Split Pea Soup with Dad’s home-smoked ham hocks Barbers’ greens with balsamic vinaigrette Fresh cornbread w/grassfed butter Homemade pie GF & Prix Fixe 19.95 As usual, we’ll open at 9 on Saturday and Sunday with our full breakfast menu, espresso bar, specialty drinks and fresh pastries. We’ll serve until 1pm.
Archives for July 2018
Unpaid Family Labor
“Jim!” George, one of Dad’s favorite customers, calls from the front of the cafe all the way to the kitchen in the back. “You got yourself a new job!” He waves and smiles. Dad must have his hearing aids on, because he looks up from the three bay sink, where he’s spraying down some bowls […]
Sap Bush Cafe Prix Fixe Brunch Sat-Sun July 28-29, 9-1
Garden-fresh tomato season is here! This week’s special: Tomato-garlic chicken salad Sap Bush pastured chicken and Barbers tomatoes and garlic, served over their greens with red wine vinaigrette Homemade cornbread w/grassfed butter Fresh berry pie GF & Prix Fixe 19.95 As usual, we open at 9am with our full breakfast menu, espresso drinks and […]
What would Henry David say?
“For my greatest skill has been to want but little.” When I read this line in Walden, I repeated it out loud. I wrote it down. I emblazoned it across my brain, forged it into my heart, considered tattooing it across my chest. I was a mother of two by then, but they were […]
Selfish Inner Goddess
“I don’t know how to parent you!” These words shock me as they shoot from my mouth on this steamy Fourth of July morning beside the edge of Mallet pond. Ula’s back is to me, facing the water. She’s been with her friends all week. She’s been with friends all summer. But they are not […]
July’s fresh chicken pick up is delayed!
Mother Nature has given us no choice but to delay this month’s fresh chicken pick up by one week. July’s chicken pick up will now take place on Friday, July 20, 4-7 pm & Saturday, July 21, 9-12. Please use the contact page to let us know if you have any questions or concerns. […]
Smoothies & Hormones
“Kids! We gotta be in the car in 15 minutes! Let’s MOVE!” “But Mom!” Ula lobs her words from her pillow, over the stair railing and down into the kitchen where they land, smoking, at my feet. “You have to make our smoothies!” Imperitives don’t sit well with me today. This is an invitation to […]
Sap Bush Cafe Prix Fixe Brunch Special Sat-Sun, July 7-8, 9-1pm
We are now on summer hours, we just got in some beautiful new beef, & Barbers and Bohringers down the road are producing some gorgeous produce. This week’s prix fixe brunch menu: Summer Vegetable Beef Soup with Rice Noodles (Sap Bush Grassfed Beef, Barbers’ Veggies & Homemade bone broth) Wedge of NYS Extra-Sharp Cheddar […]