Mid-Atlantic Innkeepers Trade Show and Conference, experts at connecting innkeepers with top industry professionals during their educational conferences, has announced the launch of their new website!

Just as Conference Coordinator, Pete Holladay’s objective in conference planning is to engage marketing and innkeeping experts on the cutting edge of their respective areas of expertise as presenters, it was essential that the Mid-Atlantic Innkeepers Trade Show and Conference website match those same high standards.   Acorn Internet Services was selected to collaborate with Pete in designing the new website; their team delivered a modern design, easy navigation, and reorganization of conference information allowing conference attendees to find all the details needed about exhibitors, schedules, and meeting location.

Pete Holladay, a 23-year veteran in the world of inn keeping (as a former innkeeper, past president of the Bed and Breakfast Association of Virginia, current inn broker, and conference coordinator) tells us:

“Santa came early to the Mid-Atlantic Innkeepers Trade Show and Conference this year!  I am absolutely delighted with how the new site turned out.  The larger images are wonderful, and the new page layouts better display the seminar schedules, the presenters and the conference location information.”

The next Mid-Atlantic Innkeepers Trade Show and Conference will be held March 4-5-6, 2012 in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.  Visit the new Mid-Atlantic website for registration and show details!

Mushroom Souffle - Recipe from the Mid Atlantic innkeepers COOKBOOK
Lamplight Inn - Henderson, NC

Ingredients:
8 eggs beaten
1/3 C milk or half and half
1/2 C shredded mild cheddar cheese
salt and pepper to taste
4 servings of prepared mushrooms


Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350' and butter 4 individual casseroles.
Combine all ingredients and pour into casseroles.
Bake for 25 minutes and turn off oven. 
Allow to cool in oven for 5 minutes.
Open oven door and leave casseroles another minute to cool down slowly.
If you take them out of the oven too quickly the volume of air drops and they would look flat instead of having a grand pouf.
Serve in the casserole with a paper doily on the plate to keep the casserole from sliding around.


PREPARED MUSHROOMS

Ingredients:
2 Thsp. olive oil
1 lb sliced mushrooms
5 cloves of garlic, minced
1/3 C white cooking wine

Instructions:
Saute mushrooms in oil till softened and add garlic.
When mushrooms are thoroughly cooked, add wine and cook over low heat until wine is absorbed.
When cool, divide into 5 plastic freezer bags to use later.
Each bag will make souffle's for 2 servings.

Widely cited as the foremost Local Search expert in North America and affectionately known among his colleagues as 'Professor Maps', Mike Blumenthal is the author of the industry's most respected blog: Understanding Google Maps and Local Search.  Marketers, local business owners and companies in local search know that a visit to Blumenthal's blog promises rich and unique insights into Local SEO news, tactics, and troubleshooting. Google, too, has been captivated by Blumenthal's reportage and employees regularly drop by for equal doses of constructive criticism and encouragement. A major percentage of today's high level Local SEOs point to Mike Blumenthal as teacher, mentor and friend.

In an effort to meet the growing need for business owner education, Blumenthal co-founded GetListed.org Local University - a conference series that brings industry experts to U.S. cities for instructive, rewarding local search marketing seminars. Blumenthal is also a frequent speaker on the SMX circuit and has accepted engagements at many other events including the recent SearchFest Portland and Avvocentric in Orland.

Mike has been involved with offering web services since 1995. Prior to specializing in web design and search consulting in 2001, Mike was a principal in a family owned and operated retail business for over 30 years.

Like all small business owners attempting to market to a fragmented clientele, he was continually frustrated by the barriers and costs imposed by the advertising options available. Shortly after Google Maps was released in 2004 he threw out his 9 Yellow Page books and started focusing on Local Search.

Ingredients:         
1    Cup Brown Sugar
5  Eggs
½  Cup Butter                                        
1 ½  Cup Milk
2  Tbsp. Water                                      
1  Tbsp. Vanilla
1  Loaf  French Bread                           
1  Lg. can Sliced Peaches

Instructions:
Drain peaches.
  Heat sugar and butter.
  When mixture melts, add water and cook until sauce becomes thick.
  Pour into 9x13”  baking dish.
  Cool 10 minutes.
  Place peaches in cooked caramel sauce.
  Cover with bread slices.
  In a blender, add eggs, milk and vanilla.
  Pour over bread and put in refrigerator overnight.
  Bake at 350 deg. for 40 minutes.
  Top with whipped cream and cinnamon.
This is a breakfast recipe free of nuts and shellfish.

 
Apple Puffed Pancakes - Recipe from Historic Smithton Inn


Incredients:

Historic Smithton Inn

Fruit:
8 medium apples
3 Tbsp unsalted butter
2/3 cups packed light brown sugar
2 tsp ground cinnamon
3/4 tsp ground nutmeg

Pancake:
1 1/4 cup pancake mix
2/3 cups milk
2 Tbsp sugar
2 Tbsp vegetable oil
2 eggs   

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees
Peel, core and cut the apples into 1/4 inch thick slices.
Heat the butter in a sauté pan over medium heat until it starts to foam
Add the apples and cook them until tender, about 10 minutes.
Turn off the heat and stir in the brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg.  Set aside
Grease two (2) 9 inch pie tins.  Divide fruit into bottoms of the pans
In medium bowl, combine pancake mix, milk, sugar, vegetable oil and eggs.  Beat with wire whisk until smooth.  Pour over fruit.
Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown and cooked through (if top gets brown before cooked through, put foil over the top & continue cooking.
Flip onto a large plate, sprinkle with confectioner’s sugar.  Serve with whipped cream on the side.