Basha Kill Wine Makers Dinner

What: Basha Kill Wine Makers Dinner

When: Friday March 23^rd, 2012. Starts at 7pm

Where: Aroma Thyme Bistro 165 Canal St Ellenville NY

Details: Join us with winemaker Paul Deninno from Basha Kill for a wine dinner. $39 per person.  RSVP at 845 647 3000.

Menu

Barn Owl, semi dry Gewürztraminer

Blue Heron, 100% Chancellor

Shrimp Tostado

Sweet Potato & Ancho Chili

Coyote , Cabernet Franc & Cabernet  Sauvignon

Slow Braised with Cabernet, Tomatoes & Garlic

Organic Jewel Sweet Potato Puree

Sundance Farms Grassfed Brisket

Cayuga

Roasted Pear, Ginger Crumble

About Basha Kill Winery

BashaKill Vineyards is Sullivan County’s first Farm Winery license. Set in a picturesque region of the Catskills, Bashakill Vineyards got its start in the spring of 2005. Two varieties of vines, Noiret and Cayuga White, both of which are American hybrids developed at Cornell University, were planted in the Spring of 2006. Cayuga White is one of the most highly disease-resistant vines and allows for chemical-free growing. Noiret, a red wine grape which was just recently named by Cornell, has a very distinct black pepper character. It also serves as a good disease-resistant grape.

About Aroma Thyme

Aroma Thyme is known for their "stealth health"(Zagat). The Bistro has an award-winning wine list from Wine Spectator Magazine and over 200 beers. Aroma Thyme is certified green by The Green Restaurant Association. Marcus Guiliano is the chef & owner of Aroma Thyme Bistro located in the bountiful Hudson Valley of New York. Chef Guiliano has been an advocate for over 10 years on healthy, sustainable, local & real food. He found his mission in cooking when he reversed over a handful of medical conditions including 28 years of asthma. For more information visit www.chefonamission.com Our website www.aromathymebistro.com.

Special musical event this Saturday @ the Shadowland...

One night only!

Don't miss one of the great musical treats of the Hudson Valley - MADERA VOX will play the Shadowland Theatre for one night only this Saturday, March 3 at 8pm.  Seating is limited and tickets are only $15, so reservations are strongly recommended.  Call 845.647.5511and don't miss out!

With a broad repertoire and remarkable talent, don't miss this eclectic quintet of oboe, bassoon, piano, percussion and voice.  Using this unique blend of instruments and diverse selection of musicians results in a sound that is not your mother's double reed-based ensemble.  It's accessible, engaging, playful, insightful and pure gold!

(845) 647-55111

All seats $15

 

To read more about MADERA VOX, read from last week's Almanac:

http://www.hudsonvalleyalmanacweekly.com/2012/02/22/madera-vox-performs-at-shadowland-on-march-3/

AND DON'T FORGET - Our film series continues with RIO GRANDE on March 17...

And Jason Downs in concert March 23-25...

SHADOWLAND BOX OFFICE: (845) 647-5511
157 Canal St.
Ellenville, NY 12428SHADOWLAND BOX OFFICE: (845) 647-5511

Ellenville, NY 12428

Open Mic Night

What: Open Mic Night

Where: Aroma Thyme Bistro in Ellenville

When: Friday, March 2nd, 2012

Details: Starts at 10pm, come early to sign up!

It's Open Mic Night again at Aroma Thyme Friday, March 2nd, 2012 10pm
It's that time of the month again, for the ever so popular Open Mic Night at Aroma Thyme Bistro. All are welcome to Open Mic nights. This has become a monthly tradition at Aroma Thyme for the past three years. We have seen some incredibly talented acts. We are constantly amazed from locals to people that travel up to an hour to perform. ...Of course we have our regulars, which we love. And there's always a new act of some sort to welcome each month.
Take a look at these past performers at Open Mic night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpbcXhgsYhk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5waWWCX7dbo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pnV1p6k4sA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnlXTY6gNGQ
The kitchen is open until midnight for everything from small bites to a full dinner. Plus the bar is well stocked with Small Batch Bourbon's, elegant Single Malt Scotch, almost 200 beers, over 250 wines and a trendy martini menu.

Limited Release Ommegang Beer Dinner

What: Limited Release Ommegang Beer Dinner

Five Course Dinner Paired With Ommegang Limited Release Beer

When: Friday March 16th  2012

Where: Aroma Thyme Bistro 165 Canal St Ellenville NY

Details: $49 per person, rsvp 845 647 3000

Menu:

Aphrodite –

Warm Brie, Spiced Pear Compote

Triple Perfection –

Lobster and Saffron Raviolis

Zuur

Wild Chanterlle Soup

Adoration

Braised French Four Spiced Chicken

Seduction

Chocolate and Cherries

About Ommegang Brewery

Brewery Ommegang is a Belgian brewery located near Cooperstown, New York that specializes in Belgian-style ales. Ommegang began brewing Belgian-style ales in 1997. Built by Don Feinberg, an aficionado of Belgian beers, it started up in a purpose-built building based on a traditional Belgian farmhouse, set on a former 136-acre (0.55 km2) hop farm in the Susqehanna River Valley, four miles (6 km) south of Cooperstown, New York in the Town of Milford. Since its opening, Ommegang has grown rapidly — in early 2005, its owner said they have been unable to meet demand for their ales and as a result would add 40 percent to their production capacity over the next year. Don Feinberg sold Ommegang in 2003 to Belgian brewer Brouwerij Duvel Moortgat, brewers of the world-renowned Duvel Golden Ale. As a result, Ommegang Ales are made both in Belgium and in Cooperstown, New York. Duvel Moortgat brewed limited amounts of beer for Brewery Ommegang in 2006 to help meet demand, but has not brewed any since then. Brewery Ommegang currently distributes its beers in 43 states and Washington, D.C., including Alaska and Hawaii but excluding Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, West Virginia, and Mississippi. It has also recently shipped beer to Sweden in response to commercial inquiries from that country. Each summer, the brewery hosts a large beer-tasting event, known as Belgium Comes to Cooperstown. The event, which occurs on a Saturday in July, includes four hours of unlimited beer sampling of over 200 Belgian and Belgian-style beers, followed by food, live music, and a bonfire. The 2007 version of the event added a Friday night beer dinner for 250 people, with 7 courses and 14 beers to pair with them. On 7 October, 2007, Brewery Ommegang hosted the inaugural "CX @ Ommegang," a cyclocross race, organized by Team SCARR, a cycling team with Brewery Ommegang as their title sponsor. Cyclocross is wildly popular in Belgium and a cyclocross race on the grounds of a Belgian-style brewery was a natural fit. Well over 150 racers from all over New York State registered for the event. The course included a hairpin turn inside the main event tent.

About Aroma Thyme

Aroma Thyme is known for their "stealth health"(Zagat). The Bistro has an award-winning wine list from Wine Spectator Magazine and over 200 beers. Aroma Thyme is certified green by The Green Restaurant Association. Marcus Guiliano is the chef & owner of Aroma Thyme Bistro located in the bountiful Hudson Valley of New York. Chef Guiliano has been an advocate for over 10 years on healthy, sustainable, local & real food. He found his mission in cooking when he reversed over a handful of medical conditions including 28 years of asthma. For more information visit http://www.chefonamission.com or www.aromathymebistro.com

A Tribute to Neil Young

Keith Newman covers the music of Neil Young and others who have collaborated with him, such as Steven Stills, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, David Crosby and James Taylor.

Where: Aroma Thyme Bistro

165 Canal st

Ellenville-New York 12428

When: Saturday 25th February 8pm-11pm

99 Bottles of Wine | Aroma Thyme Grand Wine Tasting

99 Bottles of Wine on the Bar

What: Aroma Thyme Bistro Grand Wine Tasting with 99 different wines! Yes we will have 99 wines to taste.

When: Sunday March 11, 1-9pm

Where: Aroma Thyme, 165 Canal St Ellenville NY

Details: Tastes wine like the pros.  We are doing an all out grand wine tasting.  Many of you always ask us about the wine tastings we go to.  Well this event is going to be just like that.  There will be tons of wine.  This amazing event is priced at $25 per person.

Drink Italian, American, South American, Australian, French, Spain, Portuguese, etc….

Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Zinfandel etc...

This will our most extensive wine tasting every at Aroma Thyme. This is a do not miss event.

Saturday Matinees @ The Shadowland!!

Romantic recipes: From Ellenville, with love Romantic recipes: From Aroma Thyme Bistro, with love

By Carol Montana

For the Times Herald-Record

Published: 2:00 AM - 02/08/12

After 12 years of being together, Jamie and Marcus Guiliano opened a restaurant in the town where they first fell in love.

And since New Year's Eve 2003, Aroma Thyme Bistro on Canal Street in Ellenville has been receiving rave reviews from customers and restaurant critics alike.

Chef Marcus has worked for several Mobil Five Star properties and prestigious country clubs, and is the recipient of many culinary awards, including one from the James Beard Foundation. Committed to certified organic and free-range, pasture-raised meats from small farms, the Guilianos also work closely with local produce growers, encouraging them to cultivate crops specifically for restaurants.

Loving the fact that they work side-by-side, Jamie says that one of the best things is "being together all the time and sharing the same interests. ... We are always there for each other. We balance each other out! ... Besides being together all day, we get to make a lot of other couples happy."

Here are two recipes from the Guilianos:

QUINOA AND YUKON

POTATO CAKES

Chef Marcus likes to serve this with a salad, or, for a bigger meal, with roasted vegetables.

1 pound small Yukon potatoes

1 cup quinoa (considered an aphrodisiac in some cultures)

1 cup water

1 sprig fresh thyme

½ cup mayonnaise or mayonnaise substitute; they use Veganaise (tofu based)

To taste sea salt

¼ teaspoon fennel pollen (found in gourmet stores and online)

Cook potatoes in plenty of lightly salted water until tender. Drain and hold at room temperature, then place in a large mixing bowl.

Bring 1 cup of water to a boil and add quinoa and thyme.

Reduce heat to low and place a cover on pot. Quinoa should take 10-12 minutes to cook.

Add quinoa to bowl with potatoes. Gently mash. When well mashed, add mayonnaise and fennel pollen. Salt to taste.

Scoop ½ cup and form into cakes.

Sear in a sauté pan on medium heat with a neutral vegetable oil. (They prefer coconut oil, but it is not neutral.)

Place in an oven set at 350 degrees F for 10-15 minutes to heat.

CHOCOLATE MACAROONS

6 cups unsweetened dried coconut flakes

3 cups cocoa powder

2/3 cup coconut butter/oil

2 cups maple syrup

1 tablespoon maca powder (from the root of a plant native to the high Andes of Peru and Bolivia, believed to be an aphrodisiac for men and women. It can be found in gourmet or health-food stores, online and wherever supplements and herbs are sold.)

Cream coconut flakes and coconut oil for 2 minutes with a mixer paddle.

Add and incorporate maple syrup, cocoa and maca powder.

Scoop ¼ cup portions.

Dehydrate for 3 hours at 110 degrees.

Recipe property of Marcus Guiliano, Aroma Thyme Bistro, Ellenville; www.chefonamission.com

Deerfield Ranch Wine Dinner

What:

Deerfield Ranch Wine Dinner

When:

Friday February 24^th, 2012

Where:

165 Canal St Ellenville NY

Details:

Four Deerfield Wines and three courses. $39 per person. On hand will be wine expert Denny Kline and Chef Marcus Guiliano to talk about the wine and food.

RSVP (845) 647-3000

Menu

Sauvignon Blanc Windsor Oaks Vineyard Chalk Hill

Chardonnay 2009 Los Chamizal

Prosciutto & Pineapple Flat Bread, Arugula Salad

Zinfandel 2006 115yr Old Vines Dry Creek Valley

Slow Braised Lamb

Cabernet & Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Gold Late Harvest Botrytis

Apricot Cheesecake

Deerfield Ranch Winery is an award-winning winery located in the heart of the Sonoma Valley in Kenwood, California. We specialize in small lots of handmade wine from select Northern California vineyards.

Currently we have 17 vineyards under contract and make as many as 40 separate lots of wine from those vineyards. We make several wine varietals and blends, something for everyone, a wine for every occasion. 

Robert Rex started making wine in 1972 in Berkeley, California. He has worked for many different wineries, started wineries for others, specializing in rebuilding wineries and starting wine making programs for those wineries when they changed hands. He has taught wine making and still acts as a consulting winemaker.

PJ and Robert Rex bought Deerfield Ranch in 1982 and began making wine under the Deerfield Ranch label at off-site winery facilities. In 1996, the Deerfield Ranch Winery facility was bonded. A portion of our wine is still made at the 17-acre Deerfield Ranch, located in Kenwood.

In 2000 the Deerfield Ranch Winery was turned into a Limited Liability Company. We purchased 47 acres of adjacent land now referred to as Deerfield Ranch North. This is the site for our new 45,000-case winery, tasting room, art gallery, hospitality center, barrel aging caves, and nature center. The nature center will feature the wetland marsh and forest that are part of this spectacular property. With the harvest of 2004 all winemaking operations were moved to this new winery facility on Highway 12 (10200 Sonoma Highway) in Kenwood.

Our Winemaking style has its roots in the great French wines of Bordeaux and Burgundy. Winemaker Robert Rex believes that the blending of attributes creates the best wines. Grapes from complementary soil types and microclimates are often married to maximize varietal characteristics and complexity.

Blends can be of different varietals, grapes from varied appellations, distinct sections of one vineyard or from wines made from the same source but by varied techniques. Robert says that wine making is more like cooking than chemistry -- and he makes wine like great chefs create great cuisine.

Wine making techniques vary according to the demands of the fruit rather than any preconceived recipe. Extended fermentation times (extended maceration), controlled temperatures and extended barrel aging of our reds produce wines that are fully developed and complex yet drinkable at an early age. Both French and American oak barrels are used for barrel aging, depending on the wine. Our wines are truly handmade. We hope you enjoy drinking them as much as we enjoy making them. 

About Aroma Thyme:

Aroma Thyme is known for their "stealth health"(Zagat). The Bistro has an award-winning wine list from Wine Spectator Magazine and over 200 beers. Aroma Thyme is certified green by The Green Restaurant Association. Marcus Guiliano is the chef & owner of Aroma Thyme Bistro located in the bountiful Hudson Valley of New York. Chef Guiliano has been an advocate for over 10 years on healthy, sustainable, local & real food. He found his mission in cooking when he reversed over a handful of medical conditions including 28 years of asthma. For more information visit http://www.chefonamission.com. Our website www.aromathymebistro.com.

Stone Beer Dinner

What: Stone Beer Dinner

When: Friday February 17th, 7pm 

Details: 5 courses paired with 5 beers $49 per person 

Where: 165 Canal St Ellenville NY, 12428

RSVP (845-647-3000)

Menu


Levitation
Apricot Vinaigrette, Sprout creek Tousant & Arugula Salad

Veritcal Epic 11.11.11
Yucca Fries
Cilantro Ginger Dipping Sauce

La Citrueille Celeste de Citracado
Pan-Seared Curried Shrimp, Macadamia Cream & Cucumber

Stone Double bastard
Roast Pork Tenderloin
Molasses, Pineapple & Chipotle Glaze
Corn Bread Stuffing


Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine
Sweet & Sour Kumquats, Ice Cream

About Aroma Thyme:

Aroma Thyme is know for their "stealth health"(Zagat). The Bistro has an award-winning wine list from Wine Spectator Magazine and over 200 beers. Aroma Thyme is certified green by The Green Restaurant Association. Marcus Guiliano is the chef & owner of Aroma Thyme Bistro located in the bountiful Hudson Valley of New York. Chef Guiliano has been an advocate for over 10 years on healthy, sustainable, local & real food. He found his mission in cooking when he reversed over a handful of medical conditions including 28 years of asthma. For more information visit http://www.chefonamission.com. 

Playwrights Theatre Artistic Director Named 2012 Individual Artist Fellowship In Playwriting

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts awarded the 2012 Individual Artist Fellowship grants totaling $182,600 to 22 New Jersey artists selected from more than 300 applicants in the categories of crafts, sculpture, photography, playwriting and poetry. John Pietrowski, Artistic Director for Playwrights Theatre, was named a winner in the playwriting category. The public meeting to announce the awards was held today at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Summit.

“Research has shown that in addition to helping us stay in touch with our humanity, creativity and imagination, the arts are a proven tool for community development and can be the powerful engine that drives the kind of sustainable economic growth New Jersey communities need,” said Ofelia Garcia, Arts Council Chair. “Artists are at the heart of this important work and it is the Council’s goal to encourage them, assist them to achieve their highest ambitions and help a wider public understand all that artists do to make New Jersey a better place.”

In his first public presentation, the Arts Council’s new executive director, Nicholas Paleologos, praised the Council and the Administration for their strong support for the arts as both “food for the soul and fuel for the economy.”

“It is a real honor to be selected by a jury of my peers, especially since the judging is handled anonymously by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation,” said John Pietrowski. “Most of the teaching artists that work with Playwrights Theatre’s New Jersey Writers Project are past fellowship winners, and Cat Doty, a poet who works on the program also won this year, so I feel I am standing in good company.”

About John Pietrowski:

John Pietrowski has been at Playwrights Theatre since its inception twenty-five years ago, and in his current position for the past twenty years. As an actor, he has recently performed as Professor Schrag in David Wiltse’s Sedition, and has played Zeblyan in Seth Rozin’s Two Jews Walk into a War at Playwrights Theatre, NJRep in Long Branch and Shadowland Theatre in Ellenville, NY. He reprised the role of Zeblyan in April 2011 at InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia.

At Playwrights Theatre, most recently he directed Richard Dressser’s The Last Days of Mickey and Jean in a coproduction with The Bickford Theatre in Morristown and The Oldcastle Theatre in Bennington, VT. His latest directing project, Mother Hicks by Suzan L. Zeder is currently running at The Growing Stage in Netcong, NJ. He has directed the Premiere Productions of Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven by Russell Davis, Augusta by Richard Dresser, Rising Water by John Biguenet (coproduction with Shadowland Theatre),Where the Sun Never Sets by Robert Clyman, When Something Wonderful Ends by Sherry Kramer, Whores by Lee Blessing, Big Boys by Rich Orloff and Spain by Jim Knable (all co-productions with NJ Rep), The Good Girl is Gone by D.W. Gregory, Foreign Exchange by Peter Hays, Sally’s Porch and Song of Grendelyn by Russell Davis, I See My Bones by Kitty Chen,Sister Calling My Name by Buzz McLaughlin and three shows in Rowing To America: The Immigrant Project.

He has directed Richard Dresser’s Rounding Third at What Exit? Theatre Company and Shadowland Theatre, More Fun than Bowling by Jeffrey Sweet at 12 Miles West Theatre and Midnight Cry, Our Dad Is in Atlantis and Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie at The Growing Stage in Netcong, Tammy Ryan’s Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods at Premiere Stages. He has also directed Max McClean in productions of Acts of the Apostles, Mark’s Gospel, and Genesis at Playwrights Theatre, the latter piece also moving to productions at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland and the Lamb’s Theatre in NYC.

Other New York productions include readings of Song of Grendelyn by Russell Davis, at The Public Theatre and Alice’s Fourth Floor, as well as I See My Bones for Urban Stages. He has directed two radio plays for the WNYC Radio Stage Consortium, St. Joe’s Takes the Radio Stage and The Rehearsal, both of which have aired on National Public Radio. He also directed the stage adaptation of The Rehearsal, by J. Rufus Caleb, at the New Harmony Project.

His two plays Black Madonna and The Buda have been performed at Playwrights Theatre, Foundation Theatre, Loaves and Fish Theatre and Arts Club Theatre, and his most recent play, Dura Mater, was workshopped at Johns Hopkins in the fall of 2010.

Mr. Pietrowski was also the Program Coordinator of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Theatre Program for Teachers and Playwrights from 1988-94. A graduate of Northwestern University’s Performance Studies Department, he also holds an Masters of Public Administration in non-profit management from Seton Hall University, where his master’s thesis became the basis for New Jersey’s Arts Education Census Project. He teaches theatre history and stage management at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and has taught at Drew University, Seton Hall, Kean University, and Bloomfield College. He is a member of the 2001 class of Leadership New Jersey, Secretary of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, Treasurer of the Madison Arts and Culture Alliance and the Treasurer of the National New Play Network.

About Playwrights Theatre:

Founded in 1986, Playwrights Theatre is a 501(c) 3 not-for-profit professional theatre and arts education institution dedicated to developing and nurturing the dramatic imagination of artists, students, and audiences. Our New Play Program creates development opportunities for professional writers through readings, workshops and productions, and invites audiences to participate in authentic feedback experiences. Our New Jersey Writers Project, Poetry Out Loud, New Jersey Young Playwrights Contest and Festival, and Creative Arts Academy programs provide a comprehensive and hands-on arts education experience to over 31,000 students, Pre-K through adult.

Writers in the New Play Program are drawn from across the country, including our affiliation with the National New Play Network, a nation-wide group of theatres dedicated to the development and production of new work. Teaching Artists in our Education Programs are professional artists working in their field in the New Jersey, New York, and Philadelphia metropolitan areas. From 2003-2012, we have been designated a Major Arts Institution by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (along with only four other theatres: The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, George Street Playhouse, McCarter Theatre Center and Paper Mill Playhouse) as “an anchor institution that contributes vitally to the quality of life in New Jersey.”

Funding for our activities comes from: the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the F.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc., Bank of America, Dramatist Guild Fund, Horizon Foundation of New Jersey, The Prudential Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Victoria Foundation, and many corporations, foundations and individuals.

Playwrights Theatre is a member of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance, the National New Play Network, and Madison Arts & Culture Alliance.

Read more: http://nj.broadwayworld.com/article/Playwrights-Theatre-Artistic-Director-Named-2012-Individual-Artist-Fellowship-In-Playwriting-20120202##ixzz1lKVswJN6