August 17, August 17, 2025 Breakfast - Lox and Bagel with cream cheese and red onion. Lunch - Camptown Dinner - Restaurant Matilda at The Henson in Hensonville, NY Breakfast - Lox and Bagel with cream cheese and red onion. Lunch - Camptown Dinner - Restaurant Matilda at The Henson in Hensonville, NY
We woke up at 7:30. I dressed and made breakfast around 9:00, two slices of 1/2 of a toasted bagel spread with cream cheese and garnished with slices of Nova Lox and red onion.
Then at 10:30 we drove to the Maria Susanna restaurant at Camp Town in Leeds, NY. The restaurant has a Mexican chef from Jalisco. The food is reliably Mexican. I ordered emmoladas p, baked enchiladas stuffed with a slice of smoked queso fresco and served with a spicy pipian sauce topped with a firmly fried egg sunny side up. Suzette ordered the blood sausage tamales but it did not have much blood sausage but It was steamed in a banana leave and also was topped with a fried egg.
Luke was luckier. He ordered pull pork chiliquilles cochinita.
Luke got a lime and lemon drink and Suzette and I shared dishes and a Negra Modelo on tap.
It was tasty food and not huge portions so good for our diet.
After lunch we said goodbye to Like and drove to Catskills to the home of Thomas Cole, who was the founder of the Hudson River School in 1825.
The house is well preserved. There were beautiful watercolors of flowers painted by his daughter, Emily, and several paintings by him. There was even a Georgia O’Keefe displayed with a Cole to pay homage to trees.
After the Cole House we drove to the antique mall in Hudson where we had gone before. I rested while Suzette went through it. The most interesting item was an entire Noritake Magnolia set of 12 with all the extra pieces for $600. Since Suzette already had a set of 12 she passed.
We then drove back to Catskills and I walked to the Left Bank Cider House and drank a cider while Suzette shopped.
At 3:30 we drove to the Henson Inn in Hensonville, where we had a reservation to spend the night and eat at its Restaurant Matilda.
After we showered and dressed we went down to dinner at Matilda. We had studied the menu and decided to split two oyster dishes and a trout entree.
When our waiter came to the table to take our drink order, he informed us that the restaurant was not offering trout or oysters thIs evening. After we got over our shock, we decided to stay and make the best of it since there was not another restaurant in Hensonville and Albany was over a hour away, where there was a restaurant with $1.00 oysters on Sundays.
We ordered the confit tuna belly on crackers that turned out to be a mistake because it was two small sandwiches with a thin layer of tuna salad pressed between two Kavili like crackers with a nasturtium flower and several small leaves of spinach, hardly a bite of food.
We decided to share a can of North Hudson apple cider that turned out to be delicious, six oz. of Wagyu beef and a smoked beet salad.
As it turned out both the beet salad garnished with Belgian Endive and onion with a salty Umeboshi plum sauce was quite good especially with the apple cider that complimented the smoky salty flavor of the beets.
The steak was also delicious with a really delicious Demi-glacé sauce and small pile of rhubarb sauce. I even liked the thin fennel thread ps on the steak cooked evenly to medium rare as we had requested.
The chef or waiter must have realized that we were disappointed with the lack of the seafood we wanted and brought us a complimentary Matilda sundae with a scoop of dark chocolate and white chocolate ice cream Garnished with whipped cream and sugar coated pecans for dessert.
So on balance the meal was good. Even though we did not get what we wanted, what we got was delicious and the restaurant tried to make us feel better with a free dessert, which helped salve our regret.
We then walked upstairs to our room and went to bed at 9:00.
Suzette to sleep and I to blog.
Bon Appetit
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