Summer Cookout: City slickers at Paisley Farm, Rhinebeck,NY

Summer barbeque time.

Working with Mike and Jan Kokas at Upstate Farm (PaisleyFarm).

A beautiful weekend of planting soy beans and string beans, picking the ever blooming Zinnias along with 20 other city slickers with a full day of roasting 85Lb of pig.

Some of us in the kitchen prepared freshly picked vegetable and created Burmese okra with dried shrimp, roast corn just picked from the farm, baby eggplant and squashes with mixed herbs.

My friend Jade made side dishes to complement the roast pork, cucumber with ginger, bitter melon with slivers of lotus and amazing cheese cakes with summer berries...Joyce made cherry clafoutis and Chazz with her childhood recipe of chocolate coffee cake to end the feast.

Two Additions to our Saffron 59 Family

Lile Maria with Aunty Irene

Cute Son of Momoko (our pastry chef)

How To: Preserving Wedding Photos

This post is for all of you, the newlyweds.
Over the past years I have received so many of your compliments for the weddings we have worked on along with the memorable wedding pictures that now reminds me how we all can preserve the collections in various ways.

Here in our studio  at Saffron59,  my parents and their siblings pictures in black and white of their travels and weddings. I treasure  them immensely  as its hung by the dinning room and classic to have these pictures showing the contrast from the modern ones.
 
Recently with my new apartment, I like to have something new and something old.  Alexa worked on my long narrow hallway wall with collage.  She scanned and archived these old pictures and touch up with Photo Shop...which has enable for me to have a wall full of these memorable pictures of our us growing up in Burma in black and white....and a colorful collage wall with my nieces and nephews....

Alexa in our studio, touch up with photo shop

  Irene's Aunty Jen's wedding

  Irene's Mom