Heartland Harvests

Enjoy the finest of farm-style cooking in your kitchen, no matter where you call home!

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    Pumpkin Muffins with Maple Cream Cheese Filling

    Soft, spiced pumpkin muffins bubbling with a luscious maple-sweetened cream cheese center and a crunchy cinnamon sugar topping. A cozy autumn treat! Why You’ll Love These Muffins Ingredients Pumpkin Muffins Maple Cream Cheese Filling Cinnamon Sugar Topping Instructions Tips & Tricks

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    Kale Apple Salad with Crispy Shallots

    There’s just something magical about a salad that’s crunchy, sweet, salty, and utterly crave-worthy all at once—and this kale apple salad absolutely checks every box. Made with shredded kale and Brussels sprouts, crisp apples, rosemary cashews, golden-fried cubes of cheese, and topped with crispy shallots, it’s tossed with a crisp apple-maple dressing that brings all…

  • Homemade Flour Tortilla Recipe

    Tortillas were one of the first things I ever tried making completely from scratch. Because at some point, you realize the ones in the plastic bag? They’re a lie. A chewy, shelf-stable lie. Real tortillas? They’re soft, warm, and whisper to your fillings: “You deserve better.” Making them from scratch is embarrassingly easy. Five ingredients,…

  • Homemade Hamburger Buns

    It’s 2 °F outside and here I am making homemade hamburger buns… It’s 2 °F outside, wind screaming like it wants to borrow your socks, and I’m standing in the kitchen kneading dough. Why? Because nothing makes winter feel civilized faster than pulling warm, pillowy buns out of the oven. These are not sad store buns that collapse…

  • Homemade French Bread

    French bread comes from the store, right? You’ve been lied to. That perfectly crispy, chewy French bread doesn’t actually come from the store—it comes from you. Yes, you. With flour-dust fingerprints, warm kitchen air, and a dough hook or steady forearms, you can bake loaves that smell like romance novel covers and taste like travel…

  • Homemade Strawberry Rhubarb Simple Syrup

    This Recipe’s Must-Haves These are the pieces that make this syrup shine. Nail them and you’ve got liquid flavour that spices up everything from drinks to desserts. Recipe Card Ingredients Note: Feel free to use 1:1 strawberries:rhubarb (total 12 oz fruit) if you prefer extra strawberry sweetness or longer orange-red color. How To Make Strawberry…

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    Honey Maple Pumpkin Bread

    Some days you just gotta bake. Some days you just gotta bake something that smells like autumn before you even open the oven. This isn’t fluffy cake—this is dense, moist, and packed with pumpkin flavour and sticky-sweet honey-maple goodness. You’re not making a loaf; you’re creating a vibe: cosy sweaters, spice candles, crunchy leaves underfoot—right…

  • Homemade Ezekiel Bread

    Homemade Ezekiel Bread Let’s cut through the hype: Ezekiel bread isn’t just some health fad. It’s sprouted grains banged together into a loaf that’s hearty, wholesome, and holds up to everything from avocado smash to nut butter without falling apart. This is bread you eat on purpose—dense, flavorful, and baked in your kitchen with intention….

  • Homemade Artisan Bread (4 Ingredients)

    Bread Beginners—Start Here This loaf is your gateway drug to real bread baking, especially if you’re aiming for homemade artisan bread. No kneading snobs. No fancy gadgets. All you need is flour, water, yeast, salt—and patience. Welcome to real bread. Why You’ll Love This Bread • No kneading—just mix, fold, ferment.• Only 4 pantry staples.•…

  • Homemade Bagels

    Homemade bagels are one of my favorite fall breakfasts and snacks. Listen—while everyone is busy tracing leaves and sipping pumpkin spice lattes, you can be here, right now, mastering homemade bagels with crispy crusts and chewy, golden insides. Cold mornings? No problem. These bagels absorb cream cheese and soup alike, hold up to everything from…