Brittney smiling in her kitchen, leaning on the counter beside green hydrangeas

Home & Table

Memories are made around a table.

With Brittney, from a kitchen in Westchester, New York.

Recipes, gatherings, traditions and inspiration for making home the place everyone wants to be.

From the kitchen

New on the table.

All recipes

Sides · 15 min

Summer salad with feta and mint

Sides · 32 min

Summer pasta salad with corn and tomatoes

Desserts · 65 min

Thank you for being here.

Recipes, stories and gatherings that celebrate home, food and the people we love.

What you'll find here

Four things, done well.

A little bit of everything that makes a house feel like home, from what we're cooking and growing to gathering around the table.

Recipes

The things we actually cook. Weeknight dinners, Sunday suppers, cocktails and recipes made for sharing.

Brittney setting a garden table with white hydrangeas and striped chairs

Inspiration

Menus, tables, traditions and Bluestone Rules. Ideas to borrow, make your own and bring to your table.

Garden

What we're planting, growing and learning, and how it all makes its way from the garden back to the table.

Hosting

Let me help you get dinner on the table. Prepared meals and small-event catering, whether you're feeding your family or a house full of friends.

Bluestone rules

A few things I have learned from feeding a lot of people.

The rule of five.
Greet with a drink.
Family table and family style.
Prep yesterday, enjoy today.

From the house

A summer of ordinary evenings.

A basket of just-picked vegetables on the garden steps

A strawberry galette cooling on a wooden board

Pasta lifted from a green cabbage-leaf dish

A pasta salad in a white scalloped dish on the outdoor table

A child reaching for a chocolate chip cookie

Brittney at a garden table set with white hydrangeas and scalloped plates

Brittney walking the garden path with a harvest basket

The full table laid for an evening outside

Brittney in her vegetable garden holding a tray and a basket of just-picked vegetables

Who's cooking

Hi, I'm Brittney.

I'm a mom of two, home cook, gardener and the person who is always looking for an excuse to have everyone over.

Bluestone & Basil is where I share what I'm cooking, growing and learning along the way, plus the traditions and little rules that make feeding people easier.

Because the house doesn't have to be perfect and dinner doesn't have to be complicated. There just has to be room for one more.

Brittney

More about Brittney

Asked and answered

The questions I actually get.

Do I need to be a good cook for any of this?

No. I am not a trained chef and most of what is here I learned by getting it wrong first. Everything on this site is written for someone figuring out dinner at the last minute, because that is usually me.

How far ahead do I really need to plan?

Less than you think. The point of everything here is that having people over should not cost you a week. Most of it is a menu that holds, a table you set once, and a bit of timing.

Do I have to make it look like this?

Absolutely not. One pot and one flower is genuinely enough. The photographs are a good day, not a standard, and nothing here needs a theme or a project.

What will you actually send me?

One letter a week. What we ate, what worked, and what I would do differently. Short enough to read standing up, and you can leave whenever you like.