In the market with Chef Zhao A Black Silkie Chicken! Makin’ dumplings! Me and my dumpling! Perfect pleats! Our dumpling feast! As our month in China was, in great measure, a “foodie” trip for Chef Dan and I, I booked Read more…
Wine tasting at the Changyu Winery! The Great Wall The Great Wine: Changyu Wine Chateau Wine Tasting at Changyu For anyone contemplating a trip to China, walking The Great Wall is a “Must-Do”, even if you just walk a bit Read more…
The Forbidden City Peking Duck at Duck de Chine… Our palatial Chairman’s Suite at the Beijing Hotel NUO! Meat-on-a-Stick at Wangfujing! In honor of our Third Second Honeymoon (which I had emailed them about when I booked…), the gorgeous Read more…
Shanghai at night on the Huangpu River Classic 1930s Jazz at the Jazz Bar at the Peace Hotel Cruise on the Huangpu River The Bullet Train to Beijing! As I mentioned in my previous post, we first went to the Read more…
Tongli Water Town Xitang Water Town Tongli Water Town Our Tongli Gondolier! Cormorants – Tongli Water Town Our third day in Shanghai we took an excellent full-day tour to two of the beautiful Water Towns, Tongli and Xitang, near Shanghai, Read more…
Hand-Pulling Noodles… MARVELOUS Shanghai Soup Dumplings! Shanghai Tea House Making THE best soup dumplings! THE best Shanghai breakfast WonTons! We did a lot of fun things during our five first days in China in Shanghai, but because this Read more…
Baiju tasting…. Tea in Shanghai… On a boat in one of the “Water Towns”… Yummy “meat-on-a-stick”! Learning to make dumplings Steam Train… Bullet Train… Harbin Ice Festival Terracotta Warriors… Pandas! My chef husband and I just came back from Read more…
Mark Twain and Elisse at the Elkhorn Inn In October, the Elkhorn Inn had a Very special Mark Twain Weekend, with Doug Riley, the historian and actor who personifies Mark Twain (and Stonewall Jackson) for the West Virginia Humanities’ Council’s Read more…
My six faithful readers know that I am a Terrible Sweeper/Contest Enterer, and that as a year ends I like to thank the wonderful companies and organizations who have made my wins possible! My sweeping hobby started 15 years ago Read more…
My favorite expression for how we celebrate Hanukkah at the Elkhorn Inn is: “Go Big or Go Home”! This year, I’m happy to say, we outdid ourselves. LOL Known, by my own self-proclamation, as the “Martha Stewart of Inflatable Decor”, Read more…