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…
It’s fun to play “tourist” at home! This past week Dan and I had a rather amazing little getaway- right here in southern WV! We got to go Ziplining through the WV forests at TreeTops Canopy Tours , learn to fly fish for trout with Bobby Bower of ProFishWV, have a Read more…
Through no fault of our own, heaven knows, we missed the 71st Ramp Fest of Richwood, West Virginia. 🙁 And we were Seriously bummed, because the “Feast of the Ramson”, in THE Ramp Capital of the World, is something Chef Dan and his Foodie Wife have been aching to attend for 8 years! Read more…
Last night (Monday) was Erev Pesach (the evening on which Passover begins), and Dan and I made a lovely Passover Seder at the Elkhorn Inn: We had handmade Shmurah Matzah (THE best matzah!) from Chabad of Morgantown, West Virginia, and that made it a VERY special Passover, indeed! This is the 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…
As readers of this blog know, Dan and I are planning two very special events at the Elkhorn Inn for May: our “WV Wine-tasting Weekend” May 14-16, and our “Dueling Dining-Car Chefs” Weekend May 28-30 with railroad historian and author of “From the Dining Car” & “Dining By Rail” James Read more…
I just won an amazing pair of shoes- “shooties”, actually, as one correctly refers to a shoe-bootie: the Carlos Santana Chula Ankle Boot (pictured above) with a round toe, reptile printed fabric upper, and smooth leather patchwork detailing. These babies will give petite little me 4 inches of height, but, having a Read more…
May 14-16 the Elkhorn Inn will host a “West Virginia Wine-Tasting Weekend”, including two Chef Dan dinners, each accompanied by 3 different WV wines! We aim to prove, once and for all, that there are not only Great wines from West Virginia, but ALSO Great food with which to accompany them! Read more…
We disembarked from Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of Seas into a Freezing Cold Florida! Bundled back into my winter coat, I waited for Dan to get the car with my teeth chattering! Granted, Florida was NOT freezing cold by 10-degree-below-zero snowdrift WV standards, but at 40 degrees in the sun, it Read more…
We just got back! Refreshed, re-energized, and ready for the 8th season at the Elkhorn Inn! It all happened rather suddenly: we found a wonderful Inn-&-Puppy-&-Kitty-sitter who could take care of the Inn for 2 weeks in Feb. (Saint Terry), & so Elisse (me) began Tweeting franticallywith @CaribbeanJim from http://www.cheapcaribbean.com/, & Read more…