Taking The Colonial B&B at Stamford NY to the next Level in 90 days!!!! - Day 1

Hola Chicas y Chicos!

We are so excited!!!!  We are growing our business, looking to expand our offerings to our clients to make their stay memorable, comfortable and one where they want to repeat as often as possible...we have also expanded our family (more on that in a little bit....)  You will be hearing from us A WHOLE LOT MORE as we move onto the NEXT LEVEL !!  We have some aggressive goals within the next 90days and will need all your help/support and encouragement to make it come to fruition! You Are part of our success, so thank you ahead of time for helping us make it happen!!!!!

Day 1:

Woke up this morning, noticing the cloudy sky as I gaze out the kitchen window towards my backyard...prepping the backyard for Pilates and Yoga classes before the summer ends and wedding ceremonies next year...that's right WEDDINGS...girl's got to have a vision!!!

Not only was it cloudy this morning, it was quite chilly...so I figured breakfast in front of the fireplace for our clients would be quite appropriate.

By the looks of the empty plates...looks like breakfast success to me!!!  Something about those pumpkin pancakes.....  Clients said they slept well too...not a bad combo a place where you sleep well and eat well...they said they could not get reservations in Oneonta or Cooperstown, they found us in lil ole Stamford...woohoo!!!!  They were told to book last year for this year in Oneonta and they could not believe they had to book that far in advance.  Its a combination of Cooperstown Baseball Camp end of 2nd week and parents are coming up to pick up their kids and New York Safety Track, they just opened this year and have approximately 200 participants there every weekend.  We are only 30 minutes away from Oneonta and 40 minutes from Cooperstown.  More importantly, we are only 12 minutes away from the Track.   If you or you know of someone who is visiting any of these places, please share with them our place, The Colonial B&B at Stamford NY - The Queen of The Catskills....

 

As a matter of fact, if you would be so kind to simply share our blog with your friends on Facebook and Twitter...that would be awesome!!!!!

 

As a token of our appreciation for following us and sharing our blog, here is our corn muffin recipe:

 

1/8 tsp of nutmeg (optional)

1 cp yellow cornmeal

1 cp all-purpose flour

1 tbsp baking powder

1/4 cup white sugar

1 tsp salt

1 cp whole milk

2 large eggs

4 tbsp. of butter

1/4 cp honey

 

I mix all these ingredients together.  Heat oven to 400.  Grease muffin pan well.  Bake for 13 mins and check for doneness (toothpick)

 

Addition to the family...you thought I forgot huh!!!! 

Nellie Johnas!!!  Isn't she just precious!!!!

 

Hasta Pronto!!!!

 

Cannot sign off without some theme music for the day....

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Burgundy room to become the Plum room...pt 1

We are at it again...Mr. Michael "Patience of a Saint" Johnas is putting up with another of my zany decorating ideas...though we are well into the project, we have much further to go.  Feel free to chime in and follow this blog...as we go through another creative episode of Designs by S&J of the Colonial B&B at Stamford NY

Whoever chimes in with the best suggestions that we implement into this project, wins the first night stay in this room!

 

 

 

Chef Johnas is at it again.........

The Mad Food Scientest is at it again folks!!!  His creative genius exudes confidence (ok cockiness, I call it sexiness...woohoo) he is up to his old antics again creating a masterful dessert called none other than.....Galaktoboureko...do not ask me to pronounce this...all I know is it looks gooooooooooooooodddd.  A few will get to taste this masterpiece tomorrow at my place of work...hint hint and at Master Dominick's school.  I will take a picture of it and look forward to your comments tomorrow!!!  Hasta pronto!

Suppose to look like this once its done:

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Chef Johnas was singing and dancing to this video while he prepared his masterpiece!!!

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Here's a picture of his masterpiece, please comment!!!

Dedicated to St Mary J.....Chef Johnas strikes again

Chef Johnas strikes again...Chicken LaRissa was a hit...he has mastered this dish...he has also mastered his Seafood bisque....one of the greatest sense we take for granted is our ability to taste.  But when Chef Johnas cooks these two dishes...they wake up your tastebuds like no other food. We had the honor of sharing the chicken with St Mary and Sister C...I observed their proud and pleasantly surprised expressions while they indulged in this fine dish...and Chef Johnas just beemed as he got the approval from his most favorite person in the world, his mom (St Mary).  So much of his personality goes into the Chicken LaRissa...one thing that certainly stands out is the amazingly unforgetable flavor...he and this dish are certainly memorable and like nothing you have ever encountered.  Cheers to Chef Johnas!!!  I am looking forward to having him share this dish here at The Colonial B&B at Stamford NY....come join us....won't you?

Vicky and Glen Joshpe were our dinner guests here at the Colonial B&B at Stamford NY, last evening. As former owners of the Colonial,  with their vast knowledge of the history of the home and surrounding area, this made for one intriguing and entertaining dinner. The menu started out with the seafood bisque, followed by a  house salad, then onto the main course, Chicken Larissa, the Colonials signature dish. The meal was finished with the Carribean favorite, flan, for dessert. It was a joy to cook this menu for the Joshpes, they were astonished by the cuisine they were witnessing first hand, which was very evident from the onset of the meal till the last course was served, by their ohh's and ahh's. Looking forward, we would love to recreate this atmosphere for our guests and be able to share some of the history that we have learned of the Colonial, thanks to The Joshpe's.