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As of June 16: A horrific mess. Let this pass, soon, please. Related posts: Patio Update Garden Update: Blueberries, Apricots, Daisies The Patio Work Begins Update on the Progress in the Fields
We had some good eating and drinking on the porch Friday might, what with Irene’s brilliant idea to make martinis with pickled garlic scapes and then a good group effort on a salad with Stone Barns greens, eggs and berries, […]
My friend Margaret took these beautiful portraits of Sam. Related posts: Samantha’s Baptism Samantha Tastes Her First Foods: Banana and Avocado Samantha in Minnesota Portrait of Samantha
This photo got a lot of comments over on Facebook, so I thought we’d better share the recipe here, too! Yummy refreshing minty rummy drinks, after the jump. Related posts: Watermelon-Basil Mojitos Cocktail Recipe: Mint Juleps Gin Gin Mules Cocktail […]
What happens when you get a flat of strawberries and put it on the stroller to rest while you pick something else up? Well, if you’re a strawberry, it ain’t pretty! Related posts: Stump Lane Strawberries Sour Cherry Farm Strawberries! […]
Here’s where we are on June 12. Progress, I guess! Related posts: Garden Update: Blueberries, Apricots, Daisies The Patio Work Begins Garden Update: Coneflowers, Cosmos, Blackberries and Butterfly Bushes Garden Update: Sour Cherries, Blackberries, Currants, Asparagus, Alliums, Peonies, Irises, Columbine […]
We started by moving the bluestone. Then we just started digging. Related posts: Sour Cherry Farm Builds a Brick Patio
Chicken salad isn’t the most beautiful dish to look at. I tried to make it a little more appealing by placing it in the blue bowl. Nice bowl, sure. Doesn’t really help, I know. But trust me. This is a […]
The back tree, the little dwarf Northstar, produced quite a bit this year. And early, too. A few more pics, after the jump. Related posts: Welcome to the New Sour Cherry Farm The Concept Tree at Sour Cherry Farm Ready […]
For supper on Sunday night, Srimp and I headed down to the annual benefit for the Nyack Center, “Men Who Cook.” We had a ball trying all the different dishes — well, I did, anyway: she had milk. Here’s a […]
Making your own maraschino cherries couldn’t be simpler. And besides, who wants all that sugar and food coloring and preservatives when you can just have cherries and booze! Related posts: Recipe: Watermelon Rind Pickles Recipe: Franklin’s Espresso BBQ Sauce Recipe: […]
The cherries came early this year. We probably could have picked some of them the first of June, even! Here’s a look on the 6th: And here’s a little sour cherry, too! Related posts: The Sour Cherry Harvest The First […]
Hanging out in bed after watching “The Muppets” together and having a little nap. Related posts: Baby Shower No. 1: At the Ranch Happy Sam! Happy Hour at Pub 500 Snacks for a New Baby
And blueberry vinaigrette! A good cooking for one meal, I’d say! Sam thinks so, too. Related posts: Chappaqua Farmers Market: Duck, Yogurt, Greens and Sweets Farmers Market Loot Shopping in Palisades: the Market and the Farmers Market Farmers Market Loot
A couple years back, we lost power to the garage. Turns out, the line had corroded. Time to put in a new one. In order to do so, we got the biggest piece of machinery yet seen at the farm: […]
We normally try to wait until July 4th weekend to put in the air conditioners. But the weather was truly unbearable, and, well, we had a little srimp to think about, too. Related posts: Chicken Pot Pie on New Year’s […]
The temperature hovering around 90 with almost 100 percent humidity. Well isn’t that a fine how-do-you-do-to summer? We still didn’t have the air conditioners in, but we did have a fan or two. We plugged one in to an extension […]
Liz originally found a similar recipe in Gourmet while lying on the beach on Long Beach Island. Greg immediately rose from his chair on the sand and proceeded to buy a melon, slice it up and throw it in the […]
Strawberries grown just outside the fields of Sour Cherry Farm on Stump Lane: Stump Lane is really Tasha and Shannon’s place; we call it that because between our house and theirs, we have, so far, three stumps. The mulberry tree; […]
After a whole day of cooking brisket, I lit the coals one last time to grill some dogs. In today’s edition of Cooking for One, I present: Grilled hot dogs with toasted buns, watermelon salad with cumin and sea salt, […]
Even though I grew up in Texas, the first time I can remember having watermelon rind pickles was at Fatty Crab in Manhattan. And I remembered really really loving them. And so when I was paging through Texas Eats — […]
Frankin BBQ used to be in a trailer that shared a parking lot with a coffee roaster. An espresso barbecue sauce was a natural. From Texas Eats by Robb Walsh. Frankin’s Espresso BBQ Sauce Makes about 7 cups. 4 cups […]
SCF fans may remember our trip to Franklin Barbecue back in 2010. Well that little barbecue trailer has become the most popular barbecue restaurant in Austin, which is to say it is some of the most popular barbecue in the country. […]
Cooking for one this Saturday evening. An all non-local meal of CoHo salmon, corn on the cob from Georgia and potatoes from who-knows-where. The salmon, especially, was a big treat. Just delicious. Related posts: Cooking for One: Saturday Night Supper […]
Ram-bu-what? Yes, rambutans. A fruit sort of similar to lychee nuts with a pliable outer skin that has really ugly looking hairy but soft spikes. (Rambutan means “hairy” in Malay!) I discovered it on my travels in Asia. I loved […]
We happened to be out doing errands when a wallop of a storm hit the farm on Memorial Day weekend. We got about 2 inches in 20 minutes. That’s a hell of a lot of rain. Tasha took this video […]
Yes, she’s reached one of those milestones. She’s waving, folks! Related posts: No related posts.
We muddled the mint and squeezed the limes, and wouldn’t you know it, with a little gin and ginger beer — we had ourselves a highball. The recipe, from Audrey Saunders, can be found here: Cocktail recipe: Gin Gin Mules […]
Josh and Kris (of weeping fame) set Samantha up with all the gear she needs to start contributing to SCF. We need workers around here! Related posts: MoMA P.S. 1: The Talent Show and Weeping Back at the Art Cafe […]
Monica and James came over to introduce their brand new daughter, Olivia. Did we take any photos of Olivia? No. Sam? No. Monica or James, or even Monica’s mom, Cathy, who was along, too? That would be a no. But […]
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.
