What I’m NOT Cooking…
Ah, the dog days of summer. The average humidity puts my hair in a ponytail 99% of the time and while it looks beautiful outside, I can’t stand the heat. […]
Category Archives: Garden Goodies
Day Trip: The Country Living Fair
Every year during the first weekend in June, I’ve been going to an annual event about 100 miles north of Manhattan called the Country Living Fair. Held Friday through Sunday, this […]
Playing Defense in the Garden
Memorial Day weekend is an unofficial start to the summer in so many ways – pools open, BBQs are fired up and for me, it’s usually when I get to […]
Brrrreaking Out the Garden Gloves
Feels like 12 degrees. Thank you, weather.com, for the gut-punch this morning. After a few encouraging weeks of climbing mild temperatures and seeing spring slowly emerge through blossoming trees (and even […]
Springing Forward into Garden Planning
It’s been a long, cold winter but we’re finally turning a corner and the snow is starting to melt. (Hooray!!!) That also means the race is on to get garden […]
Entertaining from Garden to Table
Last weekend we had several friends come visit us for dinner and it gave me a great excuse to dust off the china and silver and throw a small dinner party. I’ve […]
A Few of My Favorite Fall Ingredients
While ladies (and a few gents) across America are going hog-wild for pumpkin spice EVERYTHING, there’s more to Fall than pumpkin patches and apple orchards. Don’t get me wrong – I […]
Little House on the Hudson 