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My friend Ernie at work brought these Meyer lemons from his family’s backyard tree in California. You wouldn’t believe the aroma! It lingered in the kitchen even after we squeezed the juice to make two absolutely delicious Carjack cocktails.
By the fire: pork chops, squash and arugula salad. Yes, fall has arrived.
What’s better than a BLT on a summer Sunday? Not much kids. Not much.
Yes, that’s right folks. It’s finally that time of the year when we break out the Benton’s, slice up a tomato, wash a leaf or two of lettuce and have some of the best suppers we eat all year long. […]
Mark recently gifted Greg with a baking steel, and for its maiden voyage, we tried it out on the grill. Looks pretty good in the photos, but the method needs work. The steel just got too hot and the pizza […]
Looks like we’ll just have one pie this year, but God it was a good one. A little change from my recipe: I did not have any almond extract, so I added Amaretto instead. I used about six cups of cherries this […]
For the month of July, at least, Hunna is working five days a week. So we’ve suddenly joined the legions of parents who have to figure it out on a lot less time. Our first solution: Sunday meal planning — […]
Here’s a good lunch idea for work or school: Blanched green beans, diced feta and pitted kalamata olives. Leave it out at your desk, and by lunchtime it will have warmed up nicely to room temperature. Drizzle a little olive […]
Gotta admit Mel, that’s a good looking lunch. And al fresco, too!
How’s that for delicious efficiency?
A lovely little lunch: Leftover cedar-plank salmon with Balthazar bread with figs, hazelnuts and apricots. Really. Delishy. (The bread came from the Palisades Farmers Market. One of the joys about shopping locally in winter.)
Here’s the trick to cooking cedar plank salmon. You have to heat the plank first. [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:25] You can’t be just throwing the plank onto the grill and put the salmon on there cold. It’s like pre-heating the oven. Sam will […]
Two more Bon Appetit recipes. One, a beet salad, was a success. The other, chicken with chickpeas, was not our favorite. But it made for a few beautiful photos!
We made the same excellent recipe we found last year: From Emeril… Hoppin John by Emeril Lagasse. We also opened a present from Kelly and Jack, and admired Kelly’s wrapping very much! Happy New Year!
Well, she’s a little young yet. But she really likes what parts she can do! After a dreadful afternoon of crying, crying, crying, she settled down enough to quite enjoy a little rolling and cutting. We tried gingerbread. It was […]
Another storm! We woke up to a few inches, and expected even more to pile up throughout the day. A fortifying breakfast was in order! Benton’s bacon, Charlie’s eggs and Fairway’s brioche. Delishy!
I never thought I could make bread! Not that this is real bread… it’s just rolls. But still! I made rolls! Ingredients. I was inspired by this stunning photo in Bon Appetit, my new Bible, and thought I’d try them […]
An easy Monday night supper to send Sarah back to Texas.
My hunna makes a killer pizza. Tonight is no exception. Basil and tomatoes from the garden, fresh mozzarella, too. Fabulous.
A beautiful late-summer supper.
It’s the time of year for putting up tomatoes. Or just cooking with them instead of simply slicing and serving. And sometimes, for that, peeled is better. In this post, I’ll show you how to peel tomatoes. I’m not saying […]
To close out summer properly, we decided to do lobster rolls. Yes. Of course we also had corn and tomatoes. And Greg made a peach galette, which we served with what was left of Shannon’s delishy ginger ice cream from […]
Well, as it turns out, the cabbage put up in July came out delicious. Unfortuantely, I don’t have a photo of the great spare ribs and sauerkraut he made for one of our Sunday night suppers a couple weeks back. […]
We had a big night Friday, when we smoked a couple of chickens and had a showing of “Big Night” on the big outdoor screen. Kris and Tom brought over mustard greens and kale (made with Benton’s, natch) as well […]
The salmon at Pura Vida Fisheries at the Hastings Farmers Market was so beautiful we couldn’t pass it up. We cooked it over a cedar plank and served it with corn and Doris’ cucumber salad, which helped cut the richness […]
A few shots of the gorgeous heirlooms coming from the market and our garden this time of year:
A summer supper on the patio with seasonal ingredients: corn, tomatoes and peaches. The essence of August! Making our corn soup: A trip to the pool while it chills: Grammy and Lexi feed Samantha: Supper starts. Chilled corn soup […]
Having quite a bit of sausage leftover from our picnic in the park Tuesday, plus a host of summer vegetables ready to rot, we turned to an old friend: the frittata. Like this roasted vegetable frittata recipe we like to […]
Are you tired of BLTs and Caprese salad yet? Good. Neither are we. Here’s a look at more delishy summer food. Fun weekend!
A lovely summer supper at the farm on Sunday: our favey linguine with clams (recipe here) and a new highball: gin with rose-lemonade soda from Fentimans. Floral, light and refreshing.
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.
