Delicious homemade recipes
Making butter in a jar is a great way to make homemade butter on a small scale. We’ll walk you through everything you need to know about making butter from scratch and guide you step by step to making your very own butter. Pin For Later! This post may contain affiliate links, check…
Sick of buying ketchup at the store? Or maybe you just aren’t loving the store-bought kind, give this delicious homemade ketchup recipe a try. Ketchup is so easy to make, and tastes amazing! Pin for later! This post contains affiliate links, read our privacy policy for more information How To Make Homemade Ketchup…
French toast is one of our favorite breakfast items here at the cottage! But we don’t always have time to make it in our busy mornings between work on the blog, chores and who knows what else will pop up on any given day. Which means quick and easy is the name of the game- especially during the summer when we have to get up early to water the garden before it gets hot. Things like our breakfast casserole that we can make the night before and heat up, or keep in the refrigerator overnight like this delicious french toast casserole.This dish is super easy to make and so yummy! Not overly sweet, with delicious berries and cream cheese. This is perfect for Mother’s Day, back to school, or just busy mornings.
Homemade coffee syrup is one of those things that seem like they would be hard to make but in reality, it is so easy! Making your own coffee syrup to make your own delicious coffee drinks is a wonderful way to save money instead of spending crazy fees at the coffee shop. You can make…
Need a traditional recipe for Easter? We got you covered! Try this delicious and super easy Pane Di Pasqua (Italian Easter bread). It has beautiful colored eggs perfect to go with dinner or served with coffee in the morning before you head to church. Pin for later! This post contains affiliate links, for more…
These cookies are so good! There perfect to go with tea or coffee in the morning or just as a quick treat. The perfect mix of orange and vanilla and lightly sweet.
Our violets have bloomed in all of their purple-blue glory! I love watching them wash over the orchard, it’s so beautiful. We’ve spent hours picking them lately for syrups, bread and to be dried into tea. We wanted to share one of our favorite violet recipes in case you have a bunch that you don’t know what to do with.
We’ve been wanting to make these for years but didn’t get around to it until just recently. We were expecting it to be pretty hard but turns our marshmallows are REALLY easy to make and they taste AMAZING! They don’t burn like store bought marshmallows do, so if you like your marshmallows nice and chared I’m sorry but they are still really good! We made these when we were processing maple sap into syrup (you can read about the whole process HERE) over a fire (perfect time to make s’mores right?), it was such a fun night to sit around the fire roasting marshmallows and laughing.
This is one of our favorite breakfast treats! It hails from Hong Kong where it is served as a street food. It is super easy to make but it is sure to impress the most important guests. These taste light and fluffy, crisp around the edges. Sweet but not overly sweet. We serve them with powdered sugar and fresh fruit, but you can top them with butter and syrup, blue agave, you can roll them and stuff the inside like a cone with ice cream or fresh fruit and whipped cream. Or even make savory ones.
We love elderberry muffins! Here at the cottage, we grow our own elderberries but you can also order them online dehydrated. Many people use elderberry syrup to use as an immune booster during cold and flu season. We have our own recipe for the elderberry syrup and extract if you are wanting to try your…