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Greg had to work, but Karen and I headed out to the Ranch on Sunday for a lovely Sunday supper of lamb chops with Charmoula spices.
After an enormous meal at M. Wells for dinner, we decided to go for a light supper of sips and snacks back at the farm. We shook up a shaker of The Bone, and made some Rancho Gordo popcorn.
On Valentine’s Day, with Greg at work til midnight, I celebrated my love affair with eggs. I made some local Hudson Valley polenta, warmed up some leftover tomato auce and poached an egg in the sauce. Voila, vegetarian eggs in […]
We stayed in and took it easy Saturday night. Greg made deep dish pizza — the same recipe from a few weeks back. I like that you do everything from scratch. Sure beats Boboli! One year before: Urban Italian’s Sheeps […]
We made the most delicious winter meal from Mindy Fox’s new cookbook, “A Bird in the Oven And then Some.” I can’t rave enough about the book, which is organized in a unique way: roast chicken recipes (and side dishes […]
Recession Sidecars? Yes. When you’ve got a big bottle of brandy you bought for a punch, sometimes you have to use it up. Even though you’d rather have cognac. We sipped these while putting the finishing touches on our Roman […]
Kris and Tom hosted the book club’s meeting about “On the Road,” and Rory led an eye-opening discussion, wherein the club members revealed their own “On the Road” experiences, and discussed the Deans they’ve known over the years. And some […]
We got these great English muffins mail order from Wolferman’s. We’d cleaned out the freezer and found some ham. Greg cooked these up with his special egg rings he found on sale and Williams-Sonoma eons ago. That’s a breakfast of […]
Being off this week, I took over shoveling duties. What was left, that is. Our neighbor was very kind to snowblow us out, and the kids next door did most of the driveway. But there was still show to move. […]
Expecting a snow storm, we warmed the house with roast chicken. We had it for supper with fingerling potatoes and romaine lettuce:
Wild Card Saturday has become a decade-long tradition. It started back in 2002 in our apartment on Burd Street with the Snow Bowl: New England Patriots v. Oakland Raiders during a big-ass snowstorm. It has turned into an annual gathering […]
Outside: Inside:
With the snow falling outside, we decided to go for bacon. And why not?
We didn’t have a morning present exchange this year. Instead, Mom and Leigh went to brunch and the three of us headed to Rockland Lake (for the third day in a row!) for a nice winter walk. We met back […]
A big standing rib roast with porcini and bacon sauce, Yorkshire pudding, jeweled roasted vegetables and chestnut mashed potatoes. We are indeed blessed. Merry Christmas to all! Sondra and Leigh enjoy a pre-dinner martini.
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:
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 […]
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 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.
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 […]
We piled everything in the fridge — turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, Brussels sprouts — even some bok choy — on a plate and called it supper. Yum. Our special pattened reheating method, after the jump.
We were so happy to still have Chris and Barbara in town after Thanksgiving. We had to do our farm chores during the day on Friday, so those guys headed to the city to lunch and a museum. (And had […]
Greg made a simple supper for us on a Wednesday night, but it looked so beautiful I couldn’t resist taking a photo! Beans on toast with peas and onion, and an arugula salad from the garden with butternut squash and […]
It happens, folks. Sometimes we don’t do so well on supper. This one wasn’t our fault, though. We got some duck from the Old World Market and, well, it was rather old. Old enough that it tasted livery. Yuck. too […]
Bon Chon wings and a salad with ranch dressing. Yum!
Ding! Ding! Ding! And now, for Iron Pizza Chef, Battle of the Sauces, we have, in one corner, a man known the world over for his pepperoni and green olive. In the other corner, we have a woman known, at […]
At first, it was just roasted chicken and mashed potatoes. But then we added some Brussels sprouts. And some roasted butternut squash with sage and thyme. Lo and behold — we had a mini-Thanksgiving on our hands: Best part? We […]
SCF fans may remember a really fun dinner with Boo where we served a terrific dish we made last year from Michael Symon’s book, “Live to Cook.” It’s a delicious combination of lamb sausage with heady spices mixed in with […]
Leftover beans with pancetta and sage from the freezer and some chicken sausage. With a glass of red, natch:
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.
