Eat. Drink. Live.
For Greg’s birthday, I got him something he’s been searching for a long time: a sauerkraut crock. Sounds silly, we know, but he’s been searching high and low for one at thrift stores and garage sales for as long as […]
Looksie! Sam really has this crawling thing down, I’d say.
Marissa and I met for sips and snacks at BU 8, a new gastropub in White Plains. I’m loving the concept — upscale twists on bar food — but I think the execution needs a little work yet. Dirty Chips, for […]
I guess we were too busy wining and dining to take any photos of the people who came to celebrate Greg’s brithday with lamb shanks and polenta this evening. But luckily, we do have documentation of the evening with this […]
Absolutely brilliant call, David Tanis, bravo. Making polenta for a crowd has never been so easy.
Thank you, David Tanis, for showing me the light. Here I have been stuck in front of the stove each time I want to make polenta, stirring, stirring, stirring. Even the supposed “no-stir” polenta recipes always require attending. No more. […]
We lit our first fire of the winter of 2012-13 on Saturday, October 6. A little later than some years.
A few photos of a day on the porch and a walk around town.
After our visit to the 9/11 memorial, we took a long walk around lower Manhattan and ended up in Chinatown. We stopped for a couple bowls of soup at Tasty Hand Pulled Noodles in Chinatown. Yes, very tasty, indeed.
With Karen in town covering the UN General Assembly, we thought it a good time to visit the 9/11 Memorial for the first time. We met her down there for a quick visit.
Orange tree at the corner of Cedar Hill and Franklin:
Some JN colleagues have a tradition of after-work drinks at Dunne’s every Wednesday. I joined them for a Manhattan and some (very good!) wings this week. Ed, Jill and Alisa: Good times.
After a long hard summer working on Elizabeth’s Folly, enduring a pit in the backyard, jackhammering a boulder to the ground and laying more than 1,000 bricks, the patio is now done. We are beyond thrilled. More photos, after the […]
We are 20 bricks shy! Can you believe it? Almost done, though!
In the little park off to the side of Madison Square Park — sometimes home to a Christmas Village or another such pop-up — there is right now a garden of eating. Food trucks, including one from Roberta’s in Brooklyn, […]
Karen, in to cover the UN, spent the night Friday, and we had a rollicking time on the porch with the neighbors. In the morning, we headed downtown for a walk and some eggs. Harry’s! Chicken tinga tacos for me!
Grilled pork chop. Corn from Doc Davies. Caprese salad. Yum.
I’d say about 3/4 of the way done.
By 5 p.m., quitting time and cocktail hour, both, we had mad much progress: This included measuring and leveling several jagged corners: And also tamping and leveling the sand underneath the brick: What a pain that part is, let me […]
Irene, Kris and Tom came over with some tomato water martinis. I don’t have any photos from the evening on the porch, but as usual with the five of us, it was a bunch of fun. I mean, how can […]
After tamping the rock, leveling the sand and checking our measurements, Greg lays the cornerstone of the patio. By the end of the day, this is what we’d accomplished: We are on our way, folks.
The tamping continued. Not much more to report:
A nice portrait of Sam:
The big pile of gravel in our driveway is known as Item Four. Greg hauled it wheelbarrow by wheelbarrow into the pit, and them tamped it down with a special tool. It is, if you’ll excuse me for saying so, […]
We had pizza two nights this week. We got on a jag, I guess. Here’s a look at them both. I’m not sure I want to call this an Iron Pizza Chef, but if you feel you’d like to vote, […]
The finishing touches have been put on Gregory’s Portico. Admire, all ye:
Cooking for one is back, just for a few days. First, I had an late afternoon walk with Samantha, then I fixed myself a leftover burger with corn and a wedge with blue cheese dressing. Happy Sunday, y’all.
A great Saturday supper at the farm, folks. Lamb-beef burgers. Caprese salad. And Davies corn. Cocktails and dessert, after the jump.
I am a bigger fan of the Negroni than Greg. But that said, we enjoyed a nice version on the porch, made according to David Wondrich, of course. I tried to thank him via Twitter, but alas, did not get […]
Indeed they are.
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.
