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I am just loving Dorie Greenspan‘s new cookbook “Around my French Table.” Seriously. You should buy it. Then you can discover such great recipes like this squash soup, which not only helped me use up a squash from the farmers […]
I had a photo shoot at the house Wednesday where I had to salt cubes of beef and chop carrots and onions. Sounds like the making for a good beef stew, doesn’t it? Yes, I thought so, too. So I […]
So in keeping with the theme of Mindy Fox’s new book, “A Bird in the Oven and Then Some,” I used my leftover roast chicken for a second meal: Thai Coconut Soup. I really like Mindy’s recipe, but I did […]
We made the most delicious winter meal from Mindy Fox’s new cookbook, “A Bird in the Oven And then Some.” I can’t rave enough about the book, which is organized in a unique way: roast chicken recipes (and side dishes […]
Irene first served this cocktail at the book club’s discussion of “On the Road.” We’ve since requested it at bars and made at home. Several times. It’s adapted from David Wondrich, cocktail historian and writer extraordinaire. According to Esquire, for […]
I came across this recipe in “An Apple Harvest: Recipes and Orchard Lore” by Frank Browning and Sharon Silva (10 Speed Press). It turns out to be fabulous — and unlike most anything you’ve ever tasted. Try it. You’ll see. […]
As might be expected, our book club has turned into a sort of cooking club, too. Each meeting, the hosts try to match the meal with the book, whether through food mentioned it it, or inspired by a region. Kris […]
I am so proud of my thrift. I took the bone from our Christmas Eve standing rib roast (which I’d frozen) and the braising liquid from our braised short ribs (which I’d frozen), added some water, a couple of celery […]
We are going way back to the archives for this one. Back on post 48 on Sour Cherry Farm, in January of 2006: French Onion Soup. I haven’t changed the recipe much, except I haven’t done the onion confit in […]
I don’t have any photos to go along with this one, but you can see some over here on this old post for French Onion Soup. Recipe, after the jump. Related posts: How to Make Homemade Chicken Stock Prime Rib […]
A simple Friday night supper: Buy delicious three-cheese agnolotti from Eataly in October. Throw it in your freezer for three months. Use a garlic press to mince 3 cloves of garlic. Saute them in olive oil. Open a can of […]
We’ve been on a duck jag lately, but I wanted to try something a little different. I came across a recipe for Rice with Duck and Apricots while flipping through Food & Wine, and realized it was a take on […]
One of my favorite things about the foie gras terrine with beet juice at WD-50 was the candied olives. They were briny but sweet, and stuck to my molars like a Sugar Daddy. I also loved them in the arroz […]
I think I must have a thing for baking pastel vasco in January. I did it last year almost to the day! It’s a recipe from one of favorite books, “Sunday Suppers at Lucques,” and it’s kind of like a […]
OK, I don’t know what’s come over me. I said in this post here on Cook’s Illustrated’s Pot Roast that I’d mostly given up using Cook’s Illustrated recipes because they were too fussy. But this recipe is like they read […]
Braised short ribs on a cold January day? Nothing beats ’em. I found this recipe for braised beef short ribs on Epicurious, but I only used the short rib part, ignored the vegetable part, and served the ribs over polenta. […]
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.
