If you have been following us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, you have already seen these dishes.

But I wanted to share them with everyone else!

We have added two new dishes to our Breakfast Menu!

Raspberry Parfait

Greek Yogurt, Graham Cracker, Raspberry Preserves and Fresh Raspberries

Belle Grove Plantation Eggs Benedict

This is an twist to the traditional Eggs Benedict. It is Cream Cheese and Scallion Scrambled Eggs and Virginia Ham in a Puff Pastry Shell seated on Roasted Asparagus and topped with Fresh Hollandaise Sauce.

To see more of the dishes we prepare, you can check out our Breakfast Menu on our website.

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This morning, I prepared a dish that I found while reading some of the blogs I follow.

(yes… I finally have a moment to read…)

This dish came from urbancamillia and her blog post

http://saigoncinnamon.wordpress.com/2013/09/28/bacon-eggs-make-over/

I started with a Maple Baked Apple and then presented my take on her dish,

Bacon and Cheese Crepe on Asparagus, topped with a Poached Egg and Hollandaise Sauce

It was really good!

I am sorry but I didn’t get a shot of the Maple Baked Apple.

It went to the table before I could get a shot. Next time!

Thank you Urbancamillia for inspiring me today!

To see more of the menus we are making at Belle Grove Plantation

Please visit our Website at

https://www.bellegroveplantation.com/

For tonight’s appetizer we are serving

Mediterranean Bruschetta

Anyone hungry yet?

To see more foods we serve at Belle Grove Plantation

Please visit our Website at

https://www.bellegroveplantation.com/

Belle Grove Plantation would like to thank 

The Red Hat Ladies

For coming to see us at the plantation!

It was just wonderful to meet each of you and we look forward to having you back soon!

To see more of what is going on at Belle Grove Plantation

Please visit our Official Website at

https://www.bellegroveplantation.com/

Please share us with your family and friends!

Thank you!

Today our seamstresses arrived with the Madison Master Suite’s Canopy for the Full Tester Bed!

Wow what a difference it makes for the bed!

It really makes the bed look taller than before and really dresses the suite up!

All we have left to do is add some portraits, pictures and small decor and we will have a finished room!

Thank you to Gates Antiques, most especially Mrs. Jo Gates for putting so much time into getting the details right for this suite! It looks beyond beautiful! Any President would be over joyed in staying here!

Gates Antiques

12700 Old Buckingham Rd  Midlothian, VA 23113

http://gatesantiques.com/

Now I wonder who will be the first to sleep under this canopy!

At this moment, the suite is available for this coming weekend!!

To see more pictures of our Suites or to Book a Suite with us

Please visit our Official Website at

https://www.bellegroveplantation.com/

I just got an email from the Virginia Center for Architecture. They will be celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects (VSAIA) in 2014. As part of the year-long recognition, the Center will be hosting an exhibition entitled “Virginia’s Favorite Architecture.” This exhibition will highlight the top 100 favorite structures in the Commonwealth of Virginia and will be selected through a general public vote.

Belle Grove Plantation at Port Conway

has been selected among the 250 structures that have been identified by Virginia architects as especially significant!

In early November, the Virginia Center for Architecture will launch a site for the general public to review the 250 structures and will give information on how to vote for your favorites! If we receive enough votes, we could be selected as one of the 100 Favorite Structures in the Commonwealth!

As we get closer to the launch, we will put out information on where to go and how to vote.

Please keep an eye out for this information

and help us be one of the 100 selected.

To see more photos of Belle Grove Plantation

Please visit our Official Website at

https://www.bellegroveplantation.com/

Belle Grove Plantation would like to thank the ladies of

Questers

(International Historic Preservation)

 The Victorian Society at Falls Church

(all things Victoriana)

The Madhatters

(a small tea group in Northern VA)

The Vintage Ladies

(a medium group of collectors)

The Royal-tea Club

(large group based out of PA)

The Red Hatters

The Black Hatters

For coming to see us at the plantation!

It was just wonderful to meet each of you and we look forward to having you back soon!

To see more of what is going on at Belle Grove Plantation

Please visit our Official Website at

https://www.bellegroveplantation.com/

Please share us with your family and friends!

Thank you!

Not only do you get an elegant breakfast at Belle Grove Plantation . . .

But you also get a scrumptious appetizer before you head out to one of our outstanding local restaurants!

On tonight’s menu was

Oyster and Virginia Ham in a Puff Pastry Shell

This appetizer recipe came from a “Taste of History” with Chef Walter Staib from PBS.

If you would like to see more food we are cooking at Belle Grove Plantation

Please visit our Official Website at

https://www.bellegroveplantation.com/

I have been sharing photos of some of the breakfast foods we have been making, but completely forgot to share it here!

So here is what we have cooking today at the plantation!

This morning is a colorful one!

We started with Green Tea and Mint Infused Cantaloupe

Followed by Homemade Blueberry Pancakes with a Peach and Fig Syrup!

To see more of the foods we have on the menu

Visit our website at 

https://www.bellegroveplantation.com/

and look under our Breakfast Menu!

Today, Belle Grove was buzzing like a busy bee hive!

We had several deliveries as well as a number of visitors!

But most important we have finally received one room of curtains!

(Yes, I said CURTAINS!)

If you have been following the blog, you know we have been working on getting curtains forever! Okay not forever, but it sure feels like it! We received the Madison Master Suite curtains for the main bedroom and the Master bathroom. We didn’t get the tie backs and the canopy, but not to worry! Those will arrive on Tuesday!

Besides the curtains, we received the rug we won at the auction last week!

We also received several new pieces of furniture! 

This Settee is one of two that we bought for the Grand Hallway. This one will be downstairs, When we receive the other one, it will grace the upstairs Grand Hallway!

I think it looks quite nice beside the stairs and will make a wonderful place to rest as people come to see us,

This is a mirror we received a week ago, but just got it hung today in the downstairs Grand Hallway!

The Parlor got a number of new pieces!

This is the fan we won at auction last week!

We also received two Victorian Chairs for the Parlor.

We received our other rug from the auction that is now in the Hipkins-Bernard Junior Suite Sitting Room.

We also added some items to the upstairs Grand Hallway. These are two candlesticks and hurricanes that I found on my shopping trip last week.

And this is the table we won at auction last week!

I love the feet on it!

It reminds me of the scroll work on the riverside portico stairs!

I really think it is starting to feel more like a home than every before!

One more thing!

When the ladies were hanging the curtains in the Madison Master Suite,

This needle fell out from behind one the woodwork around one of the windows!

Its about three inches long and has a large eye,

Does anyone know what it could have been used for or the time period from then it could have come?

To see more of what is going on at Belle Grove 

Please visit our Official Website at

https://www.bellegroveplantation.com/