As of June 16: A horrific mess. Let this pass, soon, please.
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.
Author: Liz
Pickled Garlic Scape Martinis and a Cobb Salad with Benton’s Bacon
We had some good eating and drinking on the porch Friday might, what with Irene’s brilliant idea to make martinis with pickled garlic scapes and then a good group effort on a salad with Stone Barns greens, eggs and berries, […]
Samantha at Seven Months
My friend Margaret took these beautiful portraits of Sam.
Cocktail Recipe: Mojitos
This photo got a lot of comments over on Facebook, so I thought we’d better share the recipe here, too! Yummy refreshing minty rummy drinks, after the jump.
Look Out, Strawberries!
What happens when you get a flat of strawberries and put it on the stroller to rest while you pick something else up? Well, if you’re a strawberry, it ain’t pretty!
Patio Update
Here’s where we are on June 12. Progress, I guess!
The Patio Work Begins
We started by moving the bluestone. Then we just started digging.
Recipe: Chicken Salad with Curry, Pecans and Dried Apricots
Chicken salad isn’t the most beautiful dish to look at. I tried to make it a little more appealing by placing it in the blue bowl. Nice bowl, sure. Doesn’t really help, I know. But trust me. This is a […]
Harvesting More Cherries at Sour Cherry Farm
The back tree, the little dwarf Northstar, produced quite a bit this year. And early, too. A few more pics, after the jump.
Men Who Cook
For supper on Sunday night, Srimp and I headed down to the annual benefit for the Nyack Center, “Men Who Cook.” We had a ball trying all the different dishes — well, I did, anyway: she had milk. Here’s a […]
Recipe: Maraschino Cherries
Making your own maraschino cherries couldn’t be simpler. And besides, who wants all that sugar and food coloring and preservatives when you can just have cherries and booze!
Ready for the Harvest at Sour Cherry Farm!
The cherries came early this year. We probably could have picked some of them the first of June, even! Here’s a look on the 6th: And here’s a little sour cherry, too!
Happy Baby
Hanging out in bed after watching “The Muppets” together and having a little nap.
Cooking for One: Chardonnay-Apple Chicken Sausage over Farmers Market Greens with Strawberries
And blueberry vinaigrette! A good cooking for one meal, I’d say! Sam thinks so, too.
SCF Digs a Trench
A couple years back, we lost power to the garage. Turns out, the line had corroded. Time to put in a new one. In order to do so, we got the biggest piece of machinery yet seen at the farm: […]
Unbearably Hot, So SCF Goes A/C Early This Year
We normally try to wait until July 4th weekend to put in the air conditioners. But the weather was truly unbearable, and, well, we had a little srimp to think about, too.
On a Hot Memorial Day, A Barbecue in the Orchard
The temperature hovering around 90 with almost 100 percent humidity. Well isn’t that a fine how-do-you-do-to summer? We still didn’t have the air conditioners in, but we did have a fan or two. We plugged one in to an extension […]
Cocktail Recipe: Watermelon Margaritas
Liz originally found a similar recipe in Gourmet while lying on the beach on Long Beach Island. Greg immediately rose from his chair on the sand and proceeded to buy a melon, slice it up and throw it in the […]
Stump Lane Strawberries
Strawberries grown just outside the fields of Sour Cherry Farm on Stump Lane: Stump Lane is really Tasha and Shannon’s place; we call it that because between our house and theirs, we have, so far, three stumps. The mulberry tree; […]
Cooking for One: Hot Dogs, Slaw, Watermelon Salad and Chips
After a whole day of cooking brisket, I lit the coals one last time to grill some dogs. In today’s edition of Cooking for One, I present: Grilled hot dogs with toasted buns, watermelon salad with cumin and sea salt, […]
Recipe: Watermelon Rind Pickles
Even though I grew up in Texas, the first time I can remember having watermelon rind pickles was at Fatty Crab in Manhattan. And I remembered really really loving them. And so when I was paging through Texas Eats — […]
Recipe: Franklin’s Espresso BBQ Sauce
Frankin BBQ used to be in a trailer that shared a parking lot with a coffee roaster. An espresso barbecue sauce was a natural. From Texas Eats by Robb Walsh. Frankin’s Espresso BBQ Sauce Makes about 7 cups. 4 cups […]
Aaron Franklin’s Butcher Paper Brisket
SCF fans may remember our trip to Franklin Barbecue back in 2010. Well that little barbecue trailer has become the most popular barbecue restaurant in Austin, which is to say it is some of the most popular barbecue in the country. […]
Saturday Salmon Supper
Cooking for one this Saturday evening. An all non-local meal of CoHo salmon, corn on the cob from Georgia and potatoes from who-knows-where. The salmon, especially, was a big treat. Just delicious.
Whole Foods Has Rambutans!
Ram-bu-what? Yes, rambutans. A fruit sort of similar to lychee nuts with a pliable outer skin that has really ugly looking hairy but soft spikes. (Rambutan means “hairy” in Malay!) I discovered it on my travels in Asia. I loved […]
A Big Thunderstorm on Memorial Day Saturday
We happened to be out doing errands when a wallop of a storm hit the farm on Memorial Day weekend. We got about 2 inches in 20 minutes. That’s a hell of a lot of rain. Tasha took this video […]
Sam Waves!
Yes, she’s reached one of those milestones. She’s waving, folks!
Gin Gin Mules
We muddled the mint and squeezed the limes, and wouldn’t you know it, with a little gin and ginger beer — we had ourselves a highball. The recipe, from Audrey Saunders, can be found here: Cocktail recipe: Gin Gin Mules […]
SCF’s Newest Blogger
Josh and Kris (of weeping fame) set Samantha up with all the gear she needs to start contributing to SCF. We need workers around here!
Snacks for a New Baby
Monica and James came over to introduce their brand new daughter, Olivia. Did we take any photos of Olivia? No. Sam? No. Monica or James, or even Monica’s mom, Cathy, who was along, too? That would be a no. But […]
