Eat. Drink. Live.
I made a marinade of what we had in the house —limes, herbs, grapefruit, and a little olive oil and yuzu vinegar — and served with with swordfish and zucchini.
Our neighbor, as we might have mentioned, has some chickens. While Tasha and Shannon were taking care of them one evening, we went over for another look.
A short little video of our little ladies:
A look at how the fields and crops are doing as of the end of June. Blueberries are still in full force:
A beautiful Saturday evening for fried zucchini blossoms, rib eye with Korean spices and a Melissa Clark’s Twice-Baked Sour Cherry Pie. Don’t you think?
Breakfast at the farm this fine June morning: Ricotta from the Valley Shepherding Company, our own strawberries and local honey: More of our harvest, after the jump.
An intern at the paper, Colin Muldoon, brought in some flowers for both Karen and me after his time with us. Very sweet. And very pretty, too!
Beautiful and delicious. That is all.
Upon returning from Minnesota, we found many crops ripening. We harvested the currants.
Pretty much right after breakfast, Bob got started smoking some chickens and pork ribs for a lovely Father’s Day barbecue. Here’s the chef at work! More photos of the food and the guests, after the jump.
This is not the kind of recipe you’d typically find on Sour Cherry Farm. I don’t think there’s one ingredient that we could grow ourselves. But let me tell you: after one bite, you won’t be able to resist these. […]
With Angie in the house, we two cooks couldn’t resist making breakfast for the family. So we have: Scrambled eggs with herbs and cheese, candied bacon and diced potatoes with onions and peppers: Yum. More, after.
Our Open Days visit to Phyllis Warden’s spectacular garden in Bedford. Woodlands, a potager, a croquet court, wetlands… it’s all here, and all gorgeous. Here’s our tour:
For our Saturday evening activity, we headed out to Indian Island, a new winery that just completed construction on its tasting room and grounds. (Are you sensing a pattern here? Brewery, pizza, farmers market, winery? Well certainly Bob and Ann […]
And now, the Weber-Wendt families pose on the docks of Lake Washington after a meal of fried fish and burgers: Want to see our lunch? Photos after the jump.
I put this little video together about our Saturday morning breakfast order at the Mankato Farmers Market. Hope you enjoy. Photos of the market, after the jump.
For our fourth and final stop on the Mankato Historic Pub Crawl, we hit Red Sky Lounge. It is by far the hippest spot on the tour, but alas, we learned the least about its history. Instead, we heard more […]
The third spot on the pub crawl was a spot called Pub 500. For a long time, it was a gas station, conveniently located near a tire store (that’s still in business). Today, it’s a pub and restaurant, owned by […]
Our next stop on the Historic Mankato Pub Crawl was a spot called Blue Bricks.
Here’s one way to learn about this history of your town: take a walking tour — and have cocktails at the same time! OK, it was more like pints, rather than cocktails, but we learned a lot and had fun […]
On the way home from our visit to Schell’s, we made a detour to Nicollet, Minnesota to check out Schmidt’s Meat Market. This is the spot where Bob and Ann get goodies each year around Christmas time and send us […]
Schell’s Brewery in New Ulm, Minn. was established in 1860, making it the second oldest brewery in the US. (The first is Yuengling.) We went for a tour and a tasting on a beautiful Friday afternoon.
Jake’s Stadium Pizza — one of Greg’s favorites because of its thin, crackery crust and fun toppings, such as Canadian bacon — is moving to make way for a CVS. We were there on its last weekend in the old […]
After lunch, we took the car out to the prairie for some sightseeing and nostalgic visits to places like “the home place,” where Greg’s dad grew up. When the wind whistles the tall grass and it sways back and forth […]
We arrived in Minnesota around lunchtime on a Thursday. Doris had salads ready and waiting for us.
We harvested 94 cherries this year. We think next year is going to be the breakout year. If we can just hold on! A video of the harvest:
We took Grandmom out for an early supper in Piermont, and afterwards, we drove out to the end of the pier to look at the view.
The recipe for these here amazing baked beans can be found on this post here. I recommend serving it, as we did, with chicken and cole slaw:
The second sour cherry pie of the season seemed to work out a little better. I gathered the dough a little tighter and didn’t put quite as much filling inside. This sour cherry pie filling, by the way, is great […]
I must admit. The first sour cherry pie of the season was a bit of a failure. Not an abject failure — I was able to salvage it. But not what I’d been hoping and dreaming of for a year. […]
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
