Eat. Drink. Live.
Our tree in the front yielded 20 quarts — 20 quarts! — of sour cherries. With only two days to put them up into sour cherry preserves, we had to work quickly. We picked and pitted on Saturday night and […]
There is nothing like an apricot right off the tree, nothing. Eating one is like putting a ball of sunshine in your mouth. Apricots from the farmers market are pretty darn close. Not perfect, but a lot closer than what […]
Sometimes our strawberry buying gets a little out of control. I recently found a terrific strawberry conserve recipe to use those beauties up before they start turning moldy in the fridge. All it takes is strawberries, lemon and sugar. Combine […]
We only had a small harvest of currants this year, so I didn’t bother with all the work of canning properly, I just made a quick refrigerator jam that we ate within a few weeks. First start, the currants: Related […]
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.
