Eat. Drink. Live.
Vegetarian supper on the patio, then a movie on the big screen with my niece, Lexi, visiting from North Carolina. On the plate, Alice Waters’ Ratatouille. On the silver screen, Far from the Madding Crowd. Not bad. Not really a summer, outdoor […]
Last year I told you that this ratatouille is so good it’s scary. This year I will tell you that it’s still that good. Not slimy. Not mushy. It tastes of summer vegetables: each individual one and all of them […]
So lucky to have tickets to see the best musical to come to Broadway in years. Lin-Manuel Miranda is a genius, and this show is all that it’s hyped up to be. Go! Related posts: Silence! The Musical Bloody Bloody […]
A backyard supper with good friends and good food. Burgers, curried cucumbers and corn-zucchini salad. And chips, of course. Gotta have chips. Bon App’s blueberry-pecan galette for dessert. Delishy. Related posts: Supper with Marissa, Graham and Trae […]
Just checking on the girls. No surprise, after a swarm in May, and installing a nuc in June, that the honey stores are not full. We’ll have to keep an eye on them, and start feeding soon if we need […]
One of our favorite summer activities at the farm: sipping Gin and Tonics and gazing up at the sky. This night rewarded us with a blue moon: the second full moon in a calendar month. Yes, you may sing now. […]
Today’s loot. Tomatoes are here! Plus: coosa zucchini, cucumbers, iceberg (BLTs are coming soon, folks!), blueberries, beets, monkfish, a leg of lamb, cheese-parsley sausage and two kinds of bread. Great loot this time around. Related posts: Farmers Market Loot! […]
We’ve been trying to sell Greg’s 1991 Volvo 240 for a few weeks now, and we finally found a buyer. “Just the kind of guy I was hoping for,” says Greg. Patrick, the new owner, plans to fix up the […]
We’re so lucky to have the talented slide trumpet player Steven Bernstein living right here in Nyack! It means after a big tour, he and his band can come play our little Friends of the Nyack Mostly Music concert in […]
My friend Carrie, the visuals editor at lohud and The Journal news, arranged for a fabulous event: food photography lessons by our talented journalists. We sold all 30 tickets and even had a wait-list! Here’s a recap I wrote for […]
Every now and again, while I’m enjoying my glass of rose on the patio, I look up and see a couple of funny things in our trees. No, I’m not hallucinating. Just using my imagination! Do you see a balloon […]
I’d been wondering about Cedar Street Grill in Dobbs Ferry for quite a while. I’d edited pieces by Megan and Heather on it before, but I’d never gone myself to see what it was all about. It was brunch. It […]
We’d never been to the Hudson River Museum! And with a weather forecast of nasty, nasty, nasty and Greg needing some time to finish some work at home, it was the perfect opportunity. Sam and I sat for a show […]
Little Yukons, fresh eggs from our farmer friend’s chickens, baby herbs from the garden, plus lots of mustard. A delicious potato salad, inspired by Potato Salad with Seven Minute Eggs from Bon Appetit. I love how the mustard and the […]
We have lucked into the best neighborhood. Since we moved in to the farm in 2002, there has been a complete transformation. (I’d like to think we were pioneers.) When we got here, lots of people had been here for […]
The Farm’s dear friend Tom celebrated a birthday, so we celebrated with him! On the menu: cedar plank salmon, our new Creamy Mustard Potato Salad with Herbs and Soft Eggs, and a delicious green salad that Irene made. For dessert, […]
The visit from the sister outpost is, sadly, coming to an end. The last hurrah was a delicious supper of grilled chicken and corn at the Ranch. We drank some rose, the girls put on a show for us — […]
Warning: there are an obscene amount of unedited photos in this post, so unless you have a vested interest (ie, you were there, I’m looking at you Kelli, Sarah and Boo) or you are very close family (that would be […]
The gang gathered at magic hour to drink wine, watch the sunset and discuss “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr. On this evening, however, it was all about all the light we could see. The sunset was […]
Clam Bar at Napeague has the best damn lobster roll on the whole island. Lots and lots of lobster. Just the right amount of mayo. Just a wee bit of celery, diced tiny. And a soft, chewy bun. Nothing better. […]
The kids dug big holes, built sandcastles and generally kept busy playing and swimming. That meant for us? Reading. Dozing. Snoozing. Reading. I read nearly the entire fiction issue of the New Yorker — including both Jonathans — and Sarah […]
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More fun at the beach! Photos from Day 2, including a nice portrait of all the kids! A sandcrab! Related posts: Photos from Day One of the Beach: Amagansett! Day Three Beach Photos: Amagansett! More Beach Photos! […]
Our annual pilgrimage to the East End, where we relax on the beach, read books, build fires and drink wine. As you should on any good vacation. Ya phank!? Little girl! The circle of friends: Sam and […]
OK, maybe frenzy is a bit hyperbolic. But after I posted this photo of the pecan-crusted blueberry galette we made from the cover of this month’s Bon Appetit, the likes just kept on coming! I got more than 400 likes […]
Jane was felled by a fever, so we had a sleepover with Mae. Samantha slept in the studio with her, and the girls had some fun hanging out in the morning with me. Didier for breakfast! And a quick […]
Good times down at the Classic Car Show in Nyack. Beautiful weather, super-cool cars, and a family dinner at Brick House afterwards. The Family Truckster, complete with Aunt Edna! A whiny child: Cool cars: I would totally […]
If the coneflowers are blooming it must be August. Except it’s July! Here’s a look around at some of the flowers in the fields at the Farm this month. I can’t remember planting this! But I’ve figured it must be […]
Right down the stairs from Dear Irving is a little Mediterranean restaurant, where we shared small plates, rose and lots of laughs. Funny sign by the bar: It was a beautiful night, so we took a table on the street: […]
At Dear Irving, a cocktail bar on Irving Place, the decor takes its cue from various cocktail eras, and works its way chronologically backwards the further back in the building you go. You enter into JFK-era 1960s, a Mad Men […]
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.
