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The Weekly Newsletter for April 21, 2014
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Dining Out For Life! Thursday, April 24
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Dear Friends,
This Thursday marks the 12th anniversary of Dining Out For Life in Asheville.
This year, a record 115 Asheville area restaurants (and breweries!) will donate 20 per cent of their proceeds for the day to support the work of the Western North Carolina Aids Project (WNCAP).
Laurey's has been a member of Dining Out for Life for more than 10 years, as always, one of the original partners in efforts like these throughout Asheville's community.
The stellar Barbara Blake of the Citizen Times wrote a fantastic article about the soon-to-retire Harry Brown, the indefatigable leader of many of WNCAP's successful efforts:
"Current executive director Jeff Bachar said WNCAP’s mission is to prevent new cases of HIV/AIDS and to promote self-sufficiency in people living with HIV by providing client support, prevention education and advocacy activities, "guided by the belief that all people are entitled to equal access to health care and promotion.”
“It’s been said, regarding HIV and AIDS, that love is the cure,” Bachar said.
“Harry’s love has made it possible for us to prevent countless new cases of HIV; more clients are now self-sufficient, thriving individuals and more people have access to care thanks to Harry’s courageous fundraising,” he said. “Harry has helped us live and breathe our mission.”
Yesterday our friend Robert quietly told me that his group had been the winning bidder for a dinner for four, a Bee dinner, donated by Laurey in support of WNCAP's other major fundraiser for WNCAP, the Raise Your Hand auction.
We decided to hold the dinner in her honor at his own home this summer, when the lavender blooms!
- from Heather Masterton
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And now delivered to your home....
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We are SO proud to be featured now along with Asheville's best, offering our guests home delivery by the family-friendly folks at the great new Farm To Home Milk.
 Pick up their drinkable yogurt in our dairy case, and savor their dairy products in many of our daily offerings.
My current favorite on Laurey's cafe breakfast menu is their wholesome Farm Yogurt, slathered on Laurey's Housemade Granola Bowl, abrim with fresh fruit ...and NOW you can enjoy it at home on rainy days, when you just want to snuggle in!
We are happy to offer delivery of Laurey's favorites:
Picnic Tuna Salad,
Classic Chicken Salad,
Old Fashioned Pimento Cheese,
Housemade Granola, and
the exceptional and award-winning Sweet Potato Salad.
We join many of Asheville's renowned local farmers and producers who have selected
Farm To Home Milk to deliver: (Who Grows Your Food?)
Milk from Maple View Dairy
Eggs and Poultry from Farside Farms
Beef and Pork from Hickory Nut Gap Farm
Salmon from Wild Salmon Company
Cheese from Looking Glass Creamery
Trout from Sunburst Trout Farms
Bread and Gourmet Selections from Dough
Coffee roasted at Dynamite Roasting Company
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What's for Dinner Tonight? For that matter, what's for lunch?
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In the Did-You-Know department - you can ALWAYS check today's special right here, on the Cafe page at our website.
Here, I'll type it out for you so you can see it: http://www.laureysyum.com/cafe
Preeeesenting ...special items!
"Today's Specials" are in the green box...
featuring today's soups,
sandwich,
deli case,
grab-and-go case.
In the red "Events" box, you find:
tonight's Dinner-To-Go,
this week's Wednesday Casserole
this week's Friday Lasagna
and the next night's Dinner-To-Go.
Wotta deal!
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Dinners to go for the week
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Here are dinners to go for this week. This, if you do not know, is a fabulous way to have dinner. It's easy - just call us by noon and your dinner will be ready for you to pick up by 3 that very day.
You can stop by to pick yours up until we close at 8.
Add salad (3.25) or bread (1.25) if you like.
Monday, April 21
Baked Salmon with Lemon Basil Sauce 11.25
Tuesday, April 22
Grilled Portabella with Chive Risotto Cakes 8.95
Wednesday, April 23
Braised Ribs with Japapeno Cheddar Spoonbread 10.50 *GF*
Thursday April 24 **Dining Out For Life Day**
Chicken Parmesan 8.95
Friday, April 25
Crabcakes with Maple Coleslaw 10.75
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Casserole and Lasagnas to go
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The Casserole of the week:
April 23 Chardonnay Chicken & Wild Rice Whole: 35 Half: 17.50
The Lasagna of the week:
April 25: Mexican Chicken & Queso Fresco Whole: 48 Half: 24
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Laurey's notes (from a lifetime of writing)
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[So much has been written about Laurey and her life projects these past weeks, but of course the best spokesman is Laurey herself. In this column we present archival reprints of her messages. These is an early newsletter from her online records.]
 May 24, 2004
I am 50 years and one week old. I do not feel much more than 11, I'd have to say. As I slipped on shorts and sneakers this morning I wondered when, if ever, I'll feel my age. But, um, maybe this IS what 50 is supposed to feel like. I mean, here I am, 50, and feeling like this. Yes, I guess I feel just right.
My sisters have been here for their annual birthday visit. If I could, I'd send them to your house too, but actually, when they are with me, they are way too busy. The energy of the three of us is impressive. They run their own businesses too, and when we three get together we accomplish amazing things.
Last year, as I remember telling you, we installed a whole fenced in yard for my pup, redid gardens, trimmed, yanked, planted, and sorted things out. When they left I felt like I had a new home. This year is not a whole lot different.
- March 2010 photos courtesy Paul Howey
Over the year I had let things go. I have been working on my book, you know, which has meant that I have been going home and writing instead of working in my yard or garden. The vegetable garden had become a tangled mess, the bank overtaken by vetch and invasive plants. I had brought in a friend to do the big work, but I had never felt motivated enough to follow behind, clearing and trimming. And, down below the driveway, the fruit trees I planted some years ago had grown way out of control. The whole picture, combined, was daunting.
But then "the sisters" appeared. You should see my place now!
We started in the vegetable area. Heather led by digging in with my fork, loosening the ground and making things malleable enough that Lucinda and I could easily follow behind and clear the old weeds out. Last year we had redone one path in this garden, but the other two were neglected. This year Lucinda hauled out the old bricks and spread gravel. I laid the bricks back in place and we spread more gravel and sand on top. Two new paths. Done. Just like that.
Heather, in the meantime, drifted over to the apples which shot up, way too high in the air to ever reach. "You start," she said, "by imagining tossing a chicken through the branches. You want it to be that their flapping wings don't touch anything. Let's do that for now." And off she went with my clippers. The branches fell, the light came in, and I began to feel the weight of it all lifting.
"This is great!" Lucinda chimed in, grabbing a saw.
(We KNOW you're not supposed to prune at this time of year, and that this action will compromise this year's fruit, but, heck, I've never had any fruit anyway - so what the heck. At least now the trees LOOK great, and there is plenty of room for chicken tossing if you are so inclined).
Anyway - after we pruned we went to the garden store and spent some of the gift certificates I was given for my 50th. My car, loaded, creaked on the way home, crammed with garden future.
Now I go home at night, sit on my front step, smell the mint and the sage and the verbena and say thank you to these wonders of my life. My sisters. They are the very best.
[source: Laurey's Cafe and Catering newsletter, May 24, 2004]
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JOY Ride - Saturday, May 17, 2014
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 And our tag article, the link for Laurey Masterton's JOYRide, Saturday, May 17 at 1 pm, supporting the amazing work of the folks at LiveSTRONG at our local YMCA.
...and THANK YOU so much for your ongoing support for Adam Thome's May 31st 25-mile hike for Henry's Make-A-Wish. Adam is at almost double his goal Let's keep it going!
- March 2010 photos courtesy Paul Howey
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