Eat. Drink. Live.
For Sunday night supper, we put our ingredients from our trip to Eataly to good use. We boiled the tagliatelle for exactly three minutes, drained it, but left a little pasta water in the pot and tossed it with butter, […]
Halloween at the farm usually includes silly hats. Today, the Hunna has a frightening wig: And some yummy candy: Irene joined us for oysters, pasta and a little low-impact singing to Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.
A meal that’s half summer and half fall: grilled steak and baked potato. It suited us just fine for Sunday supper at the Farm.
After we planted a whole bunch of bulbs in the front of our two houses, the neighbors offered to cook supper. Seemed fair to us! We all gathered around the fire for bowls of bolognese, all made with vegetables from […]
What’s better than a baked potato? A baked potato with salad and a sauteed chicken breast with balsamic reduction:
For Saturday night supper, we used a little of the homemade chicken stock to thin out the leftovers from the posole we’d served for book club on Thursday. I’ll get to that post (and the recipe for the posole) soon […]
Here’s a recipe with step-by-step photos for homemade chicken stock. They don’t call it magic gold for nothing. You, too, can have this gorgeous, clear, restorative, delicious smelling chicken broth. As long as you’re planning on sticking around for a […]
Sour Cherry Farm hosted “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley, the Goat Herd book club’s most recent selection. We had a lively discussion about savages and utopia, of expectations and dreams lost. And of course we laughed. A lot.
Sunday night supper uses the last of the summer produce. Bye summer! Here’s the recipe for Zucchini-Tomato Gratin.
I had a bunch of zucchini and heirloom tomatoes that were calling out to be used before they turned on me. So on Sunday, I simply chopped them up and layered them — along with some onions, garlic, parmesan oregano […]
We had scallops from the Pleasantville Farmers Market once again, so we decided to try out a new recipes from Dorie Greenspan: Scallops with Orange-Caramel Sauce. It’s easy and delicious.
If I owned a restaurant — and please shoot me if I ever say I’m going to open one — I would put this dish on my brunch menu in seconds flat. Apple crisp over panckes with maple syrup. Sinful. […]
For Saturday night supper, we lit the fire for the first time and enjoyed a warming plate of lamb, kale and squash — with a lovely apple-pear crisp for dessert. And we poured a nice, smooth Rioja. How autumnal of […]
Soft boiled eggs, cooked for exactly five minutes and then shocked with ice water. Cranberry-walnut toast from Bobolink Dairy. Before. After. Slurp.
There’s no better pasta supper than one with a sauce made from scratch from plum tomatoes and mixed with sausage, then loaded with Parmesan cheese and topped with basil. Wow. Just. Wow. And the wine, after the jump.
We bought a box of “utility” tomatoes from Dr. Davies Farm. These are the tomatoes that are really only good for sauce — they’re almost ready for the compost pile, unless you cook them immediately. So we did that.
For our first squash of the season, we roast acorn with a bit of butter and brown sugar. Welcome, fall.
Wakey, wakey, eggs and bakey.
Sometimes you can just throw a couple of piece of bacon in a pan and that’s that. But when you have a lot of people for breakfast and you need the room on the stove for other things — or […]
Toasting Aviations with Cathy and Thor — getting ready for a delishy Saturday supper of pasta with tomatoes from the Pleasantville market.
No bacon? No problem. Crisp up some pancetta and you’ve got yourself a delicious sandwich in no time.
It sure is fun to have another cook at the farm. Thor whipped up a delishy brekky on Sunday of scrambled eggs with ham, fresh salsa, arugula and tortillas.
While Cathy and Thor met friends in the city, we stayed in and sauteed some scallops and boiled up some sweet corn. What a sweet supper.
It’d been four years — four years! — since we’d seen Thor and Cathy. We were so happy to welcome them and their son Jahn to the farm for a long-overdue visit. On our first night, we had pulled pork […]
We wanted to visit with the folks, but didn’t feel much like cooking. So I went to Old World Market and stocked up on salads from their deli counter, chili, bun and, of course: hot dogs!
We really were so lucky to have hit it off so well with cousins Jeff and Theresa. I mean, we kind of knew each other a little through family functions and events, but we’d never hung out for real. The […]
Boo and Craig stayed the night at the farm. In the morning, we snacked on fruits, meats, olives, peppers and cheeses with some leftover bread. Then we went for a bike ride along the Piermont bike path. What a joyous […]
Warm weather, tasty food, good friends. And on top of that, our midsummer’s dinner was during the annual Perseid meteor shower, which we watched from the backyard, lying on blankets. A classic evening at the farm, indeed. Craig took over […]
We had some cocktails and some snacks, and then grilled some chicken. An easy and fun night on the porch’t.
Nothing says summer eating like tomatoes. Add basil, mozzarella, prosciutto and toast and you’re all set.
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.
