New Smyrna Beach Bed & Breakfast Recipe

We decided to share a guest favorite for our New Smyrna Beach Bed & Breakfast recipe collection from the Night Swan Intracoastal Bed & Breakfast. This month's selection is our Artichoke & Turkey Ham Strata! We like to serve this with our fresh baked Cottage Cheese Bread and a selection of fresh mixed fruit. We hope you enjoy it as much as our guests do!

Artichoke & Turkey Ham Strata

1 8x8 pan

350 degrees

55 minutes

3 English Muffins, split and quartered

1 Tbs melted butter (or Grill On)

1/2 Cup ground turkey ham (about 4 oz)

1/2 Cup (2 oz) grated fresh Parmesan Cheese

2 Tbs chopped fresh chives

1 (14 - oz) can artichoke hearts, drained and chopped

1 tsp garlic cloves, minced

1/8 tsp ground nutmeg

1 (12 - oz) can evaporated fat-free milk

3/4 Cup Egg-White

Arrange muffin pieces, crust sides down, in an 8x8 baking dish coated with cooking spray; drizzle with butter. Arrange ham and next 4 ingredients (ham through garlic) over muffin pieces.

Combine nutmeg and remaining ingredients in a bowl; stir well with a whisk. Pour over muffin mixture. Cover; chill 8 hours or overnight.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Uncover strata; bake at 350 for 55 minutes or until set. Let stand 10 minutes.

Hope to see you soon!

Martha

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Take a Boat Ride in New Smyrna Beach!

There are so many unique things for our guests at the Night Swan Intracoastal Bed & Breakfast to do! Many of them involve the amazing outdoor beauty of Florida. The weather is gorgeous this time of year in our quaint city of New Smyrna Beach, and what better way to enjoy it than a ride on the Pastime Princess in the Intracoastal River! If you get there early enough you can dine on fresh seafood at the Dolphin View Seafood Restaurant right next to where the boat docks!



















A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PASTIME PRINCESS
(taken from http://www.pastimeprincess.com)

The Pastime Princess was built in 1972 to be a support vessel for the oil rigs' in the gulf of Mexico. It was purchased some time in the early 80's and converted into a live aboard boat. To the best of their knowledge it changed hands one more time before becoming a fishing boat sailing out of NJ. They purchased the Pastime in the early 90's. They had the deck widened, the overhead cap cut back and the cabin redesigned. They plan in near future to widen the bathrooms and redo all the seating.


FUN FACTS ABOUT THE PASTIME PRINCESS
(taken from http://www.pastimeprincess.com)

* They have sonar and radar and the latest in GPS satellite navigation to get through the most difficult weather

* The original purpose of the vessel was to service oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico therefore it was built to withstand a category 5 hurricane

* Fifty gallons of fresh water onboard

* The Princess is almost 100 feet long from bow to stern and weighs 98 gross tons

* Three 12 cylinder Detroit 1271 diesels with a combined horsepower of 2100

* Two 30,000 watt electrical generators run by 2, 371 Detroit diesel engines

* One thousand six hundred gallons of fuel capacity

* The boat is scrubbed from bow to stern, inside and out every day

* At cruising speed we use 50 gallons of fuel per hour

* 2 Carrier 5 ton air conditioners to keep us cool in the summer

* The whole boat was extended 3 feet all around in 2001 to provide over 350 square feet of additional outside deck space. You can see the weld marks on the deck all around the boat.

The Pastime Princess offers fishing trips, dinner cruises, and you can also just go for a boat ride! We would love to welcome you as our guests here at the Night Swan before or after your adventure so why not make it a weekend? We will be happy to help with your reservations on the Pastime Princess too! Give us a call at 386-423-4940 or visit our site at http://www.nightswan.com

Hope to see you soon!

Martha

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PADDLEBOARDING FUN!

In case you haven't heard the news, we are now renting Paddleboards! They are great to use right off our dock, or in the ocean!

Paddleboards have been around for a long time and the first one is said to have been made in the 1930's by Thomas Edward Blake. While he was restoring boards for a local museum in 1944, he built a replica modeled after olo surfboard ridden by ancient Hawaiian aliʻi (kings).

"He lightened his by drilling it full of holes and then covering them, creating the first ever hollow board as well as introducing the first modern paddleboard. Two years later, using this same board, he won the first ever Mainland surf contest, the Pacific Coast Surfriding Championships, an event integrating both surfing and paddling. Blake then returned to Hawaii to break virtually every established paddling record available, setting half-mile and 100-yard records that stood until 1955, (Wikipedia)".

Paddleboarding regained popularity in the eighties and has been growing ever since! There's no need to be an experienced athlete or surfer to try this great and easy form of exercise! Check out the video below to see how easy it is!



After your paddle, relax on our porch or dock with a homemade dessert and a cappuccino! Give us a call or come by to learn more!

Hope to see you soon!

Martha

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