Thanks to being a member of Tryazon, the great sampling program, I was selected to do a Facebook Live Party for the Vasta Vegetable and Fruit Sheet & Noodle Slicer! The Vasta is an inexpensive, fun, and easy-to-use kitchen tool that enables you to make “sheets” from both fruits and vegetables, as Read more
Summersville Lake West Virginia is open for business and #vacation #travel fun! Come on down! NOTE: Due to possible COVID-19 restrictions, which seem to be changing daily, before you travel or book Anything, CALL every place you want to go and make SURE they are open and operating! I have included phone numbers Read more
At Berkeley Springs Spa! Live Music & Dinner! West Virginia is open for business and #vacation #travel fun! Come on down! NOTE: Due to possible COVID-19 restrictions, which seem to be changing daily, before you travel or book Anything, CALL every place you want to go and make SURE they are open Read more
Wine! Food! Penguini! As many of you know, I am a “sweeper” and a contest-junkie. While my friends are playing Candy Crush and Farmville at 2a.m. on Facebook, I am often entering sweeps and contests… LOTS of sweeps and contests! And while the downside is I get 1000+ emails a Read more
Add caption Happy Purim! This year the Jewish holiday of Purim (see below for links to the history of Purim and how to celebrate it) was Feb. 9 -10, and I decided that, for the first time, I would make Hamantaschen! (Or Hamentaschen, depending on how you choose to spell it!) I think Read more
“Black Magic” Cocktails In honor of some Very Special Guests at the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre I wanted to make some fun Halloween Cocktails, and “Googling” I found dozens of them (see links below)… and all the Really Cool ones seemed to use Blavod Black Vodka… which I have been trying Read more
Jalapeno Popper Mummies! I now have a series of posts I am calling “Recipes That Work!” because when I find one that does, with minimal adjustments, I get ALL excited! Others in this series are my posts on making Apple Roses, Zucchini Roses, Tamales, Vietnam Summer Rolls, and Tamarind Paste. The Read more
TAMALES When Dan and I were on a cruise that spent a day in Cozumel, we took a wonderful cooking class, with a market visit, at Josefina’s Cocina Con Alma: https://www.cozumelchef.com/ After we returned to West Virginia (and added several of the dishes we learned to make to the Elkhorn Inn Read more
Tamarind Pods… Make Tamarind Paste! First, let me state that I love, love, love tamarind! Its unique, tangy, sour-but-with-a tinge-of-sweetness taste is inimitable, and whenever I find anything with tamarind sauce or tamarind glaze- or tamarind anything- I order it! It’s Asian, it’s Israeli, it’s Caribbean, it’s Mexican… everyone loves Read more
Vietnam Summer Rolls! After Dan and I returned to West Virginia from our last trip to Vietnam in 2015, having taking a number of cooking classes and “foodie” tours all across the country, I sourced seeds for Vietnamese herbs online, and began growing them in our garden at the Elkhorn Read more