BEST. BURGER. EVER: Chef Dan’s Moose Burger!From Elisse’s moose! 🙂 I truly can’t even Begin to describe HOW good these are! Seared on the outside, rare in the middle… So simple and SO good! IMHO, this TRULY belongs on the list of Great Burgers of the World! Moose courtesy our Foodie Read more
Back to our recent toad trip across the USA & Canada!We drove down from British Columbia to Calgary, and coming into the outskirts of the city we stopped to get gas, and had the Very nice surprise of a really good Vietnamese lunch of pho (Dan) and roast pork with Read more
Day 8: Moose Packin’… Out As my few intrepid blog readers know, Dan and recently I went moose hunting in British Columbia, Canada, and the preceding post was about me learning to hunt and, finally, getting a moose. J The morning after I got the moose, Joe, our Hunting Guide, whom we’d Read more
On our recent CruCon-booked Celebrity Cruise through the Caribbean, we spent a day in Antigua (where neither of us had ever been before), and as hubs is a chef (and I’m his favorite foodie!), we were really lucky to be able to spend the day learning to cook Antiguan dishes with Read more
As many of you know, I am a “sweeper” and contest-junkie. While my friends are playing Mafia Wars 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 day (and you really Do Read more
If you’re ever wondered what chefs do when they’re on vacation…. now you will know: they take cooking classes!As readers of this blog know, whenever we travel and have the chance to take a cooking class, we do so- most notably in Vietnam. So when Chef Dan & I had a Read more
The holidays at the Elkhorn Inn in Landgraff, WV: Picking up, wrapping, & shipping West Virginia Coal Tchachkas all over the country! Happily, we filled a lot of orders this year, & thanx to UPS, managed to get all the Christmas orders delivered by Christmas Eve! We sent coal statuettes Read more
Ah, autumn in Landgraff, WV… the air gets crisp, the leaves change colors, and people steal your political signs off your property…I start this post with the unhappy news that our McCain-Palin sign was stolen from our side lawn the other day. Either a desperate McCain supporter, unable to find Read more
This post is mostly about FOOD – in all it’s summer glory! For starters, my husband, Chef Dan, recently made the most amazing French demi-glace I have ever eaten in my life. A truly sublime thing of such delicious, rich intensity, it turned every mundane thing it touched into the Read more
I have just been on the receiving end of Truly Great Customer Service- from www.igourmet.com from whence Dan’s Hanukkah present came. (You must remember Hanukkah- it was a couple of months ago…) Back in Nov., with H looming over the horizon, I decided that Chef Dan, a.k.a. “Smokin’ Dan”, Landgraff’s Read more