Recipes

Below is a collection of whole-food based recipes - many of which are created from our land’s offerings. The recipes taste the best when the ingredients are as local and organic as you can find them.

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Spinach and Parmesan Toast.

“Garden house”, as my friend Angela calls is, is a true struggle. While I’m bent over sinking carrot seeds into the soil, the interior of our cottage is somehow slowly…

Homemade Sweetened Condensed Milk.

Homemade Sweetened Condensed Milk I spend time each morning, at least a small bit of time, with a cow. It’s a rare day that my nostrils are not filled will…

Ham, Cabbage, and Apple Fry

I’m not sure when I became an adult. It could’ve been college (no, that definitely wasn’t it)… or perhaps our first child (probably wasn’t that either)… more than likely it…

Easy Sweet and Salty Pork Ribs.

This fall brought with it the harvest of two large pigs on the farm. Our larder and freezers are still bursting at the seams. I’m doing my very best to wade…

5-Minute Homemade Marshmallows.

One time I made marshmallows and there was a double boiler involved and that made me angry. Three different stages of temperature control and heating and cooling took place and…

Crispy Fruit and Nut Crostini.

Despite that fact that I’d rather be gardening, let’s face it, Christmas is upon us. I love the beautiful Advent season at hand, don’t get me wrong, but I begin…

How To Render Duck Fat

How to render duck fat. Once upon a time, a dear friend of mine brought eight ducks to Cottage Hill. These male ducks had warn out their welcome on her…

Homemade Pumpkin Puree

Sometimes I like to pretend like I have my life together. And there’s homemade pumpkin puree involved. I ignore the stacks of dishes with crusty food, the smell laundry piled…

Walnut and Parmesan Puffs

If you follow us on Instragram (@theelliotthome), you know that we’ve been baking Walnut and Parmesan Puffs AND that we’ve been in “Porklandia” for the past week and a half….

Homemade Chicken and Dumplings.

I had to make homemade chicken and dumplings. Because as if overnight (and I’m keen to think that’s how it happened) it would seem as if the season has changed. …

Bread with Chocolate

Anxiety hits the best of us. Bread with chocolate helps that. In the depths of my anxiety, and at the peaks of my joyous moments, I continually find myself gliding…

Caramelized Peaches with Mint & Almonds.

These caramelized peaches were so good the first time I made them, I had to make them again to just make sure they were as awesome as I thought they were. I…

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