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A Quilting Detective…..
In a recent post regarding one retreater’s project(s) utilizing her father’s neckties, I opened with a short about the blessings we get witnessing so many wonderful quilts and knowing their creators. This is true and words can’;t explain the rewarding return we received. Taking a very different road in the area of quilts, a recent …
What To Do With Dad’s Ties……
For a good numbers now, we have hosted, posted and shared quilts pieced and created here by many talented quilters that “retreat” to our Bed & Breakfast. What an experience to receive free admission to exhibits of these beautiful crafts. It’s rewarding especially to see these fabric wonders come to life, as they have for …
Puffy Breakfast Tart Recipe
So this is a spin on an earlier posted recipe called Breakfast Tart (as baked in a baking dish – squares) that was a shift from the original recipe – Crustless Mushroom and Onion Tart (round pie dish – pie shaped slices). I wanted to try making a version in our Deneen Pottery Soup Crocks …
New Local Businesses of Interest
As a small (local) business, many of you know we desire to support our fellow small and local businesses. SO when a couple such establishments recently opened in Rogersville, and particularly hold a interest to us and sure our guests, we wanted to share the news. Valley Mountain Quality Meats – Our neighbors the Scott …
A Word About 2022 Bookings & Retreats……
Now almost a year has passed when we posted in our newsletter an article called “Winds of Change” (https://www.blackberrycreekretreat.com/blog/winds-of-change. In that article, we spelled out, amid the COVID craziness, our prediction of business looking forward. If you read that, you might recall we forecasted a cautious approach to future bookings as WE grow older and …
Egg Wraps / Egg Logs Recipe
For the past few years, many guests have been treated with breakfast dish we call “Egg Wraps”, an egg “tortilla like thing” filled with cheese and veggies, then rolled up, oven, then sliced in half, then quarters and stood on end (two to a plate) and garnished. This year, using the same assembly technique, we …