Farm to Table recipes and Homemade Natural Living
Learn how to make tasty chicken tortilla soup recipe for a comforting and delicious dinner all year round! This soup doesn’t taste or feel heavy; with the sour cream, lime juice, cilantro, and tortilla chips or tortilla strips it actually tastes like taco in a bowl of soup. I love that the chicken just shreds off your fork, and I can throw all the ingredients in the pot so there’s less to clean up.
It is summer at the homestead and we’re starting to get our first tomato blooms. One of my favorite things to do in the summertime is make tomato soup! This delicious, creamy, and simple tomato soup recipe is healthy and so easy to make. You will want to start a garden just so you can eat soup all summer long!
Once again, the cast iron saves the day. What I love about cast iron steaks is you can use a meat thermometer to control how well done the steak is, and you can keep flipping for your desired crispy-ness. Learn how to make cast iron steak so next time it’s raining out you don’t have to go BBQ!
Learn how to make spaghetti squash so you have a sneaky way to eat more vegetables and less processed grain. It may look complicated, but I can promise you it’s no more difficult than frying an egg (and yes, I still break yolks sometimes too 🙂
You know I’ve dreamt of being a farm to table girl almost my whole life, so the first time we bought a quarter cow was ever so exciting. It’s the best meat, from cows fed in your area, from farmers you can actually talk to. In this post I go into all the details about the benefits of buying local, how you can find the best meat near you, and what our quarter cow unload looked like. Oh, and I share 9 ways to start homesteading in the city. Thanks for stopping by the farmhouse!
The perfect pot roast falls off the bone, is juicy and tender, and melts in your mouth. We love roasts here at the homestead. There is something so satisfying about putting your meat, veggies, and bone broth in one pot and letting it sit for several hours while you work or do other errands. And then coming back to a delicious meal. It’s almost like you did no work at all! This perfect pot roast recipe has everything you need to get that fall-off-the-bone, tender juicy meat for you and your family.
One of my favorite parts about spring is the whole brunch idea! You can enjoy brunch any time of year, but spring seems to be a popular time for brunch. I just think of going to church on Easter Sunday and then coming home and enjoying brunch with a mimosa. Or Christmas Day, because we eat cookies early in the morning so the hearty brunch follows later. Even if it’s just your average Sunday, brunch is always a good idea. Your whole family will love this brunch menu!
To kick off the spring season, we hosted a family brunch. So I got the table ready in the most simple form, like I normally do. Fresh flowers (tulips!), a beige and lavender table runner handmade by a local farm to us, and a sweet simple plate setting. I have this way of folding napkins that I really like. You basically take a square cloth napkin and fold it in half twice to form a triangle, and then tuck both corners inward (see tutorial below). Then you have the option of adding silverware, small flowers, or in this case I added some Easter straw “bedding” for spring. I couldn’t wait for my family to come over and see our spring brunch table!
There is always that one night per week that I want to put something really easy in the oven so that I can walk away, come back and it’ll be ready to eat. That meal for us is this roasted chicken dinner. I actually look forward to the day each week that I get to make this roasted chicken. The only reason I think that we don’t make it more often is just so that we don’t get tired of it. I would totally make this every day if I could! Over the years I’ve gone from making just a simple roasted chicken to making a whole chicken dinner in the same pan. I’m sure you and your family will enjoy this roasted chicken recipe for years to come.
Homemade lasagna is rich and filling, but with the freshness of spring and summer veggie flavors. Use up your fresh parsley, zucchini, lasagna noodles, farm fresh meat, and cheese in this delicious lasagna recipe the whole family will love.
