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The Weekly Newsletter |
Menus and Stories for March 29 - April 3, 2004
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| Roasted Vegetable Wraps - (YUM!!!) |
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Haiku to a Wrap:
Simple vegetables.
Fabulous Humus inside.
Perfect for lunch, yes? |
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What's in this issue: |
1. Don't Postpone Joy tiles
2. Dinners to Go for the week
3. Casserole of the week
4. A Note from Laurey
5. I need help! |
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| Don't Postpone Joy Tiles |
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Here they are. Hooray!!!
Buy 'em by the bunch
or
get individuals in gift boxes.
Your choice.
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The nightly dinners for the week |
Dinners-to-go are available Monday through Friday.
Dinners come with salad and bread of the day.
Dinners are ready for pick up between 4:30 and 6:00 Easy enough? We hope so!
Monday March 29 Old-Fashioned Fried Chicken and Garlic Potatoes 9.75
Tuesday March 30 Martha’s Surprise “Blue Plate” Country Dinner 9.75
Wednesday March 31 Tarragon Flank Steak and Vegetables Slaw 10.25 **
Thursday April 1 Lemon-Rosemary Chicken with Fresh Spinach 9.75 **
Friday April 2 Shrimp Saute with Feta and Peppers 11.25 |
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Dinners to go for the whole month |
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| The Casserole of the Week |
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Casseroles are made each Wednesday.
Call on Tuesday if you can. Orders will be ready on Wednesday between 4:30 and 6:00.
Order a full pan for 9 (or so) or a half pan for 4 or 5.
This week's casserole is:
Chicken Cacciatore with Pasta
Full: 34.75
Half: 17.25
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A Note from Laurey |
Once again the morning has been full of adventure.
It used to be that the morning walk with Tye, my sweet pup, was a quiet time for me. Contemplative, gentle, and meditative. Not so these days. It is SPRING and Tye is full of spunk.
Our morning walk takes place next to a duck-filled lake. It has been particularly busy lately, with ducks and geese calling, flirting, honking, complaining and raising all kinds of a ruckus when Tye comes near. This morning a huge goose had crossed the road – a very busy road! – to herd two wayward Mallards back to the water. A driver had stopped, right in the middle of the road, watching with concern as the Mallards flirted and ignored the goose. Tye was quite willing to help but I locked her extendable leash which kept her close to me, straining and heaving.
“But I’m SURE I can get them!!!” she implored.
The driver and I discussed the situation. I was about the tie up the pup when the goose prevailed and all three, the goose and the two Mallards, took off, flying across the road back to the safety of the lake. Whew!
Tye, meanwhile, was on high squirrel alert!
What ever happened to the quiet stroll? I wondered.
The squirrel outpost is, of course, across the busy road, so Tye dodges in and out of the guardrails, the trees, the many obstacles in the way of her clear view. I am strong enough, just about, to keep her with me on THIS side of the road. I tug and coax and finally we are past the squirrels and on to…the Robins!
And so it goes.
Now, Part II, most Saturdays, is that I get to work, settle in, make coffee, check my e-mail, organize my day, check in with the kitchen gang, and ease into things.
Today, however, there were about 200 people CAMPED outside my shop’s front door, all waiting for the box office of The Orange Peel to open so they could buy tickets to the Bob Dylan concert. Tickets are not available on line for this one (how refreshing!) so people have driven from all over the region. What a hoot! There is one fellow, right outside my front door, tucked into a sleeping bag, his snoring mouth the only body part visible. It’s like a flash to Woodstock – okay, much more organized and no mud. But what a way to start the day!
We are not usually open on Saturdays until 10 but I brewed some extra coffee, wrapped up all the cookies I could find, called Karen at home and proposed that she come in and help me. Ten minutes later she was here and the doors are now open. Sleepy travelers are coming in to get coffee and cookies. We have the music tuned to the Folk Rock station. Tye is asleep, and it is time to check my e-mail.
Talk to you next week, man!
Peace!
Laurey
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| The Cell Phone dilemma: |
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Sigh. What should I do?
I put up subtle signs:
("Please use cell phones outside")
They didn't work.
Then I put up more obvious signs:
("PLEASE use cell phones OUTSIDE!!!")
Nothing happened.
Here's the situation:
People talk too loudly on their cell phones and disturb everyone else.
I don't want people to be disturbed here.
What should I do?
(I do not want to put signs on each table....)
A free cookie goes to the person who can help me figure this one out.
Thanks!
(argh!!) |
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| Lined up for Bob Dylan this morning |
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Contact Info: |
Laurey's Catering and Gourmet to Go
67 Biltmore Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
828-252-1500
Laurey Masterton, Proprietor |
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