Inn Cuisine: a Taste of Bed & Breakfasts, Country and Urban Inns

Cookie Love, a.k.a. Olfactory Nirvana (Recipe: Caribbean Oatmeal Cookies)

June 3, 2010 Cookies, Cakes & Brownies

When life gets topsy-turvy, there’s a handful of things that can help. Among those are: time, patience, understanding, love and cookies. In this instance, the latter two go hand in hand.

Now I admit, I love me some oatmeal cookies (oatmeal raisin and oatmeal chocolate chip included), but my oatmeal cookie baking adventures hadn’t progressed much [...]

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Who Says Quick Can’t Be Elegant? (Recipe: Quick-Poached Pears)

May 21, 2010 Breakfast & Brunch

Never underestimate the power of fruit to liven up breakfast and brunch, or even dessert!

Proving that quick can be elegant, comes this delightful recipe for Quick-Poached Pears from the Strawberry Creek Inn B&B of Idyllwild, California. Featuring fresh pears soaked in champagne (or fruit juice if you’d prefer not to use alcohol), warmed gently in [...]

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An Innside Look at Chocolate Gardening, Part 2

May 17, 2010 Rave Reviews

Growing amidst the mountains and trees of their north Georgia B&B, inn owners Bob and Mary Jo Stamper are carving out a bit of heaven in the form of a chocolate garden. New to chocolate gardening? The approach to this themed garden is a simple one: in whatever size garden space you have, plant a [...]

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An Innside Look At Chocolate Gardening: How a B&B Owner Creates a Cook’s Playground

May 4, 2010 A Bountiful Kitchen: Cooking with Local, Sustainable Foods

Mary Jo, Mary Jo, how does your garden grow?
With Chocolate Corn, Chocolate Nasturtium and Chocolate Sunflowers all in a row.

While many cooks plant a garden full of vegetables, fruits and herbs each spring, Mary Jo Stamper, co-owner of the Aska Lodge B&B in Blue Ridge, Georgia, takes her garden a step further: This is the [...]

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