The Weekly Newsletter
Menus and Stories for July 2 - 6, 2007
Picnic Time at Laurey's

The 4th is Wednesday.

We're making a special picnic dinner for you.

Pop! Pop! Bam! Bam!!

Here’s the menu:

A Firecracker Beginning:
Richard’s Fabulous Fried Green Tomatoes with Real Pimiento Cheese
Easy Rider Deviled Eggs

The Star-Spangled Main Event:
Buttermilk Fried Chicken
Sorghum-sweetened Sweet Potato Wedges
Gorgonzola Tri-colored Cole Slaw
Cheddar Cheese Biscuits

A Red, White, and Blue Send Off
White Chocolate Mousse with Strawberries and Blueberries

The price is 17.76 per person
Ka-boom!!!

Call by Tuesday if you possibly can.
We’ll be closing at on the 4th.
Dinners will be ready to pick up between 2 and 4, when we will close.

Last Week at Zingerman's

What a wonderful time we had last week. Swept into the Zingerman Family, we got to be a part of a radio show, a seminar on business visioning, a book signing in the deli, and an amazing dinner. Here's the poster that greeted us as we went into the Zingerman's Roadhouse.

It was such a grand time that I thought I'd show you some snapshots.

Another announcement

Everywhere we looked we saw examples of the Zingerman art team's brilliance. Their look is so recognizable that it was a terrific thrill to be on the receiving end. I brought one of the posters home and I'll frame it and hang it up here pretty soon.

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 July 2 Lemon-glazed Chicken with Orzo Salad 9.95
Tuesday July 3 Beef and Mushroom Kabobs 11.50
Wednesday July 4 Special 4th of July Dinner (see the menu right above here))
Thursday July 5 Cilantro Lime Shrimp with Coconut Rice 11.25
Friday July 6 Pan-seared Tilapia with White Wine Sauce 11.50

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Special casserole of the week

We make a special casserole each week. Order before noon on Wednesday and we'll have yours ready to pick up between 2:00 and 4:00 that very afternoon.

(Remember that we are closing early on the Fourth)

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, July 4th
All- American Heart of Summer Squash Casserole
with Cheddar Cheese and Basmati Rice
Whole 29.50
Half 14.75


Oh, we'd happily make a salad and provide bread for you if you like, just let us know when you call and we'll get you all set up.


The gathered guests at Zingerman's

Our "Elsie and Laurey" dinner sold out. What a delightful surprise for us.

As Chef Alex presented course after course of our food, I hopped around, meeting all the guests, reading a story or two here or there, telling tales of our Richard's Sweet Potatoes or my grandmother's sponge cake. I was floating all evening, I'll tell you.

Reading

Here I was telling the story of meeting Garrison Keillor, Elsie's Biscuit's introduction.

Goofing with Gauri

We did a book signing at the Zingerman's Deli one afternoon. Adam and Emily and I sat and watched as the Zing world turned. What that really meant was that we got to sample a bunch of cheeses and cookies and salads and bites of this and that.

Gauri is one of the managers and she kept us entertained too.

A Note From Laurey
I’m glad it’s almost July. We’ve now entered the weather pattern around here which brings dramatic thunderstorms in the afternoons. Yesterday I was at our Chamber of Commerce building when a storm blasted in from the West. Ten minutes before the meeting started I watched as the spears of jagged light crashed down from black clouds. Five minutes before the meeting started the lightning had reached our parking lot and then, right as the meeting began, the rain hit and crashes of thunder and explosions of light came simultaneously. And then, ten minutes later it was all past, the sidewalks steaming from the residue of the storm.

I go to Vermont next week (I know I’ve told you about this trip) to read some of my stories in some bookstores near my home town. I’ll be there for two different 4th of July parades and, I hope, two different 4th of July fireworks displays. Since leaving there I’ve seen some of the finest fireworks shows in the world. I lived in New York for a number of years and saw their summer spectaculars. They are phenomena, to be sure, but I suspect they will not compare to the ones in my little Vermont towns.

I’ve missed those parades. Around here we only have the Christmas parade and, since it comes at an earlier and earlier time each year, sometimes when it is still warm, it just does not get my gut going. But the Vermont ones should be fun. Kids decked out in red and white and blue, playing cards clothes pinned to their bicycle spokes clattering away. There will be grilled chicken and watermelon and burlap sack three-legged races. I can hardly wait.

Right after the fireworks are done I get to read from my book. One very nice bookstore I’m visiting was the place I used to go to buy sneakers when I was little. Honestly I can still remember the rich smells of that place: old oily floors and musty work clothes and pungent rubber. I can hardly wait to step into that store.

My sisters and I are going to stay at a farm and we’re going to drive around our old familiar dirt roads and we’ll (maybe just me) hike on our old paths and explore our old secret hideouts. I’m not sure if I’ll ever get enough of that place. I’ll probably end up sad at the things that are different. And probably part of me will wish I was back there. But I’ll also probably be very happy, when the time comes, to come back here, to this place, to these hills, these smells, these feelings. And I’ll be happy to sit on my porch, right near my desk at home, and wait as the thunderstorms come roaring in from the west.

Kether's Fresh Fig Trifle

If you were here last week you would have had the chance to sample this beauty. I love the heart of summer's bounty. Richard grilled figs, Kether baked with them, and I found some tucked into the fruit salad too.

YU -UM!!

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