Rib steak grilled over charcoal, steamed green beans and carrots and a salad of tomatoes and cucumbers from the garden
Chocolate Frozen Custard with Lindt 90% Cocoa Chips
Our Lello ice cream maker is the best. Can not buy ice cream like you make at home Yum!
Brazilian Hotdogs
In São Paulo Brazil, where my wife Marilena and I met 14 years ago we enjoyed hotdogs like these (cachorro quente). Mayonnaise, mustard, chopped fresh tomato, onion, ketchup Delicious!
Refrigerator Pickles
From our garden we bottled cucumbers, Hungarian peppers and a cayanne pepper along with garlic and black pepper corns.
First Tomatoes From the Garden
So good! These are Burpee 4th of July. Great tasting early tomatoe that produces all summer long.
So good! These are Burpee 4th of July. Great tasting early tomatoe that produces all summer long.
Tonight's Dinner
DeCecco Penne Rigate #41 with a home made Rutger's tomato sauce with garlic and onion from the garden, fresh thyme, home made rustic sausage and fresh grated pecorino parmasanio over the top.
This Sunday Night's BBQ
Buttercrunch lettuce salad from the garden with home made thyme and Dijon mustard dressing, baked potatoes heaped with butter and sour cream (yum) and pork ribs grilled indirectly or charcoal for a few hours.
Sushi Dinner at Home Saturday Night
Yellow tail sashimi, natto, salmon tartar, crab salad over sushi rice with cucumber and mango and pickled vegetables. Easy to make and a great start to the evening.
Some of Our Phalaenopsis Are In Bloom
We grow these under florescent lights on shelves in the basement. Phalaenopsos are very easy to grow and require very little maintenance. We water them once a week. Every 4-6 weeks we add a very small amount of fertilizer to the water. They grow in plastic orchid pots filled with Douglas fir bark chunks.
Great Looking Grapes
We have grown Marquis, Mars and Reliance for a few years now. This year it looks like we will have a lot of grapes.
A Couple of Days in Montauk
Great meals at "The Inlet Seafood Restaurant".
Sea Bass Fillet with Basil Pesto over Resoto
Fluke Picante
Fish and Chips (Local Cod)
Scallops over Sweet Potato Puree and Swiss Chard
Excellent Meal From the Garden
This evening we had a fresh arugula and lettuce salad from the garden made with with olive oil and parmasian cheese. A home grown Rutgers tomato puree made last fall was used to used to make the delicious sauce served with home made Italian sausage and ziti.
Very Nice Fig Trees For Sale
Today we released trees in several varieties for sale. Please send us an email with any questions.
Nursery Stock is Looking Great...
Our fig tree nursery stock that we propagate our cuttings from are really grow well. On a sunny warm day its great to outside and see how well everything is growing
Fig cams !
It's very interesting to see all of the wildlife activity in the yard with our fig cams. Birds, cats, squirrels etc. At night its very spooky especially when it's raining. Boo!
Nursery Inspection Today
Jessica the Horticulturist from The New Jersey Department of Agriculture inspected our stock today. "Plants look great!" she said in her report. We can ship to most states in the US. Send us an email if you have any questions.
Up Potting Our Nursery Stock at the French Fig Farm
It appears that the chance of frost is very low now. Our stock is out in full sun and many of the buds are starting to open. Many of the two crop varieties have small figs just starting to grow.
First Planting this Season
We have Rototilled the garden and this week we will plant mesculin and Buttercrunch Bibb lettuce seeds. Burpee has a great selection. We really look forward to this each year.
When we have some ready for the table we will show a simple but extraordinary salad recipe that lets the fresh lettuce stand out.
Crocus in Bloom
These dark purple ones are my favorite
Brigitte the Cat on a Sunny Day
You can always find her at the sunniest part of the house