You KNOW this is the menu you MUST eat if you live here and you want to have the very best of luck for the New Year. Call us up and save yours. 252-1500.

 

 

Nw Year's Good Luck Dinner-to-Go

From Laurey’s

 

 

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The Menu:

 

Hoppin’ John

 

Collard Greens

 

Stuffed Local Pork Chops

 

Corn Bread

 

Individual Key Lime Pies

 

 

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The Price: 20.11

 

(it IS the eve of 2011!!!)

 

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Order by Thursday the 30th at noon.

 

Pick up on Friday between 2 and 4

 

My friend Ari, one of the co-founders of Zingerman's - the very most excellent deli in Ann Arbor, is coming to Asheville!!!!  AND, he's coming to Laurey's!!!!

 

Join in on this really fun night.  Ari will be here telling bacon stories.  I'll be here cooking.  Bacon.  With every single course. 

 

The price is a very reasonable 49.00 per person + tax.  You'll get a delicious meal with bacon, bacon, and more bacon.  If you'd like beer and or wine, we'll ask for $12.00 more.

 

We're still pouring through Ari's book to pick the exact menu but I can assure you it will be DELICIOUS!!!

 

Oh yeah!  If I do say so myself, the food here is oh so good!  The cooking team fills our case every day with all sorts of things for you.  Here's what I just had - roasted butternut squash with sauteed kale.  (Okay - true confessions, I put it on top of macaroni and cheese, but who's watching?)

 

Here are our dinners for this coming week.

 

Monday December 27

Chicken Croquettes with Mashed Potatoes and Applesauce 11.50

 

Tuesday December 28

Shrimp Risotto Cakes with Basil Remoulade 13.95

 

Wednesday December 29

* Rosemary Roasted Pork with Braised Collard Greens 12.95

 

Thursday December 30

Blackeye Pea Cakes with Garlicky Greens 10.95

 

Friday December 31

New Year’s Eve Dinner to Go (please see inside)

 

Order by noon and we'll have your dinner ready to pick up by 3.  Our new winter hours are in effect so we're now closing at 7.

 

* dinners marked with an asterisk are gluten free

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 7:00.

 

The casserole this week is:

 

Wednesday, December 29

Lemon Garlic Eggplant, Peppers,

and Penne Pasta

 

Full: 38 Half: 19

 

This week's special Lasagna is:

 

Friday, December 31

 

Italian Sausage and Gorgonzola

Full: 59.95 Half: 29.95

 

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

 

Adam, you may or may not know, is a wonderful cook.  He's with us a few days a week, wielding his knives and bringing his culinary gifts to us and, more importantly, to you.

 

It sure is soup time, my friends. 

 

We make two soups every day.  One is always Vegetarian but beyond that, you'll be pleased to know that you can come on consecutive days and find different soups almost every time.

 

Ruthie, a friend from high school, used to try out potential names for potential children (back when we were in high school together) by saying, "Roger (or whatever)! Eat your broccoli!" She figured she'd be urging her potential child to eat the green, healthy vegetable at some point so she'd better be sure it sounded good.

 

 

December 28, 2010

 

Ooowee! I’m writing to you on a Tuesday. Saturday was Christmas, ya know, and we had a big blizzard, ya know. I had PLANNED to write a note to you from home, but the internet blinked out. My car was temporarily snowbound. The electricity was off for a bit, and, well, it was all I could do to just keep the fire going and the pipes from freezing. My pup didn’t mind but she was the only one. My sisters and I had our own adventures…

 

I had a dinner planned for Christmas night but had not done much of any actual cooking, as I was waiting for the word from Lucinda saying she was almost here. My sister Heather had come over to wait with me. Once we heard that Lucinda was closing in on Weaverville, I started cooking the parts of dinner that involved a longer cooking time. Sigh. Just as I turned the boiling water down to a simmer, the electricity flickered and went out. ARGH!!!

 

Fortunately I had a nice fire going in the woodstove so I moved the wild rice pot from the electric stove to the top of the woodstove and started thinking about how I could cook the salmon on top too. The salad was safely still in the fridge and it was too early to worry about the asparagus…

 

Lucinda was driving from Kentucky and, as she was coming down the hill to my house, her horse trailer-pulling truck slid right off the side of the road into a deep ditch. Heather and I and I went to try to get her out but, though strong, we three are no match for a truck so we transferred the presents and luggage to my car, said a prayer that no one would crash into the ditch-bound truck, and went home to try to enjoy Christmas with each other.

 

As we were driving out of my driveway to get Lucinda, however, two frantic women flagged us down, begging for a ride to their home. I told them to pull into my driveway and wait for me to get my sister and then come help them. But to our surprise (horror) the frantic women had pulled into my driveway, just off the road, and had parked, locked, and left their car, completely blocking Heather’s car in and mine out!!!!

 

Just then, unbelievably, two men drove by who, UNBELIEVABLY, had, a short time earlier, just driven by my driveway and had been flagged down by those two women who had just parked IN my driveway and had taken them home! The men graciously agreed to drive Heather BACK to the women’s home, where she retrieved the keys, came back, and moved the blocking car.

 

The good news, however, was that, as the men pulled away with my sister, I noticed that the electricity was back on.

 

Whew!

 

I moved the rice back to the electric stovetop and, like a fool, put the salmon in the oven. I held the asparagus for the last minute.

 

My sister decided to try to reach AAA and, remarkably, managed to get someone to answer the phone and to agree to come pull her truck out. I turned the rice off, turned the salmon way down, and went out to greet the AAA guys who, when they came, could not help, as their truck was sliding toward the ditch too. We got back in my car and returned to my house. Again.

 

By then it was 10.

We had not had dinner.

Dinner was a mess anyway, an overcooked mess – all except for the asparagus, which was perfect. My sisters gamely ate their very dry salmon, overcooked wild rice, and perfect asparagus. And then, at 11 or so, we opened our presents and went to bed.

 

If you are, or if someone you know is, purchase one of our little bike helmet stickers for $5.00.  then, every time you (or they) buy lunch, you (or they) will get a free iced tea or lemonade.