On April 24, 25, and 26, 2009, Virgelle Mercantile will host the first annual “Cook Inn” cast iron cooking workshop in Virgelle. This event is hosted by Don Sorensen, Bonnie O’Gorman, Chandi Bomgardner, and Justina Bombgardner. This session will focus on recipes and techniques used to create unusual dishes from the old wood-buring cook range and from the open fire. Participants stay in Virgelle Mercantile B&B rooms, and in restored local homesteader cabins. See you there…
The first annual spring Cook-Inn at Virgelle Mercantile brought over 20 people together for supper on Saturday evening. During the 40 hour event, over the course of 3 days, participants prepared biscuits, cakes, pizzas, stews, egg puff, pies, and many other everyday dishes over an open fire, and/or wood fired cook range. Each guest cooked a portion of the final day’s breakfast in their own cabins on their own wood fired cook ranges and then brought it together in the main dining room at the Mercantile for all to enjoy.
It was a good time, with lots of good food, and plenty of open exchange of ideas and stories among those present. Look for another Cook-Inn either next fall or in the spring of 2010… See you there.