RESERVATIONS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED! Chicken pot pie Braised cabbage and apples from Barbers Homemade pie w/ a wedge of NYS x-sharp cheddar GF and Prix Fixe, 16.95 Please be aware: Each time we serve chicken pot pie, there seems to be a rush on them. We have had to turn some folks away. Your reservation […]
Archives for November 2017
Selling it.
Become a Patron “You don’t show enough cleavage,” I was told by some cynical veteran writers one night after a bottle of wine. “You’ll never make it as a popular writer.” “You don’t do lunch,” I was told by a New York publishing insider. “You’ll never make it.” Long before I faced the brutal realities […]
Sap Bush Cafe Nov 18, 19, 20 Hearthside Brunch
Our turkey pick-ups will take place On Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, Nov 18, 19, & 20, from 9am-1pm. Thus, we will have extended hours this week. Not getting a turkey? That’s okay. Come see us anyway! We have a special pre-Thanksgiving meal planned: Shepherd’s Pie Barbers mashed potatoes over Sap Bush grassfed Beef, local […]
Selfish
Selfish Bitch. To my mind, those are about the cruelest words that can be uttered to a woman. It isn’t that I haven’t encountered (or employed) more extreme vulgarities. But the venom in that accusation contains the most poison. It tells a woman who has stood up for herself or seen to her own needs […]
Sap Bush Cafe Hearthside Brunch Menu Sat, Nov 11, 9-12
This is one of our customer favorites, and since Barber’s is on their last fennel of the season, I figured we’d better enjoy it while we can! Please note that we are on winter hours now, so we close at noon (clean up takes a few hours, and we like to be home before dark!). […]
Happily Ever Right Now
November first is a special holiday for Bob and me. For us, it represents our first day of happily ever after. It was the day Bob was unexpectedly fired from his job. We were shocked. Embarrassed. Scared shitless. We had only closed on our house two weeks’ prior, and our first mortgage bill arrived in […]
How To Darn Wool Socks
I’m getting a lot of requests for this post since the weather changed. Guess it’s time to re-run it… I usually get up each Monday morning and write about meat. But the first leaves have begun to change color on the trees, and I’ve begun carrying my knitting basket around with me once more. And in […]