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The Weekly Newsletter |
Menus and Stories for January 24 - 29, 2005
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| A glass Still Life from the Corning Museum |
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...a pig... |
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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?
Monday January 24 Elsie’s Chicken Baked in Wine 9.50
Tuesday January 25 Seared Flank Steak with Stuffed Potatoes 10.25
Wednesday January 26 Maple-glazed Pork Tenderloin 11.25
Thursday Janaury 27 Chicken Parmesan 9.50
Friday January 28 Grilled Tuna and Rosemary Potatoes 12.00
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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.
January 26
Greek Shrimp with Orzo and Feta
half pan 19.75
full pan 39.50
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...the "gather" |
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| ...adding color... |
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...the bubble... |
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| A Note from Laurey |
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January 24, 2005
Whew!
Sorry to be late this week. I’ve just returned from a two-week jaunt across the country and I got home too late to do anything but heat up my house, unpack, and go to sleep.
Week 1 found me in Corning, New York. I’ve been fascinated by glass for such a long time. I’ve told myself that when I retire I am going to go and study glassblowing. A few years ago someone pointed out to me that I could start sooner than that, and ever since I have been studying course catalogs and hoping and wishing. This year I finally signed up for a beginning glassblowing class. Wow! It was an amazing experience, my friends. My class, just eight of us, met at 9 each morning and stayed in the hot shop until 11 at night, if we wanted to. I usually started at 8:00, putzing around the studio, organizing my thoughts and the tools and such. Later on in the week I got permission to work with no supervision, so I’d warm up my hands and mind with flowers and little things.
At the beginning I was completely clumsy. I had held a blow pipe only a few times and had never managed to get the bubble blown. This time my goal was to get the hang of the bubble and also to get through to a complete glass (called a “tumbler,” since, well, everything is glass, right?) On Day 1 I fumbled and stammered and dropped and twisted where I shouldn’t have. By the end of the day, however, I had learned how to gather the material, had blown a bubble, had learned how to keep the molten mass from falling off the pipe, and, with a huge amount of assistance, had made a whole tumbler!
On the second day I worked with and without the instructor, adding new steps by the hour. I made a number of goofy, indistinct “tumblers” that looked like a kindergartener had made them. Making a flat bottom is a hard thing. Making a smooth side is hard. making a symmetrical piece isn’t the easiest thing either. Getting the bubble, centering it, blowing it up – not too much! – all of these are challenging things. I ruined a fair number of attempts. Thin bottoms are the norm with beginners and I had more than a few pieces crack at the very end, victim of not enough glass where it counts the most.
It was a whirlwind of a course, an intense study, completely captivating. Any free time I had I spent in the wonderful museum across the street from the studio. The pictures here are from there. Fanciful. Beautiful. Inspirational.
The class lasted a whole week – some 60 hours, give or take. And on the last day I actually made a flat-bottomed pitcher, complete with a lip and a handle. I have a collection of my progress. My first “gather,” my first bubble, my first tumbler, my first piece using color (whew it is ugly!) and so on. I have two boxes of things on their way to me so I can show you. I thought they’d be here by now but such is life, right?
For the next week I went to Colorado and skied for a week with Chris. I can tell you that after the intensity of the previous week I seemed to need to ski hard from the moment the lifts opened until the middle of the afternoon when my legs got wobbly and I wore out. I’d then sleep for a couple of hours and spend the evening watching silly movies and playing games. What a perfect time it was.
And now I’m home, filled with glass and thoughts of bringing that art into my life a bit more – in my spare time of course! And if my work turns out to look like anything, once I get my boxes of "treasures," I’ll show you some pictures.
Cheers!
Laurey
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...and even a tractor! |
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Contact Info: |
Laurey's (yum!) Catering
Gourmet-to-Go (and to stay!)
67 Biltmore Avenue
Asheville, NC 28801
828-252-1500
Hours:
Monday - Friday 10:00 - 6:00 pm
Saturday 10:00 - 4:00 pm |
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