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A look at the front garden, where the lilacs are finally blooming! The first time since we planted them! Quince, daffodils, forget-me-nots: Daffodils: Flowering quince: Lilacs: Stump Lane’s flowering cherry: Pretty flowers: a And in the back, Kelly and Jack […]
A fundraiser for the Hopper House, where we visited Kris at her studio. Afterwards, a leftovers supper of pork chops and bok choy: And a little Mad Men on TV. Nice weekdn. Related posts: ‘Edward Hopper, Prelude: The Nyack […]
Kelli and I celebrated our birthdays at the farm with mint juleps, double-cut pork chops and a fabulous birthday cake from Momofuku Milk Bar. Julep. (Recipe here.) We didn’t win the Derby, but the bourbon was good. Patrick and Kelli: […]
A few photos from one of our favorite spring outings, the Nyack House Tour. It happens every other year. (Past photos here.) Nice view from one home’s upper sitting porch: Mom asked me to photograph this cabinet: A style for […]
A fun Friday night in Nyack: sips and snacks at a new restaurant, an art opening and a nightcap with an old favorite bartender. First stop: Playhouse Market, a new food hall and gourmet shop in the old Tappan Zee […]
They’re so pretty when they open up, aren’t they? And the knowledge that they’ll soon be a fruit makes them even more beautiuf. Related posts: Sour Cherry Blossoms! Blue Moon at Sour Cherry Farm The Sour Cherry Harvest The Sour […]
We’re getting a new bed, with a new mattress, so it’s time to say goodbye to the super-comfy, yummy bed. The one where Samanatha slept between us the night we brought her home. The one where we’ve nursed flus (and […]
The weather was rainy and chilly, but we paid it no mind. We were going summer this Saturday night, even if it had to be indoors. Say hello to The Southside highball. The Southside 8-10 fresh mint leaves, plus a […]
Gotta admit Mel, that’s a good looking lunch. And al fresco, too! Related posts: Marbled Potato Salad with Arugula Pesto Leftover Easter Omelet: Ham with Arugula Pesto and Toast with Radish Butter Potato and Snap Pea Salad with Garlic and […]
The best meal — and the best show — of the season! Before Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Irene, Greg, Trae and I headed to db Bistro Moderne for small plates of pork belly risotto and superbly roasted chicken. Nice […]
Spring has arrived at Sour Cherry Farm. We’ve already done our pruning, and the daffodils are out. I’m thinning out the ferns a bit: Black currants are forming on the bushes: Blue Forget Me Nots: One red tulip is all […]
Some of the best casual, contemporary Mexican food in New York can be found at Toloache, a restaurant with three locations in Manhattan — one of them being extremely convenient for theater goers. Blueberry Hibiscus Margarita: It’s not rocket science; […]
How’s that for delicious efficiency? Related posts: Arugula Pesto Radish Butter from the Lee Bros.’ Cookbook Marbled Potato Salad with Arugula Pesto Sunday Morning Brekky: Eggs with Arugula, Tortillas and Salsa
Deji NYC, a fledgling restaurant that serves at Brooklyn Flea, among other pop-ups, came to The Parlor in Dobbs Ferry on a Monday night, serving such twists on American, Korean and even Canadian food as Poutine, Kimchi Waffles and a […]
Our Easter Sunday supper was share with the best of friends and family, and our table was blessed with fabulous spring food. Unfortuantley my phone ran out of memory just as we were sitting down, so I didn’t get photos […]
Easter Sunday: Church, Easter eggs and spring dresses. And Greg at church! A special day indeed! Isn’t it funny how the Easter Bunny comes while you’re at church and hides the same eggs that you dyed the day before? How […]
Another great winner of a recipe from TheKitchn: Asparagus and Radish Salad with Mint. Marissa and Trae brought the Asparagus and Radish Salad with Mint to Easter supper, and it was a big hit. Easy, delicious, and very spring-y. […]
Here’s a nice twist when you’re looking for a room-temperature potato dish: Instead of an old-school, mayonnaise-y potato salad, make this Marbled Potato Salad with Arugula Pesto. Make everything ahead, then dress it and serve. Admittedly, there are a few […]
We originally made this Arugula Pesto to dress the Marbled Potato Salad we were serving for Easter supper. But as it turns out, we’ve been spooning it over all sorts of other things now too: on sandwiches, on salads, on […]
We originally made these to garnish the Marble Potato Salad from “The Foothills Cuisine of Blackberry Farm” (Clarkson Potter) by Sam Beall, but love the crunch they add to sandwiches or as a garnish for anything from salad to eggs. (Photo […]
We have a beautiful cookbook from Blackberry Farm, which is not too far from our cabin in Tennessee. With a quasi-Southern menu for our Easter supper already going, we thought: why not make Blackberry Farm’s Deviled Eggs, which, according to […]
The second recipe in our Easter menu that came from The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern: Knockout Dishes with Down-Home Flavor” by Matt Lee and Ted Lee was a lovely straddling-the-seasons dish of parsnips (winter!) and mint (spring!). The spring […]
The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern: Knockout Dishes with Down-Home Flavor by Matt Lee and Ted Lee inspired two dishes for our Easter menu this year. One was this easy-peasy appetizer, which is terrific spread on baguettes or crackers or as […]
Near the end of the first act of Madama Butterfly, Cio-Cio-San and Pinkerton, newly married, sing a slow, beautiful love duet. At the Anthony Mingella production we saw at the Metropolitan Opera one Saturday night in April, the couple walks […]
I must have walked past Cafe Fiorello on the Upper West Side a hundred times, each one of them thinking: “Eh, seems like a has-been.” But one Saturday evening — Saturday, mind you! — when we found ourselves without a […]
A lovely little lunch: Leftover cedar-plank salmon with Balthazar bread with figs, hazelnuts and apricots. Really. Delishy. (The bread came from the Palisades Farmers Market. One of the joys about shopping locally in winter.) Related posts: Cedar Plank Salmon with […]
Cabbage. Red onions. Turmeric. Beets. They all make beautiful dye for Easter eggs, and it’s all-natural, too. And what a lucky discovery: the dye that was left on the paper towels as they dried? Made some of our eggs even […]
We’ve fallen in love with a teeny, tiny bok choy — smaller even than baby bok choy. Each piece is about as big as your thumb. It’s known as Shanghai bok choy. We love making it stir-fry, with a sesame […]
Before a showing of Kinky Boots, you can’t beat a pre-theater sushi meal at Kodama. Is the sushi the best in the world? No. It’s not fantastic. But it’s perfectly fine, and you can’t beat the location: right across the […]
Greg’s been working on his pizza dough recipe for a while now, and we think it’s pretty good. But when Sam Sifton’s article “A Little Pizza Homework” came out in the New York Times, he was still eager to try […]
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.
