Somebody is not happy about chores. Stacking chairs in the garage.
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.
Tag: fall
Secor Farm in Fall
Our second annual trip to Secor Farm, for a hayride and a little pumpkin patch. Hay ride: Ooh, scary! Pumpkin patch (sort of): Here we are! Corn maze! Corn: Hello silly family: Some fall portraits of Sam: Selfies! Cute girl. […]
Pork Ragu
Here’s another pasta recipe — pork ragu — from the Sara Jenkins school of sofrito. The mirepoix of onion, carrot, celery, garlic and spices is pureed and sauted to concentrate the flavors. It makes for an impressive ragu with a […]
Kale with Pine Nuts and Pine Nut Butter
You don’t have to pull the kale off the stems for this recipe, but it makes for a nicer presentation when you’re doing a fancy dinner. Bonus: It’s vegan! Recipe, apres jump.
Maple-Roasted Squash with Chestnuts
This recipe is festive, but easy, easy, easy. It can be done the day before, then reheated. Maple and brown sugar flavor the squash during the roasting and chestnuts make a fine garnish. You won’t even miss the butter.
Dan Barber’s Fennel Soup
As I think I mentioned, we’re doing a vegan Christmas supper this year. We planned ahead by making and freezing a vegetable stock (hey, you’re always going to need stock, right?), but in the end, we had to make it […]
‘Simple is Best’ Stuffing Recipe for Thanskgiving
We’ve had lots of stuffing recipes over the years: cornbread stuffing, oyster stuffing, sage stuffing cooked inside the turkey. This year, we decided to look for a very simple, straightforward recipe. Imagine our surprise when we found, on Epicurious, a […]
Recipe: Scalloped Potatoes
Greg got a beautiful ham from our farmers market from Kiernan Farm. What goes better with ham than scalloped potatoes? Here’s how we made them.
Korean Fried Chicken
Light, crunchy batter. Spicy, firey sauce. What’s not to love about Korean Fried Chicken? This is the second or third time we’ve made this recipe, which originally came from the New York Times. Since then, we have found that you don’t […]
Recipe: Braised Green Beans
When you think of braising, it’s usually meats, right? A pork shoulder, bubbling for hours in a bath of milk? Or a brisket, getting so juicy and tender in tomato sauce? Well one of my favorite braising recipes could be […]
Pumpkin Spice Bundt Cake with Salted Caramel Sauce
I promised on my Pinterest page: I will make this Pumpkin Spice Bundt Cake recipe! Here it is. Not hard at all and well worth the 20 minutes it took. Sam even helped.
Recipe: Butternut Squash Tart with Fried Sage
How do you cook for an interfaith afternoon event, where you need to come up a dish that can serve guests with different dietary restrictions mid-afternoon? Not lunch. Not dinner. Tea, sort of. Well, you go vegetarian, and you go […]
Recipe: Baked Polenta
Absolutely brilliant call, David Tanis, bravo. Making polenta for a crowd has never been so easy.
Braised Lamb Shanks with Baked Polenta
Thank you, David Tanis, for showing me the light. Here I have been stuck in front of the stove each time I want to make polenta, stirring, stirring, stirring. Even the supposed “no-stir” polenta recipes always require attending. No more. […]
The First Real Sign of Fall
Orange tree at the corner of Cedar Hill and Franklin:
Jane Brody’s Turkey Carcass Soup
With our leftover turkey carcass, what better to make than Turkey Carcass Soup? It’s so satisfying using every last bit of your Thanksgiving turkey, down to the bones. Plus, it’s a a brothy yet hearty soup with barley and mushrooms […]
Recipe: Cranberry-Oatmeal-Chocolate Chip Cookies
Food and Wine’s latest issue has a story about a new book with a good cause: Cookies for Kids Cancer: Best Bake Sale Cookbook. Author Gretchen Holt-Witt’s son was suffering from pediatric cancer, and she baked 96,000 cookies one holiday […]
Cocktail Recipe: Applejack Old Fashioned
Out of the many, many cocktail recipes that Ed and I tried for our story on New York State spirits, our favorite was the Applejack Old Fashioned. Photo by Xavier Mascareñas/The Journal News. The recipe: [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:70] Applejack Old Fashioned […]
Incredible Pot Roast from Cook’s Illustrated
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 […]
Cocktail Recipe: Carjack
We like to call this cocktail the Carjack. It’s little twist on a Sidecar, but it’s made with applejack brandy rather than cognac. Clever, huh? [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:72] Carjack 8 ounces Laird’s Applejack Brandy 4 ounces Cointreau 2 ounces lemon juice Set […]
Recipe: 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 […]
