Sweet Parlor now open at Garvan’s in New Paltz
Leonie McCloskey has opened a sweet shop next to her husband Garvan’s restaurant in New Paltz. The shop features handmade baked treats as well as “Irish fancy goods.”
Food & Drink
Cornell Cooperative Extension offers free healthy cooking classes from home
Learn how to make a great chili from the comfort of your own kitchen on November 19 at 6 p.m. The class is part of a series of free healthy cooking classes offered as a collaboration between Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County and Ellenville Regional Hospital.
Phoenicia Honey Co. crafts herb-infused honeys, body balms
Before assuming the crown of Queen Bee of the Phoenicia Honey Co. six years ago, Rebecca Shim was racking up quite the reputation as a professional chef.
Apple pies, fritters hot items at Reformed Church Fall Bakery & Market
It just isn’t autumn without the hundreds of freshly baked apple pies and steaming-hot fritters dipped in powdered sugar at the New Paltz Reformed Church. The church’s annual apple festival this past Saturday was still a success, despite having to limit the size and scope due to the Covid-19 restrictions.
Winter is coming: Local restaurants prepare for cold weather, diminished capacity
Outdoor seating has been a lifeline for area restaurateurs during this pandemic, but it’s now October and the good weather for the year is mostly in the past. As the weather gets colder, restaurants are hoping that heaters and tents will help get them through the winter.
Rosendale’s Red Brick Tavern to reopen in October as Santa Fe Burger Bar, with expanded patio
Perhaps the most enticing change has occurred in the building’s long-neglected back yard, which faces a parking lot, the base of Joppenbergh Mountain, the filled-in remains of the D&H Canal and a spur to the Wallkill Valley rail-trail that should eventually lure in hikers and cyclists.
Vegan velocity: Delivery business model at Saugerties’ Healthy Gourmet to Go was ahead of its time
“I’ve been here for eight years, and in business for almost 30 years,” says owner Roni Shapiro, who did her apprenticeship in some of the best vegan kitchens in New York City. “Then Covid came, and it was needed. It’s just the perfect model.”
Veteran Woodstock chef MarLee Wang keeps Little Bear afloat through pandemic
“I feel like a part of Woodstock,” says MarLee Wang, and town residents who remember the comings and goings of local businesses over the years would surely not disagree. Her Little Bear is one of the longest-running restaurants in Woodstock, established in the early 1970s as a component of Albert Grossman’s Bearsville cultural complex.
This has been a big year for gardeners; here’s how to store the leftovers
Start with tomatoes. The advantage of beginning your canning and preserving career with tomatoes is that they are acidic fruits that don’t take hours of complicated processing in order to result in an array of beautiful jars of red deliciousness. From there, your preserved products can sit on a shelf in a cool basement for months on end, until you turn them into magnificent sauces or salsas or soups.
Ollie’s Pizza brings outdoor café dining to downtown High Falls
And what of these pies? Do they meet the test? Your picky Queens-bred correspondent tried two variations – white with caramelized sweet onions and tomato with pepperoni – and gave them two thumbs up.