Eat. Drink. Live.
On the hunt for Kewpie Mayonnaise and a few other Asian sundries, we headed to Hmart in White Plains for this week’s groceries. Afterwards, we had to have lunch, of course! Sam had dumplings. But she sure enjoyed my Singapore […]
Enjoying my new favorite book, Saving the Season: A Cook’s Guide to Home Canning, Pickling, and Preserving, a terrific primer on canning and pickling, while Greg plays with Samantha in the pool. This is summer! Summer!
A stunner! We plan on eating them out of hand and also making a cobbler. And the bushes are still brimming with berries. It’s a good year.
I think we can say by now that this butterflied smoked chicken is a classic at SCF. We’ve made it time and time again, and it never fails to impress. A brined chicken, butterflied — or spatchcocked, as some like […]
With this video, Greg talks about the sour cherry harvest. About 20 quarts were harvested!
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 […]
Except for a quick stop for a light snack one evening after a Broadway show, we hadn’t been to Wasabi in we-can’t-remmber when. Friday night we headed down for sushi and a few other surprises Doug had in store for […]
One of our favorite summer traditions is to head down to the Mostly Music concerts at Memorial Park by the Hudson River in downtown Nyack. For our first concert, “Youthfest,” we enjoyed Mario the Magician’s performance and two band: the […]
Our fruit is ripening! We’ve been picking blueberries and cherries. Currants are next!
A sweet little video where Sam and Hunna pick blueberries. Listen closely and you can hear what we’re joking is her British accent on the word “blueberries.”
Little baby tomatoes, fresh basil from the fields and fresh mozzarella from Dante’s. Let the summer menus begin!
Though we’ve been growing sour cherries for a bunch of years, we’ve never had a big enough yield to make an entire pie of all our own cherries. Well folks, this is the year. Not only do we have enough […]
Images of summer! Shivering shoulders, chattering teeth and blue lips. Check!
What started out as a quiet supper on the patio with Marissa and Boo turned into a party when Kelli and Patrick paid a surprise visit. Such a party, in fact, that no photos were taken after hors d’oeuvres were […]
Boo and I went for a nice walk downtown to see the opening of the Dorothea Lange exhibit at the Hopper House. On the way, we stopped for a little brekky at Didier Dumas. Samantha quite enjoyed the croissants.
As soon as I tasted the chicken meatballs at our blogger dinner at Harvest-on-Hudson, I knew that Sam would die for them! Here’s proof. She didn’t enjoy the stromboli quite as much, though. Too spicy! ov
Despite predictions of thunderstorms, the weather held out and we had an al fresco supper on the patio (second Sunday in a row!) for Father’s Day. On the menu: flank steak, beet and goat cheese salad with pickled onions and […]
A little update on a dish we’ve made a few times at the farm. This time, instead of roasting the beets, I boiled them. It was a LOT easier, and the skins came right off when I peeled them (wearing […]
SCF fans may remember last year’s joyous discovery: pickled garlic scape martinis. (Irene is brilliant, but we knew that.) Well we didn’t want to let another summer go by without repeating the success. We put these up on Saturday night. […]
Not too much to show, unfortunately, but we did come home with a bounty of loot: strawberries, goat cheese, a terrific pie, bread, cheese, tender lettuces, herbs and even a bottle of homemade soda. Good times!
A serendipitous supper on Friday night! Kris and Tom brought over salad from their garden, zucchini blossoms from the farmers market, cheese and salami, and eggs from their friend’s chickens. We put that together with our garlic scape pesto, Wave […]
We made this terrific garlic scape pesto recipe from food52 with scapes from the garden, served it with Lidia’s spaghetti and put a poached egg on it. Yowza. Garlic Scape Pesto 1 cup garlic scapes, thinly sliced crosswise 1/4 cup […]
Jean-Georges Vongerichten, you magnificent bastard. Dan Kluger and Ian Coogan, you conniving conspirators. The flavors coming out of the kitchen at ABC Cocina are astonishing. If you thought fusion was a muddled mess of techniques and traditions, this restaurant will […]
Well, folks, more than a year after we first broke ground, we had our first supper on the patio Sunday night. Grilled sausage, Stella’s potato salad and garden greens. It was a magical night! Yes, we’re going to have to […]
The first hot weekend of the summer and we knew: Sam needs a place to go swimming. Friends invited us to an open house at Oratamin, the club where Sondra and Leigh were members when we were kids. We ran […]
Sam, stroller, orange dress, flowered hat. Belle!
Before a performance of “Sontag: Reborn” at the New York Theater Workshop, Boo and I shared a few dishes at Gemma, her favorite go-to restaurant for when you don’t to think about where you want to go-to. It’s a cute […]
After a hot day in the garden, we were enjoying rosé on the porch, all showered and feeling a sense of accomplishment. Then, just about magic hour, a soft rain started falling. The light was soft and orange. The temperature […]
This is the best marinade for steak. The only one you’ll need all summer long. It’s got all the ingredients that make for a flavorful piece of meat: mustard, garlic, oil, herbs, peppers, citrus and two, count ’em two, types […]
I was lucky enough this year to save my blooming peonies before the first heavy rainfall. Because I didn’t thin the blossoms, many of the cut flowers had a very small stem. For those, I found a low, wide serving […]
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.
