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The Weekly Newsletter |
Menus and Stories for August 28 - September 1, 2006
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| Fried Green Tomatoes |
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I spent this morning across the street at the Saturday morning French Broad Co-op Tailgate Market. I had planned to cook three different things, one of which was gong to be Fried Green Tomatoes from B+L Organics. Once I got started I could hardly keep up with the excited samplers and so I only was able to make a little bit of Celeriac (celery root) and apple salad. I never even got to the Tomatillos. Ah well, maybe next time.
(next week I'll be playing around with roasted peppers at the Norht Asheville tailgate market, the one right behind Asheville Pizza. I'll be there between 9 and 11. Come say hello (and sample some market treats.)
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Pat Tompkins' fruit |
Grown up north of here in Mitchell County, these are some of the fruits that Pat has been bringing us lately. The pears are as sweet as can be. The plums, lovely looking, will be a delight after couple of days of ripening. The apples are great just as they are, but were also terrific when I mixed them in with Ann Gaines' celery root. (I tossed the slices in a little bit of Dave Cowart's mountain honey and added some dijon cream that we had in our fridge here.)
Simple and so delicious.
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| GORGEOUS! |
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These are beauties, aren't they?
We're in Peach time.
If you look you'll be able to find ones with white flesh, though these are yellow.
Snack on them as they are, bake them into some coffee cake, slice them and eat them with some Fullam's vanilla yogurt. We'll probably be doing a little bit of each as long as they last.
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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 coming week:
Monday August 28 Brie and Almond-stuffed Chicken 10.00
Tuesday August 29 Summer Seafood Romesco Linguini 12.25
Wednesday August 30 Grilled Flank Steak with Red Wine Sauce 11.25
Thursday August 31 BBQ Wild Salmon with roasted Red Potatoes 13.00
Friday September 1 Grilled Salmon with Mediterranean Vegetables 12.25
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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| Special 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, August 30
Sausage, Black-eye Pea and Corn Casserole
Full: 35.00
Half: 17.50
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A view of my desk |
This picture amused me just now.
Here are some tomatoes that were grown by a gal who works here, some of my jam, some local honey, some of our water, the remains of my cup of coffee and a whole bunch of things I'm supposed to be doing. I LOVE having a desk filled with tomatoes and honey and jam. The things I am supposed to be doing are still here, waiting. Under the tomatoes.
Sure beats just piles of bills, doesn't it?
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| Emily and her present |
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Emily had a birthday this past week. Her desk is still adorned with the office "Happy Birthday" lights. (We believe in extending these celebrations as long as possible around here.)
Here she is with one of her presents: a box filled with flowers and tomatoes and grapes and cucumbers and garlic - all wrapped in Hello Kitty paper (her favorite!) Cate, who works here too, grew everything and tucked it all together for Emily.
Zounds!
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A closer look |
Emily's birthday present.
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| A Note From Laurey |
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August 26, 2006
Hiya,
Not quite good MORNING, but at least I am managing to write on Saturday this week. What a beautiful day it is here. There is a hint of fall in the air, which is nice, from my point of view. It is still warm enough to be summer. Heck it IS summer! But it is getting chillier at night and all of this makes me very happy.
I guess the biggest thing to say today is that I am done with my book! Now ME being done is just the first, albeit the biggest, step in what now begins a series of steps. It is off to the editor today. Once she is done with it and I review her comments, it goes to the book designer. Once SHE is done with it – and this will be a collaboration to some degree - it will go to the publisher. THEY will put it into their system and will then send me a proof to review. And once that is done, it will be ready to print. I AM now on their schedule and so, if it all goes smoothly, we’ll have a new book for Christmas this year. I’ll do my best. You, if you will, can help by keeping your fingers crossed for me.
I remember my mother, who wrote five books, proofing galleys when I was young. At that time the proofing copy was printed on one continuous piece of paper which arrived in a fat bundle. My mother would sit and check to be sure there were no errors. She’d place the manuscript on a table in front of her and, as she read and corrected the pages, she'd flip the pages away from her. The pile in front of her, looking like tightly stacked ribbon candy would grow smaller as the pile of the proofed pages, further away, would get bigger. I wonder how they do it these days? Somehow I think the process might be different. After all, that was a long time ago.
The feeling of being done is striking. I have been working on and talking about and thinking about and wondering about this book for a long, long time. Now, just like that (well, not exactly “just like that”) it is done. Yesterday I went home, got the pup, loaded her into the car, and took her for a walk. There was a warm puff of a breeze at the lake. Tye hopped around, in and out of the water, greeting other dogs. I felt the air filling me, lifting me. I felt light and clear and odd. And very good.
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We had a nice surprise this week when we got a glimpse of the September Cooking Light magazine. We are in it, THE recommended place to eat in an article about crafts in the mountains. There is a terrific picture of Martha and a delicious picture of Kris’s Chocolate Mousse, along with some complimentary words. Nice!
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Morning watch |
My day starts with breakfast for these two members of my family. Skipper eats up on a table to keep out of the way of Tye. Tye doesn't usually eat until a person is also eating but she stands near Skipper's dish, hoping for some dropped bits. Once he is finished eating (and he usually doesn't drop anything), Skipper goes outside, sits on the front steps and surveys his territory.
This morning Tye stood behind, keeping watch.
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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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