Author: Amy Dingmann

5 Reasons Your Bread Didn’t Turn Out

5 Reasons Your Bread Didn’t Turn Out

There is nothing like a loaf of homemade bread to make you feel like the boss of the kitchen. But sometimes that bread you’re working so hard on turns out to be a flop. It doesn’t rise, it’s heavy as a brick, its consistency isn’t 

Cider Roasted Kielbasa and Potatoes

Cider Roasted Kielbasa and Potatoes

I need to share one of our favorite supper recipes with you. Cider Roasted Kielbasa and Potatoes is perfect when it’s cold and you need to be filled up, but it’s also perfect because it’s ridiculous easy. Like, so easy I’m probably breaking some code 

But Why Do You Call It “Farmish”?

But Why Do You Call It “Farmish”?

Have we ever really been formally introduced? I’m Amy, and I call myself farmish—which usually gets a lot of side glances and what exactly do you mean by that type questions. So I’m here to explain it to you—what farmish means, what it doesn’t mean, 

English Muffin Bread From Scratch

English Muffin Bread From Scratch

I love English Muffins. I love to toast them and then slather them with butter and peanut butter, because there is something amazing about how it all melts and fills up the holes of the muffin with the perfect ratio of awesome. So when I 

Honey Wheat Pan Rolls

Honey Wheat Pan Rolls

One of my favorite go to recipes for rolls is Honey Wheat Pan Rolls. It’s an easy recipe that gives you two dozen fluffy rolls, baked in two 9×13 pans. Honestly, I can’t believe I spaced so long on sharing this recipe with you. Because 

The Best Cookbooks Homesteaders Need

The Best Cookbooks Homesteaders Need

If I’m not in my barn or my garden, you can find me in the kitchen. When one spends as much time there as I do, one tends to have a few favorite go-to cookbooks within reach. Because of that, here are my current choices 

Homemade Egg Nog for Two

Homemade Egg Nog for Two

Let’s talk about egg nog. Homemade egg nog, to be precise. I’m a huge fan of egg nog. As a kid, one of my favorite things about the coming Christmas season was checking the dairy cooler during every single grocery shopping trip to see if 

Banana Bread… with One Banana?

Banana Bread… with One Banana?

Ever wanted to make banana bread, but you only had one ripe banana? I mean, can you even make bread using only one banana? Farm(ish) girl Amy is here to assure you that you can make banana bread using the mashings of only one banana. 

5 Turkey Butchering Tips

5 Turkey Butchering Tips

Today I share turkey butchering tips from our first time butchering turkeys, as well as updates and changes to our method in subsequent years.

Why We Are Homesteaders: 28 Reasons to Homestead

Why We Are Homesteaders: 28 Reasons to Homestead

Why do folks get into homesteading? What is it about the homesteading life that attracts people to it? I asked 28 friends about their reasons to homestead, and their answers were as varied as the homesteads they live on. Reasons to homestead: to live a simple,