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The inspiration for this came from an Ellie Krieger recipe I found on finecooking.com. But instead of making her recipe exactly, I roasted the beets first separately. I also added pancetta, chestnuts and parsnips to the mix. And I parboiled […]
Goes great with steak. Right? Yes. Recipe after the jump.
This recipe comes from a super-cool and very inspiring cookbook called Eat Feed Autumn Winter. (You may remember the book from an exciting supper at the farm where we cooked Pork Chops with Apples and Brandy and Wild Rice Pilaf […]
On the night before the night before Christmas, no one was stirring — a pot, that is. We knew we’d have enough cooking coming up over the next two days, so we took to the pub. And Olde Village Inne […]
We made a few things ahead before our big feast on Christmas Eve (and our small one on Christmas Day). Here’s Boo, stirring mushrooms for the porcini-bacon sauce:
We found ourselves on Wednesday night with a fridge full of food and nothing to cook. It was all for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. So to kick our long holiday weekend off right, we went out. To Barcel, which […]
After our supper of porchetta and potatoes, the neighbors came over and we had a nightcap and a gift exchange. They also got an unexpected gift from Sour Cherry Farm: a vinegar mother I’ve been growing in the basement from […]
As a trial run for our Christmas supper, I tried out a piece of porchetta, an Italian roast, which I got at Tarry Market. It was really very good. But so rich we thought it might be a little much […]
Greg and I went to Kelli and Patrick’s church on Sunday morning to see the little ones in their Christmas pageant. Rory was a shepherd and Sarah and Hugh were sheep. Unfortunately, they shed their costumes faster than you could […]
Art Cafe might just make the best cappuccino on the planet. And it’s good looking, too!
A holiday get-together with Marissa and Boo at the cute local neighborhood joint, Juniper. The chef makes a mean radicchio salad.
I have found for you — or rather, Irene has found for you — your new pre-theater restaurant. It’s just a tiny bit north of a lot of the theaters, but no matter. The food is delicious, the atmosphere is […]
Vegetarian chili, cornbread, and cookies — of course.
This is not by any means a family tradition. At least not yet. In fact, I’m not sure our family has ever baked cookies together. But it might become one next year, because it was a lot of fun, and […]
We had some errands to run in Westchester, so before we headed back home over the bridge, we decided to do dim sum brunch in Hartsdale. The pork dumplings were delicious. Juicy and pork-y with a light wisp of a […]
We had a quiet evening Saturday, enjoying Aviations by the fire — and the newly decorated tree — while I prepared some cookie dough for tomorow’s bake-a-thon over at the Ranch.
This December, I worked with a chef at the Culinary Institute of America to put together a holiday cookie article. He came up with the recipes, and we asked for variations on those. So with three basic doughs, you ended […]
These are very easy and fast to put together. The recipe comes from Martha Stewart, and it’s really tasty. I skimped on the cayenne, afraid some people would find them too spicy. Don’t. It barely registered. You need the full amount.
I love Sand Tarts, the cookies also know as Mexican Wedding Cakes. So when I saw a variation of them over on Smitten Kitchen that used — of all things! — chestnuts, I knew I had to give it a […]
This year, instead of our usual white lights and homemade ornaments, Greg took the tree in a different direction. He bought those new LED colored lights — the big, retro ones that look like they’re from the 1950s but don’t […]
Mom knew she couldn’t top last year’s birthday fete. After all, it was indeed an extravaganza. But to mark another trip around the sun, she arranged for us all to go to Hudson House, which had catered her party the […]
Each year after Messiah Sing at Grace Church, the parish hosts an Advent party. This year, for the first time, I attended both. Leigh was my date for the first part of the evening (we sat in the tenors section […]
When I lived in Texas as a child, my grandmother Rosamond used to make pot roast with carrots and potatoes most every Sunday. I moved away when I was 9, and I remember coming back to visit and telling my grandmother […]
For our final meal of the trip, we got some takeout from La Verdad — Ken Oringer’s Mexican restaurant near Fenway. Everything was mighty tasty.
After the aquarium, we went to visit Fischer. He’d had a rough night’s sleep, what with a loud crying child in the bed next to his, but he was still in good spirits and recovering nicely. Way to go little […]
Reece got a new iPod Touch before he left for Boston. Boy did it come in handy for making movies of swimming fish at the New England Aquarium!
Oysters and pasta for us. Grilled cheese sandwich and fries for Reece.
With two levels, three bars, an open kitchen and private dining space — plus a menu that flits between lobster pizza and Colorado lamb chops made in a tandoori oven, you might just call Towne Stove & Spirit a mash-up. […]
After our ice skating escapade, we headed downtown for lunch at an old standby, the Union Oyster House.
While Jessica and Kelly took care of Fischer during his surgery, we took care of Reece. We took him to Frog Pond on the Boston Common, where he picked up ice skating like he’d been doing it all his life.
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.
