Mohonk Weekend

We spent this past weekend at the Mohonk Mountain House (near Poughkeepsie), with Sara's family. A wonderful time was had by all!


FF(il), A/M(il), Jeff, Andrew, Laura, Sara, Uncle Edwin, and Josh
Not pictured: Morris, Janet, Nathan, and Shirley

This is the actual hotel (plus part of the dock and lake):



This is the top of a cliff called "skytop". We didn't climb it on this trip, but did on a previous trip some years ago. The climb includes the infamous "lemonsqueeze" toward the top:



For more pictures (and videos!) check out here

CSA week 7

Try and see if you can find:
An eggplant, yellow and green beans, 7 ears of corn, carrots, kale, cucumbers, zucchini, tomatoes, romaine, potatoes, basil, garlic and radicchio!


In case you have trouble with the carrots, here's a hint: they aren't orange :)

CSA week 6

Here's this week's CSA:

From left to right, we have:
1 head red leaf
1 garlic
1 tomato
1 bunch parsley
1 head red cabbage
3 cucumbers (stay tuned for pickles made from last week's)
1 bunch beets
3 onions
1 zucchini

CSA bounty week 5!

From left to right:
Dill, carrots, red kale, 3 onions, 1 garlic, red and white potatoes, a hidden zucchini, romaine, and cukes galore (which we'll pickle, with the dill--yum!).

CSA week 4

Sara is busy in the kitchen cooking up the last of our yummy veggies from last week! Not in the cooking mood, I though I'd at least do something CSA-related though...

Anyway, one day, maybe I'll take a picture of the finished product. In the meantime, here's what we started with a week ago:



For those that can't tell, from left to right, we have:
Early onions
Yellow chard
Zucchini
Turnips
Cucumbers
Carrots
Beets
Cabbage
And in the back: Kohlrabi and and Green-Leaf Lettuce

The end of a legend

Today (well, a month ago, but this blog isn't in real time) the legend of our triplets bites the dust. Sadly, as of 6/8/09, Sara only has permission to eat for two, not four:

But here's a series of 3, to make it easier to pretend:

Have you heard the good news?

Sara gets special parking at Wegman's!

Picking at our farm share

We visited Red Fire Farm for pick-your-own strawberries and peas:

It was toward the end of strawberry season,
but the sugar snap peas were top rate.
Here's what we managed to loot:

Jacob and Rose get married!

We were seated at table infinity:

Here is some evidence of the marriage:

Here is our CSA share, week 2:


My favorite was the caduceus carrot!