A Cubano and a Cortado
That’s a Cuban Sandwich with Cuban Coffee, to you Anglos
Walking the streets of downtown Troy today, and I happened to look down. I saw these beauties: someone planted them to make the City look good, to bring a smile to a passerby’s face. And it worked!
Relax, slow down, enjoy life while you can.
So tell me where the flowers are, and be precise. The winner gets to RELAX over a tasty lunch with us— on us.
Carmen Updates Window Boxes
As Wednesday’s cold front was rolling in, Jim was winter proofing and Carmen was cleaning and redecorating the window boxes. Check them out— hearty mums, gourds and baby pumpkins.
Get Your Leaf Peeping In Soon!
By which we mean, breakfast any time, PLUS our lunchtime menu!
—Which is why we are showing you a picture of French Toast with Fresh Fruit and Real Whipped Cream
Cubano Sandwich by popular demand— pork, ham & Swiss w/ mustard & pickle on Cuban bread
Picadillo
Though for a real treat, come in and see what’s on our Specials Board.
Friday Tapas Specials 10/10Beef Stew slow cooked in a tomato herb broth
Herb Stuffed Pork Loin marinated, served over mashed sweet potatoes
Pan Seared Rainbow Trout over saffron rice & pea purée
Have you tried the Apple Crisp? Fan-Tastic!!
Flan
Raspberry Chocolate Layer Cake
New Art: Gary Masline—Faces & Places Showing Thru 2014Gary loves Santa Fe, and it shows.
You may have seen Gary’s work around the area, he’s widely known. We like the way his paintings start to tell a story, then leave the rest for you to figure out. Look for an artist’s reception toward the end of the month.
Shows @ 6 & 8, $5 cover each
Mundo Nuevo – 10/24
Elizabeth Kasius & Heard– 11/21
The Nellies – Victorian Stroll
Mundo Nuevo – 12/19
after a visit to the mostest fantasticest bakery in the area, Carmen’s is carrying Rock Hill Breads. One taste won us over!
Try a Basket o’ Breads with our own whipped Strawberry Butter and a Cortado!
Oct 5th 2014 ~ 12-3pm Italian Community Center Troy NY 12180
Featuring many Troy restaurants, including your favorite, Carmen’s
What wonderful blend of savory and spicy will we bring this year? You’ll have to come and see! It’s all good, all for the homeless, AND you walk home with a handmade bowl, courtesy of area potters and volunteers.
A unique event to support the growing fight against the issue of hunger.
OCTOBER 5, 2014 ~ 12-3pm~ Italian Community Center ~1450 5th Avenue, Troy NY 12180
New Art Exhibit: Faces & Places, works by Gary MaslineShowing Thru 2014
Gary loves Santa Fe, and it shows.
You may have seen Gary’s work around the area, he’s widely known. We like the way his paintings start to tell a story, then leave the rest for you to figure out.
Look for an artist’s reception toward the end of the month.
Gary Masline is a post-modern realist working exclusively in oils. His paintings utilize the colors and light of the American Southwest, where he spent time as a youth, and often incorporate figurative images to create narrative.
Masline believes the Southwest is one of the Earth’s centers of spiritual energy, an energy which animates artistic awareness. Realizing that a painting can feign a reality neither the artist nor viewer has seen, he concludes that people can be profoundly affected by images of western landscapes which they may never have experienced, or by events which are alien to their actual experience, but which through imagination or memory reverberate nonetheless in the viewer’s unconscious.
In this regard, Masline expresses images that are emblematic or totemic, their symbols and gestures generating “stories” in the minds of viewers. He paints with the understanding that art is meant to be provocative, and his hope is to provoke a conversation with the viewer responding to his use of color, light and body language to establish image, illusion or icon.
Masline’s previous creative incarnation was as a screenwriter. He reasons that, if one thinks of painting as consisting of line or drawing, color, and story or narrative, his paintings reveal him making films…just one frame at a time, illuminating a moment of truth, whatever that may be for the viewer.
In conceiving a work, Masline frequently is influenced by the poses and postures of newspaper and magazine advertising, whose defined reality and bland presentation collides with his personal interpretations of body language and locale. He concurs with artist Gerhard Richter, who has worked from photographs and said “I am fascinated by the human, temporary, real, logical side of an occurrence which is simultaneously so unreal, so incomprehensible, and so atemporal. And I would like to represent it in such a way that this contradiction is preserved.” Masline’s other influences are painters Edward Hopper, Balthus, and Lucien Freud.
By which we mean, breakfast any time, PLUS our lunchtime menu!
—Which is why we are showing you a picture of French Toast with Fresh Fruit and Real Whipped Cream
Cubano Sandwich by popular demand— pork, ham & swiss w/ mustard & pickle on Cuban bread
Picadillo
Though for a real treat, come in and see what’s on our Specials Board.
Braised Beef Short Ribs w/ herbed garlic mashed potatoes
Pan Seared Salmon in garlic cream sauce over saffron rice
Pernil slow roasted pork shoulder over saffron rice w/ chimichurri sauce
Desserts: expanded offerings:Flan
Raspberry Chocolate Cake
Upstate Kayak Rentals will bring their boats to the Troy Boat Launch at Ingalls Ave for the PreRamble 2. Rent a boat for $10 an hourStoryHarvest: Finishing up with Free Concerts at Freedom Square
StoryHarvest: Finishing up with Free Concerts at Freedom Square
Ramble Challenge— If 50 people pledge to ride to work for a week, an anonymous donor gives us $1000 to buy bike racks for around Troy. Come to our booth at the Farmer’s Market this Saturday to enter and win a chance for a free kayak ride!
The PreRamble is a celebration of human-powered transportation in Troy. It starts at First and River Streets, at the south end of the Farmer’s Market, on Saturday, Sept. 27. It features sample lane markings, showing how the soon-to-be-built path will look, as well as intersection art, used to slow traffic at critical intersections.
Volunteers needed to help chalk intersection art and lane markings. Meet at First and River Streets.
10-11:30— Bike safety course from the Troy Police Department— free bike helmets for kids who need them, while they last
10-1:00— Complete Streets Tours leaving from First & River. Borrow a bike if you need one.
10-12:00— Bicycle tune up station by Troy Bike Rescue
10:30— Walking tour “State and Second” by the Rensselear County Historic Society leaving from the Information Booth. Led by Stacy Pomeroy Draper. $5
12:00— Walking tour of Washington Park by the Washington Park Association leaves from the Transport Troy Booth at First and River. Led by Lynn Kopka. Free.
12:-3:00— Self guided tours of the Burden Iron Works Museum, foot of Polk Street. Get maps at the Transport Troy Booth at First and River
1-4:00— Kayak rides at the Ingalls Ave. Boat Launch by Upstate Kayak Rentals. $10/hr. Maps available at the Transport Troy Booth, First and River
3:30-6— Story Harvest: Free concert by Nation Beat & Alex Torres and his Latin Orchestra, Freedom Square (101st & 6th Ave.) Stone Soup: Community Meal
prepared by the Chef’s Consortium. All free. Maps available at the Transport Troy booth, First & River
Enter the Ramble Challenge: If 50 people bike to work for a week, an anonymous donor has promised $1000 for bike racks in Troy. Enter at the Transport Troy booth and win a chance for a free kayak paddle! Extra bonus, available to all: Ride with the Mayor on Thursday, October 2 at Noon, leaving from Monument Square. 45 minutes. Free, led by Troy Mayor Lou Rosamilia.
Email Andrea at diyRestoreit@gmail.com to register, and get a chance to win a free kayak paddle!
What wonderful blend of savory and spicy will we bring this year? You’ll have to come and see! It’s all good, all for the homeless, AND you walk home with a handmade bowl, courtesy of area potters and volunteers.
A unique event to support the growing fight against the issue of hunger.
Anonymous Donor Puts Up Long Green for Bike Racks
Ride with the Mayor: noon Thurs. 10/2 from Monument Square
A heartfelt donor came back from health problems by riding a bike, and wanted to give something back at the same time as he showed others a key to health— exercise.
Our anonymous donor put up $1000 for bike racks for Troy. “Troy has none!” he moaned. “Get some already! You want people should just flop their bikes on the sidewalk? What is this, third grade!???!?”
The details were quickly dumped on Andrea Davis, who doesn’t have enough to do already. She is hunting down matching funds so we have more reach with this generosity, plus figuring out who and how and all the other questions.
Here’s the skinny— We need 50 people to ride their bike to work or school for a week, starting with the PreRamble Festival on September 27. Email Andrea at diyRestoreit@gmail.com to register, or stop by the Transport Troy table at the Farmer’s Market. You’ll get a chance for a free kayak paddle at the PreRamble when you sign up. Plus a 45 minute ride with Mayor Lou Rosamilia on 10/2!
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Upstate Kayak Rentals will bring their boats to the Troy Boat Launch at Ingalls Ave for the PreRamble 2. Rent a boat for $10 an hourStoryHarvest: Finishing up with Free Concerts at Freedom Square
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Free concert featuring Nation Beat plus Alex Torres and his Latin Orchestra
Chef’s Consortium prepares healthy food for a free community meal
How many different ways can you say free in one story? But it’s all wonderful and all free!
Help out w/ food donations: have extra fruit or veggies from your garden? Bring them to the Sanctuary for Independent Media, 3361 6th Ave N. Troy, Fri., 9/26 noon-4 or Sat. 9/27 from 8am-noon.
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And this Desayuno (breakfast) is sure fit for a Rey (that’s king!
Two Eggs Over, topped with Pico (diced pickled peppers, but that’s another story for bedtime) on Veggie Hash, with sides of Croquettas and Fried Green Tomatoes.
Then jazz it up with a Cuban Coffee— a Cortado!
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Cubano Sandwich by popular demand— pork, ham & swiss w/ mustard & pickle on Cuban bread
Picadillo
Though for a real treat, come in and see what’s on our Specials Board
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Gambas al Ajillo Grilled Jumbo Shrimp in a garlic and wine sauce over cous cous
Braised Beef Short Ribs over mashed potatoes
Pernil Pulled Pork over saffron rice w/chimichurri sauce
Mejillones en Salsa Verde Mussels sauteed in a garlic-parsley green sauce
South Troy has been called many things,Visitation to South Troy Bistro Causes Stir
Bistro Owner Carmen Gonzalez was cutting into a garden fresh sweet pepper Tuesday when she was stopped in her tracks. “I almost dropped the knife on my toe. I just couldn’t believe it!” said the restauranteur.
There, in the heart of the pepper, was a Yogini!
She noted that Albanians, living in the shadow of the State Capital or near the Governor’s Mansion, are used to visits from the Divine. South Trojans have not been so lucky— until now.
The Yogini, an emanation of the feminine aspect of the Divine, appears deep in meditation, bowed over in an attitude of worship. Or bent backwards, gazing in awe at the Heavens. It is said that divine Beings appear differently to everyone.
I picked up my spoon and stirred the picadillo for all I was worth,” said breathless Carmen. “When you are blessed, you cook while the griddle is hot!
Ms. Gonzalez later confessed she learned that saying from her mother.
Friday Tapas
SpecialsPan Seared Halibut w/ Chopped Chard-Tomato Ragu & pineapple cilantro slaw
Roasted Vegetarian Napoleon w/ Roasted Red Pepper Coulis & Sautéed Swiss Chard
Costillitas de Cerdo— Cuban Spare Ribs w/ pineapple guava glaze
Pan Seared Beef Tournados w/ apple brandy cream sauce. Tomato Jam w/ potato hash & sautéed chard
Cubano Sandwich by popular demand— pork, ham & swiss w/ mustard & pickle on Cuban bread
Picadillo
Expanded Dessert Offerings:Flan
Key Lime Pie
Chocolate Raspberry Cake
Carrot Cake
Chardapalooza!Rainbow, Dinosaur, and Swiss Chard, Fresh Grown & Organic! What’s to become of it? A great veggie special, that’s what! Come in Friday for Roasted Vegetarian Napoleon.
Cuban Sliders topped w/ caramelized onions & avocado
Picadillo
Sensemaya – 9/19
Mundo Nuevo – 10/24
Elizabeth Kasius & Heard – 11/21
The Nellies – Victorian Stroll, 12/7
Mundo Nuevo – 12/19
And why shouldn’t we serve it all the time, when our scrumptious breakfasts are what first made Carmen’s famous? Any time you want Huevos Flamencos, Cuban Eggs, Flan French Toast or a Ricardo Omelet, come on by!
Weekday Specials:
Cuban Sliders topped w/ caramelized onions & avocado
Picadillo
Friday night, and maybe over the weekend too
Grilled Salmon over couscous
Costillitas de Cerdo Cuban Spare Ribs w/ pineapple guava glaze
Cubano Sandwich by popular demand pork, ham & swiss w/ mustard & pickle on Cuban bread
Picadillo
(Bookmark the Event Calendar Here)
Sensemaya 9/19
Mundo Nuevo 10/24
Elizabeth Kasius & Heard 11/21
The Nellies Victorian Stroll 12/7
Mundo Nuevo 12/19
by Metroland Staff on July 24, 2014 ·
But you already knew we made the best Cuban food!
In addition to the six— yes, count ’em, six— 2014 Metroland Reader’s Poll wins, Carmen just snatched the prize for Best Cuban.
We know there was never a Best Cuban before but they created the category just for us. We’ll call that a win!
And that was before we had all these garden fresh tomatoes on hand–Imagine what we’ll be doing with them all week!
Best Cuban: Carmen’s Cafe
Carmen's Bistro 