1 I was very pleased to be invited to headline the Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival. Having grown up in Nutley, New Jersey, the Jersey Shore holds a special place in my heart.

2 The production teams were very busy. Between my events, Robert Irvine and Marcus Samuelsson hosted events of their own.

3 One of the things I demoed was my morning green juice. I will vary the ingrients by what I have in the refrigerator, but typically it contains spinach, some citrus, green apple, cucumber, ginger, celery, and parsley.

4 Guests were greeted with a glass of green juice - a great way to start the day!

5 Attendees were seated outdoors in the courtyard in front of Bally’s Casino.

6 We created a delicious breakfast menu for the guests to enjoy while watching Thomas Joseph, Sarah Carey, and me demonstrate the recipes. The main dish was cheese popovers with creamed spinach accompanied with a fried egg and bacon.

7 Here I am measuring Worcestershire Sauce for a Bloody Mary.

8 The Grand Market featured wine, spirits, food sampling, and an opportunity to have authors sign books.

9 Here I am with Eliza Stasi, Regional Entertainment Coordinator for Caesar’s Entertainment Corporation, who put a lot of work into organizing the events.

10 I signed copies of Martha's American Food, which is filled with our nation's favorite regional recipes.

11 I always find it fun and gratifying to meet the people who come to my book signings.

12 Here I am with members of the Jersey General Salsa Company, which donates a portion of its proceeds to military charities. They gave me some salsa to try at home.

13 I had an opportunity to talk to a roundtable of journalists who were covering the Festival.

14 We had some time to kill between events, and we took a quick drive to visit nearby Ocean City.

15 We stopped for a bite at Oves Beach Grill on the boardwalk in Ocean City. The kitchen was filled with teenagers working their summer jobs.

16 A nice view of the ocean from the boardwalk

17 We watched happy vacationers racing go-karts.

18 We then made a stop at the popular Bashful Banana.

19 The Bashful Banana is known for their frozen, pureed banana treats, which can be mixed with other fruits and topped as you wish. I chose chocolate chips.

20 Another lovely view from the road leading back to Atlantic City

21 The boardwalk in Atlantic City was buzzing with people going between casinos, the beach, and the festival events.

22 I headed to the tent on the beach where the Beach Burger Bash was beginning.

23 I hosted the Beach Burger Bash, where we served the Steak-House Worthy burger featured in June Martha Stewart Living.

24 Guests were able to sample 10 different burger variations - and plenty of french fries and beer!

25 The crowds were enthusiastic and welcoming!

26 Chef Timothy Davis came out to talk me through all of the burger offerings.

27 The Black & Blue Burger was stuffed with blue cheese, steak sauce, and crispy onions.

28 Oxbow Farm’s Buffalo Burger had crispy onion rings, pepper jack cheese, and smoke house barbeque sauce.

29 The Peking Duck Burger was garnished with hoisin sauce, pickled cucumbers, and green onions.

30 The Hand Ground Sirloin Burger came with American cheese and homemade pickles.

31 Some of my tips for the crowd – Don’t skimp on the bread – a serious burger requires a hefty bun!

32 For a great beef burger: grind sirloin and short rib together to create a patty that tastes more like a steak. The combo of sirloin and short-rib gives the best proportions of flavor and fat.  Ask your butcher to grind together your choice of meats.

33 We returned to the courtyard to present a dinner menu. The first was a classic Brazilian cocktail with a spicy twist, the Ginger Caipirinha. For the cachaça, I used a brand called Pitu. http://www.marthastewart.com/1074800/ginger-caipirinhas?search_key=ginger%20caipirinha.

34 We featured the simple and beautiful Cool and Crunchy Melon-Cucumber Salad on the cover of July/August Martha Stewart Living.

35 I followed the salad with a delicious Cioppino, or a seafood stew, filled with King crab, white fish, and clams. http://www.marthastewart.com/340975/cioppino-seafood-stew.

1 Jimmy stopped by my dressing room to welcome me to the show. It's always great to see him.

2 I have always enjoyed being a guest on Jimmy’s show, and was so glad to be on his exciting new venue, The Tonight Show.

3 Kevin Sharkey weighed in while Daisy did my hair and makeup.

4 We didn’t actually open the tequila, but here is Kevin posing with the bottle of fine Patron that was left for us in my dressing room.

5 This is my long time publicist, Susan Magrino. The Tonight Show filmed two shows last Thursday and we were there for an evening taping, which aired last Friday night.

6 Caroline Brown has just joined the Susan Magrino agency.

7 Daisy Schwartzberg has been my hair and makeup artist for the last three years.

8 I took a photo of the corridor leading to all of the dressing rooms, as well as the door backstage. An extraordinary number of amazingly talented guests have walked through this corridor.

9 There was a lot happening backstage as the crew was preparing for the show. While Jimmy and the guests were getting ready to go onstage, Team Fallon was hard at work preparing for the night.

10 Jon Hamm, the Emmy nominated actor for "Mad Men", and I shared a laugh backstage before dressing for our appearances.

11 Jon is currently producing and acting with Daniel Radcliffe in "A Young Doctor’s Notebook," airing on Ovation.

12 Here I am with Brit Marling, who stars as Karen in the new movie "I Origins", about molecular biology and its relation to the existence of soulmates.

13 Our two Executive Interns at MSLO, Gabriella Czarniak and Michael Goldman, assisted backstage. They had a wonderful time seeing the production process of the Tonight Show.

14 A nice photo of me in my dressing room after Daisy had finished my hair and makeup, and right before I went onstage

15 Jimmy and Jon performed a very funny skit called “Palisades Park Pet Patrol”, which had many of us backstage in tears of laughter. It was as messy as it was hilarious!

16 Jon made his best face for the camera

17 Jimmy has all of his guests sign his guest book. I wrote that I hoped he would still love me after I beat him in the Cuban sandwich contest.

18 A nice shot of Susan in the very comfortable dressing room

19 Here I am with Jon Hamm and Brit Marling.

20 Jimmy made Questlove put on a dome of silence so that he could not hear or see what we were adding to our competing sandwiches. Jimmy’s secret ingredient was coleslaw, which is not authentic to a Cuban sandwich, but was still tasty.

21 I knew Jimmy has an aversion to mayonnaise, so I pulled out a giant container to throw off his game. Ultimately, Questlove voted for Jimmy’s sandwich - not surprising! Questlove is, of course, the drummer and joint frontman, along with Black Thought, for the Grammy Award-winning band The Roots, Jimmy Fallon's amazing in-house band.

22 The Sour-Cherry Mojitos looked great with our Star-Spangled products from the Martha Stewart Collection exclusively at Macy’s. bit.ly/WLrD2V

1 A view towards the stable

2 The pasture fencing is 100-year-old white spruce railings from Canada, dropped between new cedar uprights that have been pounded into the ground.

3 A gorgeous sky

4 An electric wire runs along the top rail to keep the horses from rubbing or chewing on the rails.

5 These Oriental lilies are about 8 feet tall!

6 There are so many flowers and so much fragrance!

7 A landscape nursery in Long Island is closing and is liquidating their merchandise. I got a great deal on 150 Japanese maples to continue planting in the maple grove.

8 These trees are colorful and very healthy.

9 The cotinus, or smoke bush, did so well this year.

10 Their flowers actually look like puffs of smoke.

11 It's time to prune the hornbeam hedges, keeping the crenelated look of a rampart built around the top of a castle.

12 The Hi-Lo is used to prune the tops.

13 Tall Thalictrum, or meadow rue, towers above other plants in the shade garden near the Tenant House. Thalictrum is often found growing along stream banks and in moist meadows.

14 This is a viburnum, which has showy white blooms in the spring. During summer, the plant bears colorful ornamental fruit, which is very pleasing to the eye in the landscape.

15 A closeup of the viburnum fruit

16 These are the strong, lavender plumes of Astilbe Amethyst, which has spread so nicely throughout the years.

17 Bartok, my remaining Himalayan cat, was enjoying sunbathing on the terrace.

18 Bartok is feeling lonely as his companion, Vivaldi, went to cat heaven last week.

19 The crevices in the wall of the terrace were planted with sedum a few years ago.

20 Sedum, a large genus of flowering plants, are also known as stonecrops and are members of the succulent family.

21 Sedum, with their fleshy, water-storing leaves, are drought tolerant and adapt well in situations having very little soil.

22 Sedums thrive nearly anywhere, as long as they get good drainage.

23 This sedum is planted in the gravel between a stepping stone path and is growing and spreading very nicely.

24 This is an espalier of Gravenstein apples.

25 A better look at this very pretty ripening fruit - Gravensteins are a wonderful cooking apple, being crisp and tart and with a touch of honey. They are especially good in sauce and cider or even dried.

26 Walking beneath the long pergola with a wall of lavender Rose of Sharon.

27 This granite post has a matching shade of lavender clematis.

28 More clematis in a deeper shade of lavender

29 A lovely cream colored fragrant lily with a lemon-yellow center

30 My housekeeper, Laura Acuna, was busy picking blueberries in the blueberry patch.

31 This is a mint garden, planted with many varieties of mint. Mint is quite invasive and it's important to plant it where you won't mind it growing rampant.

32 This is Agastache foeniculum, or anise hyssop, whose blossoms are highly attractive to bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.

33 The entrance to the cutting garden is flanked by a pair of giant Kenneth Lynch urns, planted with banana trees.

34 The sunflowers are very tall and pretty.

35 This bed of nasturtiums is quite colorful.

36 As is this bed of ageratum

37 This is one of the hay fields on the way to the woods.

38 The carriage roads are topped with recycled asphalt from old roadways, providing an excellent surface for horses, vehicles, and pedestrians. This one meanders through the woods.

39 Fungi growing on a tree usually means the tree is dying or already dead.

40 There are many wild raspberries in the woods and it looks like a bumper crop this summer.

41 These berries are quite good for eating, but they provide a lot of nourishment to the wildlife.

42 Many kinds of birds can be seen picking and eating these berries.

43 This is the little woodland cottage.

44 This is the Christmas tree field, which was planted in 2009. It's growing very well.

45 This is the other hayfield where something unusual was spotted.

46 These are hawk feathers. It's usually the hawk catching the prey, but this one was the prey of something else - perhaps a fox.