Organic Tomatoes

Our organic garden is over flowing with tomatoes. Two years in a row our garden in the back yard of our restaurant has a bumper crop of organic heirloom tomatoes.

Here is Courtney and Justin picking tomatoes on Friday August 29th.

Also in our garden: green beans, basil, stevia, squash, butternut squash, parsley and lots of peppers.

Ellenville, What to do in Ellenville?

Don't Let the Shadowland Theartre Season Pass
Here is the lastest review.

Aroma Thyme is open late after every performance, and we have live Jazz on Thursday & live Music every Saturday. Our kitchen is open until midnight.

Play review: 'Glorious' at Shadowland Theatre in Ellenville
Reviving Florence Foster Jenkins at the Shadowland

By MARCUS KALIPOLITES
For the Times Herald-Record
August 21, 2008
ELLENVILLE — It's tough enough singing an operatic aria, but when you have had success in musical theater as well as opera, and your newly acquired role calls for singing out of tune, now, that's a challenge.

This was the dilemma facing Jacqueline Kroschell for the current Shadowland production of Peter Quilter's "Glorious," a very funny play in which she assumes the character of Florence Foster Jenkins (1868-1944). Known as the "first lady of the sliding scale," Jenkins was a wealthy widow who "wowed" her audiences with bad singing, including a 1944 full-house concert at Carnegie Hall.

But despite risk, Kroschell, in Friday night's opener in Ellenville, showed the way of real troupers. Flamboyant of personality, overflowing with energy, confident of success and persuasive in holding on to enablers, her effusive and charming character was commanding. From the opening scene of interviewing an accompanist to denying critics access to her performances to "singing" at Melotone Studios, Jenkins is in complete control of everything but the right notes. She even brags that if the Met would ask her to sing the title role of "Tosca," her performance would wipe out a year's worth of debt.

If you go ...
What: "Glorious" by Peter Quilter
Where: Shadowland Theatre, 157 Canal St., Ellenville
When: 8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sun., through Sept. 7
Tickets: $21-$26
Call: 647-5511
Not fully convinced, though persuaded to join her team, is pianist Cosme McMoon. He's played by a bewildered Christopher Daftsios, who grimaces on first hearing the self-proclaimed diva. But with labored willingness and growing admiration on the part of his character, Daftsios moves from doubt to feigned approval even as he "accompanies" her on the grand piano.

If McMoon's acceptance of Jenkins' potential takes time to mature, the crusade of support led by Dorothy (CC Loveheart) sparkles with the enthusiasm of a college cheerleader. With freakish laugh and flaky behavior, the quirky woman beams the exhilaration of a devoted fan even as she insists, "You haven't heard anything like it," notwithstanding that reality turns her comment on its head. But beyond glowing support for Jenkins, Loveheart's character also turns somber at the funeral of her dog, wishing that just once more she could entice him to retrieve a stick.

Not so accepting of the dog is Maria, Jenkins' cook and housemaid who, not only fetches water for the dog but also spouts exasperation in double-time Spanish at the weird goings-on. Laura Carbonell's Maria manages as well to fend off St. Clair Byfield's advances.

In the role of Jenkins' boyfriend, David Lenthall cuts a dignified figure who flashes unwielding support for his patron.

Support, but of a different kind, finds a rampaging Mrs. Johnson demanding by way of a petition that Jenkins stop killing music. As the feisty head of a music lovers group, Cynthia Topps confronts the would-be opera star with such fury that the verbal assault turns violent and physical.

With a frothy script and resourceful actors, this Brendan Burke-directed show is sure to please on the comedic, if not musical, level.

Yukon River Wild Salmon

Fall Yukon Keta Salmon Hits the Market
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August 28, 2008 - A "new" salmon, the Yukon River keta, or chum, is making a splash with Seattle chefs and is finding its way to select national markets.
Like the much-heralded Yukon River king salmon, Yukon fall chums (Oncorhynchus keta,) are genetically programmed to store oil for their 2,000-mile journey to spawning grounds.


"They have unique spawning requirements of upwelling deep spring water found in only a few places in the upper portion of the drainage so the majority of them have a body condition to enable them to swim a long distance," says Fredrick Bue, a biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish & Game.

The fish are supplied by community-owned Kwik'pak Fisheries in Emmonak, Alaska, the only Fair Trade Federation fishery in the world. Sales directly benefit communities in dire need. Without a king salmon fishery this season and with fuel prices exceeding $7 a gallon, the people of the Yukon River Delta villages are facing a rough winter.

"Getting this Yukon fall chum into top restaurants and retail markets will make a big difference," says Jack Schultheis, Kwik'pak Fisheries general manager.

"Yukon River chum is not your run-of-the-mill chum," Jeremy Anderson, director of operations for Seattle's Consolidated Restaurants, told SeaFood Business for the September One on One column. Anderson is currently menuing the fish at Elliott's Oyster House.

Recent lab tests conducted by Bodycote Testing Group in Portland, Ore., show that Yukon fall chums contain 14 to 19 percent oil. Chums generally have the lowest oil content of any salmon species, but the Yukon fall chum has more oil than cohos, sockeyes, pinks, more than three times that of most chum salmon and even more than king salmon from most rivers.

After a summer of record salmon prices, consumers will be pleased with the attractive introductory pricing of the Yukon fall chum/keta salmon, says Kwik'pak Fisheries.

"While this fish is in a league by itself, we still have to compete with inexpensive chums from other areas, so we are keeping the price affordable. Once people try it, many say, 'That is the best salmon I've ever eaten,'" says Schultheis. "It makes an excellent alternative to king salmon, which have been scarce and pricey this year - and it actually has a higher oil content than the typical king. The Yukon fall chum is like discovering a whole new salmon species. In the words of one retailer, 'It's a different fish!'"

The ADF&G forecasts up to 600,000 fish for the fall run. The fishery, like all Alaska salmon harvests, is certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council. Yukon fall chums should be available into September.