Hi, Blog Readers. I hope this day finds you well. After the last posting I did some thinking about how there is always a need to re-group and re-assess. I guess this is part of Winter.
As the Old-Time New England Cookbook (MacDonald, Sagendorph) says about the period of February 21-April 1: "it is an exciting time...one we would not exchange for any other. For in these forty days the year is born again." It is a time for maple sapping, pancakes of any sort (my guests love my Blueberry Buttermilk Pancakes! YUM!), and ham with cider sauce (putting those little cloves all over it is more an art project than a cooking technique! lol).
This week Inn at Long Lake pays homage to the Classic Hollywood icon in Room #13, the beautiful Jean Harlow (her birthday is March 3rd). Ms. Harlow only lived for a mere 26 years but she is a legend, no doubt. So many try to imitate her...all only that...imitations (be yourself, nobody else, I say! copying the make-up or hairstyle takes way too long! hehe).
I watched a classic movie last weekend called "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir." It starred Rex Harrison & Jean Tierney. It was beautiful. A amazingly lovely widow gets haunted by and later befriends a dashing, dead sea captain who owned the house previously (I plan on this much later in my career at Inn at Long Lake...lol). He, with his militant maritime ways, and she, assertiving that she will not be considered anything less than an equal...only to find they can really never be together no matter their love for one another. Why can't they write plot lines like that today? It's always some disaster, special effect-laden hoo hah (not that The Rock in tights as the Tooth Fairy doesn't have its charm and appeal!)
Anyway, a project going on at the inn today so have to bolt. How about considering some spring pancakes for your Sunday breakfasts in the meantime? YUM! Thanks for reading!!!
From Western Maine,
Your Innkeeper-Blogger-Foodie-good ole' New England boy and "Flour Bin Philosopher"
Keith A. Neubert
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