The Cat in the Hat Dropped By

“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?” Bluto Blutarsky (played by John Belushi) asked, rallying his Delta House troops to deal with “double secret probation.” We know the rest of the story: toga party. Well, it’s a little wet to go anywhere dressed in sheets, but we’ve got some great food that’ll help stem the rainy blues. Here’s what we’ve got cooking for you at week’s end: Curry chicken salad, potato leek soup, and a shrimptastic po-boy Friday.

What We’re Cooking for You at Week’s End

Thursday, July 28

Curry chicken salad on house salad, in a large, fresh tomato, in a wrap, or on a sandwich. A special recipe of curry chicken made with all breast meat, cashews, pistachios, some crispy veggies, and a flavorful curry seasoning can be added to our house salad, placed in a cored fresh tomato, put in a wrap, or placed on our fresh bread. Dr. Suess’ immortal The Cat in the Hat (our favorite fight the rainy day book) opens with these wonderful lines, “The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house all that cold, cold, wet day. I sat there with Sally. We sat there, we two. And I said, ‘How I wish We had something to do!'” Do something more than “Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit!” Drop by our house for a bump that will help you jump, get rid of the grump, and not feel like a chump — you’ll feel positively plummy (whatever that is). Yes, our chicken salad can do that in our Trump-Twitter-dump and Hillary-spillary free zone. And, yes, the Cat in the Hat will be chatting and wrapping and sandwiching with Thing 1 and Thing 2 and his thingamabobbydoditcherydo.

We’ve got a wonderful potato and leek soup for you today! Have a soup and salad with our house bread for $11.00!

Friday, July 29

Shrimptastic Friday: Barbecued shrimp stuffed po-boys or fried green tomato and shrimp po-boys with house-made remoulade sauce. Take a half-size po-boy, hollow the bread to make a bread cave, stuff it with our own New Orleans style barbecued shrimp (prepped in loads of butter, white wine, and saucy spices), cover it with barbecue sauce, and grab the napkins. Or grab our fried green tomatoes, add some shrimp sautéed in our barbecue sauce, our house salad with house-made dressing, some remoulade sauce, and you’ve got a little more than a po-boy, you’ve got a “Whoa-boy.” Yep. The wildly successful and legendary movie Animal House was released this week way back in 1978. No food fights, old caddy’s dressed as a tank, or togas, here, though — just some great shrimp po-boys. “Po-boy, po-boy, po-by,” Blutarsky began chanting. “I guess we’re having a po-boy party,” Otter (played by Tim Matheson) smiled.

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Lunch Served | 11am-2pm Tuesday — Friday

You can find our house at 828 Julia Street in Rayville, Louisiana. You can call us at (318) 267-4457.

Thanks for letting us serve you, and may God bless you richly as you sit at the table.

Famous Quotes

Our good friend Theodor Suess Geisel admits, “The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.” We’re certainly glad he spent many a rainy Friday afternoon using pen and spoon to make us swoon with wonderful words like “ham-ikka-schnim-ikka-schnam-ikka-schnopp,”floob-boober-bab-boober-bubs,” “humpf-humpf-a-dumpfer,” “bippo-no-bungus,” and “zizzer-zazzer-zuzz.” 

Image Credit: “Dr. Seuss is Getting a Museum in His Hometown,” Entertainment Weekly.

July 26, 2016 Weekly Menu

Mercy! We’re feeling a little dejá vu! Convention madness continues unabated! Come join us at the table again this week for some good food with a side order of sanity with a few heaping dashes of levity, we can work together to keep western civilization civil. Here’s what we’ve got cooking for you this week: Pan-fried pork loin with lady cream peas and tomato pie, chicken, shrimp, and andouille sausage jambalaya, curry chicken salad, and a shrimptastic po-boy Friday.

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Tuesday, July 26

Pan-fried pork loin with lady cream peas and tomato pie. We’ll pan-fry a lovely piece of marinated pork loin just right, add it to some fresh lady cream peas and tomato pie, and we’ve got a great way to get the week rolling. Secretary of the Agriculture Tom Vilsak says, “I don’t care what anybody says: Nothing is better than a tomato you grow. There’s something about it that’s different than a tomato you can buy. It’s a great thing.” Hey, fresh tomatoes are totally great things, but maybe putting them in tomato pie is even greater.

Wednesday, July 27

Chicken, shrimp, and andouille sausage jambalaya. Well, Cajun calling! What’s better than a delicious, hearty mix of chicken, shrimp, andouille sausage, rice, and tasty goodies? Comedian Brian Regan jokes, “I went to the juice isle, I learned something. Cranberries are taking over everything. What do you got, apples? Put some cranberrise in there, make it 50/50. Cran-apple. Grapes? Cran-grape. Mangos? Cran-mango. Pork chops? Cran-Chop!” Sounds like a plan to us, but you won’t find any cranberries in this jambalaya.

Thursday, July 28

Curry chicken salad on house salad, in a large, fresh tomato, in a wrap, or on a sandwich. A special recipe of curry chicken can be added to our house salad, placed in a cored fresh tomato, put in a wrap, or placed on our fresh bread. You know, chicken jokes never get old: “Why did the unwashed chicken cross the road twice? Because he was a dirty double crosser.” Yep.

Friday, July 29

Shrimptastic Friday: Barbecued shrimp stuffed po-boys or fried green tomato and shrimp po-boys with house-made remoulade sauce. Take a half-size po-boy, hollow the bread to make a bread cave, stuff it with our own New Orleans style barbecued shrimp (prepped in loads of butter, white wine, and saucy spices), cover it with barbecue sauce, and grab the napkins. Or grab our fried green tomatoes, add some shrimp sautéed in our barbecue sauce, our house salad with house-made dressing, some remoulade sauce, and you’ve got a little more than a po-boy, you’ve got a “Whoa-boy.” Stand-up comic Jim Gaffigan notes, “I’m not a strict vegetarian. I do eat beef and pork. And chicken. But not fish ’cause that’s disgusting! How do you know when fish goes bad? It smells like fish either way! ‘Hey this smells like a dumpster, lets eat it!'” Hey, let our shrimp po-boys launch you into a laughingly great weekend!

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Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

Stone House Eats Bread Baked Daily

Lunch Served | 11am-2pm Tuesday — Friday

You can find our house at 828 Julia Street in Rayville, Louisiana. You can call us at (318) 267-4457.

Thanks for letting us serve you, and may God bless you richly as you sit at the table.

Famous Quotes

Author Phillip Gibbs notes, “There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.” Well said. 

Walking on the Moon

Sting sang about it: “Giant steps are what you take, walking on the moon. I hope my legs don’t break walking on the moon…some may say, I wishing my days away….” Yep. Forty-seven years ago this week, astronauts walked on the moon. Here’s what we’ve got cooking for you at week’s end, and we hope it sends you over the moon: Pulled pork po-boys with apple slaw and barbecued shrimp tacos with Spanish rice, charro black beans, and fresh salsas.

What We’re Cooking for You at Week’s End

Thursday, July 21

Pulled pork sandwiches with apple slaw on Gambino’s po-boy bread. Slow cooked pork, pulled to tender pieces, house made barbecue sauce, and jalapeño mayonnaise topped with our tart apple slaw on Gambino’s po-boy bread form a porkalicious sandwich that simply makes your week better by helping you slide faster into the weekend. Forty-seven years ago, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon, and he uttered these famous words, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” He’d been practicing for days in the lunar module, hoping to get the words just right. But, every once in a while, he’d substitute his favorite meat in the wording just to keep things, well, light: “That’s one small step for bacon, one giant leap for pigkind.” Few know that the crew celebrated the historic moment with a specially made creamed brew of pulled pork they squeezed from tubes (they didn’t have any bread in space at the time — it has trouble rising). Yep. Historic. Come join us for some pulled pork po-boys, it’ll be a giant leap toward the weekend.

Friday, July 22

Barbecued shrimp tacos with Spanish rice, charro black beans, fresh tomato and tomatillo sauces, and jicama slaw ($15.00). Take some of our barbecued shrimp, add them to a lightly fried corn tortilla with some jicama slaw and fresh salsas, and you’ve got a launching pad for the weekend. Shhhhhh! Don’t tell anyone, but Sting once admitted, “Intellectually, I’m probably a Republican.” We’re not exactly sure what that means, but we’d like to discuss it over shrimp tacos and beans. And, maybe we can sing a little of Sting’s famous movie song, “Shrimpalicious Man” — “Don’t mess with a shrimpalicous man!” Come join us, we’d love to see you!

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Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

Stone House Eats Bread Baked Daily

Lunch Served | 11am-2pm Tuesday — Friday

You can find our house at 828 Julia Street in Rayville, Louisiana. You can call us at (318) 267-4457.

Thanks for letting us serve you, and may God bless you richly as you sit at the table.

Famous Quotes

Neil Armstrong tells us the truth about his famous moon walk, “Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.” Apparently, he’d rather fly around the moon than walk on it. Hmmm. We’re glad he took that step, though. Yes, we are.

July 19, 2016 Weekly Menu

Mercy! Convention madness is upon us! Come join us at the table for some good food with a side order of sanity, it just might help keep western civilization civil. Here’s what we’ve got cooking for you this week: Fried pork chops with gravy and mashed sweet potatoes, parmesan crusted chicken breast with parsley rice, pulled pork sandwiches with apple slaw, and barbecued shrimp tacos with Spanish rice, charro black beans, and fresh salsas.

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Tuesday, July 19

Fried pork chops with gravy, mashed sweet potatoes, and sautéed cabbage and kale. Blissfully slumbering overnight in a special saucy boudoir of buttermilk and seasonings, these pork chops will ceremoniously swim with their special flour bathing suits in a big pot of hot and lovely grease, and they come served with a lovely dish of mashed sweet potatoes sided by some wonderfully healthy sautéed cabbage and kale. After Franklin D. Roosevelt’s nebulous message to 1940 convention delegates who wondered about a possible FDR third term, “[…you] are free to vote for any candidate,” the famous “voice from the sewers” boomed over the loud speakers, “Illinois wants Roosevelt!” The convention erupted into “We Want Roosevelt! We Want Roosevelt!” thanks to Thomas Garry, superintendent of Chicago’s Department of Sanitation. Of course, FDR won an unprecedented third term as president. Yep. History. Well, come have a pork chop with gravy and mashed sweet potatoes, it’s historical, and it’s been known to cure outbreaks of political madness.

Wednesday, July 20

Parmesan crusted chicken breast with parsley rice and fresh marinara sauce. Chicken breasts coated with a delicious parmesan crust baked into a delicious dish served and on light and delightful parsley rice with a little fresh summer tomato marinara sauce on top will help you make Wednesday a lot less humpy. Actor Patrick Stewart admitted in an interview once, “Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.” Don’t let your life spiral out of control this Wednesday, come join us for parmesan crusted chicken breast and parsley rice. It just might be able to save that precious phone you dropped in the toilet while trying to text your kids about the mess they made in the bathroom.

Thursday, July 21

Pulled pork sandwiches with apple slaw on Gambino’s po-boy bread. Slow cooked pork, pulled to tender pieces, house made barbecue sauce, and jalapeño mayonnaise topped with our tart apple slaw on Gambino’s po-boy bread form a porkalicious sandwich that simply makes your week better by helping you slide faster into the weekend. Chef Anthony Bourdain opines, “To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.” These pulled pork sandwiches totally make life worth living.

Friday, July 22

Barbecued shrimp tacos with Spanish rice, charro black beans, fresh tomato and tomatillo sauces, and jicama slaw ($15.00). Take some of our barbecued shrimp, add them to a lightly fried corn tortilla with some jicama slaw and fresh salsas, and you’ve got a launching pad for the weekend. Someone once said, “I eat tacos over another tortilla so that when stuff falls out, boom!, another taco.” Of course that someone also said, “‘Taco cat’ spelled backwards is ‘taco cat.'” These tacos will help you wahoo into the weekend, and you won’t need silly quotes from someone named “Someone.”

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Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

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Lunch Served | 11am-2pm Tuesday — Friday

You can find our house at 828 Julia Street in Rayville, Louisiana. You can call us at (318) 267-4457.

Thanks for letting us serve you, and may God bless you richly as you sit at the table.

Famous Quotes

Writer John Steinbeck observed in The Winter of Our Discontent, “In early June the world of leaf and bad and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” Well, there it is, exploding greenery and surprising sunsets — sounds like a good summer.

Prise de Le Hamburger

Bastille Day est arrivé! Amid shouts of “Liberté, egualité, and fraternité,” the partisans of the Third Estate in France stormed the Bastille, that symbol of royal corruption in Paris, defeating a very small force of the king’s defenders. It’s the start of the French Revolution which ended with Louis XVI losing his head. Don’t lose your heads in this heat (or crazy election political environment), let us help you stay steady, strong, and cool. Here’s what we’ve got cooking for you at week’s end, and it just might make you feel revolutionary: house-made hamburgers on jalapeño buns with all the trimmings and shrimp pasta carbonara.

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Thursday, July 14

House-made hamburgers on jalapeño buns with all the trimmings. Well, what’s better than home-made hamburgers, jalapeño buns, lots of trimmings? Nothing. Bastille Day makes us think of our old friend Inspector Clouseau, played by Steve Martin in the new incarnation of The Pink Panther. Inspector Clouseau plans to chase the thief to the United States, so he must brush up his English. He works on his flawless American accent by practicing saying, “I would like to buy a hamburger.” Yeah. Well, come join us for these burgers, they’ll help you feel revolutionarily revolutionary, and you don’t even have to practice your French to get something that has German origins.

For some Thursday giggles, have a look a the great hamburger scene from The Pink Panther (2006), starring Steve Martin and Jean Reno (one of our favorite French actors).

Friday, July 15

Shrimp carbonara pasta ($15.00). We have bowtie pasta swimming in a creamy white sauce with lots of fine friends — gulf-caught shrimp, mushrooms, garden fresh veggies, and green onions. We’re feeling kind of Les Miserables today, you know, day after Bastille Day and all. “I dreamed a dream of shrimp,” Fantine sang so soulfully. Not to be outdone, Valjean belts out, “Who am I? I’m Shrimp Valjean!” Watch out for the master of the shrimp, though, he’s naughty, “Master of the shrimp, doling out the charm, ready with some pasta and an open palm. Tells a saucy tale, makes a little stir, customers appreciate a bon-viveur….” What would Friday be without, “Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of shrimp pasta? It is the music of a people who will not hunger again! When the beating of your heart echoes the grumbling of your tumms, there is a life about to start, when the pasta comes!” Yep. Happy Friday!

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Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

Stone House Eats Bread Baked Daily

Lunch Served | 11am-2pm Tuesday — Friday

You can find our house at 828 Julia Street in Rayville, Louisiana. You can call us at (318) 267-4457.

Thanks for letting us serve you, and may God bless you richly as you sit at the table.

 

Eugéne Delacroix’s “Liberty Leading the People” (1830). Picture credit Creative Commons.

Famous Quotes

Our silly banjo friend Steve Martin remarked, “Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.” Of course, he also famously said, “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”

July 12, 2016 Weekly Menu

Chicago’s banging out the piano with a nice back beat and cool horns, just what we need for the summer, “Saturday in the park, I think it was the Fourth of July. Saturday in the park, I think it was the Fourth of July. People dancing, people laughing, a man selling ice cream, singing Italian songs.” Here’s what we’ve got cooking for you this week, and it just might make you want to sing in Italian: Louisiana red beans and rice, chicken pot pie, house-made hamburgers on jalapeño buns, and shrimp pasta carbonara.

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Tuesday, July 12

Special made Louisiana red beans and rice with hot water cornbread and house salad. Our red beans come fully and deeply flavored, cooked in our own house-made smoked ham hock stock that will totally set the week in motion. It’s hard to believe the summer has blown by so quickly like a hot zephyr. Poet William Butler Yeats waxed, “Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!” Well, these beans might just help you ride upon the wind, dancing with faeries on the mountain. Sounds like a great way to start the week.

Wednesday, July 13

Chicken pot pie. Made with specially cooked chicken breast meat, a host of roasted root vegetables, and a scrumptious sauce made with our very own chicken stock, Stone House Eats chicken pot pie redefines mom’s old standby meal. “That Dastard Lee Duck has waddled his swaggering self into town. He’s looking for a showdown,” Superchicken warned. “He’s a foul fowl, never bathing, always wreaking olfactory havoc.” “So, what, he stinks?” Wonder Kid wonders. “He’s a felon famous for pilfering pharmacies, and I know he’s got some nefarious plot in mind. Good thing, though, we can always smell him before he arrives…well, if the wind’s blowing in the right direction.” Our chicken pot pie will help you fight the mid-summer blues with its roasted goodness. You’ll smell it coming, too, but in a good way.

Thursday, July 14

House-made hamburgers on jalapeño buns with all the trimmings. Well, what’s better than home-made hamburgers, jalapeño buns, lots of trimmings? Nothing. Our old movie star friend Paul Newman remarked once, “I don’t like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?” Good solid marriage advice. We’ve got some advice for you: try the burger at the shop this week. It might just launch you into the weekend early.

Friday, July 15

Shrimp carbonara pasta ($15.00). We have pasta swimming in a creamy white sauce with lots of fine friends — gulf-caught shrimp, mushrooms, garden fresh veggies, and green onions. Franco Nero (the bad guy from Force 10 from Navarone, among others) famously notes, “I’m crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It’s like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It’s in my blood. I need it.” There you have it — the recipe for a great summer weekend: westerns, wine, bread, and pasta.

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Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

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Lunch Served | 11am-2pm Tuesday — Friday

You can find our house at 828 Julia Street in Rayville, Louisiana. You can call us at (318) 267-4457.

Thanks for letting us serve you, and may God bless you richly as you sit at the table.

Famous Quotes

Chef Alice Waters captures the simple beauty of summer food: “I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.” Yep. Fresh tomatoes, sweet corn, and summer.

Closed July 5-8, 2016

Dear friends, it’s a wonderful Fourth of July day in north Louisiana, and we hope you had a blessed weekend. We’ll be closed for business on Tuesday 5—9, 2016. We hope to see you on Tuesday, July 12 as we open with some good, old fashioned southern cooking guaranteed to fill your bellies and warm your hearts. Hope to see you then!

What We’re Cooking for You Next Week, July 12-15

Louisiana red beans and rice, chicken pot pie, house-made burgers on jalapeño bread, shrimp pasta carbonara with bow tie pasta. We’d love to see you at the table!

Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

Stone House Eats Bread Baked Daily

Lunch Served | 11am-2pm Monday — Friday

You can find our house at 828 Julia Street in Rayville, Louisiana. You can call us at (318) 267-4457.

Thanks for letting us serve you, and may God bless you richly as you sit at the table.

Famous Food Quotes

Erma Bombeck totally gets the Fourth of July: “You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”

Photo Credits: “Happy Fourth of July from the Muppets” on YouTube.com (check the video) and  History.com, “Fourth of July.”

June 28, 2016 Weekly Menu

Sly and the Family Stone remind us, “End of the spring and here she comes back. Hi, hi, hi, hi there. Them summer days, those summer days. That’s when I had most of my fun back. High, high, high, high there. Them summer days, those summer days…hot fun in the summertime.” Apparently, we’re supposed to be having fun in all this heat. It just might be too hot to have fun. Join us at the table this week — we have AC! Here’s what we’ve got cooking for you this week: Chicken cacciatore, overnight brisket po-boys, curry chicken salad, and a shrimp pasta primavera.

Fourth of July Freezer Special — 15% Off Any Freezer Item!

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Tuesday, June 28

Chicken cacciatore. Lightly floured chicken breast pan-fried in butter with a crushed plum tomatoes, fresh mushrooms, and fresh red peppers sauce served on a bed of creamy polenta. It’s an old dish: cacciatore means “hunter” in Italian, and it’s simply prepared with fresh ingredients, including the latest bird hunted, e.g. dove, pheasant, or if you’re particularly adventuresome, yardbird. We hunted our chickens down the bayou, lassoed them from the backs of our domesticated buffaloes, sent them to their heavenly reward in a very humane way, and have lovingly prepared them just for you. Come on by, you won’t want to miss these “hunted” chickens.

Wednesday, June 29

Gambino’s po-boy bread brisket sandwich ($14.50). The stuff of legends, our overnight brisket, slow-cooked in a special blend of spices and dark beer, will cheer your tummy and your table. It comes with a 6″ toasted Gambino’s po-boy bun, our overnight brisket topping our house salad, chips, pickles, and tea or water. Poet Langston Hughes muses, “Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.” Humor and an overnight brisket po-boy — just what you and the earth and the air will need this Wednesday.

Thursday, June 30

Curry chicken salad. We’re highlighting our salads this week (grilled chicken, pimento cheese, chicken salad, or salad sampler), and sharing a new recipe in our curry chicken salad. American lawyer and Secretary of the Treasury during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration George M. Humphrey noted, “You can’t set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.” We think he means you can’t get in too much of a hurry. And, yes, we’d totally agree. Lingering over a great salad during the summer leaves one cool, refreshed, and rested.

Friday, July 1

Shrimp pasta primavera with angel hair pasta ($15.00). Well, take some gulf shrimp, add some some fresh veggies with a delicious sauce, and lightly sauté it with angel hair pasta, and voilá, you’ve got a great dish to help you start the weekend just little bit early. Thomas Carlyle philosophizes, “Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.” We don’t know about about that “winter chilling lap of May” business, but we know summer, and it’s here, and hot, and here, and hot, and here, and hot, and here, and…you get the picture. Come join us and fight the heat. We’d love to see you at the table this week!

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Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

Stone House Eats Bread Baked Daily

Lunch Served | 11am-2pm Tuesday — Friday

Fourth of July Freezer Special — 15% Off Any Freezer Item!

You can find our house at 828 Julia Street in Rayville, Louisiana. You can call us at (318) 267-4457.

Thanks for letting us serve you, and may God bless you richly as you sit at the table.

Famous Quotes

Our good friend, Merle Haggard, who recently departed this world, reminds us of the good ol’ days, “When I grew up there wasn’t air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.” Well, there you have it. Come to think of it, no AC doesn’t sound so good ol’.

You Ain’t Nothing But a Sausage

Watch out! Superchicken has joined us at the table disguised as his alter ego Elvis Diamond — and the hits are coming! Here’s what we’ve got cooking for you at week’s end: Chicken and sausage jambalaya and a shrimptastic po-boy Friday.

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Thursday, June 23

Chicken and sausage jambalaya. Well, Cajun calling! What’s better than a delicious, hearty mix of chicken, sausage, rice, and tasty goodies? Wonder Kid wanders into Superchicken’s secret room one day only to find our squab super hero dressed, well, a little oddly. Superchicken, it seems, is a karaoke crooner, and he loves the mic, the music, the mod of singing. Yep, it’s his alter ego, Elvis Diamond, replete with big hair, side burns, and a sequined denim suit á la Elvis and Hot August Night. He sings all the great ones, “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” “Sweet Caroline,” “Song Sung Blue,” and “Red, Red Wine.” Of course his favorites are “Jailhouse Rock” because he likes that “jailbird sing” bit, “Houndog,” and “I Am…I Said.”  When he’s feeling silly, he’ll sing, “You ain’t nothing but a sausage, frying all the time, you ain’t nothing but fat, and you ain’t no friend of mine.” Yep, the secret world of Superchicken, it’s a strange place as our little friend Wonder Kid discovered. Come join us for some jambalaya, Elvis Diamond will be singing his redone tune about jambalaya, “Love on the Rice.”

Friday, June 24

Shrimptastic Friday: Barbecued shrimp stuffed po-boys or fried green tomato and shrimp po-boys with house-made remoulade sauce. Take a half-size po-boy, hollow the bread to make a bread cave, stuff it with our own New Orleans style barbecued shrimp (prepped in loads of butter, white wine, and saucy spices), cover it with barbecue sauce, and grab the napkins. Or grab our fried green tomatoes, add some shrimp sautéed in our barbecue sauce, our house salad with house-made dressing, some remoulade sauce, and you’ve got a little more than a po-boy, you’ve got a “Whoa-boy.” Speaking of “jingle-jangle,” what most might not know about The Byrds’ tune “Mr. Tambourine Man” is that Bob Dylan wrote it. He didn’t make it into the recording studio quite fast enough to beat The Byrds’ rendition to song street. Good news, though, it’s his only number one hit song. Though he had many top albums and a few songs that made number two on the Billboard charts, he never had any number ones. Crazy. Stop by for our number one hit this Friday, and you’ll feel like you’re “Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door,” but in a really good way.

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Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

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Lunch Served | 11am-2pm Tuesday — Friday

You can find our house at 828 Julia Street in Rayville, Louisiana. You can call us at (318) 267-4457.

Thanks for letting us serve you, and may God bless you richly as you sit at the table.

Famous Quotes

Our songwriter friend Neil Diamond famously philosophized, “Songs are life in 80 words or less.” Whoa. Think about that one all weekend.

June 21, 2016 Weekly Menu

The Byrds sang it so well, “Hey Mr. Po-boy man, save a shrimp for me…in the jingle jangle Friday I’ll come following you.” Come join us for some wonderful food and hear George hold forth at the constitutional convention. Here’s what we’ve got cooking for you this week: Chicken and dumplings, pulled pork tacos with fresh salsas, chicken and sausage jambalaya, and a shrimptastic po-boy Friday.

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Tuesday, June 21

Chicken and dumplings. These dumplings come seeded with herbs in a house-made stock and cream sauce, and there’s no more elegant way to head into the weekend than with a sumptuous dish of house-made chicken and dumplings. The longest day of the year, or what we call the summer solstice, happened yesterday. It means summer is officially here — as if we didn’t know it by the heat. Well, come beat the heat and enjoy those longer days with a little of our chicken and dumplings.

Wednesday, June 22

Pulled pork tacos, Spanish rice, beans, cilantro lime slaw, and fresh salsa. Our pulled pork chopped and served on lightly fried corn tortillas with Spanish rice, beans, lime cilantro slaw, and fresh salsa will redefine “getting over hump day” for you. Famous chef James Beard admits, “If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.” Well said, Brother Beard. Nothing like pork to make our lives a little better.

Thursday, June 23

Chicken and sausage jambalaya. Well, Cajun calling! What’s better than a delicious, hearty mix of chicken, sausage, rice, and tasty goodies? Well, this week many years ago in 1788, the U.S. Constitution was ratified with New Hampshire becoming the ninth state to ratify what has become the longest-living written constitution in the world. Do we know how those delegates worked so feverishly and so well? Chicken and sausage jambalaya for all (with a little bit of wine thrown in for good measure). President George Washington even said, “Thanks to the chicken and sausage jambalaya, the Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. Pass me some more, please, Mr. Adams.” Yep. Who knew?

Friday, June 24

Shrimptastic Friday: Barbecued shrimp stuffed po-boys or fried green tomato and shrimp po-boys with house-made remoulade sauce. Take a half-size po-boy, hollow the bread to make a bread cave, stuff it with our own New Orleans style barbecued shrimp (prepped in loads of butter, white wine, and saucy spices), cover it with barbecue sauce, and grab the napkins. Or grab our fried green tomatoes, add some shrimp sautéed in our barbecue sauce, our house salad with house-made dressing, some remoulade sauce, and you’ve got a little more than a po-boy, you’ve got a “Whoa-boy.” Can you believe that during this week in 1964, The Byrds released their great album, Mr. Tambourine Man? Seems like only yesterday we were singing the strains, “Hey, Mr. Tambourine man, play a song for me, I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to. Hey, Mr. Tambourine man, play a song for me in the jingle jangle morning I’ll come following you.” Well, thus began the folk-rock revolution. We think the song ought to be “Hey Mr. Po-boy man, save a shrimp for me…in the jingle jangle Friday I’ll come following you.” Yeah, you, too, can sing “Hey Mr. Po-boy Man” this Friday — come join us at the table, we’d love to see you.

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Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

Stone House Eats Bread Baked Daily

Lunch Served | 11am-2pm Tuesday — Friday

You can find our house at 828 Julia Street in Rayville, Louisiana. You can call us at (318) 267-4457.

Thanks for letting us serve you, and may God bless you richly as you sit at the table.

Famous Quotes

Our old friend and author Henry James swoons, “Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” Well, there you have it. We might say “shrimp po-boy, shrimp po-boy,” those are rather beautiful words, too. Heck, “summer afternoon” plus “shrimp po-boy” sounds like a short trip to heaven.