The Homestead Cook: Everyday Favorites to Celebrate Rich, Simple Living
Ebook
Simple recipes rooted in a heritage of family, food, and faith
The Homestead Cook celebrates tradition, simplicity, and relationships through classic recipes from a Christian family farmstead. These recipes—from appetizers and beverages to main dishes and desserts—are rich in flavor while using common ingredients to offer simple twists on beloved favorites. If you’re looking for a cookbook that will stick around in your kitchen, this is the one. It’s a cookbook to pore over rather than pick through; to savor rather than sideline.
With practical recipes, engaging stories, and beautiful photography, The Homestead Cook is rooted deep in rich heritage. Author Jody Bahler incorporates favorite dishes from her family business, The Homestead, a home-style bakery, deli, and gift shop in Indiana. Many of the dishes have been enjoyed around her family’s dinner table for generations—and now are ready to be shared at yours.
Appetizers and Beverages
Breakfast Dishes
Soups, Sandwiches, Salads, and Dressings
Side Dishes
Breads, Muffins, Coffeecake, and Rolls
Main Dishes
Sweets
Crumbs from the Table
Ten Ways to Serve Others through Food and Hospitality
How to Host Dinner Guests
About The Homestead
Acknowledgments
Index
The Author
“Jody Bahler’s The Homestead Cook feels like a warm kitchen gathering, brimming with rich, simple recipes and heartfelt stories that feel like catching up with an old friend. Every page, beautifully captured, invites you to make everyday meals with a touch of homestyle charm and love.”
“Discover the timeless essence of family, food, and faith with The Homestead Cook. Jody Bahler’s heartfelt recipes, steeped in tradition and crafted with love, offer a taste of cherished memories and the warmth of home. From appetizers to desserts, each dish invites you to embrace simplicity and celebrate the joy of gathering around the table. With its captivating stories and mouthwatering photography, this cookbook is more than just a collection of recipes—it’s a culinary journey to be savored and shared for generations to come.”
“Jody Bahler’s cookbook is a trove of simple, traditional recipes and wonderful stories that add to the cookbook’s charm. Surprise ingredients mean that you won’t find tired, same-old recipes either. The Hard-Cooked Egg Casserole includes potato chips, the Herb Roasted Pork Loin is finished with a cilantro cream sauce, and the Snickers Apple Salad combines crunchy apples and caramelly candy bars—just three of the many wonderful recipes you can make to please your family with something special tonight. Delightful!”
“The Homestead Cook is a wonderful collection of recipes that have graced Mennonite dinner tables and fellowship meals for decades. The rich and hearty recipes blend simple ingredients with good cooking and baking techniques to create dishes that delight.”
“Visually stunning, The Homestead Cook offers multigenerational recipes to satisfy your cravings for wholesome dishes while nourishing your soul with vignettes from the heartland.”
“My personal passion for the beauty of the commonplace finds expression in the pages of this cookbook. Eating food is one of the most ordinary acts of being human, a ritual that becomes a feast when shared with loved ones. In this beautiful collection of recipes, Jody Bahler has taken the humblest of ingredients and invoked the taste of home itself.”
- Title: The Homestead Cook: Everyday Favorites to Celebrate Rich, Simple Living
- Author: Jody Bahler
- Publisher: Herald Press
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781513814537, 9781513814520, 1513814524, 1513814532
- Resource ID: LLS:9781513814537
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-11-22T03:37:32Z
Jody L. Bahler is founder and owner of The Homestead, a specialty home-style bakery, deli, and gift shop, where she creates, tests, and tries every recipe. Family-owned by Jody and her husband Mike since 2010, The Homestead is one of the Midwest’s top fresh bakeries and has grown to two locations. Jody and her husband have raised five daughters on their family’s five-generational farmstead in rural Indiana.