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The Weekly Newsletter |
Menus and Stories for May 1 - 6, 2006
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| Martha |
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Mastermind of the Dinner to Go menu each month.
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Deb |
Queen of the Crab Cakes and much more...
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| Richard |
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(this is the one who created the amazing Sweet Potato salad.)
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Dinners to go |
Dinners, as you know, 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 is the menu for this week:
Monday May 1 BBQ Chicken, New Potatoes, and Caesar Salad 10.00
Tuesday May 2 Golden Snapper Filet with Paella 11.00
Wednesday May 3 Herb-roasted Beef Kabobs 10.75
Thursday May 4 Italian Meatloaf and Garlic Mashed Potatoes 9.75
Friday May 5 Cinco de Mayo Special dinner to go (see inside)
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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| Casseroles |
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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, May 3
Chicken Creole and Macque Choux* Pie
(* a savory corn concoction – yum!)
Full: 33.00
Half: 16.50
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Kether |
The newest member of the cooking team, the one who pushes us, keeps us on our culinary toes!
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Chief Baker and systematizer extraordinaire.
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Special Conco de Mayo Dinner to Go |
Friday, May 5th
In celebration of this important day in Mexican history we are offering this special dinner to go meal. Please place your order by Wednesday in the afternoon if you can. (We need to know how much cake to make.) We’ll have Corona too. Sound good?
Here’s the menu:
Shrimp Escabeche
(pickled in a fresh Lime marinade)
Ancho-roasted Pork Loin
Green Chile and Cheese Empanadas
Roasted Mexican Vegetables with a Tomatillo Pipian* Sauce
(*with toasted, seasoned almonds and sesame seeds)
Tres Leches Cake
A white cake with caramel and whipped cream. Oh my!
The price: 16.25 per person
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| A Note From Laurey |
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May is my birth month. What a perfect time to be born, really. Each year, when it comes time to celebrate, the world, my world, is filled with the sweetness of lilacs and lily of the valley and rosemary blossoms and so many other things.
My world, my yard at home, fills, these days, with birds and song and color. And, all of a sudden, the place is wild. Just last week things felt modest still. Sure I heard a bird call or two or five in the mornings, but the cacophony of previous springs didn’t seem to be the way things were going. In my main garden bed, the Siberian iris have been poking up, slowly, slowly, slowly emerging. Next to the kitchen door the hollyhocks have been growing, nothing spectacular, but steadily inching up.
At the end of last week we had some days of rain. Downpours. Torrents. Streams, gushes, non-stop buckets at times. We’re doing some construction at home right now and that back yard, a dirt pit at the moment, turned into a mud bath. Gullies emerged, water streaming down and down, gouging and carving ruts into the hillside.
But yesterday, or maybe it was just this morning, I felt like things had taken a dramatic turn, had undergone an intense, explosive growth spurt. The hollyhocks shot up a good foot in the past few days and are almost as high as my waist. The iris plants are just about to burst with stalks loaded with flowers. A bright green something or other (I don’t know what kind of bush it is), one of two I planted a few years back, has almost taken over the whole garden bed. What happened? How? When?
And I no longer sleep until daylight. The birds are HERE. No doubting it. They drown out any other sounds, filling the air with their calls, taunts, invitations. “Come here!” they cry to each other, “Over HERE!!!” By the time the light comes, the songs are huge and full.
At night, on my way to sleep, neighborhood dogs team up, howling at the moon as one big primeval pack. My animals keep quiet, but pay close attention to the echoing calls. We have no indoor barking or howling, just a good deal of interest.
My mother tells the story of my birth in her first book. The lilacs were in bloom and she and my father got in the car and drove off to bring me into the world. My sisters were already around and probably got shipped off to a neighbor’s for the event. Lucinda says she was not very interested in another baby. Heather, on the other hand, remembers me being a cute little thing. I think the mother should get more credit on a birthday and, appropriately enough, this year mine is on Mother’s Day. What a nice way to remember the one who brought me here and showed me the way, whether she knew it or not.
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Mariah |
One of the shop team (the others will appear next week). Mariah is a quiet, able gal here. She's a photographer so you can be sure she keeps her eye on the goings on. (Maybe she'll show her work at our next staff art show.)
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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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