The Brooklyn-Catskills connection happily hits head-on!
BROOKLYN’S BELOVED EGG RESTAURANT’S OWNER, George Weld,
at booksigning for NEW COOKBOOK, “BREAKFAST: RECIPES TO WAKE UP FOR,” at the Bees Knees café at Heather Ridge Farm, Preston Hollow
Preston Hollow, New York,— Come meet “Egg” owner, George Weld, at the Bees Knees Café at Heather Ridge Farm as he signs his cookbook: “BREAKFAST: Recipes to Wake Up For” on Saturday, July 11. Favorite recipes from “Egg,” the popular restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, will be featured on the Bees Knees Café menu. Weld’s “Goatfell Farm,” which supplies many of the ingredients for the restaurant is in nearby Oak Hill. Booksigning will start at noon, with the Bees Knees Café open 11am -3pm.
Co-authored with chef Evan Hanczor, the book, with the foreword written by esteemed Southern food writers Matt and Ted Lee, is a love letter to breakfast. While often touted as the “most important meal of the day,” breakfast has become so compromised with people often too tired and rushed to prepare real food and consuming highly processed foods instead. In their new book, Weld and Hanczor celebrate all things breakfast and show readers just how simple and satisfying cooking a wholesome and delicious breakfast can be.
BREAKFAST features 92 recipes, techniques and pro tips to make the most of the morning, along with stunning images taken at Weld’s home and his Goatfell Farm, in nearby Oak Hill.
July 11-12 11am-3pm
Welcome! Special Weekend Menu:
An asterisk * denotes a recipe from Breakfast, the new cookbook by George Weld and Evan Hanczor.
Cornbread and Tomato Salad* Fresh cornbread made with Anson Mills stoneground cornmeal tossed with tomatoes (GF, Veg) 8
Eggs Anytime Two of our free range eggs fried to your liking, a freshly baked biscuit*, and a side salad (GF without biscuit & Veg) 9
Spinach, Summer Squash and Chevre Frittata Stoneledge Farm organic summer squash and spinach baked with Nettle Meadow chevre and free range eggs (GF,Veg) 10
Savory Crepes Paper thin pancakes topped with Utica greens (escarole sautéed with farm made pancetta, chili peppers, and toma celena cheese) and a fried egg. Served with side salad (Veg, GF optional) 10
Sweet Crepes Paper thin pancakes topped with strawberry rhubarb compote and farm made ricotta cheese. Served with fruit salad (GF optional, Veg) 10
Coffee Cake* Pecan topped coffee cake 4
Ham Biscuits* Nancy Newsom’s country ham served with farm made fig jam on a classic pillowy biscuit. Served with a side of grits and a side salad 10
Chicken and Tomatillo Stew* Our own pastured chicken braised with tomatillos and served over Anson Mills grits 11
Farmhouse Salad Local greens, red onion, cucumber, radish, and bell pepper tossed with yogurt and pink peppercorn dressing and topped with sausage crumbles or a tea brined egg (GF, Veg optional) 9
Hot Dogs w All The Fixings Farm made nitrate free hot dogs served on a potato roll with choice of ketchup or farm made condiments including mustard, lactofermented kraut, relish, or Coney Island Onions one for 5, two for 9
Dessert
Blueberry Grunt* 6
Honey Vanilla Ice Cream 5
Beverages Hibiscus Ice Tea, Organic Fair-trade Coffee, Tea 3 (free refills)
Cowbella Milk by the glass 3
Farm-made Root Beer by the glass 3 Root Beer Float 5
Heather Ridge Farm and the Bees Knees Café is located at 989 Broome Center Road, Preston Hollow, NY 12469. All are welcome. 518-239-6234 Directions and menus at www.heather-ridge-farm.com