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The Weekly Newsletter |
Menus and Stories for March 12 - 16, 2007
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| Don't forget! |
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You'll want to hit the snooze button when tomorrow comes. Don't forget, we're springing ahead a few weeks early this year. After tomorrow Seven will be the new Eight, or is it the other way around? All I know is that tomorrow it'll still be dark at seven (but not for long.)
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Cookie contest |
The recipes are beginning to roll in.
We're having a cookie contest, you know. Submit your favorite recipe and if it is selected (we'll have a taste-off next month) you'll be remembered and revered forever - right here on our cookie shelves. Cool, don't you think?
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| St. Patrick's Day dinner. March 15 |
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These cuties are perking up my yard. Sweet, eh?
Say, we're making a special St. Patrick's Dinner this week - on Thursday the 15th (why be normal?)
Here's the menu:
Corned Beef and Cabbage, of course
Roasted Potatoes and Leeks
Dilled Irish Soda Bread
and Lime Zest Cupcakes
The price is a lovely and manageable (and lucky) 14.00 per person
Give a call and we’ll save you as many as you’d like.
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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.
As a reminder, 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.
Maybe you'll win next month.
Order a lot? Enter a lot!
Good luck!!
Here's this week's menu:
Monday March 12 Brie and Almond Stuffed Chicken 10.25
Tuesday March 13 Cajun Meatloaf with Garlic Mashed Potatoes 10.25
Wednesday March 14 Orange-Braised Beef with Scallion Rice 11.75
Thursday March 15 St. Patrick’s Day Special (please see above)
Friday March 16 Cape Cod Cakes with a Lemon Aioli 10.95
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| Special casserole of the week |
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We make a special casserole each week. Order before noon on Wednesday and we'll have yours ready to pick up between 4:30 and 6:00 that very afternoon. Order a full for 9 portions or, if your gang is smaller, opt for the half-sized one, which serves 4 or so.
This week's offering is:
Wednesday, March 14
Seafood Jambalaya
Whole 42.00
Half 21.00
Would you like to add a salad and bread? Just ask and we'll fix 'em for you.
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Easter's a comin' |
Chocolate. Eggs. Pastel beauts. We have bits of treats for you. Noel made chocolate bunnies. I'm sure you remember them from last year, right? De LISH! Come see.
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| Road trip! |
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Here we are, Emily, me, and Kris. We took our little show on the road last week, hauling books and frivolity to Chapel Hill for an afternoon of waffle and friend making. I'm SO glad they joined me! When I could no longer speak they stepped in, explaining, for the hundredth time, the story of us and the jam we brought and the recipe and the book.
After six hours (!) we piled our tired selves back in the car and headed west, and up and over the mountain and into our beds. I dreamed my little speech over and over again all night long.
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Getting ready for waffles |
Six hours of sour cream waffles! Oh my.
We were right inside the front door of the store and so were the first thing people saw as they came in to browse and shop at A Southern Season, a fabulous gourmet food store in Chapel Hill, last weekend. What a trip! What a blast!
We made batch after batch of waffles (cooked on an "Emeril" waffle iron that imprinted "BAM!" into each waffle we made.) We pitched my new book ("Hi there, would you like to try a sour cream waffle? It is from my new book about growing up at an Inn in Vermont and now running a restaurant in Asheville. Hi there, would you like to try a taste of sour cream waffle? Hi there, Hi there hitherehitherehitherethere!!")
We made a bunch of new friends, people who said they'd surely visit when they come for a mountain trip. We met a number of people who had been to Blueberry Hill. And we were delighted to see how delighted everyone was with our not-too-sweet Blueberry Jam too. (I think we might soon sell it there - we'll see.)
Anyway - it was a good trip. And, as usual, I'm happy to be home.
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| A Note From Laurey |
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March 10, 2007
Hiya. Good morning from Asheville. Last week I was on the road to Chapel Hill as you can see by the photos.
(By the way, if you can’t see the photos, I think you need to see if you are blocking pop-ups on your computer because if you are, the pictures won’t be visible. Contact your e-mail company and hopefully they can help you.)
So anyway, on Wednesday a big story appeared in our local paper about me and the book and all. Zounds! That was an exciting day (or more.)
This week I’m sticking close to home. I really can’t imagine the life of a person who travels all the time selling anything. One day of it wore me out. It WAS fun, but wow – over and over and over again, day after day? week after week? I’d be utterly exhausted. As it was I spent all of Monday poking around, shuffling from room to room, I did go out for lunch, but came home and spent the afternoon doing nothing at all.
I’m happy that it is warming up. The other day, after I recovered from my waffle marathon and the cover girl thrill, I dusted off the roto-tiller and prepared the ground around my garden goddess statue in the front yard. She used to be circled by flowers and then, for a while, various landscape grasses, but last year, as you might recall, I dug all that up with my birthday present roto-tiller and planted tomatoes. Wow! The statue is about five paces from the kitchen door so it was incredibly easy to step out for a warm red bursting bite for lunch. St. Patrick’s Day is the day to plant peas around here, they say, and I’m ready this year. I plan to get those babies in the ground right on schedule. (Actually Chris has the seeds so we’ll do the planting together.) I can’t wait for them to pop up! Nothing like ‘em in the springtime. Soon after that it’ll be time for tomatoes. Yes!!
Spring is coming right along. This morning, just at dawn, I went out and sat in my hot tub and listened to the birds and the rustle of the trees and watched the sun rise. A pair of Canada Geese flew over the farm to the south of my deck, honking and catching my attention. A Pileated Woodpecker called. As it got light others came along, bothered by my presence so close to the bird feeders. Ah well, I thought, they’ll just have to wait for a bit.
This afternoon I’ll go home, no trips planned for today other than a walk with Tye. Tonight there’s a party at a friend’s house. Tomorrow, who knows, maybe another walk with the pup. In the afternoon there’s the opening of Love Makes a Family, the photographic exhibit about families, gay and otherwise, at UNCA. Filled with love, these pictures are something to see. The exhibit will be at Karpen Hall for a month if you miss Sunday's 2 – 4 opening. Do try to see it.
On Tuesday we get to cook dinner for Garrison Keillor! And then on Wednesday I’ll be cooking with Bob Caldwell on WLOS-TV, our local station. I’m going to make a few things from the new book: Andrew’s Portobello Wellingtons, Deb’s Crab Cakes, and Martha’s Black Bean Cakes. You’ll be able to see these taped sessions over the next month or so. Fun, yes? It’ll be a good week. Heck, it’s spring? What’s not to like?
I’ll be in touch next week to tell you all about it.
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Rocket comes for lunch |
Oh Rocket, a very sweet Jack Russell who speaks only in sign language (he's been deaf since birth.)
The other day was so warm that the shopsters put out the sidewalk tables and Rocket and his mom wasted no time in making themselves right at home.
And OH what a pretty skirt!!!
Um I'm not sure if Rocket is a he or a she, but the skirt looks great no matter, don't you agree?
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