Sandhills' Farmhouse Table

    Cheese! Are you a cheese lover? Have you ever wanted to make your own cheese? Or are you like me - snowed in and bored out of your mind so you make your own cheese to pass the time? Oof...that was a mouthful. Well, no matter what your reason for coming to this post is - I hope you end up with a beautiful and delicious farmer's cheese/cheese crumble by the end of the day. You can follow along easily in the video below! @madmarymcleod  How to make “Farmer’s Cheese” or “Cheese Crumble” from scratch. 🧀 🧀  #cheese   #homemade   #howto   #recipe   #cheeserecipe   #snowday   #snowdays   #makeyourown   #cookwithme   #homesteadcooking   #cheesecrumbles   #easycheese   #easyrecipe   #family   #familycooking   #fromscratch   #cooktogether   #fyp   ♬ Natural Emotions - Muspace Lofi In this video, I chose to make two different flavors: Chokecherry/honey (to use as an oatmeal topping) Everything Bagel Seasoning (For salad toppers) Give it a try and let me know how YOUR cheese turned out! I

 Homemade Thick Chicken Stew This stew is SO good for many different occasions. Be it a cold fall evening or a day you just don't feel above the weather.  Instead of telling you a story about how this soup came to be...how about you make it yourself and come up with your own story! Ingredients: 1 Carton Chicken Broth (Low Sodium) 1 Can Cheddar Cheese Soup 2 Cooked and Shredded Chicken Breasts (I used leftover rotisserie) 6 Sweet Peppers chopped 1/4 Sweet Onion chopped 1/2 Cup butter Salt - pinch Pepper - pinch Garlic Salt - poke (little more than a pinch) Italian Seasoning - 1 Tablespoon is plenty 6 oz. Cream Cheese Medium Amish Noodles (Fettucini style) 1/4 Cup Parmesan Get Cooking: Melt the butter in a large saucepan on medium-high heat Add chopped onions and peppers, salt and pepper - saute for about 5 minutes or until peppers are tender Add cream cheese, stir until melted and mixed Pour in the carton of chicken broth, bring to a simmer Add in the can of cheddar cheese soup Add

 Black & Blue Cheesecake ~This post contains affiliate links~ Black and Blue cheesecake has an incredible flavor that will not only surprise you but will make you come back for seconds and thirds. Blueberries and blackberries. If you don’t believe me, try it for yourself! INGREDIENTS:  CRUST: 1 ½ C graham cracker crumbs 1 ¼ C confectioners’ sugar 5 Tbsp. melted butter ⅛ teaspoon salt OR you can buy ready-to-use cheesecake crusts in the cake aisle at any grocery store. FILLING:  Blueberry PRESERVE (not jam, not jelly, preserve) Blackberries - fresh or frozen. 2 8oz. Packages of room temperature cream cheese ⅔ C sugar 2 large room temperature eggs 1 tsp pure vanilla extract I prefer no crust and to bake my cheesecake filling in glass custard cups on a cookie sheet. You can eat the cheesecake with a spoon and you can add whatever toppings you’d like with the extra room in the custard cups. **Preheat oven to 350 MAKE IT: Prepare your crust or lightly grease your custard cups Stir

 Stuffed Bell Peppers ~This post contains affiliate links~ INGREDIENTS: 1 Bell pepper for EACH eater 1 lb. ground breakfast sausage (Sage flavor is delicious) ½ sweet onion thoroughly chopped into small pieces 1 jar of alfredo sauce 1 C shredded cheddar Optional: Scrambled eggs Chopped celery Chopped sweet peppers Mushrooms Chopped spinach BEFORE YOU START: **Prepare your peppers ~ If you prefer a softer pepper: cut top, scoop seeds, and drop into boiling water for 5 minutes. Remove and run under cold water to keep it from overcooking. ~ If you prefer a crunchier pepper: Cut the top, scoop seeds, and coat outside of pepper LIGHTLY with olive oil. DIRECTIONS: 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees 2. Brown breakfast sausage in skillet 3. Toss in chopped onion and continue to cook until onions are soft 4. Add alfredo sauce (enough to your liking) 5. Set prepared peppers on a cooking sheet sprayed with cooking oil 6. Scoop sausage mixture into peppers 7. Sprink

 Puffball Mushroom Soup with Lamb Recipe by Kate Cooper ~This post contains affiliate links~ This creamy concoction uses ground lamb, puffball mushroom, potatoes, green onions, garlic, etc. I want it to resemble the Italian wedding soups that are found in fancy delis. So here we go!  All of the ingredients come from the garden-fresh if at all possible. Even the garlic. This is a great fall/winter season soup because most if not all of the ingredients are just waiting to go straight from the soil (washed of course) into the pot! Improvising is always acceptable so use your favorites! Ingredients:  1 lb. ground lamb, browned  Olive oil  1-2 medium white potatoes, peeled and chopped - fresh in season from farmer’s markets  2 fat green onions, peeled and sliced thin – also fresh in season if possible  3-4 cloves garlic, minced  1/3 cup sweet corn   32 ounces low sodium chicken broth  1 to 1 ½ cup puffball mushroom chopped into small pieces – if you have no source for these use a container

~This post contains affiliate links~ Breakfast Scramble This recipe is something that I make almost every morning. It can be portioned down for one person so easily and takes no more than 10 minutes - which makes it worth making a hot breakfast early in the morning. Portion size will be included with the appropriate ingredients. GATHER UP: Olive oil Seasoned salt Mrs. Dash original, no salt added, seasoning Medium Potato chopped small:  *Russet or Golden, 1 per person Sausage Patty, chopped to bite-size: 1 per person Large Eggs: 2 per person OPTIONAL: Chopped onions Chopped sweet peppers Shredded cheddar 2 T heavy cream (scramble with eggs) START COOKING: Whisk eggs, (optional) shredded cheese, and (optional) heavy cream in a bowl and set aside Heat olive oil in a frying pan and add chopped potato Add seasoning (to taste) to potatoes and fry ‘til nearly done, stirring frequently Add chopped veggies if you wish, stirring frequently Add chopped sausage patty and fry ‘til done, stirring

  This is an easy recipe that anyone can do on any cooking skill level. Ingredients: Pizza crust in a can (Can be found by the refrigerated pie crusts) Cooking spray 1 lb. ground beef 8 Cheddar slices 1 cup shredded cheddar 1 T barbecue sauce 1 T Ranch Dressing Directions: (Images Below) 1. Preheat oven to 350. 2. Brown ground beef and remove from heat. 3. Stir in BBQ sauce and Ranch into the burger. 4. Spray a large cooking sheet and roll out pizza crust (Keep in a rectangle shape) and flatten as best you can. 5. Lay cheese slices in the middle of your pizza crust. 6. Spread burger mix over pizza crust and cheese into a single layer. 7. Optional: curve roll into a circle like a proper stromboli or just leave it a log shape...however fancy you want it to be is up to you. Make it a heart if you wish. 8. Sprinkle top of stromboli with shredded cheese and season with whichever seasonings your little heart desires. 9. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown and crust is cooked through