Eat. Drink. Live.
Karen, in to cover the UN, spent the night Friday, and we had a rollicking time on the porch with the neighbors. In the morning, we headed downtown for a walk and some eggs. Harry’s! Chicken tinga tacos for me!
Grilled pork chop. Corn from Doc Davies. Caprese salad. Yum.
I’d say about 3/4 of the way done.
By 5 p.m., quitting time and cocktail hour, both, we had mad much progress: This included measuring and leveling several jagged corners: And also tamping and leveling the sand underneath the brick: What a pain that part is, let me […]
Irene, Kris and Tom came over with some tomato water martinis. I don’t have any photos from the evening on the porch, but as usual with the five of us, it was a bunch of fun. I mean, how can […]
After tamping the rock, leveling the sand and checking our measurements, Greg lays the cornerstone of the patio. By the end of the day, this is what we’d accomplished: We are on our way, folks.
The tamping continued. Not much more to report:
The big pile of gravel in our driveway is known as Item Four. Greg hauled it wheelbarrow by wheelbarrow into the pit, and them tamped it down with a special tool. It is, if you’ll excuse me for saying so, […]
We had pizza two nights this week. We got on a jag, I guess. Here’s a look at them both. I’m not sure I want to call this an Iron Pizza Chef, but if you feel you’d like to vote, […]
The finishing touches have been put on Gregory’s Portico. Admire, all ye:
A great Saturday supper at the farm, folks. Lamb-beef burgers. Caprese salad. And Davies corn. Cocktails and dessert, after the jump.
I am a bigger fan of the Negroni than Greg. But that said, we enjoyed a nice version on the porch, made according to David Wondrich, of course. I tried to thank him via Twitter, but alas, did not get […]
We can’t get enough caprese salads this time of year. Burgers are just the excuse to have a salad.
Greg was making some bruschetta with tomatoes from the garden. He salted them and let them be for a while. As he was draining them, he realized he had a magical elixir on his hands. We mixed the tomato water […]
We went on a long one, folks. One of those Rockland Lake ones. There and back, it’s about 20 miles. Fun stuff.
Final stop in our NYC evening: Il Laboratorio del Gelato. Fantasatic ice cream in all sorts of flavors. I’m glad there isn’t one near us at the farm. First, a little Banksy action: Some other sights: A cat on a […]
As part two of my evening in research for my story on The British Invasion — British chefs bringing their delicious food to the U.S. — we paid a visit to The Fat Radish, a lovely, well-appointed, simple restaurant on […]
Kelli and Patrick invited us to play a twilight scramble of 9 holes during their member-guest. We nearly won the tournament… missed by only two strokes. Darn!
And I thought the BLT bar, once set by Benton’s, could not be broken. There is a new pantheon set, folks. Thor, whom SCF fans may remember from such posts as Supper at the Farm, Cathy and Thor Edition and […]
One problem we faced with our new patio: an enormous boulder in the center. We thought about building it into the design. (Maybe a water feature?) But in the end, we decided it was right smack dab in the middle […]
For years, Les Paul, the inventor of the electric guitar, played every Monday night at the Iridium, the jazz club in Manhattan. Paul died in 2009, but his trio continues the tradition. Greg is doing a story on the Monday […]
For a story on the British invasion — great British chefs and their food making their way to the U.S. — Kris, Tom, Irene and I visited The Wren in the East Village. Cocchi Cup: Cocchi Americano, Mint, Cucumber, Ginger […]
We only had time for a small snack before we were to meet someone for a show at the Iridium. I thought a few oysters at the bar at Oceana would do the trick. In-and-out and nobody gets hurt. We […]
Hemingway is associated with lots of drinks, including the regular ol’ daiquiri, which is made, as you know, with rum, lime juice and simple syrup. This version adds complexity with maraschino liqueur and grapefruit juice. It’s a nice drink to […]
Why yes, of course we’re adding more onto the patio project, which is already way over schedule. This is called “Gregory’s Portico,” and is meant to relieve the rotting problem where the dirt meets the wood at the foot of […]
We have completed one full part of the patio project. Whoo-hoo! It’s so nice to walk on brick now, rather than dirt and mulch. Go Greg!
What do you think of topping an already decadent BLT with a runny farm-fresh egg? I think it was genius. But maybe you think it’s outrageous? Whatever the case, it’s not an every day sort of meal. But when you […]
Steak, tomatoes and corn. One of the great summer meals, don’t you think? And we started with lemon-thyme gimlets in the orchards by the pear tree.
Burrata, a restaurant in Eastchester, is named after the creamy, silky cheese: a combination of mozzarella and cream. And though there are several dishes that feature burrara, the star of the menu is the pizza. It’s cooked in a beehive-shaped […]
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.
