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The Weekly Newsletter for May 12, 2014
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So these days I find myself at Laurey's cafe most mornings - some business, some schmoozing, some breakfast.
 The other day three of us enjoyed these three egg variations:
*Local Egg any style. Served with toast and jam... I took the suggestion to make it a Scramble - added Spinach and Swiss! Light and delicious...
*Egg & Cheddar Biscuit
with Applewood smoked bacon or Hickory Nut Gap breakfast sausage...(how much bacon can one biscuit hold, I ask myself?)
*Sandwich with Egg & Cheddar...Annie's Wheat, Marble Rye or White With Smoked Ham or Applewood Bacon
So much yum, so little time....
- from Heather Masterton
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 Whatever you're planning, we have a fun time supporting you.
Followed Laurey's Catering crew offsite to the Buncombe County Courthouse...
Fred and I dropped in to the courthouse to congratulate Terry Van Duyn as she was sworn in to her new state Senate seat...
Laurey's staff brought lots of champagne, rosemary lemonade, and a great selection of fruit, crostini, savory twists, local cheeses - sweet and simple, very festive!
So easy for you, delicious and sweet for your guests.
We chuckled: Terry had to hop out immediately for a rally in support of public school education at Roberson High School.
Such a scurry, she didn't get to sip her own champagne - AND she hadn't signed the papers confirming her new oath of office!
Not only that, she hadn't signed it in front of the judge who swore her in!!
So they loped out after her, sheriff in tow, onto the curb, and she signed it quick quick in the car just before she sped on her way - Gotta love Asheville!
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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, May 12
Sun-Dried Tomato and Goat Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breast 9.25
Tuesday, May 13
Sweet Potato Gnocchi with Sauteed Vegetables 8.95
Wednesday, May 14
Grilled Lamb Kofta Kebabs with Tzatziki 11.95 *GF*
Thursday, May 15
Salisbury Steak Smothered with Mushroom Gravy over Parmesan Potatoes $8.95
Friday, May 16
Crabcakes with Vermont Maple Coleslaw 10.25
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Casserole and Lasagnas to go !
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Casserole of the Week
May 14: Chicken Pot Pie w/Fried Green Tomatoes Whole $35/Half $17.50
Lasagna of the Week
May 16: SURPRISE! [**oops - we missed one Friday on our list! Back to you soon!]
 **I called the cafe since I am working on this at home - chatted with our lovely staff there, who are also slightly in the dark about this extra Friday in May - anyway - we'll figure it out!
Caleb Johnson's hometown parade from American Idol was just passing by!!
Wave, everybody! ahhhh, Asheville..**
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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, but of course the best spokesman is Laurey herself. In this column we present archival reprints of her messages. This is an early newsletter from her online records.]
June 2004
I write to you from Seattle this week. Thanks to the "miracle of modern science" I can do this. Nothing terribly special about it, I guess. Happens all the time, I guess. Still, knowing that I am sitting here writing to you there makes me stop to think about it all.
Being here makes me think about finding a sense of place, discovering what it is that makes a spot special, uncovering the secrets that are not blaringly obvious. For me, that process has always been accomplished mostly completely and convincingly by sinking into food. I can wander around a market, quietly observing, smelling, thinking, and settling in. This is never a time to talk, for me. Talking is always too distracting. I can't carry on a conversation when cilantro and cherries and flowers wave, blast, entice.
A tricky and intriguing thing, for me, is to see if I can find some taste that is so special that it can stand for the place, can be an instant reminder, later, in the deepest way possible, when I might otherwise doubt that I was even gone. Now, with it being so easy to go to one place and find nothing of THAT place, but so much of OTHER places, finding the silhouette of a spot is more and more elusive.
Last night, sitting at dinner, I found it. I am, after all, in the northwest. I am on the edge of the country, tucked next to the water, filled with salt air and breezes that might have come from all the way on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, for all I know. We started, last night, with oysters. A stand filled with ice and placed on our table held three beauties from the islands and bays around here. Each one had a subtle difference, revealing clues, if one could be attentive enough, to the land, the water, the earth itself.
I had been wondering what I could find, had been looking, in fact, for this taste, this touch of what I could not find anywhere else.
Which makes me think about bringing tastes from around our country to the little shop in Asheville and, ultimately, to you. The fig preserves, for instance, are, I think, a taste of one very specific place in California. American Spoon Foods' preserves, another example of something you can find on our shelves, condense the sun and the taste of mid-summer Michigan into a jar. I open a tin of Vermont Maple Syrup whenever I need a fix of my childhood, and now, now that I live in the mountains of North Carolina, I find myself thinking about what it is that I have there that exists nowhere else. It is not always so easy to say, though I think about it a lot.
Today I sat at a lunch counter on the waterfront here and ate Alaskan Cod and a cup of Clam Chowder (it's kind of cold here) and took deep breaths of the salt air and tried to let it all filter through me. And no, I have not stopped thinking about Italy. Or France, or any number of other places that hold secrets and musty messages that draw me in.
I'll be back in the southern mountains soon, changed, as I always am, by all of these tastes in this time in this place. You know what I mean, don't you?
[source: Laurey's Cafe and Catering newsletter, June 2004]
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BEE JOYfull ice cream from The Hop
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 Dear friends, the marvelous Greg Garrison from the HOP Ice Cream has invented a terrific new flavor in honor of the JOY!Ride -
Honey Lavender is the flavor, and it is called BEE JOYfull Ice Cream! In a light vanilla base - yuh-umm!
Available at the JOY!Ride at Carrier Park, Saturday May 17. Kid's rides start just after 12:30, lots of fun starting about 11 am - come have ice cream for breakfast!!
This is us cutting up with him - that's lovely Rachel Dudasik, hardest-working ride organizer and Program Coordinator for the LiveSTRONG program at the YMCA.
What a cutie! And endless energy for this wonderful program for cancer survivors and their families.
All JOY!Ride funds go directly to our local YMCA programs for LiveSTRONG. Laurey benefited greatly from it, and supported it with her whole heart.
Behind the camera, the indefatigable Marilynne Herbert...
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Scooter joins us at the JOY Ride - Saturday, May 17, 2014
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More fun at the JOYride for LiveSTRONG at the YMCA! The ride is THIS Saturday, May 17th. LOTS of activities for non-riders, food, fun and games, bands all day and food trucks!
 Here's one more reason to stop on down: our friend Scooter, the puppet who advocates for homeless pets, will visit us down at Carrier Park.
Dear Louise Glickman and Daryl Slater visited us the other day to celebrate Scooter's donation to the local Asheville Human Society.
Adam and I had a sec to give Scooter a hug - how fun to chat with a puppet!!!
- documented with love by Marilynne Herbert!!!
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Still time to get a ticket! Win Laurey's Cross-the-country Trek 2300 Road Bike!
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For a $20 donation, we are happy to sell you a chance to win Laurey's Trek 2300 bicycle she rode across the country...3100 miles! 50 days of riding! San Diego to St. Augustine! Whooeee! All proceeds for the JOY!Ride, of course, drawing at the ride next weekend. Winner need not be present to WIN!!!
 Here's how: send a quick note to me at laurey@laureysyum.com (or just Reply to this newsletter) and I'll put in an entry for you. I do have a PayPal account, so you can send me any size donation there: the receiving email is barnswallow@clovispoint.com
Just call me and I'll talk you through it: Heather Masterton (802) 236-3230.
We'd LOVE you to have this bike! So far we have tickets going to Michigan, Massachusetts, and we'd love to include all the states between.
Easy to ship her through Liberty Bikes, Laurey's chosen local bike outlet, locally owned for 30 years!
You might want to know the specs for the machine: Trek 2300 carbon road bike, 50cm size, model year 1999, Rolf Vector wheels, Shimano Ultegra/105 9 speed components.
This fits a lady of a certain age who is about 5 feet 5 inches. You get the picture.
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