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The Weekly Newsletter |
Menus and Stories for November 22-27, 2004
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| Jubilee Chutney - just in time |
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We make Cranberry Chutney each year at this time. Deb took charge this year, mixing in oranges and cinnamon and cloves and other delicious things. Emily, the new Emily who is a cook, that is, not the Emily who works in the office, helped with the canning. I made the labels, and Karen made room in the shop.
Come in. Pick up a jar or three. Serve your family or give them as presents to your friends.
By the way, a significant portion of the sale of this chutney goes to The Jubilee Community, which uses these kinds of gifts to fund a number of outreach projects here and there. |
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Thanksgiving Dinner to Go - last chance |
Okay - we're pushing the deadline for you. Call today (Saturday) or, if you MUST, by noon on Monday. We'll accept your order and we won't ask any embarrassing questions.
Thanksgiving Dinner to Go 2004
Grilled Artichokes and Mushrooms
with a Lemon Cream
served with Roasted Garlic Crostini
Blueberry Hill Turkey and Stuffing:
made with Fresh Herbs of the Season
Gravy (of course!)
Creamy Mashed Yukon Gold Potatoes
Sweet Potato Rounds broiled with Apricots
Broccoli and Pearl Onions with Browned Butter
Cranberry Orange Pecan Bread
Jubilee Chutney
Pumpkin Pie
Elsie's Apple Cream Pie
Price per person 26.25 (+ tax)
Please call to place your order by Friday, November 19 if you possibly can. We'll have your dinner ready to pick up on Wednesday, November 24
between 3 and 5:00.
Orders will be presented in reheatable containers and you will be given instructions for reheating. Feel free to order the whole meal just for yourself or for a gang of 50.
Want just the parts? Let us know.
If you're cooking for yourself - have a great time. Happy Thanksgiving! |
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| Birch Caramels from Alaska |
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Dulce and Michael, up in Alaska, tap White Birch trees, collect the sap, boil it down, make syrup, and then take the syrup, cook it further, and make these incredible caramels.
We have their Caramel Sauce too which is an amazing addition to an evening's bowl of vanilla ice cream.
The water that feeds the birch trees runs from the Kahiltna Glacier, right next to Denali. Can't get much more pristine than that, my friends. |
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The nightly dinners for the week (Call 252-1500 to order) |
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 for that night's meal. Then come back between 4:30 and 6:00 to pick up your dinner - all ready in a heatable container. Simple, yes?
Here are the suggestions for the rest of this month:
Monday November 22 Cider Chicken with Cheddar Potato Gratin 9.50
Tuesday November 23 Dijon Rack of Lamb with Roasted Potatoes 12.50
Wednesday November 24 Special Thanksgiving Dinner to Go (see inside)
Thursday November 25 Stay home. Eat Turkey. Enjoy.
Friday November 26 We’ll be off today. See you on Monday.
Monday November 29 Tequila Lime Chicken with Pineapple Jicama Salsa 9.50
Tuesday November 30 Smoked Salmon Frittata with Zucchini Parmesan 10.00
** this means low carb. Still delicious, you know.
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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.
Tuesday, November 23
(note – this week’s casserole will be prepared on Tuesday)
Shrimp Newberg
Full 42.00
Half 21.00 |
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Jo's Candies |
Luscious. Delicous. Satisfying.
These words, in the case, are all true, my friends.
We have their Lemon Breeze (crunchy and lemony and dark-chocolate!), their Peanut Butter Meltaways (ditto, peanut buttery and milk-chocolate), and their Peppermint Crunch (ditto, peppermint, ditto.)
We also have Dr. Peter's Toffee Nuggets in a wonderful tin box (I don't know about you, but I'm a big fan of tin boxes), their Chocolate-Covered Caramels and, new this year, their bags of English Toffee Corn.
Grandma Jo started making candy in the late 40s, so when these folks say, "The taste you grew up with" they know what they're saying.
Yum! |
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| Talented and Interesting Individuals!!! |
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This is Melissa. This picture was taken yesterday. Melissa was not scheduled to work yesterday. But she had scrubbed most of the shop's floor a few weeks earlier and, frustrated at never being able to find time to finish - "it's always too crowded!", she came in on her day off, before we opened, to take care of the final section.
The floor looks fabulous!
Melissa is also a gardener, an actress (What? You missed her in "Psycho Beach Party?"), and another reason that I feel grateful to be working here.
Thank you, Melissa, for going above and beyond. |
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Kris's "Collapsed Gingerbread House Trifle" |
And sometimes the best laid plans just, well, don't work out. This was the creative response to a collapsed creation. Poor Kris worked and made quite a lovely, albeit top-heavy, house. We'd meant to put it in the shop's windows for all to see.
Alas, it fell in, victim of too little internal structure and too many elaborate enhancements.
Kris wrote, "And she went to bed saddened by the suicide of her house, but woke up with visions of "Broken Glass and Crumbled Chimney Trifle." Guess we should laugh and make the best of our mistakes!"
And so she did.
Now really, how many collapsed gingerbread house trifles have YOU ever seen in your life? This is MY first. |
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| A Note from Laurey |
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November 20, 2004
Good morning. What a week it has been! Today is almost balmy here. The sun is shining and it is difficult to believe that we are in the middle, almost the end, of November. Wow!
Last week was the week of the Don’t Postpone joy contest. I had heard snippets from a few people, but was actually not at all sure that anyone would even participate. “Ah well,” I said to myself, “if no one enters, I’ll just let it all slide away and that’ll be that.”
But last Monday, people started bringing things in, and entries started appearing on my desk. Every single entry is worthy of lengthy description. One person brought in two lovely poems with photographs of flowers and garden bounty. One brought a photo essay about a rescued dog, with skinny, “before” pictures and fat “after” ones too. Don’t Postpone Joy.
Someone brought in a picture of three bright outdoor chairs, perched, the caption said, at the edge of a lake up in Ontario. One chair sports a “Don’t Postpone Joy” bumper sticker.
And then there is the painting of a smoky Mountain scene with a hiker and a dog (me and Tye?) looking out at the mountains. Hidden in the fog, almost invisible, you can see “Don’t Postpone Joy,” the words mixed in with the clouds.
Yesterday someone brought in a large board, covered with pictures and accompanied by a story, about a cruise that a failing mother and two daughters took. The mother picked herself up from her wheelchair out of a feeble life, to take her daughters, grown women, on a trip. From the words and the pictures, it is clear that she was the belle of the cruise. All this, the daughter relates, prompted by the mother’s recalling the bumper sticker on her daughter’s car. Another amazing tale.
Or how about the story, simply told, of the fellow who, at the age of 20, walked from his tiny village in Poland, all the way across Europe, onto a ship bound for New York. The rest of his family, died in the Holocaust, waiting for things to improve in their little town. He forged a new life in this country. This entry is his granddaughter’s tale.
Don’t Postpone Joy.
There are others here too: a painting of three bright older ladies merrily skipping down a yellow brick road; a picture of adopted animals from the Humane Society; a photo of a grandmother and a young man, strapping themselves into a private plane. He, the caption says, is no longer with us. “Don’t,” she says, “postpone joy.”
So there you go. Thanks to all who entered. Thanks for taking the time to tell me about yourselves in these creative ways. Don’t Postpone Joy. Happy Thanksgiving.
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Don't Postpone Joy |
This is certainly an instance where a picture is NOT worth a thousand words. You really will have to come here and see this quilt for yourself, for no amount of description and no photograph will do it justice.
This quilt is the winner of our Don't Postpone Joy contest. Hand-dyed fabric, free form quilting, hand beading, and heart-felt attention went into this creation. The quilter, a customer from Ohio who points out that she and I have not even met (!), made this beautiful piece in honor of the adoption of our motto, in honor of our new shop's one-year anniversary, and in celebration of my union with Chris. I was, and remain, speechless.
Please do come see this beautiful piece, now hanging in The Garden Room. And thank you Patsy. Thank you. |
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Contact Info: |
Laurey@laureysyum.com
828-252-1500
67 Biltmore Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801 |
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