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Another winner of a recipe from Mindy Fox’s Salads: Beyond the Bowl book. I’m taking a little bit of liberty with this recipe, however, because I cook eggs differently than Mindy does. She prefers to prick a hole in the […]
A big rainstorm shows us where our pitch is at the moment. Hmmm. Related posts: Patio Update Patio Update Patio Update The Patio Work Begins
A new kind of farmers market loot. Sam as shopping cart: Related posts: Shopping at the Pleasantville Farmers Market Farmers Market Loot Bee Class and the Farmers Market at Stone Barns Farmers on Main Street Market, Wednsdays in Chattanooga
It’s clean-out-the-fridge leftovers night at Sour Cherry Farm. We’ve got chicken, radishes, leftover potato salad, greens and more. Help yourself to the fixin’s bar, folks! Related posts: Sunday Supper with Grandmom and the Ranchers: Burgers, Wedge and Corn Salad Recipe: […]
Update on the patio. Most of the pit is dug out. Greg is starting to lay the leveling frame in the pit. Related posts: Patio Update Patio Update Sour Cherry Farm Builds a Brick Patio Update on the Gardens: […]
A quick pre-theater supper on my own tonight: at the bar at Casellula near 9th Avenue. I’ve been before and loved it. This trip is no different. The asparagus dish is especially impressive. Its served with a hollandaise-y but more […]
I was a radio guest on The Joan Hamburg Show on Friday. Not because of my Sour Cherry Farm fame, though. Because of my Journal News fame. (I guess you can call it that?) Here’s Joan on the dais with […]
Leftover salads — both leafy and potato with snap peas — with chopped pork and eggs. Yum! Related posts: Potato and Snap Pea Salad with Garlic and Parsley Lemon Pesto Recipe: Chicken and Romaine Salad with Peas, Feta and Mint […]
Normally we don’t go for vodka drinks around here anymore. (We’re into amaro lately.) But this drink, which we found originally in Bon Appetit, looked so refreshing (and seasonal!) that I couldn’t pass it up. When I went to pour […]
I have three words for you: Buy. This. Book. Mindy Fox’s new “Salads: Beyond the Bowl” (Kyle Books) is unlike any book you’ve seen before. You will love it. I promise. The salads are creative, fun, good for you and […]
It’s been a long time since I’ve ridden my bike; I wasn’t allowed to when I was pregnant. And then it was winter. And I had a new baby. So it was lovely to have a maiden voyage Sunday down […]
As of June 16: A horrific mess. Let this pass, soon, please. Related posts: Patio Update Garden Update: Blueberries, Apricots, Daisies The Patio Work Begins Update on the Progress in the Fields
We had some good eating and drinking on the porch Friday might, what with Irene’s brilliant idea to make martinis with pickled garlic scapes and then a good group effort on a salad with Stone Barns greens, eggs and berries, […]
This photo got a lot of comments over on Facebook, so I thought we’d better share the recipe here, too! Yummy refreshing minty rummy drinks, after the jump. Related posts: Watermelon-Basil Mojitos Cocktail Recipe: Mint Juleps Gin Gin Mules Cocktail […]
Here’s where we are on June 12. Progress, I guess! Related posts: Garden Update: Blueberries, Apricots, Daisies The Patio Work Begins Garden Update: Coneflowers, Cosmos, Blackberries and Butterfly Bushes Garden Update: Sour Cherries, Blackberries, Currants, Asparagus, Alliums, Peonies, Irises, Columbine […]
We started by moving the bluestone. Then we just started digging. Related posts: Sour Cherry Farm Builds a Brick Patio
Chicken salad isn’t the most beautiful dish to look at. I tried to make it a little more appealing by placing it in the blue bowl. Nice bowl, sure. Doesn’t really help, I know. But trust me. This is a […]
The back tree, the little dwarf Northstar, produced quite a bit this year. And early, too. A few more pics, after the jump. Related posts: Welcome to the New Sour Cherry Farm The Concept Tree at Sour Cherry Farm Ready […]
For supper on Sunday night, Srimp and I headed down to the annual benefit for the Nyack Center, “Men Who Cook.” We had a ball trying all the different dishes — well, I did, anyway: she had milk. Here’s a […]
Making your own maraschino cherries couldn’t be simpler. And besides, who wants all that sugar and food coloring and preservatives when you can just have cherries and booze! Related posts: Recipe: Watermelon Rind Pickles Recipe: Franklin’s Espresso BBQ Sauce Recipe: […]
The cherries came early this year. We probably could have picked some of them the first of June, even! Here’s a look on the 6th: And here’s a little sour cherry, too! Related posts: The Sour Cherry Harvest The First […]
And blueberry vinaigrette! A good cooking for one meal, I’d say! Sam thinks so, too. Related posts: Chappaqua Farmers Market: Duck, Yogurt, Greens and Sweets Farmers Market Loot Shopping in Palisades: the Market and the Farmers Market Farmers Market Loot
A couple years back, we lost power to the garage. Turns out, the line had corroded. Time to put in a new one. In order to do so, we got the biggest piece of machinery yet seen at the farm: […]
The temperature hovering around 90 with almost 100 percent humidity. Well isn’t that a fine how-do-you-do-to summer? We still didn’t have the air conditioners in, but we did have a fan or two. We plugged one in to an extension […]
Liz originally found a similar recipe in Gourmet while lying on the beach on Long Beach Island. Greg immediately rose from his chair on the sand and proceeded to buy a melon, slice it up and throw it in the […]
Strawberries grown just outside the fields of Sour Cherry Farm on Stump Lane: Stump Lane is really Tasha and Shannon’s place; we call it that because between our house and theirs, we have, so far, three stumps. The mulberry tree; […]
After a whole day of cooking brisket, I lit the coals one last time to grill some dogs. In today’s edition of Cooking for One, I present: Grilled hot dogs with toasted buns, watermelon salad with cumin and sea salt, […]
Even though I grew up in Texas, the first time I can remember having watermelon rind pickles was at Fatty Crab in Manhattan. And I remembered really really loving them. And so when I was paging through Texas Eats — […]
Frankin BBQ used to be in a trailer that shared a parking lot with a coffee roaster. An espresso barbecue sauce was a natural. From Texas Eats by Robb Walsh. Frankin’s Espresso BBQ Sauce Makes about 7 cups. 4 cups […]
SCF fans may remember our trip to Franklin Barbecue back in 2010. Well that little barbecue trailer has become the most popular barbecue restaurant in Austin, which is to say it is some of the most popular barbecue in the country. […]
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.
