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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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Come make supper with me! | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

Cooking what we grow. Let’s make supper!

This is one of my favorite times of year in the kitchen. Not because I’m not hot and exhausted from months and months and months of work, but because the…

Perfect Polenta | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

Here’s how to make perfect polenta.

We have an ongoing discussion in my house about grits versus polenta. I am, after all, married to a Southern man. Polenta (ground corn) is my preference and what I…

A year's worth of onions! | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

Growing A Year’s Worth of Onions!

What a harvest – after growing a year’s worth of onions, it was time to put them up in the root cellar last week. A lot of work but on…

Homemade Manure and Comfrey Tea

I’d like to think that this homemade manure and comfrey tea makes Monty Don and Tasha Tudor proud. It’s a marriage of both of their methods and gardens and I…

Cottage Kitchen Tour | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

My Cottage Kitchen: Your questions, my answers!

They questions have piled in over the years about my cottage kitchen. What’s that wallpaper? What’s in the jars? What appliances do you have? Where’s your refrigerator? I thought it…

Fermented Salsa

In my (almost) three years of running The Elliott Homestead Cooking Community, this fermented salsa recipe has become one of the most popular and most requested. It’s the only way…

Lavender Harvest | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

Here’s What To Do With A Gigantic Lavender Harvest!

I was blessed to pull a huge lavender harvest from our lavender bushes this year. Lavender tends to be a short lived perennial so my five year old bushes are…

Here’s how to perfectly sear shrimp.

I learned years ago how to perfectly sear shrimp – there’s a big difference between “blackened” shrimp and “boiled” shrimp. This, my friends, is the right way to do shrimp…

Homemade Flavored Oils.

Oh my goodness – homemade flavored oils! YES PLEASE! Today in the kitchen we’re making hot chili oil, garlic oil, and rosemary oil but the options are limitless!

The making of a garden pond.

On this week’s YouTube video I’m sharing our garden pond – over a year in the making! While there are still a few pieces to put into place, and the…

Beer Battered Fried Garden Sage | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

Beer-Battered Fried Sage

On this week’s YouTube video, we’re heading into the garden (go figure) and enjoying the herb bounty (go figure) and making something delicious to eat (go figure). I guess I’m…

A romantic stroll through the cottage gardens | The Elliott Homestead (.com)

A romantic stroll through the cottage gardens (with plant names!)

Come take a romantic stroll with the cottage gardens with me… and thanks to Stuart for spending many hours putting in the plant labels so that everyone can know what…

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