Black Butte Ranch Blog
Romance and Chinese New Year
This year Valentine’s Day and the beginning of Chinese New Year converge on the same day. Both holidays abound with traditions and special nuances. In America we celebrate Valentine’s Day with loved ones by having a special meal, giving each other romantic cards and having a special libation. Chinese New Year celebrations are much the same way – spent with loved ones a meal filled with symbolic foods and wishes of good fortune and health in the new year.
This year at Black Butte Ranch you can celebrate both holidays in style. On Valentine’s Day commemorate the weekend with your sweetheart in true fashion. On Saturday, February 13 you can go on a guided snowshoe walk in the forest with a naturalist guide from Wanderlust Tours, then on Sunday, February 14 show you really care and come to the Lodge Restaurant for a divine Valentine’s Day Dinner. This is a prix fixe menu ($80 per couple) replete with scallop terrine and grilled jumbo prawns served with saffron lobster aioli, and for your second course get your choice of grilled tenderloin of beef, seafood duet salmon roulade, or jumbo mushroom ravioli. Dessert will certainly put you over the top with “Chocolate Passion”, a bittersweet molten chocolate tart with chocolate ice cream!
As Ron Popeil always said, “but wait, there’s more!” To celebrate Chinese New Year – Year of the Tiger which begins on February 14 and ends on February 21 - Black Butte Ranch is hosting a Chinese New Year celebration on Saturday, February 20.
Year of the Tiger drawing by Sisters student Hannah King
This event is a fundraiser for the Sisters High School Mandarin Chinese class which is planning a trip to China this summer. This prix fixe menu includes a three course meal with entrée choices of Peking duck, vegetable fried rice, miso salmon lo mein or beef with pickled pears. There will be a traditional Chinese dragon dance performed by the students, and other demonstrations as well as information about their trip. The cost of the celebration meal is $25 for adults, $12.50 for children ages 6-12, and 5 and under are free.
We would love to have you and your family join us for both of these enchanting events.
See ya around the Ranch!
Katie
