Eat. Drink. Live.
One of our favorite annual events is the festival at the Russian Orthodox Church around the corner from the farm. The food is incredibly delicious: beef stroganoff, stuffed cabbage, borscht, and lots of other great stuff.
If you’ve been to Times Square, you’ve probably walked past this: Big glass windows that look out onto Broadway. The room is great for people watching, but not very comfortable. Here’s a little secret. Walk up the stairs and you’ll […]
Our little girl turned one. A few photos from the evening, after the jump.
Sam has taken to turning around to say hi while in her stroller. Hey there, cutie.
Maybe it was having the Korean chicken the weekend before? But I got some kind of bug, and we decided to have another bo ssam dinner. (The first one was in February, and it was really delicious.) Two big pork […]
Hmart is a great new grocery store in White Plains. It’s part of a smallish chain that started in Queens as a Korean grocer. They now carry all sorts of imported items from all different countries, but they do specialize […]
The evening after the snowstorm, we had a sunset to marvel at. There’s nothing like a November sunset in the Hudson Valley.
I live 16 miles from my office. The worst commute I’d ever had before this one was 1 1/2 hours on a Friday before Columbus Day weekend. This took the cake. The nor’easter hit just about 4 o’clock, when everyone […]
Wings, salads, you’ve seen those before. But here’s a new one: Samantha chewing on, well, I don’t even know what that is. Happy Election Day, all.
We like to call this photo “Voting on Hudson.” Sam at the polls: A few more, after the jump.
After Superstorm Sandy, Boo lost power. She spent a week with our friend Lisa. After the week was up, she headed home only to discover that though the lights were on, the heat and the hot water were not. She […]
Greg got a beautiful ham from our farmers market from Kiernan Farm. What goes better with ham than scalloped potatoes? Here’s how we made them.
Light, crunchy batter. Spicy, firey sauce. What’s not to love about Korean Fried Chicken? This is the second or third time we’ve made this recipe, which originally came from the New York Times. Since then, we have found that you don’t […]
A nice November morning, a spot of coffee in the brisk air. Good times.
We used to like bourbon Manhattans. We have seen the err of our ways. Now we only drink them with rye. Yes, for one thing, our tastes have matured. Bourbon is sweet. I mean, it has its place, certainly. Mint […]
A little lunch with the family at the new restaurant at the mall. The Yard House is a chain that prides itself on craft beer. And TVs. We were happy for the crayons.
Now that we’re back up with power here at the farm, here are a few photos from Sandy, mostly from around the neighborhood. We are so thankful that we didn’t suffer any damage. Our thoughts and prayers are with people […]
Two videos of our baby girl.
Well, this day had to come. The gates are up. And when Samantha is trapped? Samantha is crying.
When you think of braising, it’s usually meats, right? A pork shoulder, bubbling for hours in a bath of milk? Or a brisket, getting so juicy and tender in tomato sauce? Well one of my favorite braising recipes could be […]
Kelli and Patrick invited us along for a Harvest Hayride at the park in Irvington. The kids had a ball. Even Sam.
I promised on my Pinterest page: I will make this Pumpkin Spice Bundt Cake recipe! Here it is. Not hard at all and well worth the 20 minutes it took. Sam even helped.
This is not a food recommendation. But if you’re going to the theater, and you just want a quick drink and a little something to hold you over, Brasserie Athenee is a pretty darn convenient spot. There is a nice […]
Somehow, someway, book club keeps holding on. This time, we didn’t even have to read a book before gathering for a literary evening — and good eats and drinks. We read ‘The Glass Menagerie’ aloud. Alas, it got too late […]
Sam is a maniac! She’s crawling everywhere, pulling up to stand, and cruising, too. So we went to Babies R Us for some gates. So much for good design sense for the farm. But when you see this little munchkin? […]
How do you cook for an interfaith afternoon event, where you need to come up a dish that can serve guests with different dietary restrictions mid-afternoon? Not lunch. Not dinner. Tea, sort of. Well, you go vegetarian, and you go […]
Mornings in bed with Samantha are pretty sweet.
Oh my, what a cutie. She loves it.
I think — I’m not absolutely certain, but I believe — that this is the first date Greg and I have gone on where we left Sam home with a babysitter. We have gone out and left her with a […]
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.
