger Tour.…
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Easiest. Craft. Ever. I love simple projects that will catch the attention of kids of any age. These ‘stained glass’ pigs are made from 3 basic items: construction paper, tissue paper and contact…
