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Sam’s room! Good times. Related posts: Katonah Reading Room Lunch at the Village Tea Room in New Paltz Goatherd Book Club: A Room with a View
Gorgeous! Related posts: The First Local Strawberries Breakfast with Local Strawberries and Fresh Goat Cheese from Rainbeau Ridge Farm All Local Supper: Scallops, Greens and Polenta Sour Cherry Farm Strawberries!
Lunch — and a podcast — today at The Boathouse in Ossining. (Listen to the podcast on lohud here.) Lobster roll. Delicious! Fried clams. Also yummy. It was my first time at the restaurants, so I took a lot of snaps […]
Time to see if our scheme worked. We will move the bees from the nuc to a hive body. Related posts: The Farm Gets a Second Hive of Bees Bad News on the Bees: We Lost the Hive The Farm […]
What fun! A grand time was had by all. Related posts: A Weekend with Boo A Fire on the Friday of Memorial Day Weekend A Quiet Weekend at the Farm
Our annual bike ride/selfie has been accomplished. Related posts: Biking to the Piermont Pier Annual Selfie: On the Rail Trail to Piermont Biking around Springs A Week of Biking!
Boo is here for the evening, and we grill burgers for our supper on the patio. Goat cheese and radishes from the farmers market: Bash Burgers with Bacon Jam! Cheers! Good times. Related posts: BGR: The Burger Joint in Mount […]
Swarm cells, brood. Quite a mess. Related posts: The Bees Swarm! Bees Swarm! A Second Swarm Our Bees Swarm!
I had a Friday off. The weather was looking good. I decided to call a few people to see if they wanted to do a pot luck. Then I called a few more. Next thing you know, we had a […]
My Friday off, and a bike ride. Interesting rock arrangement. Getting ready for a party, I decide to move the bees. Bad move. They keep coming back. In the end, we put the hive back and told people to just […]
A couple photos of our little athlete. Go Sammy! Related posts: T-Ball for Sam! T-Ball Team Pictures Forests of the Night Opening Masquerade Ball Celebrating Greg’s Birthday with Lamb Shanks and Polenta
We’re at Zachys, doing all the media things we do for a 12-week session of wine of the week, Mixed Case + audio and video. You know the deal! And this time, it’s one of my favorite subjects: rose! Here’s […]
A day walking around Ossining, and I discovered some very delicious food. Super great Jerk Chicken and one of the best emapanada I’ve ever had. Both are mentioned in the roundup of the best things I ate this week over on […]
One of my all-time favorite recipes, truly. It’s sweet, earthy, and full of umami, punctuated with just enough peppery parsley to keep you on your toes. Linguine alle Vongole Adapted from Esca. From the Food Network and Sara’s Secrets. 1/2 […]
The freshest sword you ever did see was from our fishmonger at the Nyack farmers market. Exceptional! Served with baby potatoes and a few spears of fresh asparagus (both also from the market). A fantastic supper. Related posts: Swordfish Supper […]
Claire turned five — five? — and celebrated with a tea party. Jane pulled out all the stops, with little tea sandwiches and cupcakes. The kids ran around, played dress up and had a wonderful time. Sam in her tea party […]
This bahn mi will change your life. It’s served, not at an authentic Vietnamese restaurant, or from a street vendor. But at an adorable (maybe even a little too twee) cafe in Katonah, N.Y. I present the Katonah Reading Room. […]
Trying, as I am, to be a more hands-on bee mom, I attended a workshop on splits, hosted by the Hudson Valley Natural Beekeepers at Rainbeau Ridge Farm in Bedford. I brought Megan along for fun, too! My friend Karen […]
A big hotel opening in Nyack: Time, a boutique hotel. Our story on lohud.com says the hotel could be a “game-changer” for Nyack, helping to bolster tourism with a cool factor (and a place to stay!). We were invited to a […]
How. Did. This. Happen? Four and a half years, gone in a flash. Samantha — and many of our neighborhood and Nyack friends’ kids, too — is now oriented. To kindergarten. She and Claire walked in to Upper Nyack Elementary School, greeted […]
An exciting new brewery is coming to Rockland County: Industrial Arts Brewing Company. Jeff O’Neil, former brewer for Peekskill Brewery, is the owner and brewmaster, and he’s getting ready to do some very, very creative things. He’s moving into a […]
The garden is coming into its own. Columbine! Currants: Patio bees. Ferns. Peonies. Related posts: Update on the Garden: Asparagus, Black Currants, Pears, Forget-Me-Nots and Purple Hyacinth Update on the Garden: Coreopsis, Columbine, Bleeding Heart, Ninebark Garden Update: Columbine, Peonies, […]
Another podcast recording, another winner of a restaurant. I can’t believe we’ve never been here; it’s a classic. Steamers, crusty bread. So garlicky and delicious. CHEESE-STUFFED ARTICHOKE! It’s such a throw-back and so good. Half rack of ribs. The signature […]
That columbine loves to reseed, doesn’t it? It’s loving where it lives near the pear tree. A little more over here by the driveway, too. And here’s where we moved our split. Since I am writing this post much later, […]
This year we were determined not to have a swarm. We split our white hive into a nuc box, and included some brood, some honey and some nectar, trying to trick the bees into thinking they’d already swarmed. Well maybe […]
A little secret garden in Tarrytown! We recorded our lohudfood Cast in this adorable coffee shop this week, and discovered a real gem at Muddy Water Coffee & Cafe. The coffee was great, the setting is cozy and there’s a […]
A few random pics. Crazy butterfly Sam: Broadway: A julep. Sam’s art: This looks like royal jelly to me! Related posts: Random Pics from April 25 Family Photos Random Table Beauty A Few Nyack Photos from Sandy
Despite a chilly, blustery evening, Bob fired up the pizza oven so the boys could do some pies for the fam. Pizza one is sort of like the first crepe or pancake you make. It’s never going to be just […]
When the matriarch of your family turns 90, you celebrate! Annie put together a party for Doris, who was the toast of the town. Everyone from long lost cousins to the mayor of St. Peter stopped by with well wishes. […]
Smoked meats, broccoli salad, family. A good gathering around Bob and Annie’s table. Sam and Reece painting. Greg and Mark: Smoked meatloaf (AKA Bob’s Midwest Sushi!): Smoked Flank Steak: Broccoli and Grape salad: Grilled asparagus, too: Jessica and Mark: Jessica, […]
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.
