Just one more reason to love Autum!!!

Pumpkin Flan with maple, caramel sauce, lemon mascapone & roasted pumpkin seeds.

I need to sit down.

Hello Everyone!

Yesterday and the day before were perfect days.  So….today is a bit cloudy…maybe rainy…a tad cool….that just makes me appreciate the perfects days when they are here.

In the meantime….I have Three Cheese Onion Soup and all sorts of warm delicious food to warm your soul.   We also have a cocktail called ….wait for it….a….Perfect Day.  It is made with tequila, amaretto, lime juice and simple syrup.  If I can’t be living a perfect day….I can sip on one.

As part of the Summer Festival,  Taconic Music holds Saturday-night chamber music concerts at the Riley Center for the Arts at BBA.  June 23, June 30, July 7, and July 14.  If you dine here on a Saturday night and keep your Credit card receipt…you can use it as a $5.00 discount on your ticket for the same night or for the following Saturday.  This is a lovely way to enjoy Vermont’s finest musicians in the lush Green Mountains.

Hope to see you soon,

Melody

Hello Everyone!

So…I feel a bit like spring today.  I know there is still a lot of skiing going on but the sun is shining and it’s an entirely agreeable  41 degrees.  It’s one of those beautiful, delightful days that makes me think of sun dresses and of how I should have started a diet sooner.  But that day is not today….it’s a sangria day!  We make red and white sangria with rum…yum!  I usually wait until there is at least no snow on the ground but I’m making an exception this year.

I am also excited that coming soon we will have a rose’ flight.  Three different rose wines from three different countries.  I feel like doing a Snoopy dance…the one where his nose is in the air and he is just dancing around.

Mark of course has made a delicious special.  Salmon en Croute….Salmon baked in puff pastry served with a dill cream sauce and spinach salad.  Words…fail.  This is one you just have to see to believe.  I would just like to add one more thing….Sancerre!  Piercing acidity like dipping your toe in an ice cold mountain stream….in the spring! I keep going back to that theme.

I want you to enjoy today.  Try to enjoy the crisp, sunny air and take a walk.  I’m on my way out the door to do so now.  Or…..just try a sangria while there is still snow on the ground.  Let happiness reign!!

Hope to see you soon,

Melody…the happy

Hello Everyone!

This is the time of year that everyone has a few resolutions in mind to help change your life for the better and I’m all for it.  However I have found that it is also productive to take a look at some mistakes I have made in the past year so that I don’t repeat them.  For example…there are a couple of drinks that I’m pretty sure will never see the light of day again.  Also I am not making the mistake of listing my mistakes over the past year here …so ….. moving on….

Is it cold out or what?  I’ll tell you one thing…that crisp, clean, mountain air will wake  you up and make you feel alive.  Once you feel pure and energized…you need some delicious warm food.  I have some!!

Mark has just added his Beef Stroganoff to the menu and it is wonderful.  Made with tenderloin and mushrooms, it pours out of a crisp filo bowl and is topped with sauteed pickles and onion.   And the sauce….unbelievable!

And just in case you need a little more warmth…I have the most amazing Winter Daquiri…made with aged rum and cinnamon simple syrup….now this one is no mistake!! I taste tested it more than once.

I hope the new year brings you happiness and dreams come true.

See you in 2018!!

Melody

VEAL GOULASH TOPPED WITH SOUR CREAM & FRESH GRATED HORSERADISH

WITH APPLE & CARAWAY SAUERKRAUT.

I’m freaking out!!!  Just add a deep rich and oh so delicious Cabernet…and Voila!  Magic.