Eat. Drink. Live.
Kris and Tom are heading to Africa! A supper on the patio before their Big Trip. Irene brought Stone Barns produce, of course. I lit the lanterns and spread the Bambi blanket for Sam. Hello, friends! Hello, friend. Beautiful food. […]
For 2014’s first cocktail hour on the patio, we lounged in our soon-to-be-sold redwood chairs and admired our clean garage. Now that’s living.
Kicking around outside before supper. I don’t know what we’re going to do when it gets cold out!
Our ‘new’ neighbors have lived across the street for almost two years now, but we hadn’t had a chance to have supper together until now. Way overdue, and so much fun, too. We took a cue from Peggy’s delishy appetizer […]
The string of perfect weather continues Saturday — wow! what a month! — so we decide to screen another movie. More cedar-planked salmon! More corn! And, for the first time this summer, a little Hitchcock. The beautiful salmon from the […]
We had a big night Friday, when we smoked a couple of chickens and had a showing of “Big Night” on the big outdoor screen. Kris and Tom brought over mustard greens and kale (made with Benton’s, natch) as well […]
A summer supper on the patio with seasonal ingredients: corn, tomatoes and peaches. The essence of August! Making our corn soup: A trip to the pool while it chills: Grammy and Lexi feed Samantha: Supper starts. Chilled corn soup […]
Summer nights on the patio.
Despite predictions of thunderstorms, the weather held out and we had an al fresco supper on the patio (second Sunday in a row!) for Father’s Day. On the menu: flank steak, beet and goat cheese salad with pickled onions and […]
Well, folks, more than a year after we first broke ground, we had our first supper on the patio Sunday night. Grilled sausage, Stella’s potato salad and garden greens. It was a magical night! Yes, we’re going to have to […]
Somebody quite enjoys splishing and splashing in the water. For 7 bucks, you can’t beat it. We sat under the umbrella and sprayed her with the hose every now and again. She was rapturous.
This is summer, summer! And the drink of summer is the gin and tonic. Fill a 12-ounce collins glass with ice. Pour 2 ounces of gin over it. Top with good tonic. Garnish with a lime. Do not squeeze the lime. […]
It’s a weekend of garden work at the farm! We’re planting, weeding and mulching, plus taming a couple of big-assed flowering quinces that have gotten so out of control that I missed seeing our lilac bloom through them! The […]
We’re trying something new at the farm here, folks. Thanks to a suggestion by Trae Feind (who finally paid the farm a visit but it went undocumented!), we ordered a sun sail to block the rays to the patio during […]
Srimp and Daddy go get 2-by-4s for the patio. Think she has a future career in homebuilding?
I’m told we will be building a patio. We have the estimate in hand, and have marked out our borders with string. We moved the furniture around a bit to see how it would fit. So here are our “before” […]
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.
