Eat. Drink. Live.
In what has become somewhat of a winter tradition, we sipped Champagne and slurped oysters by a roaring fire. A good way to spend an evening, I’d say. I was so impressed by this 8-page fold-out cookie special section in […]
Reading the stories in the Advent calendar, eating oysters, drinking bubbly. Hard to think of a better way to spend a Saturday night.
A fun, funny night at the farm, with oysters to start, salmon as the main course and The Big Lebowski for dessert. Cheers!
January is for oysters and champagne. (OK, we’ll settle for cava.) In front of a roaring fire. And for supper, cod with kale and roasted grape tomatoes.
A fun Saturday night at home, sharing supper with Irene. Oysters from Wegmans! Our favorite, Pemaquids, from Maine. We made the last of our volunteer albino acorn squash: And Irene brought scallops from the 1. Scallops over arugula with bacon-squash […]
An all-local dinner this evening, well, unless you count the Loire Valley sparkler I picked up at Joe’s wine shop. Beautiful Montauk oysters (yes, again): And a cedar-plank salmon caught somewhere between here and Newfoundland, I’m told. Plus, lentils and […]
The oysters we get at the Palisades Farmers Market — they come from the cold waters off Montuak — are just so delicious and affordable that we can’t help but pick some up a little more often than maybe we […]
We decide to go home via the North Fork, thinking that we’d stop at a few wineries along the way. First, lunch in Greenport, at the new(ish) Blue Canoe Oyster Bar. The girls: A terrific platter of all-local oysters. They […]
The floating oyster bar in NYC, Grand Banks, is docked off Pier 25 in TriBeCa at the west end of North Moore Street. The old schooner was retrofitted with two bars and tables, and serves oysters and a few small […]
Flex Mussels on the Upper East Side is a great little neighborhood joint that serves mussels a million ways. We had the occasion to try it because we were heading to the 92nd Street Y to watch Ira Glass interview Dan […]
What a fun New Year’s Eve! We sipped champagne from France, slurped oysters from Maine and savored big bowls of carbonara. And then there was the singing!
If you’ve been to Times Square, you’ve probably walked past this: Big glass windows that look out onto Broadway. The room is great for people watching, but not very comfortable. Here’s a little secret. Walk up the stairs and you’ll […]
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 […]
Lobster rolls and oysters at the Clam Bar. Yes, summer is here.
So we tried to go to the top of the Standard for drinks. Yeah, that doesn’t work with a stroller. At the Standard Grill, though, you can sneak in to a table near the bar. But not at the bar. […]
The last of the forbidden pregnancy foods has now been checked off the list. At Grand Central Oyster Bar: Belons, Christmas Coves, Chincoteauges and North Havens. A platter of cold, briny oysters that tasted of the sea and brought a […]
Before Karen left, the Ausseis had to get a chance to catch up, and it was nice just to have an evening on the porch. We had a great summer supper of skirt steak, corn and tomatoes, with a couple […]
Oysters and pasta for us. Grilled cheese sandwich and fries for Reece.
After our ice skating escapade, we headed downtown for lunch at an old standby, the Union Oyster House.
Prime Meats is the kind of place a couple of tourists from upstate might find themselves as the first diners at 6:30 p.m. on a Thursday night for dinner. About 20 minutes later, a family from the neighborhood — celebrating […]
Our motto in Maine is “Oysters Everyday.” Today’s fix comes from a cute little restaurant on the Rockland harbor called The Boathouse.
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.
