Eat. Drink. Live.
An early supper at the Ranch with the cousins! Excuse the blur! Chicken, salad and bulgar salad:
Looks like we’ll just have one pie this year, but God it was a good one. A little change from my recipe: I did not have any almond extract, so I added Amaretto instead. I used about six cups of cherries this […]
Laurie, Sarah, Mae and Jane are up from Texas! And they timed their flight to be able to make the Tuesday night concert in the park. A hot evening: Lounging and relaxing: Cuties! Nyackians: The performance this evening was the […]
With such a small sour cherry yield this year, we decided to savor the little we picked, so we made garnishes out of our precious harvest. We found this recipe for pickled sour cherries in Cooking in the Moment: A Year of […]
What a sad, sad year. After last year’s nearly 20 quarts of sour cherries, we were lucky to get one small quart of cherries this year. (See Greg describing last year’s harverst in this post here.) Here is the lame, […]
No-cook pickles! Use for any vegetables you wish to pickle. Best part: it doesn’t heat up the house on a hot summer day. [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:3]
Pitted cherries, oatmeal and milk. A typical Sunday breakfast for the farm’s youngest resident. And in pigtails, to boot!
Sam is “helping.”
Everything’s coming in at once now! Currants, blueberries, cherries! Blueberries ripening: The first round of blueberry harvest! Yum.
The farm enjoyed its best harvest of black currants ever this year, with about 2 quarts. Our plan for the harvest: cassis! We will update as we make it. Previous black currant coverage here. And here on our archives.
Sam and I headed to the nursery, thinking we were going to get a few annual to fill in where the daffodills had been along the front walkway. But when we got there, I started thinking: maybe we need to […]
We’ve been making grain salads for a couple of summers now, and we’re converts. Yes, grain salads are the new potato salad. And, like potato salads, they are endlessly adaptable. Make grains. Make vegetables. Toss with herbs, nuts or […]
The weather cleared just in time for us to get to sit outside for what I’m sure will be the first of many suppers with our neighbors Jane and Pat. Jane made a terrific recipe of Greek chicken-cucumber kebabs with […]
A little Sousa, a little opera, a little Broadway. The Orangetown Concert Band, a 30-piece group, played the park on July 1, and knocked it, if you’ll excuse the expression, out of the park. They opened with America the Beautiful. […]
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.
