Eat. Drink. Live.
A cheeseburger, with mayo, in a lettuce wrap, and a homemade Bloody Mary. Not bad!
An nice relaxing afternoon in the kitchen, making cheeseballs for holiday parties and cookies, well, just because.
Cooking, dry brining, gravy making! Getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner. This year, I did not use a recipe for the turkey. I just salted it. A lot. Then rubbed garlic and lemon zest all over the outside, and threw lemons, […]
It’s time for our annual sour cherry pie! \ Shameless plug was posted to Instagram: Pitting. Thanks Hunna! Mixed with sugar, flour and extracts. In you go! In the oven: And out: We took the pie to Oratamin, where we […]
Friday night with Boo as our guest. Sam puts on a show! Cheers, Boo! We read LIttle House on the Prairie. My old copy. We serve our famous Crispy Chicken Thighs. Boo is happy. Good times.
The folks are over for a Sunday night supper. We start with Manhattans. Supper, which I cannot remember! \Sunda
A fun, funny night at the farm, with oysters to start, salmon as the main course and The Big Lebowski for dessert. Cheers!
I’m loving the recipe: Low-Carb Chili. Just delicious.
These might possibly be my favorite cookies ever. On the planet. A little salt, some brown sugar, oats and chocolate. They are amazing. Recipe here: Crispy Salty Oatmeal White Chocolate Cookies.
January is for oysters and champagne. (OK, we’ll settle for cava.) In front of a roaring fire. And for supper, cod with kale and roasted grape tomatoes.
No need to wait til the turkey is done to make the gravy. Do it ahead by roasting turkey legs and wings, and stirring up a lovely broth. Our recipe: Turkey gravy. It will be divine.
A fun Saturday night at home, sharing supper with Irene. Oysters from Wegmans! Our favorite, Pemaquids, from Maine. We made the last of our volunteer albino acorn squash: And Irene brought scallops from the 1. Scallops over arugula with bacon-squash […]
Lists and recipes. Tis the season.
Ever since we first made the recipe for Crispy Oven Roasted Chicken Thighs last December, it has become a winter staple at SCF. It takes about 10 minutes to put together, and comes out perfect every time. Here, my Instagram […]
We’ve both lost a ton of weight giving up carbs and sugar. But one thing we really miss is pasta. So on this chilly night, we made a substitute. Meatballs – made without breadcrumbs — with tomato sauce, served over […]
Our garden this year produced a volunteer acorn squash plant, which produced very tasty squash — white on the outside, orange on the inside. We roasted one or two, mixed in some bacon (and bacon fat!) and served it topped […]
Working from home this morning, so time for a lovely breakfast of eggs, ham, avocado and tomatoes. Yum.
With our own homegrown tomatoes. Delicious.
A very nice crop of cherries this year. We picked one day, pitted the next (at the pool!) and then preserved. Sour cherry recipes here: Sour Cherry Pie Sour Cherry Preserves. Maraschino Cherries The take: Pitting poolside. Later, at home, stir […]
Morels as big as your head were at the farmers market. Now they are in our salad bowls.
After all this travel and work, it was a pleasure to settle in for a long MLK Jr. weekend and do a little cooking. I made two recipes from the wonderful Canal House Cooks Every Day book, brisket and — […]
Kris and Tom came over to celebrate Destinate! They brought a lovely bottle of Champagne, and we had this yummy, yummy Beef and Beans Chili with Chorizo. It’s a chili kind of night. #sourcherryfarm #nyack #southnyack #chili A photo posted […]
A low-key New Year’s Eve this year. Irene brought over Sazeracs and we enjoyed cedar plank salmon, lentils and greens. For luck, of course! Suerte! Technique: How to make cedar-plank salmon in the oven. Grilling: Cedar-plank salmon outdoors OK, so […]
Here’s something I can’t believe actually happened: Our Pyrex dish shattered inside our oven, splintering into glass that littered the oven floor and exploded chicken jus all over the walls and glass. Do you see all the pieces? We were […]
What a glorious breakfast! So beautiful I had to share. You don’t really need a recipe for this, but here are a couple of tips. Use a cast iron pan that is just big enough to hold the eggs. A […]
A little egg, a little turkey, a little potato. A lot of yum. Turkey hash with Parmesan, avocado and egg. And hot sauce. Gotta have hot sauce. #sourcherryfarm #lohudfood #njeats #northjerseyeats #northjersey #leftovers #thanksgiving A photo posted by Liz Johnson […]
Family, friends, food. A wonderful day to give thanks for our many, many blessings. Whoever got this last turkey was blessed indeed! Thank goodness we ordered ahead! This year’s recipe was the same as last year’s. A smashing success! Bon […]
It was one of those Saturday nights when you’re just craving comfort food. So that’s just what we made. First, a little cider. Then, steak, baked potato and mustard greens and arugula from the garden. Divine! The 1980s called; they […]
A few years back, we were members of several Long Island wine clubs. Once a quarter, the wineries would ship us 3-4 bottles of exclusive wine, meant for club customers. This Sculpture Garden from Channing Daughters is among the last […]
Food. Beer. Music. And a lot of all of it. Cooktoberfest, an event by chef David DiBari of The Cookery and Scott Vaccaro of Captain Lawrence Brewing Company, is an afternoon of debauchery and gluttony. Hot dogs! Danielle of The […]
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.
