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Scallop Heaven

It has been a great season for bay scallops, they are plentiful and a little plumper than last year's.
Try this at home folks - bucatini with shiso pesto, spinach and tomato salad with a balsamic/dijon/walnut oil/ dressing, heat oil and butter in a pan 'til hot, sauté scallops for 30 seconds. Serve. Our 2014 Stonecrop rosé makes a perfect pairing.

Stonecrop Wine Dinner

Downstairs at Lovely Day

October evenings at the cozy downstairs bar - A glass of Stonecrop paired with seared salmon, sweet potato mash and market greens with orange cream dressing, just lovely.

Montauk's Famous Clam Chowder Contest

The Judges - We tasted 13 New England clam chowders on a gorgeous Sunday morning and it was announced later that day that Gosman's won 1st place! 

Three Fish Pies

The remainder of the smoked bluefish was put in the pies along with the freshly caught striped bass. We used Rick Stein's recipe which calls for 4 hardboiled eggs, a delicious addition - but instead of the potato topping we used Stephanie Alexander's shortcrust pastry recipe - quite possibly the best fish pie I have ever tasted, and my fisherman husband deserves all the credit for catching the fish and cooking, not one, but three pies.
I made a kale and tomato hash, the dinosaur kale freshly picked from the Montauk Community Garden and one juicy beefsteak from our garden - trying to make them last, just a couple left now. The changing of the season......but the stripers are here.

First Fall Dinner

We had our first real Fall dinner last night - kale from our garden gently cooked with shiitake mushrooms in sherry - the last of our beefsteak tomatoes  - sweet potatoes roasted with lemon and garlic. Captain Andy caught a nice striper at the 'elbow' near the Montauk Lighthouse so we baked it with oregano, celery and garlic. We ate at the kitchen table, just a wee bit too chilly to eat outside on the patio, a bittersweet time, mostly sweet, we have crisp days and cozy nights ahead, soups and stews on the stove and the stripers have returned in all their splendor. We wore socks and enjoyed our Montauk feast with a bottle of our rosé. Who says rosé is just for summertime?

Smoking blues in the backyard

It's that time of year again.....

Galette Duo

Just two things we made with our peach and pear glut - Alice Water's galette, recipe taken from The Art of Simple Cooking.

A Nashi Glut

The Stonecrop Trio

September Skies

Montauk Harvest 2014 - What we are growing in the Northern Hemisphere

Tomatoes/white peaches/nashi pears

Nashi pear tree

                                                               

White peach tree

White and purple fingerlings

Bartlett pears and tomatoes

It's Labor Day! - Got Stonecrop rosé?

Stonecrop Wines Is Blushing | The East Hampton Star

Stonecrop Wines Is Blushing | The East Hampton Star

Stonecrop's 2014 Rosé

Making its debut in Montauk with a big summery splash!

Stonecrop 2014 Rosé

Got to get back to the garden.....

New Zealand Greasy Spoon

Butchery in New Zealand

The Glamorous Life of a Vintner

All the grapes have been picked - time for a road trip

Fat Radish & Stonecrop Pinot Noir

The Fat Radish located on Orchard Street on the Lower East Side serves up delicious comfort food with creative twists on the normal run-of-the-mill pubby grub food, inventive dishes such as the hearty celery root pot pie with black garlic and the perfectly divine Scotch egg are a great match with our award winning Stonecrop pinot noir now served by the glass.

Meanwhile back at Stonecrop vineyard - Harvest 2014

Andrew and Sally take turns on the tractor picking up bins in the Pinot Noir rows

 Sorting 

Sally getting some help loading the grapes from Allen and Jim