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Some really good reasons to travel to Duluth this summer!

May 16, 2013 – 3:22 pm

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Duluth Minnesota is the place to be this summer for events that are sure to please. When making your travel plans, choose The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast as your lodging destination. We are just minutes from Canal Park and Bayfront Festival Park and all of the exciting Duluth attractions.

Here’s just a sample of what’s scheduled in Duluth for June and July.

Spend an night enjoying one of the most influential bands in music–Chicago will be performing in Symphony Hall at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center on June 16, 2013. We can hear it now–”Saturday in the Park”, “25 Or 6 To 4″, “Hard Habit to Break”, “You’re the Inspiration” and more. For more ticket information go to www.decc.org

For you fishermen (or in our case Fischermen) the 13th Annual Lincoln Park Walleye Open is held June 22 from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on the St. Louis River. More than four hundred fishing lovers compete for more than $20,000 in prizes. Please click on www.lincolnparkfishing.com for all the event information.

One of our favorite events in Duluth in the summer time is the Annual Park Point Art Fair. This year is the 44th annual show with a weekend planned of free exhibits, food, live music and more–all on the shores of Lake Superior–June 29th and 30th, 2013. This show features more than 115 artists from across America and is held at Park Point Recreation Area. If you would like more information feel free to click on this link www.parkpointartfair.org

The Tall Ships 2013 Festival will be the biggest event to ever take place in Duluth Minnesota. A record ten ships will glide under the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge and into the harbor. The daily schedule includes festival gates opening at noon on Thursday, July 25, 2013. At approximately 2 p.m. the Parade of Sails will begin. On Friday and Saturday, July 26 and 27, dockside tours, day sails and onboard tours will be available until 5 p.m. Viewing, food, beverages and entertainment will go on until 11 p.m.

On Sunday, July 28th the Festival gates open at 9 a.m. and festivities continue all day until 11 p.m. On Monday, July 29th the Tall Ships Challenge Race will depart outside the Duluth Harbor at 12 p.m. For all the activities and attractions and last-minute updates, go to www.visitduluth.com We still have suites available for this great event which requires a three-night minimum stay at The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast.

We would love the opportunity to be your hosts for all these wonderful events as well as all Duluth has to offer. Check out our website for all the information on suites, breakfast, amenities and availability at our website www.firelightinn.com home-5_1

Jim and Joy Fischer
Owners/Innkeepers
The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast
“Let the warmth of the Firelight surround you!

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Banana Nut Pound Cake Recipe from The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast

February 19, 2013 – 7:17 pm

Warm Banana Nut Breakfast Cake served at The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast

Innkeeper Joy was looking for a recipe that was something different than traditional banana bread and found this great recipe for a moist breakfast cake. She recently served it to weekend guests at The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast and there was hardly a crumb left!

Banana Nut Breakfast Pound Cake

3 1/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 8 ounce package of cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, softened
3 cups sugar
4 eggs
2 medium bananas, mashed (about 1 cup)
1/4 cup milk (I used 1%)
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 cup chopped pecans
powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 10-inch fluted tube pan and set aside. Combine flour, baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt and set aside.
In a large bowl beat cream cheese and butter with an electric mixer on medium speed until combined. Gradually add sugar, beating about 7 minutes or until light. Add eggs, one at a time, beating 1 minute after each; scrape bowl frequently. In a bowl combine bananas, milk and vanilla. Alternately add flour mixture and banana mixture to butter mixture; beat on low to medium speed after each addition just until combined. Stir in pecans and then spread evenly in pan. Bake for about 60-80 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool cake in pan on a wire rack for about 10 minutes. Remove from pan; cool on rack. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serves 12.

Breakfast sweet breads and muffins or scones are just part of a full gourmet breakfast that you receive when you choose accommodations at The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast. Our specialty is delivering your full breakfast to your suite each morning where it can be enjoyed in privacy by the firelight. We would love the chance to cook breakfast for you!

: Banana Nut Breakfast Cake

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The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek B&B Chosen as a Top 10 Holiday Inn

December 22, 2012 – 10:38 pm

The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast in Duluth, Minnesota has received national recognition as a Top 10 Holiday Inn in the nation. Bedandbreakfast.com is the most comprehensive global site for finding bed and breakfast properties and they awarded The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek this award as a top inn around the world providing the best travel experience in this category. Other Inns receiving the award were located in Vermont, Florida, New Jersey, Louisiana, Texas, North Carolina and New York.

We are so proud of this accomplishment and feel very blessed to be recognized for our holiday decor. Decorating the Inn for Christmas began on November 1st with hand made ornaments, thousands of lights filling the historic home, festive mantels decorated for the holiday, numerous wreaths, gorgeous garland and six beautiful Christmas trees through the almost 9,000 square feet of the mansion.

We have already had a guest from St. Louis, Missouri find us and stay with us while she was in town for business last week. She had her family meet her at the Inn before they went out to dinner so they could enjoy the Inn in all it’s holiday splendor.

It’s not too late to give the perfect Christmas gift of a Firelight Inn gift certificate! The holiday decorations will be up at least through the second weekend in January so make your plans to visit us soon. Merry Christmas!

Jim and Joy Fischer, Owners/Innkeepers
The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast
“Let the warmth of the firelight surround you!”

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New Adventures During Your Firelight Inn Stay in Duluth MN

September 5, 2012 – 3:47 am

The Innkeepers had some time this afternoon to visit a couple new businesses in Duluth, Minnesota that we think our guests will enjoy during their stay at The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast. We drove to the Fitger’s Brewery Complex and visited the new Duluth Kitchen Store. What a treat and it’s just what Duluth needed! Everything you can use in your kitchen along with cookbooks, aprons, linens, knives and more. Just across the hall is the Kitchen Store’s Marketplace Shop with yummy chocolates, dips, mustards, vinegars and sauces. They have lots of samples to taste and the gals working there were so very helpful. We picked up a special butterscotch rum sauce to give as a gift to a special son!

After shopping through the other delightful shops in the complex and picking up a couple more copper birds for the Firelight front porch, we drove to our new favorite ice cream shop. The Chocolate Shop Ice Cream shop is at 17th and London Road–just minutes from the Inn.

This award winning ice cream is made in Wisconsin by a family owned company. There are so many flavors of ice cream that it’s really difficult to choose. They also offer an extra “cow tail” on top of any flavor that you would like to try. What a treat in a dish or cookie dish or chocolate covered waffle cone or sugar cone–oh, the choices are many. They will be open for the season through Halloween so plan your ice cream fix soon!

The fall leaf season will soon be arriving and September and October is a beautiful time to enjoy Duluth in all its fall beauty. We have luxurious suites available for your honeymoon, birthday, anniversary, romantic getaway or a relaxing getaway. Go to our new website and make your reservations today. We look forward to meeting you!

Jim and Joy Fischer, Innkeepers/Owners
The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast
Duluth, Minnesota
“Let the warmth of the firelight surround you!”

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Tripadvisor Certificate of Excellence

June 29, 2012 – 7:00 pm

Innkeepers Jim and Joy Fischer were pleasantly surprised when they opened the mail a couple of weeks ago to find a “CERTIFICATE of EXCELLENCE FOR 2012″ for The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast in Duluth, MN by Tripadvisor. As we strive everyday to make an excellent stay for our guests it’s nice to get recognized for our hard work. We hope you will consider a stay soon here at The Firelight Inn and enjoy our great accommodations!

On a more serious note the Inn and neighborhood are virtually unscathed from all of the recent rains and flooding. Guests are enjoying Duluth and the North Shore and have made comments that if they had not seen all of the media reports they would have never known that Duluth had such a terrible couple of days. Lake Superior is trying to clear itself from all of the silt and debris poured into the big lake through all of the streams, creeks and rivers. Come to Duluth this summer–you will be surprised how great it looks! We hope you have a great summer and we hope to see you on your next trip to Duluth!

Joy and Jim Fischer, Innkeepers/Owners
The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast
“Let the warmth of the firelight surround you!”

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Firelight Inn Lemon Poppyseed Muffin Tops Breakfast Recipe

May 23, 2012 – 2:30 pm

This morning at The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Duluth Bed and Breakfast we served our guests blueberry croissant puffs, sausage links, fresh fruit with firelight granola, lemon poppyseed muffin tops, pumpkin bread, orange juice and coffee. All this in a big basket that was delivered to their suite by Innkeeper Jim. They are enjoying breakfast this rainy morning by the firelight!

After glancing through a favorite recipe book last evening, we found a recipe for muffin tops. They are like eating the best part of a muffin–the sweetened top–and almost like a cookie. We want to share this great recipe!

Lemon Poppyseed Muffin Tops

3/4 cup flour
1/4 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon poppy seed
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
3 tablespoons shortening
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon lemon juice

Heat oven to 375 degrees. In a medium bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, poppyseed, salt, cinnamon and lemon peel. With pastry blender, cut in shortening until mixture is crumbly.

Add milk and lemon juice, stir just enough until dry ingredients are moistened. Drop dough by heaping tablespoons onto silpat mat on cookie sheet.

Combine some sugar in the raw with a little cinnamon and sprinkle on tops of dough. Baked 12 minutes at 375 degrees or until light golden brown. Serve warm. Makes 8 muffin tops.

We would love the opportunity to prepare and deliver breakfast to you when you stay with us in Duluth, Minnesota. See you soon!

Joy and Jim Fischer, Innkeepers/Owners
The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast
“Let the warmth of the firelight surround you!”

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Tall Ships coming to Duluth in 2013

April 10, 2012 – 10:16 pm

Visit Duluth is proud to announce today that the Tall Ships will return to Duluth, Minnesota July 24-30, 2013. There will be opportunities for day-sails and on board tours along with vendors and artisans, music, reenactments, lots of entertainment and hopefully about 10 tall ships during this exciting festival.

Tall ships may be arriving as early as Tuesday of that week and the parade of sail is scheduled for Thursday, July 25, 2013 when all the ships will enter under the Aerial Lift Bridge into the Duluth harbor.

The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Duluth Bed and Breakfast is a perfect spot for your lodging while you are in town enjoying the Tall Ships Festival. Only minutes from the activities and Bayfront Festival Park but yet away from all the noise and congestion of Canal Park.

Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to experience this sailing ships with billowing white sails! Make your reservations with us and we look forward to meeting you at The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast.

Joy and Jim Fischer, Innkeepers/Owners
The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast
“Let the warmth of the firelight surround you!”

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Photos of the New Barnum Suite at The Firelight Inn Duluth Bed and Breakfast

March 30, 2012 – 7:47 pm

We are quite sure Mr. Barnum would approve of the recent renovation of his master bedroom at The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast. The massive king-size cherry canopy bed is graced with a beautiful gold and brown coverlet, a new gold love seat, delicate brown and golden curtains and a deep chocolate brown carpet and linens. Enjoy the photos!

From the front windows, you can view Lake Superior and the sunrise in the morning. You can enjoy the sound of Oregon creek when the porch door is open to the outdoor deck. You can relax in bed or on the love seat and watch your favorite movie or television show. And, of course, your breakfast is delivered to the Barnum Suite each morning.

This suite has been most popular for honeymoon and anniversary stays and we’re confident you will enjoy your stay here for any reason. We can’t wait to meet the guests who will checking in shortly for their long-weekend stay in the Barnum Suite and hear what they think!

We’ll be launching a new website soon with all new photography and a new layout of all our recent renovations so check back and we hope to greet you soon at The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast in Duluth Minnesota.

Joy and Jim Fischer, Innkeepers/Owners
“Let the warmth of the firelight surround you!”

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The Magical Celebration Package at The Firelight Inn Duluth Bed and Breakfast

March 6, 2012 – 3:10 am

We prepared a Celebration Package for the couple checking into our Northwoods Suite last Friday. Chilled champagne with two souvenir champagne flutes and a fruit, cheese and cracker platter were awaiting the couple who arrived from Mankato for a weekend getaway at The Firelight Inn Duluth Bed and Breakfast. We want to share the latest news from the Northwoods Suite guest journal.

“*The Weekend of March 2-4th 2012*

Jim and Joy,

Thank you so much for everything. My boyfriend booked this weekend at The Firelight Inn because he knew I wanted to have a relaxing weekend together away from the hussle and bussle of school (for me) and work. We had been looking forward to the weekend away for months. This place could not be more perfect for the two of us. The Northwoods Suite is exactly what the two of us love about MN…the Outdoors/Up North feel.

I am very happy to announce that we are now ENGAGED! The Firelight Inn and Northwoods Suite will forever be our special place. He completely got me and I am still so shocked but we are both extremely happy. He ordered your “Celebration Package” and used this as his decoy. He asked me to take a look at it (because naturally I was so excited looking at everything and settling in for the weekend). He said, “I ordered this for us because we are celebrating. I love you and I want to marry you.” He got down on his knee and said ‘will you marry me?’ while pulling out the most beautiful ring from his pocket! After a moment or two of screaming and jumping around (while saying are you serious over and over) I said YES, OF COURSE!

This is everything we could hope for and more. We are so excited that this wonderful, relaxing, peaceful, historical and exquisite bed and breakfast has been a part of our next chapter together. We will definitely be coming back sooner than later and recommending to others.

THANKS AGAIN FOR EVERYTHING!

N&J, Mankato, MN (the newly engaged love-birds)

P.S. Breakfast was amazing! We also highly recommend the massages…great job Lynn!”

So there you have it–order a celebration package with your next stay at The Firelight Inn Bed and Breakfast and let the magic begin! Congratulations to the special couple on their upcoming marriage!

Joy and Jim Fischer, Innkeepers/Owners
The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast
“Let the warmth of the firelight surround you!”

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Firelight February Special Includes a Free $50 Dinner Certificate

January 29, 2012 – 1:09 am

We’re making handmade welcome cards for our guests who will be celebrating a special Valentine getaway at The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Bed and Breakfast in February. Reserve your two night stay before February 14th, 2012 and we will include a free $50 dinner certificate to Black Woods Restaurant. Just minutes from The Firelight Inn, this award winning restaurant features delicious ribs, chef prepared pastas, steaks, seafood, wood-fired specialties, gluten-free and vegetarian choices in a intimate setting.

If you need to really treat your Valentine special, The Firelight Inn is just the place for your getaway! Luxurious suites feature jacuzzi whirlpools for two, fireplaces, featherbeds, TV/VCR/DVD, CD player and audio system. Your breakfast is delivered to your suite where it can be enjoyed in privacy by the firelight! Complimentary beverages and snacks are available in the original butler’s pantry and we have a collection of music and movies for you to take to your suite to enjoy. Innkeepers Jim and Joy Fischer will assist you with special packages during your stay which may include on site massage therapy, chilled champagne, chocolate covered strawberries and more!

This special offer is valid for reservations made after January 26th and is not valid with gift certificate redemption or any other special offer. We hope to see you and your valentine soon!

Joy and Jim Fischer, Innkeepers/Owners
The Firelight Inn on Oregon Creek Duluth Bed and Breakfast
“Let the warmth of the firelight surround you!”

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