For the last 12 years that we’ve had the Elkhorn Inn, Chef Dan and I have been making pickles, cordial, or freezing all the things we make from our garden and wild harvests: I make Vietnamese, Korean, and Chinese-style hot peppers & Mexican Gherkin pickles, we make cordial from the Read more
There are moments, however Grand it is out here in this green & beautiful place, when Living in The Country makes you want to slam you head into a wall until you pass out.And this was one of those weeks. As readers of this blog know, the FIRST post on Read more
Our group of ATVing guests left the Inn this morning for home, happy w/their 2 days of riding, several armed with hand-made WV coal tchochkas for their wives 🙂 The daffodils & magnolia are in bloom, as are our 3 fruit trees, & Dan even set up my giant, new Read more
Dan & I have just had a very pleasant Thanksgiving Dinner @DB’s X-clusive in Welch, WV (No dishes to wash! No kitchen to clean!), where the bar actually boasts Glen Morangie, not to mention Tallisker, & The Mac! This is such a wonderful & totally amazing concept to me that 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
Four nights in Japan: Geisha Goldstein & Samurai Dan eat sushi! We came back from Lowe’s this evening with a cherry tree, to plant at the Elkhorn Inn. After seeing the cherry and plum trees in flower in Kyoto I totally HAD to have a cherry tree at the Inn! Read more
Week 1 – Korea: Kimchi, Dr. Fish, Soju, Makgoli, Jeju hunting, palaces, & the DMZ! We’re back from our long-planned, long-overdue, totally wonderful 5 week Honeymoon in Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, and I’m finally going to start posting a few of our many (2800!) photos, & some of our many Read more
The pictures below tell a story. Look at the pictures and see if you can figure out the story. Then scroll below and read the story and see if you were right! Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there lived a Prince and his Princess in Read more