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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. Related posts: Prepping for Christmas Dinner […]
We sang all our favorite hymns, from Joy to the World to Silent Night to Hark! the Herald Angels Sing, to Glooooooooooooooooria in Excelsis Deo. Here’s Boo and Greg right beforehand, outside on the steps in the Hopper light. A […]
I also was inspired by Eat Feed Autumn Winter to make the centerpiece of our Christmas Eve dinner what author Anne Bramley calls “A Jolly Great Joint of Beef.” Indeed it is. The only time I varied from her excellent […]
On the night before the night before Christmas, no one was stirring — a pot, that is. We knew we’d have enough cooking coming up over the next two days, so we took to the pub. And Olde Village Inne […]
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: Related posts: Dinner from the Harvest at Sour Cherry Farm BDoF: The […]
We found ourselves on Wednesday night with a fridge full of food and nothing to cook. It was all for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. So to kick our long holiday weekend off right, we went out. To Barcel, which […]
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 […]
Greg and I went to Kelli and Patrick’s church on Sunday morning to see the little ones in their Christmas pageant. Rory was a shepherd and Sarah and Hugh were sheep. Unfortunately, they shed their costumes faster than you could […]
This year, instead of our usual white lights and homemade ornaments, Greg took the tree in a different direction. He bought those new LED colored lights — the big, retro ones that look like they’re from the 1950s but don’t […]
If I told you there was an excellent steak at Benjamin Steakhouse in Hartsdale, you probably wouldn’t be surprised. The owners,Benjamin Prelvukaj and chef Artruo McLeod, are alums of Peter Luger in Brooklyn. But what would you say if I […]
For the first part of our BDoF — that is Big Day of Fun — this weekend, we attended the matinee of Million Dollar Quartet. (Thumbs up!) For the third and fourth part, were meeting Chris and Rory for dinner […]
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 […]
On the way home from our visit to Schell’s, we made a detour to Nicollet, Minnesota to check out Schmidt’s Meat Market. This is the spot where Bob and Ann get goodies each year around Christmas time and send us […]
The Broken Spoke is an Austin institution; the last of the true country dance halls; the home of honky tonk. It’s been around for more than 40 years, and it hasn’t changed a bit. This is both a good and […]
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.
