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Back to Basics: Eggs Goldenrod (Learn how to make a white sauce!)

Posted on April 1, 2013February 25, 2018 by Kasha

Eggs Goldenrod? Someone please hand my mother a napkin. I'm pretty sure she just spit her coffee all over her monitor. You see, Eggs Goldenrod was a staple in my childhood home, and not just at Easter. It is a fabulous way to stretch a food dollar and who doesn't like breakfast for dinner? Why did my mother do a spit-take? Because this dish was NOT one of my favorites. Oh, don't get me wrong, it was the stuff of which memories were made - memories that I will relive with my darling boy every time he complains about the...Read More

Amazing Dulce de Leche-Kahlua Cream Cupcakes

Posted on March 29, 2013April 2, 2018 by Kasha

Because you can't have a birthday without cupcakes! I started blogging exactly three years ago in hopes that my farmers market customers would stop by here to find the recipes and cooking ideas that I dole out with reckless abandon each week during market season. Seriously, if you see me at market, you know that I will tally a sale, instruct workers, corral my child, zing my mother, and give a lecture on the proper care and storage of sweet corn all at the same time. Over the course of the last three years, however, this blog has undergone a...Read More

Springtime Dessert Perfection: Crepes Paloma

Posted on March 26, 2013May 22, 2019 by Kasha

It's spring. Which means Crepes, among other things. It's finally. Officially. Spring. Spring: the season of renewal and rebirth and clarity that follows a long mental and physical hibernation. It's that time of year when the birds start singing and the trees are starting to bud and we're rubbing the winter haze from our eyes with our fists. That's exactly the way I felt the first time I went to cook and shoot photos with my friend Amy Roth. I mean, I've been snapping pics for this blog for almost three years, but I have a LOT to learn about...Read More

Send a Friend (or two) a Box o’ Cookies!

Posted on March 24, 2013April 3, 2018 by Kasha

I want to take this opportunity to send huge thanks to all of my friends for sharing my FarmGirl Facebook page and recommending my recipes and site to your friends and family. As a promotion, I recently offered a dozen cookies to "Like" number 250 and the person who referred her. It didn't take long before those Facebook numbers climbed (YAY!) and two dozen Salted Cashew-Toffee-Chocolate Chip cookies were shipped yesterday. They stack like a dream in a wide-mouth canning jar, which can then be boxed, safely cradled in packing material. Have you tried packing in popped popcorn? It works...Read More

Leprechaun Kisses

Posted on March 17, 2013April 3, 2018 by Kasha

Happy Saint Patrick's Day! I'm keeping today's post short and sweet and fat-free. I'm guessing your holiday - because we're all a wee bit Irish on Saint Patty's Day, aren't we? - will include lots of Guinness, corned beef and cabbage and soda bread. As such, I thought a light dessert like Leprechaun Kisses would put the finishing touches on a day of indulgence. Enjoy! Leprechaun Kisses 1/2 cup egg whites 1 t vanilla extract 1/2 t mint extract 1/2 t cream of tartar 1 cup sugar green food coloring white chocolate, about 4 ounces, melted green nonpareil 'sprinkles' Preheat...Read More

Brown Sugar Coconut Cream Pie

Posted on March 14, 2013April 2, 2018 by Kasha

As you're probably aware, because it's all over the blogosphere, today is Pi Day. Why Pi Day, you ask? Because today is March fourteenth. 3/14. 3.14. Now I'll play the geek card: 22/7 represents the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of any circle and it's decimal approximation is the non-repeating, non-terminating 3.141592653589... Too much for ya, eh? That's ok.... me, too. Once I left college and stopped teaching all of that math went bye-bye. It's not, however, too much for my friend Kristin. Kristin is the blogger/photographer/mathematician that I met in photography class. Because she's the picture of...Read More

The Name of the Game is Perfection.

Posted on March 11, 2013April 3, 2018 by Kasha

Right? If the end result isn't perfect, then isn't your attempt an utter failure? It's either 100% or it's zero. Goose egg... Nada... Zip... Or as The Boy says, EPIC FAIL, Mom. I was thinking about this the other day when I heard the classic Billy Joel song, Angry Young Man. "I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight. I once believed in causes, too. I had my pointless points of view. And life went on no matter who was wrong or right." I don't know exactly...Read More

Soda Bread Knows No Season or Nationality

Posted on March 6, 2013February 25, 2018 by Kasha

"I don't know why they only sell it in March. Irish soda bread tastes good at ANY time of year." While walking through Shop Rite a few weeks back, I saw the buttermilk display in the milk case and thought, 'OOOH! It's that time of year - I need to make soda bread!' Apparently, I said this aloud and not in my head. "I don't know why they only sell it in March. Irish soda bread tastes good at ANY time of year." It wasn't an all-out request for homemade Irish soda bread, but it was implied, and knowing Fletch...Read More

I Love You, Honey!

Posted on March 1, 2013February 25, 2018 by Kasha

Especially when you're whipped with butter and splashed with vanilla. WHAT?!?!?! Where did you THINK I was going with that? Honey Butter! Slathered on a delicious piece of toast, of course! Compound butters are no stranger to The Farm Girl. This maple-orange butter was equally delicious on roasted acorn squash, baked sweet potatoes and wheat toast. I was in the mood for something sweet and remembered making a honey-buttercream to top a yellow butter cake. It was fabulous, but way more work than I was up for at the time. I had some Irish soda bread on hand so I toasted some slices...Read More

Baby, It’s COLD Outside!

Posted on February 20, 2013February 25, 2018 by Kasha

So warm up that kitchen with a simmering pot of classic beef stew... Says the girl who, up until about a year ago, didn't eat beef. Occasionally I'd eat pork, rarely chicken, always bacon (does that count?). Then something clicked. Perhaps it was having a very persuasive man sitting across from me at a restaurant table holding up a fork with a hopeful glimmer in his eye. "Don't you want to try some? It's DELICIOUS!" (more…)