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Orange Souffle
Our May recipe is souffle, a light egg dish that’s perfect for what we call a “small house” — 4 to 6 guests. You may have heard of cheese souffle or some other savory version. We do a sweet twist with an orange souffle (with optional strawberry topping in season), best served warm right out of the oven all fluffy and puffy and pretty. The biggest concern for those who make souffle is that the souffle will collapse before it gets to the table, due to the fact that as the souffle cools, the air inside is released, deflating the souffle.
Art around Asheville in June
A stellar piece from Turtle Island Pottery. Their work is featured in several local galleries and at their own showroom in Old Fort. Photo Credit: Turtle Island Pottery Facebook Page
Now in Bloom at the Inn (May)
The garden’s getting prettier and prettier! Here are a few blooms you may see when you visit the Inn in May:
Bed & Breakfast… and Birds
The weather has warmed up enough that we’re back to serving in the sunny solarium at breakfast! Here are recent guests Lisa, Mike, Clarke, Marsha, Kathleen, Pat, Carol and Sandy enjoying Dave’s frittatas and Pisgah National Forest:
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies (gluten free!)
More April Blooms
Spring at our Bed & Breakfast in the mountains of Western North Carolina is zooming right along, and very beautifully we might add. A few days ago, we highlighted what’s currently in bloom at the Inn. Here are some more blooms, which seem to be increasing daily. Yay, Spring!
Chimney Rock Park Outcroppings Trail Back Open
We got great news last week from our friends at Chimney Rock Park, a beautiful state park in the Hickory Nut Gorge area about 30 minutes south of the Inn on Mill Creek. The park is named for a huge granite monolith called the Chimney, on which you can stand and see awesome views that span for miles. Here’s a photo we took looking up at the Chimney in 2009:
Now in bloom at the Inn (mid-April)
We’ve had some amazing weather the past two weeks…amazing in that we’ve had all four seasons wrapped into one! Small flurries, thunderstorms, warm sunny days, you name it. So, it’s nice to see that Mother Nature is being consistent with the gorgeous flowers and flowering trees now in bloom around Asheville, Black Mountain and Old Fort — our beautiful neck of the woods. Yep, Spring is still our favorite season.
Visit to Painter’s Greenhouse
Whenever we visit Painter’s Greenhouse, one of our favorite nurseries in our area, it’s tempting to take home flats upon flats of gorgeous plants and flowers. Painter’s is amazing. But we’ve learned to pace ourselves {“we” meaning Brigette}, and with a list in hand, we recently headed over to the Painter’s Greenhouse Herb Fest: live music, fabulous food, and plants everywhere.