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The Weekly Newsletter |
Menus and Stories for May 17 - May 22, 2004
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| Our sign is up! |
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Isn't it sweet?
Here Cody adds the final tweaking and that's that.
By the way, do drive by at night. We've added a sweet glow of neon behind the disc which makes it all very pretty (I think).
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What's in this issue: |
1. Our new sign
2. Wickles Pickles
3. Dinners to Go
4. Casserole of the week
5. Truffle Babies
6. A Note from Laurey
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| Wickles Pickles and Relish |
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| Have you seen these? SPICY pickles and relish. Very fun all by themselves, or just what you might want to perk up an egg salad or tuna or, um, a sandwich too, I guess. Give 'em a try. |
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The nightly dinners for the week |
Dinners-to-go are available Monday through Friday.
Here's how it works:
Just call us in the morning and we'll take your order. Then come back between 4:30 and 6:00 to pick up your dinner - all ready in a heatable container. Simple, yes?
Monday May 17 Chicken Piccata with White Wine Sauce 9.75
Tuesday May 18 Jade Rice with Shrimp and Scallops 12.25
Wednesday May 19 Mediterranean Beef with Bulgur and Chickpeas 11.75 **
Thursday May 20 Crabcakes Remoulade 12.00
Friday May 21 Pan-Fried Mississippi Catfish and Kale 11.25
** means low carb. Still delicious. Promise. |
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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 to order 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 (for May 19) is:
Pasta Primavera with Shrimp
Half 23.50
Full 47.0
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Birthday flowers... |
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| Truffle Babies and Bumble Bees return |
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Colts Bolts' pick up sweets reappear.
We put 'em right next to the check out counter for your shopping and tasting pleasure. Oh come on - they're small and won't do much damage at all!
Tuck one into your sweetheart's pocket in the morning. Don't you think we should have Valentine's Day every month? I do! |
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A Note from Laurey |
Zounds. What a time this has been.
Yesterday was my 50th birthday. A party was planned. A cake. Friends. Family. All that. There was a lot of teasing about what I was going to wear (“How ‘bout a skirt!”) and those sorts of things. 50, I think, can be a big deal. It is certainly a significant time in a life for some people. And it certainly is looking to be that for me.
One week ago I was flying home from a two week trip to Italy: a “Delicious Expeditions” jaunt with ten guests. Monroe and I stayed, before the guests came, in a tiny hilltop cluster of homes, gazing out over the Val d’Orcia, the valley carved by the Orcia River, in Southern Tuscany. And one day, driving on a scouting mission, we passed by a ruin of a house, tucked into the folds of a sinew of a road that fell out of this little hilltop cluster.
“That’s going to be my house one day,” I declared. Monroe hardly responded.
But I meant it.
Later, after our guests came, we returned to the hilltop town for a truly lovely meal one night, finishing with a spectacular new wine, an “Italian Bordeaux” from an estate at the bottom of the hill – just past this dream of mine. I felt a pull down the hill but didn’t say anything to anyone.
And then, on one of our last days in the country, we drove past the site again. Generally speaking, we do not stop for pictures too often on these trips. It gets too chaotic with a large number of guests all wanting to stop, and we often have preset reservation times to meet. But on that day, I insisted we stop when we reached the ruin. The guests, many of them anyway, sat in our vans shaking their heads as I skipped around, clicking and imagining.
This place has not gone far from the front of my mind since I’ve come home. I don’t know what will happen, but these kinds of things are significant to some people. And this one seems to be so for me.
So yesterday, after spending a glorious day hiking and dreaming with my sweet companion on warm rocks near our Blue Ridge Parkway, I was escorted to my own party for my 50th birthday. I decided to wear blue jeans – and some fancy new Italian shoes. No skirt (yes I do own one).
The new sign glowed right above the front door of the shop. Friends came in. John and his band played some old time music. Adam blended some tunes on his turntables. Karen and Emily and Maurie and my friends Jacque and Barbara had invited a bunch of people who came, bearing flowers and plants and herbs and gifts for me to plant in my own yard right here in North Carolina. The gang had assembled a lovely spread of food.
And one friend brought a photograph of the ruin in Tuscany, which I showed around and then tucked into my back pocket for the rest of the night, dreaming about possibilities in a life.
I was driven home. These days drifted in and out of my sleepy mind as I thought about being 50, musing on the parts that make up my life. Today I am at work and I’ve eaten a big piece of birthday cake already and have looked at all the cards and plants and sweet gifts (a massage!) from a lovely collection of friends. 50, in a way, is a lot of years, a lot of experiences that, collected, combine, in my case, to make up – um – me.
How ‘bout that?
One cannot be sure about many things in a life. But some things can be significant to some people, and this, this ruin, this day, this time, these events right now, all seem to be exquisitely so for me. And somehow, though I don’t know how right now, I think it is all going to be just fine. It just seems like it is.
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| We're in a new book - all about Cupcakes |
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Skip to a local bookstore and look for The Artful Cupcake, a new book from Lark Books here in Asheville.
We have four or five recipes in the book, including a fun Caterpillar and a Spider. It's a very nice, very informative book, and we hear it's selling very well. And that's a good thing, isn't it? |
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Another satisfied (small) customer |
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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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