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The Weekly Newsletter |
Menus and Stories for February 6 - 11, 2006
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| Valentine's Day Dinner to Go |
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Valentine's Day is on a Tuesday this year. Not exactly a stellar dining out night, is it? If I were you, I'd want to stay home, light a fire, bring home a nice dinner (hint, hint) and settle in. How 'bout it?
Special Valentine’s Day Dinner to Go
Tuesday, February 14
At the start:
Lump North Carolina Crab Cakes with Dijon Cream
The Salad:
Caesar Salad with Organic Hearts of Romaine
and Shaved “Grana Padano”
Elsie’s Sour Cream Biscuits
with “Jam Babe’s” Blackberry Jam
The Dinner:
Chicken “Picatta”
with Bone-in Chicken Breast
Wild Mushroom Risotto
The Dessert:
A Chocolate Extravaganza: A trio of chocolate
Chocolate Heart Cakes with a Chocolate Ganache
Chocolate-dipped Strawberries
and White Chocolate Truffles
The price per person is 21.50
Add a bottle of Spanish “Cava” for 10.00
(like champagne but from a different country)
Please order by Friday February 10th if you can.
Dinners will be ready for you to pick up on the 14th between 4:30 and 6:00
Thanks!
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Valentine's Chocolates |
Come on in for a sweet bit to go with your flowers and your dinner and your sweet nothings. We have 'em all for you, right up in the front of our shop.
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Dinners to go |
Dinners come with a freshly-made green salad, salad dressing of the day, and made-right-here bread of the day. We take reservations until noon or so. Please order by phone (252-1500), by FAX (252-02002) or stop in to speak to one of us in person.
Here's this week's menu:
Monday February 6 Chardonnay Chicken with Pesto Fettuccine 10.00
Tuesday February 7 Portabella Mushroom Spanakopita 9.75
Wednesday February 8 Beef Stroganoff 10.50
Thursday February 9 Elsie’s Chicken Baked in Wine 10.00
Friday February 10 Grilled Tuna with Asparagus Risotto 13.00
By the way, every time you order a dinner to go you are eligible to enter our drawing. Just drop a card in our drawing jar (a business card works or fill out one of the cards that we have right here) and, at the end of the month, we'll pull one card which will be good for two free dinners-to-go. Inaugurated a few months ago, our first winner was delighted! Maybe you'll win next month.
Order a lot? Enter a lot!
Good luck!!
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| Casserole of the Week |
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We make a special casserole each week on Wednesday. Please give us a call by the end of the day on Tuesday and we’ll fix yours for you. Come by between 4:30 and 6:00. Get a half (for 4 appetites) or a full sized pan (for 9 or so.)
Wednesday, February 8
Chicken Country Captain
Full: 32.00
Half: 16.00
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New Faces |
Mariah, Katherine, and Briana are three of the new folks here in the shop. We also have another Maryah and Eleanor, but they were not here when I took this picture so...that'll have to follow at another time.
Mariah, the gal on the left, is a photographer when she is not with us. Katherine is a newcomer from up in Vermont (nice!) She's figuring things out, and may turn out to be a Feng Shui specialist at some point. Briana is a newcomer too. She's studying philosophy and political science at UNCA. Maryah is a fine woodworker and Eleanor is a painter. What a gang!
It's always hard when a bunch of people leave as just happened. But the ones who left are off doing interesting things now (travel in Venezuela, nursing, being an environmental educator) so I can't be too sad.
Do introduce yourselves to our new front of house folks if you feel like it. (I'm sure they'd like it if you would.)
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| New Local Honey |
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This sweet fellow showed up earlier this week with some local honey in interesting jars and intriguing flavors. Markus is one of those bee keepers, like our friend Dave, who supplies us with our Sourwood Honey, who actually moves the hives (and the bees!) to where the flowers are in bloom. For now, take a look at his beautiful jars filled with Tulip Poplar Honey and Black Locust Honey.
He has lovely little hearts - which would be perfect for you-know-what.
Come see. Well, wait until Tuesday if you will, because he's not even bringing them to us until Monday.
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And more Chocolate |
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| A Note From Laurey |
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Did you hear that storm last night? I don’t think I’ve ever been so close to such a gigantic roar! My cabin shook and I wondered if things were going to have fallen off the shelves when I got up this morning. I keep a mantle full of glass pieces and it’d be a big mess if any of them fell off. Come to think of it, one did fall off once and the cats chased bits of it around for a while. But I digress.
This storm came in with amazing strength. At my house the lightning and thunder were simultaneous and enormous. Ka – BLAM!!!! No possibility of sleeping through that. I yelped out loud, pulled the blankets up and waited for the next blast. It was a quick moving storm, however, and the next crash was not quite as loud and was, by my count, already almost a mile away. The third clap came shortly after that, but was by then almost five miles away. My pup asked to climb up on the bed with me, but it was too early for that. She did not like the thunder much more than I did, though she settled down pretty well.
The rain pounded on the roof, the porch, the deck, the trees. I kept count and kept track and let the diminishing noise turn into a lullaby for me.
This morning things were grey here. The rain built up, waned, came on again. I met with a bride and groom and had to push the dimmer up to the top to give us enough light to write. By the time they left here it was beautifully sunny. And then I met with a mother and soon- to-be Bat Mitzvah girl. Our meeting started in full sun, ended during another rain storm. A bit later, right when our staff arrived to deliver and serve a wedding the skies opened up in torrents. I had a delivery to take shortly after that but by then things had cleared up completely. Crazy!
February, the week before Valentine’s Day, is a month of, a week of promise. I love hearts, Valentine’s, lace and old delicate things. You would not necessarily guess this, but it is true – at least as far as Valentine’s go. My sisters and I spent a lot of time cutting out hearts, gluing tissue paper, attaching doilies. We did not have television, so evenings were times of old-fashioned crafts (well, not always, to be truthful.) My mother was pretty emphatic about us making our own presents, our own Valentines, our own Halloween costumes.
So this week when I get home, I might pull out the scissors and make some hot chocolate and cut out some Valentines. Makes me smile just thinking about it.
Have a fun week. Make sure to get outside some if you can. I’m sure that winter will come at some point, even if it doesn’t happen this month. And do join us for Valentine’s Day dinner if you think a night at home with your sweetie sounds fun.
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New Glass |
I'm back to it. Here are a couple of this week's creations. The big one on the left was something that got way too big for me (yipes) but my friend Michael stepped in and helped me rescue it and the result was this odd and interesting vase. One of these days I'd like to make this sort of thing intentionally, but, as a friend pointed out, unplanned creations are the beginning of many a piece of fine art so - here's my latest!
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Contact
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Laurey's "Gourmet Comfort Food"
Eat In - Take Out - Catering
67 Biltmore Avenue Asheville, NC 28801
828-252-1500
Hours:
Monday - Friday 8:00 - 6:00 pm
Saturday 8:00 - 4:00 pm
"Don't Postpone Joy!"(tm)
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