Cottonwood Inn Bed & Breakfast

In keeping with these beliefs we make every effort to buy free-range and organic products. Luckily, Taos is an excellent place to partake of both free-range and organic farm goods. We are proud to serve free-range eggs from hens who have never been exposed to steroids, growth hormones, or inhumane living conditions. Likewise, the meat products we serve - such as our bacon and pork sausage and green chili chicken sausage - are cruelty, nitrate, and growth hormone free. We belong to several of the local cooperative farms, and are able to put the freshest produce possible on the breakfast table. We are also proud to serve locally roasted coffee from the Taos Roasters - we love their Small Town Brown roast and have received many complements on our coffee from guests.

We provide many of the herbs we use from our herb garden which sits just outside the kitchen door. One of our favorite dishes is Tarragon Eggs, a fluffy almost soufflé-like dish made with fresh tarragon from the garden. We often serve it with fresh apple muffins made with our own apples picked the night before.

German Puff Pancake is a wonderful dish and in the late summer it is garnished with our juicy sweet Japanese plums. Our plum trees bear so many plums that we cannot eat them all, so we make the extras into a luscious plum syrup that goes over our Blue Corn Buttermilk Pancakes all year long!

But don't forget you are in the Southwest. Sometimes we just have to serve some Southwestern flavor - which means awesome green and red chilies! When in season we buy Hatch chilies in 30 lb. burlap sacks and roast them ourselves. Of course breakfast burritos are a great favorite with our guests. We use Hatch chilies-- the mild variety in our burritos, in our polenta-cheese soufflé, and in our Taos Chile Strata. Moist cornmeal muffins and local New Mexico honey are a great accompaniment to these dishes.

The Cottonwood B and B also caters to guests with special diets. One of our favorite dishes for vegans is the national dish of Costa Rica which is called "gallo pinto" (painted rooster). This is a simple dish that combines black beans and rice but achieves complexity through liberal application of spices and sauces.

Breakfast at the b and b changes daily to take advantage of seasonal fresh ingredients. Breakfast always includes at least one hot entree. We make our own baked goods and when we can't get fresh fruits and other ingredients from our own garden, we shop at local farmers' markets and farm cooperatives and choose the very best we can find. We think that you'll find our breakfasts inventive and savory. You definitely won't go away hungry!! Tasty and filling - that's our goal.

Visit the recipe page to see some of our most requested recipes. Please enjoy, and remember The Cottonwood B and B whenever you make any of these tasty dishes! One of our most-requested recipes is our blueberry blintz soufflé. If you are hosting a large gathering for breakfast you might consider a blintz soufflé topped with home-made blueberry sauce and Devonshire-style cream. This recipe will serve a large group and can be prepared the night before. Bon appétit!

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