OH yeah!

Who needs to drive all the way to Maine when you can come right here for that wonderful summer food? Brush off your Topsiders, pull out the summertime shorts,tie on that bib

and get ready to have some delicious FUN.

 

The Menu

 

At the start:

Baked, stuffed Cherrystone Clams

Mini Lobster Rolls

 

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Traditional New England Relish Tray

 

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New England Clam Chowder

 

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Whole Steamed Lobster with Drawn Butter

Local Corn on the Cob

Roasted Local New Potatoes

 

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Watermelon Salad

 

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Homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches

 

The cost for this feast is 60.00 which includes ALL this food,

ALL the service,and the gratuity. We’ll need to tack on the NC sales tax and, if you wish to have wine or beer, you’ll need to tack on an additional $12. Can you come? 828-252-1500

Our August Dinner and Conversation will be all about Honey.

 

Foods made with honey.

Foods made from plants that bees pollinate.

Foods the rhyme with honey (okay, maybe not.)

 

These girls have been working hard and this dinner will be the first time their honey will be presented to the world.

 

I sit on my front steps at lunch time, snack time, any time.  I must have nibbled on a handful of local tomatoes and I must have tossed a couple into the garden. 

 

Look what happened!!!

 

Here are our dinners for the next two weeks (since I will be biking and doing some business travel and will not be able to write next week.)

 

Order by noon and we'll have your dinner ready to pick up by 3. We are open until 8 now which makes it easy for you to dawdle if you like. Feel free to stay right here with us if you like. We'll reheat your meal and stay out of your way.

 

Monday July 12

Chicken Cordon Bleu 11.50

 

Tuesday July 13

Shrimp Tostados with Guacamole and Salsa 12.25

 

Wednesday July 14

Hickory Nut Gap Beef Bolognese with Cavatappi Pasta 11.75

 

Thursday July 15

Lemon Rosemary Seafood Crepes 12.25

 

Friday July 16

Seared Pork Tenderloin and Potato Cakes 11.75

 

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Monday July 19

* Chicken Baked in Wine with Saffron Risotto 11.25

 

Tuesday July 20

Salmon Cakes and New Potatoes with Chive Sour Cream 13.25

 

Wednesday July 21 * Grilled Flank Steak with Sherried Mushroom Sauce 12.25

 

Thursday July 22

East Fork Farm’s Lamb Gyros 11.50

 

Friday, July 23

We will be closed due to Bele Cher.

 

* these are gluten free

 (though it is important to know that

We make a special casserole each week.

 

Order by noon or so. Order a half if you have around 4 folks. If you have a bigger group, or you just like leftovers, order a full-sized one.

 

Then come pick up between 3:00 and 8:00. (Or bring a gang and enjoy your dinner right here. We do have beer and wine by the glass, you know.)

 

Please order by phone (252-1500) or stop in to speak to one of us in person.

 

The casseroles for the next two weeks are:

 

Wednesday, July 14

Beef Sirloin, Monterrey Jack, and Spinach Tortilla Pie

Full: 60 Half: 30

 

Wednesday, July 21

Eggplant Parmesan

Full: 42 Half: 21

 

We make Lasagna every Friday. Here are the next two week's offering.

 

Friday, July 16

Spinach Lover’s Lasagna

Full:38 Half: 19

 

Friday, July 23

We will be closed due to Bele Cher

 

My godson has a birthday next week.  I was present for his birth.  In anticipation of the big day, 23 years ago (is that right???) his mother planted seeds along a fence in Chicago where they lived. 

 

They bloomed for the first time on the day he graced the world with his life.

 

Happy Birthday Ezra. 

Happy Birthday to you, too, Barbie dear!!

 Liz Miller is one of those unique souls who graces our city.  Come here this coming Thursday to see her "Hope Notes," caring thoughts written by folks from our area.  The notes are intended for women who are victims of domestic violence. 

 

My gardens bloom full.

Snippets, wisps, and bright colors.

 

July 9, 2010

 

Ooo WHEE!!!

 

We’ve had a nice, cool week (Thank you AIR Conditioner installers!)

 

We just had a nice rain (Thank you rain creators.)

 

We’re nicely busy. (Thank YOU all!)

 

And I’m headed off on a bit of a vacation.

 

This will be a bike ride, a week-long jaunt with some of the women I rode across country with last spring. None of us can believe it has been this long. None of us have been riding very much (well, maybe Ann has!) And all of us are really looking forward to a week of easy enough riding, cavorting, sleeping, singing, and horsing around. I know I am.

 

I’ve been struggling to stop being sore for some time. My back has been creaky and not quite right. I’ve tried a whole lot of things to get better and nothing has really worked EXCEPT that a couple of weeks ago my chiropractor recommended a practitioner who, after interviewing me, realized that my aches and pains stemmed from that bike crash I had on my big ride, all the way last year.

 

And she’s fixing it!!!!

 

Hooray for her. Hooray for healing. Hooray for a return to health, to activity, to fun. I must say, it has been a bit sobering, thinking that I was creaking off into a time of diminished movement. I mean, everything was hurting. All the time. But no longer. Yay.

 

In the meantime, my bees are SO busy. When I get back I am going to see if I can pass the test to be a “certified” level beekeeper. We’ll see. My sister is going to keep things going at my homefront while I am away, watering the gardens, greeting my bees.

 

I’ll be back in a few days, more or less. And of course I’ll tell you some stories when I get back.

 

Oh oh oh.  This gal is the sweetest, sparkliest, funnest ever!

 

Most Thursday nights are now music nights here, unless we have something else going on.  Keep a look out for what we have going on.  You'll have to wait until August because between Bele Cher and private parties we're booked up.  But the lineup for then is a good one.