Chef Dan & I had a lovely evening last night (Aug. 27, 2022) at the J.Q. Dickenson Saltworks in Malden, West Virginia (Charleston), at their “BBQ & Bluegrass” event. There was live Bluegrass music by Kanawha Tradition, & a whole local hog was smoked by Chef Mike Moore of Uncle Read more
The Golan Heights, Israel Let me start this blog post by stating that (sadly) I did NOT get to go skiing! 🙁 I have wanted to ski Mt. Hermon in the Golan Heights in Israel for 30 years (and have been bragging all this time howt you can ski & Read more
After our three fab resort days in Eilat, we fortified ourselves at the truly amazing breakfast buffet (literally 101 dishes including Insalata Caprese, + a chef making smoked salmon roulades!) at the Leonardo Plaza Eilat, drove back to Beersheva, and caught the Israel Railways train north- all the way north, to Nahariyya! When I last took Read more
The Elkhorn Inn’s first “West Virginia Wine Dinner Weekend” was a grand (and delicious) success! Chef Dan’s Kirkwood Winery ramp-wine-marinated, herb-crusted roast leg of lamb was delectable, and So good with the Watt’s Roost Winery Chambourcin! The dry Martin’s Mist Dry Creek Blueberry Wine was perfect with the prosciutto & melon Read more
Here are the menus for the Elkhorn Inn’s “West Virginia Wine Dinner Weekend” May 14-16, and our May 28-30 (Memorial Day Weekend) Gourmet Railfan Weekend: “Dueling Dining-Car Chefs” with historian, author, and Railfan & Railroad columnist James Porterfield! (And if these menus don’t make you drool, there’s just no hope!):May 14-16 Read more
This is my absolute favorite photo from St. Paddy’s night in Bluefield WV: Chef Dan, The Other Dan, and Terry (a.k.a. BluefieldView), flatfootin’ outside Gary Bowling’s House of Art, to the banjo, guitar, & uke of the great George Robertson Band playing “Fox on the Run”…We had a really fun evening, Read more
That banging sound you’ve been hearing is undoubtedly my head slamming against the wall. My computer finally crashed & burned last week, something it’s been threatening to do for awhile now, and this time it knocked me for a loop, disappearing (temporarily, I hope…) 8 years of business email addresses 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