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It’s not always glamorous or clean, but at least life on the farm is entertaining, beautiful, and oh-so-delicious. Follow along with recipes, dreams and confessions, and garden growing here.

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With doors, I can do anything!

Last night, for the first time in over eighteen months, I was able to shut the door to my bedroom. The situation being our bedroom remodel that left us, for…

Beef Carpaccio | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

Coming back home changed | Food Travels to Sicily

After a grueling 28 hours of travel back home from Sicily, some of which (I’ll be honest) I spent crying, we arrived weary and worn back on our own doorstep….

The Art of Putting Your Kitchen To Bed

Traveling To Sicily | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

I’ll Take Every Morsel | Food Travels to Sicily

We left our farm at 7:03 AM. I remember the time precisely because Stuart sat in the car for a moment or two while the three littlest kids were waving…

Managing Expectations

Managing expectations has never been my strong suit. During the course of our basement remodel, my impossibly pragmatic husband Stuart was constantly reminding me to keep said expectations in check. Don’t…

Homemade Giardinera | Small Crop from the Garden | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

Small crop from your garden? Make homemade giardinera.

The harvest from the garden doesn’t always go as planned and sometimes we’re left with a small crop of odds and ends to deal with. The answer to a small…

Don’t waste food: eating and using bones

This is not the season for wasting food. Before we harvest all the meat from our homestead this fall, it’s time to use up the remnants of what is left…

The piece of me that loves something else.

The calendar and clock continue to move forward. May. June. July. August. I’m desperately torn between my darkened skin soaking up every ray of sunshine it can catch, while simultaneously, anticipating…

I learned how to do all of this.

It’s been 106 degrees here this week. Scratch that – today, we should hit 109. It happens, every year, and yet each year when the molten air arrives on the…

Homemade Gelato | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

Homemade Gelato: Got summer fruit? Make this!

I’m not sure why it took me so long to make homemade gelato. Thanks to my dairy cow, Cece, I’ve made plenty of ice cream over the years. But gelato…

Copper Cookware: Using, cleaning, and maintaining | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

Copper Cookware: Sourcing, Care, and Maintenance

The copper cookware post. The post that every single person on the entire internet has been begging me to write for the last decade. No? Well at least some of you have. I know…

This is all I have to show for it | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

All I had to show for it.

After the last dishes in the sink are scrubbed and tucked away for the night, at least at this time of year, I immediately scurry outside to the gardens. In…

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