Roller Coaster of Destiny

Holy cow! Yesterday, we celebrated 1,000 followers on our blog! Thank you for dropping by the website, and thanks for coming by the house for some great food! Here’s what we’ve got cooking for you as the week races to the finish: spaghetti and house-made meatballs and shrimp with creamy or crispy grits.

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

Thursday, June 16

Spaghetti with fresh marinara sauce and meatballs. Yes, it’s the old stand-by, but ours contains homemade marinara sauce and hand-patted meatballs served over piping hot pasta, and it’s just the right kind of pastalicious serving that makes life a little better as you head toward the weekend. Well, it’s mosquito season again — ugh! But, you may not know the lowly Aedes aegypti fought in the Revolutionary War. Yep. General Lord Cornwallis’ troops literally had the blood and life sucked from them as they struggled to fight the Americans in the south. Not used to the humid conditions and malaria, the English fell prey to our secret weapon: the mosquito. Hey, you can’t make this stuff up. Spaghetti, meatballs, and a victorious American army. Sounds great — except for that mosquito business.

Friday, June 17

Shrimptastic Friday: Shrimp and grits ($15). Shrimptastic Friday: Shrimp on baked garlic cheese grits (crispy or baked), $15. Shrimp lovingly cooked with chopped veggies in a delicious sauce served over baked garlic cheese grits (either crispy or baked) will make you toot your horns up and down the street. On this day way back in 1884 on a place called Konijn Eilandt (“Rabbit Island”) by the Dutch settlers, the first roller coaster in America opened. Blazing over the tracks at a blistering six miles per hour, the “switchback railway” brainchild of LaMarcus Thompson soon became a huge attraction paving the way for a major coastal tourist attraction to develop as it entered the 20th century. We know the place as Coney Island, famous for hot dogs, racetracks, beaches, and boardwalks. And, in case you’re wondering, that slow start to roller coasters now finds the world’s fastest roller coaster, the Kingda Ka in Jackson, New Jersey, flying at about 128 mph. Well, our shrimp and grits will return us to a slower, lazier day of watching the rabbits frolic in the leafy glades.

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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

Coach Jim Valvano reminds us of something important as we head into the Father’s Day weekend, “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” Here’s to our fathers on this weekend!

June 14, 2016 Weekly Menu

Frank Sinatra sang it so well, “I like New York in June, how about you? I like a Gershwin tune, how about you? I love a fireside when a storm is due; I like potato chips, moonlight, motor trips, how about you?” Well, New York in June felt lovely and wonderful, but we’re glad to return to the house for some good, home-cooked food. Here’s what we’ve got cooking for you this week: Louisiana red beans and rice, brisket tacos, spaghetti and house-made meatballs, and shrimp and grits.

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Tuesday, June 14

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. Someone once wrote, “Chocolate is made from beans. Coffee is made from beans. Beans are vegetables. Have you had your vegetables today?” Well, human folk have loved beans for millennia, literally. The oldest domesticated beans discovered come from the Guitarerro Cave archaeological site in Peru, dating to the second millennium B.C. Yep. So, have some beans today, you’ll feel archaeologically healthy.

Wednesday, June 15

Brisket tacos, charro black beans, cilantro lime slaw, and fresh salsa. Our overnight brisket chopped and served on lightly fried corn tortillas with charro black beans, lime cilantro slaw, and fresh salsa will help you rethink the traditional taco. Our funny friend Jeff Foxworthy says, “You might be a redneck if you think beef jerky and Moon Pies are two of the major food groups.” We’ll be providing one of the two food groups this Wednesday because we are all about healthy eating.

Thursday, June 16

Spaghetti with fresh marinara sauce and meatballs. Yes, it’s the old stand-by, but ours contains homemade marinara sauce and hand-patted meatballs served over piping hot pasta, and it’s just the right kind of pastalicious serving that makes life a little better as you head toward the weekend. Cartoonist Jim Davis of Garfield fame notes, “Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.” No rogue meatballs ’round here, just mildly exciting ones on a Thursday lunch.

Friday, June 17

Shrimptastic Friday: Shrimp and grits ($15). Shrimptastic Friday: Shrimp on baked garlic cheese grits (crispy or baked), $15. Shrimp lovingly cooked with chopped veggies in a delicious sauce served over baked garlic cheese grits (either crispy or baked) will make you toot your horns up and down the street. Our great good friend Bill Waterston writes this conversation in Calvin and Hobbes: “When a kid grows up, he has to be something. He can’t just stay the way he is,” Calvin observes. “But a tiger grows up and stays a tiger why is that?” Hobbes simply replies, “No room for improvement.” “Of all the luck, my parents had to be humans,” Calvin whines. “Don’t take it too hard,” Hobbes smirks, “Humans provide some very important protein.” Hey, we’ve got some very important protein for you this Friday — and it comes with a heapin’ helpin’ of love called grits. Hope to see you at the table!

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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

Morley Safer remarked, “You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.” Well spoken, Morley, well spoken. Garlic does a body good.

Walking on Sunshine

Our old friend Louis Armstrong joins us at the table, singing, “Grab your coat and get your hat, leave your worries on the doorstep. Life can be so sweet on the sunny side of the street.” Here’s what we’ve got cooking for you on our sunny side of the street for Tuesday and Wednesday: Chicken carbonara bake and shrimp étouffée on rice. 

Please take note, our schedule for early June will change: Monday — Wednesday, June 6-8, 2016 we will be open for three days.

We’ll be closed Thursday and Friday, June 9-10. We’ll re-open on Tuesday, June 14.

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Please take note, our schedule for this week will be a little different: 

Monday — Wednesday, June 6-8, 2016 we will be open for three days. We’ll be closed Thursday and Friday, June 9-10. Clélie and Zoë will be heading to New York for a few days. We’ll re-open Tuesday, June 14 for lunch with our regular schedule through the end of June.

Tuesday, June 7

Chicken carbonara bake with house salad and house-made bread. Deliciously baked in the oven, we have bow tie pasta swimming in a creamy white sauce with lots of fine friends — oven-roasted chicken breast, mushrooms, garden fresh veggies, and green onions. Oh, and by the way, a classic carbonara has some bacon added. Yep. You won’t want to miss this goodness! Katrina and the Waves had a huge hit with “Walking on Sunshine” and its crazy upbeat melody, but did you know our old friend Dolly Parton did a remake? Yep. Here’s the Katrina and the Waves singing, but for a little different take, try Dolly’s bluegrass style rendition. Join us for some chicken carbonara bake, and you’ll be walking on sunshine as you head into the summer.

Wednesday, June 8

Shrimptastic Friday: Shrimp étouffée with rice ($15). Shrimp lovingly cooked with the tasty trinity veggies in a light roux with lots of parsley, and delectable Cajun spices in a delicious sauce served over Louisiana rice will make you boogie up and down the street. G.K. Chesterton notes, “Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.” What else can we say?

Have a great rest of the week, and we’ll see you on Tuesday, June 14 at the table!

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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.

Please take note, our schedule for this week will be a little different:

Monday — Wednesday, June 6-8, 2016 we will be open for three days. We’ll be closed Thursday and Friday, June 9-10. Clélie and Zoë will be heading to New York for a few days. We’ll re-open Tuesday, June 14 for lunch with our regular schedule through the end of June.

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

Famous Quotes

Lewis Black suggests something, well, wonderful: “I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.” Game on, brother.

June 6, 2016 Weekly Menu

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, I like carbonara and shrimp étouffée.” Yep. Totally a Muhammed Ali rap he prepared once upon a time for another heavyweight bout called “Rumble at the Table.” Here’s what we’ve got cooking for you this week: House-made hamburgers on jalapeño buns, chicken carbonara bake, and shrimp étouffée on rice.

Please take note, our schedule for early June will be a little different: Monday — Wednesday, June 6-8, 2016 we will be open for three days. We’ll be closed Thursday and Friday, June 9-10. We’ll re-open on Tuesday, June 14.

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Please take note, our schedule for this week will be a little different: 

Monday — Wednesday, June 6-8, 2016 we will be open for three days. We’ll be closed Thursday and Friday, June 9-10. Clélie and Zoë will be heading to New York for a few days. We’ll re-open Tuesday, June 14 for lunch with our regular schedule through the end of June.

Monday, June 6

House-made hamburgers on jalapeño buns with all the trimmings. Well, what’s better than home-made hamburgers, jalapeño buns, lots of trimmings? Nothing. Matthew McConaughey candidly offers, “Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.” Yep. These burgers are definitely genius, and they will totally home-make your week. Who knows? Ole Matt might just show at the table for some hamburger grub.

Tuesday, June 7

Chicken carbonara bake with house salad and house-made bread. Deliciously baked in the oven, we have bow tie pasta swimming in a creamy white sauce with lots of fine friends — oven-roasted chicken breast, mushrooms, garden fresh veggies, and green onions. Oh, and by the way, a classic carbonara has some bacon added. Yep. You won’t want to miss this goodness! Our funny friend Vicki Lawrence jokes, “I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I’d look like Cate Blanchett.” Hey, our chicken carbonara will make you funny and lovely. No kidding. And on a Tuesday in June.

Wednesday, June 8

Shrimptastic Friday: Shrimp étouffée with rice ($15). Shrimp lovingly cooked with the tasty trinity veggies in a light roux with lots of parsley, and delectable Cajun spices in a delicious sauce served over Louisiana rice will make you boogie up and down the street. Our bud, the bard Willie Shakespeare wrote in Romeo and Juliet, “Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to weekend.” Yes, or something like that. Our étouffée will help hasten you to weekend in style.

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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.

Please take note, our schedule for this week will be a little different:

Monday — Wednesday, June 6-8, 2016 we will be open for three days. We’ll be closed Thursday and Friday, June 9-10. Clélie and Zoë will be heading to New York for a few days. We’ll re-open Tuesday, June 14 for lunch with our regular schedule through the end of June.

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

Famous Quotes

Our friend from Louisville, Muhammed Ali, offers, “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” Well, an insight for self introspection. Our favorite, though, is this one: “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” Yep. Service makes the difference in our lives.

Tie a Yellow Ribbon ‘Round Your Finger

Tony Orlando and Dawn dropped by for the shrimp pasta primavera, singing, “Tie a yellow ribbon round the ole oak, it’s been three long years…do you still want me?” Yep, they totally sang that 70’s hit, and we’ll just bet you’ll be humming it for the rest of the day. Here’s what’s cooking for you on Friday: shrimp pasta primavera on angel hair pasta. Next week, please remember our altered schedule where we’re open Monday — Wednesday, June 6-8.  We’ll have house-made hamburgers on jalapeño buns, chicken carbonara bake, and shrimp étouffée on rice. 

What We’re Cooking for You on Friday

Please take note, our schedule for early June will be a little different: 

Monday — Wednesday, June 6-8, 2016 we will be open for only three days. Clélie and Zoë will be heading to New York for a few days. We’ll re-open Tuesday, June 14 for lunch with our regular schedule through the end of June. We’ll have house-made hamburgers on jalapeño buns, chicken carbonara bake, and shrimp étouffée on rice. 

Friday, May 27

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. Well, the songwriters Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown found inspiration in the story of a Union soldier returning home after the Civil War, wondering if he’d still be remembered, still be loved. In 1973, Tony Orlando and Dawn turned the song into a number one hit that, believe or don’t, ranks as 37th in the top pop songs ever by Billboard magazine. So, “tie a yellow ribbon ’round the ole oak tree” as you enjoy some shrimp pasta primavera, it will make you feel like the 1970’s without the big hair.

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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.

Don’t forget to please take note, our schedule for early June will be a little different: 

Monday — Wednesday, June 6-8, 2016 we will be open for only three days. Clélie and Zoë will be heading to New York for a few days. We’ll re-open Tuesday, June 14 for lunch with our regular schedule through the end of June. We’ll have house-made hamburgers on jalapeño buns, chicken carbonara bake, and shrimp étouffée on rice.

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

Famous Quotes

Old buddy Jerry Seinfeld jokes, “A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.” Hey, get ready for the weekend and leave the top off, it’ll make you feel toddlerish.

Babe Has Left the House He Built

Babe Ruth, the name that speaks of the long ball over the centerfield wall, retired from baseball on this day way back in 1935. Come grab some grub, and join us as we celebrate “The Sultan of Swat” at the end of the week. Please take a moment to check our early June schedule below for temporary changes to our lunch service. Here’s what’s cooking for you at week’s end: blackened catfish tacos with Spanish rice and shrimp pasta primavera on angel hair pasta.

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

Please take note, our schedule for early June will be a little different: 

Tuesday — Friday, May 30-June 3, 2016 we will serve our regular hours with some great food.

Monday — Wednesday, June 6-8, 2016 we will be open for only three days. Clélie and Zoë will be heading to New York for a few days. We’ll re-open Tuesday, June 14 for lunch with our regular schedule through the end of June.

Thursday, May 26

Blackened catfish tacos with Spanish rice, charro beans, and fresh salsas ($13.50).  We season the catfish like our old friend Chef Paul Prudhomme, blacken them in a white hot cast iron skillet, lightly fry some corn tortillas, put it all together, and add a little lime cilantro slaw. With a little green salsa and fresh tomato salsa, you’ve got some goody that will make some surprisingly good grub. The Babe shared with us his philosophy for hitting (and for life), “How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball….The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.” Hey, these catfish tacos will absolutely help you hit a few homers late in the game and live big, real big.

Friday, May 27

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. Well, George Herman Ruth grew up playing ball in Baltimore at a Catholic school called St. Mary’s Industrial. A standout athlete, he was drafted by a minor league team called the Baltimore Orioles, then part of the Boston Red Sox organization. Just a boy-faced teen at the time, everyone called him “Babe.” Eventually, he pitched left-handed for the Red Sox before being traded to the New York Yankees (thus starting “the curse of the Bambino” which kept the Sox from winning the pennant until 2004). Well, the rest is baseball history: 22 seasons, 10 world series wins, and 714  home runs. And, yes, the power behind The Babe was pasta. He loved shrimp primavera pasta. Who knew?

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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.

Don’t forget to please take note, our schedule for early June will be a little different: 

Tuesday — Friday, May 30-June 3, 2016 we will serve our regular hours with some great food.

Monday — Wednesday, June 6-8, 2016 we will be open for only three days. Clélie and Zoë will be heading to New York for a few days. We’ll re-open Tuesday, June 14 for lunch with our regular schedule through the end of June.

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

Famous Quotes

Babe’s hitting advice at the plate shows his feel for the game, “All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.” There it is, hitting advice from the Great One — sock it to what looks good. You know, come to think of it, that works well at the table, too. Pick a good one, and sock it.

May 31, 2016 Weekly Menu

Hope you had great weekend, we’ve got lots of goodies ready for you. Please take a moment to check our early June schedule below for temporary changes to our lunch service. Here’s what’s cooking for you this week: Chicken and sausage gumbo, pulled pork sandwiches with apple slaw, blackened catfish tacos with Spanish rice, and shrimp pasta primavera on angel hair pasta.

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Please take note, our schedule for early June will be a little different: 

Tuesday — Friday, May 30-June 3, 2016 we will serve our regular hours with some great food.

Monday — Wednesday, June 6-8, 2016 we will be open for only three days. Clélie and Zoë will be heading to New York for a few days. We’ll re-open Tuesday, June 14 for lunch with our regular schedule through the end of June.

Tuesday, May 24

Chicken and sausage gumbo. We make our gumbo with a dark roux, chicken, sausage, and the trinity of bell pepper, onion, and celery. Oh, Grandpa Justin would add sauterne wine, a cup or two or three, and so do we. Add a little Louisiana grown rice, and you’ve got the recipe for a happy dance at the lunch table. Just don’t go overboard, it’s early in the week. The old saw, “Money makes the world go round” sounds so much better as “Gumbo makes the world go round.” We like Dire Straits take on the matter, “Gumbo for nothing and your chicks for free, gumbo for nothing and chicks for free.” We can almost hear Sting singing in the background, “I want my, I want my, I want my okra please.” Yep. Gumbo.

Wednesday, May 25

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. Our silly friend Rodney Dangerfield remarked one time, “I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.” Well, Rodney, sorry. Come by for a pulled pork sandwich, it can redefine your place in the old family tree.

Thursday, May 26

Blackened catfish tacos with Spanish rice, charro beans, and fresh salsas ($13.50).  We season the catfish like our old friend Chef Paul Prudhomme, blacken them in a white hot cast iron skillet, lightly fry some corn tortillas, put it all together, and add a little lime cilantro slaw. With a little green salsa and fresh tomato salsa, you’ve got some goody that will make some surprisingly good grub. Journalist Bill Vaughn writes, “Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.” There you have it. Let’s form a committee to study the committee to study the committee. These blackened catfish tacos might just have the power to bring a little happiness your way. And, you won’t need a committee.

Friday, May 27

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. Ever the sarcastic one, P.G. Wodehouse quipped, “Why don’t you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.” This shrimpy primavera goodness just might do something fancy to your hair. Come by for a looksee, we’ll bring the food and the mirror.

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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.

Don’t forget to please take note, our schedule for early June will be a little different: 

Tuesday — Friday, May 30-June 3, 2016 we will serve our regular hours with some great food.

Monday — Wednesday, June 6-8, 2016 we will be open for only three days. Clélie and Zoë will be heading to New York for a few days. We’ll re-open Tuesday, June 14 for lunch with our regular schedule through the end of June.

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

Famous Quotes

Well, our old buddy of SNL fame Dennis Miller says, “There’s nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you’re insightful about it.” Well, that’s a deep subject for shallow minds. Hmm. 

Roy’s Cool Glasses

He was a sickly kid, but later turned into a great soccer player in college and solid newspaper writer. He’s our old friend Bram. Yep. Bram Stoker’s immortal “Dracula” went on sale in late May 1897. Never know what you might discover in the dustbins of history. Here’s what’s cooking for you at week’s end: Roasted chicken breast over crispy polenta with fresh tomato sauce, and a shrimptastic po-boy Friday.

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

Thursday, May 26

Roasted chicken breast with fresh tomato sauce over crispy polenta with savory-sweet green beans. Wonderfully seasoned and roasted chicken breast tops a crispy polenta cake with fresh tomato sauce, and it comes with our savory-sweet green beans, house bread, and house salad. Roy Orbison notes, “I may be a living legend, but that sure don’t help when I’ve got to change a flat tire.” Yes, most of us are humbled before the difficulties of operating a car. This polenta, though, will make you famous and smart (and you can wear cool glasses like Roy), and it just might help you change a tire. Yep.

Friday, May 27

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.” Pete Hegseth shares, “Memorial Day isn’t just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that’s a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It’s a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.” Have a blessed weekend, remembering those who’ve served our country so well, especially those  who didn’t come home and their families.

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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

Uncle Milton Berle quipped, “We owe a lot to Thomas Edison — if it wasn’t for him, we’d be watching television by candlelight.” Have a blessed and happy Memorial Day weekend!

May 24, 2016 Weekly Menu

Screaming around town in a 1966 convertible Ford Thunderbird, Thelma and Louise have arrived — in a chick-flick road warrior kind of way. They want the brisket, and they’ll break the law just to get what they want. Well, we ain’t breaking no laws, but here’s what’s cooking for you this week: Fried pork chops with rice pilaf, overnight brisket with signature potatoes, roasted chicken breast over crispy polenta with fresh tomato sauce, and a shrimptastic po-boy Friday.

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Tuesday, May 24

Fried pork chops with rice pilaf and fresh vegetable medley. 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 blissful sides of rice pilaf and a fresh vegetable medley. Way back in 1991, Thelma and Louise premiered in theaters on this day to rave reviews as these mistreated heroines dispensed their own kind of justice as they cruised in a 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible. Yep, it’s a chick-flick road movie in the vein of Easy Rider or Bonnie and Clyde. And, thanks to these crusading ladies, we got introduced to a juicy little pork chop named Brad Pitt. Come by for a ride in a Ford Thunderbird convertible, Brad might just be in town. But, if he’s not, we’ll bet these pork chops will do.

Wednesday, May 25

Overnight brisket with signature potatoes and roasted broccoli. The stuff of legends, our overnight brisket, slow-cooked in a special blend of garlic, onions, spices and dark beer, will cheer your tummy and your table. Elizabeth Hurley candidly admits, “I’ve always been obsessed by beef jerky.” Yes, and we’re certainly glad. Our old friend Orson Wells explains why we’re glad: “If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.” Beef, the real motivator behind civilization. Come get civilized this week with some of our overnight brisket, Orson and Elizabeth will be here. And so will Rosebud.

Thursday, May 26

Roasted chicken breast with fresh tomato sauce over crispy polenta with savory-sweet green beans. Wonderfully seasoned and roasted chicken breast tops a crispy polenta cake with fresh tomato sauce, and it comes with our savory-sweet green beans, house bread, and house salad. Famous London Chef Yotam Ottolenghi remarks, “Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.” Easy, absorbent, and versatile sound like great ways to describe a food…or a paper towel. This chicken and polenta with tomato sauce will make you feel homey, full, and blessed. Now, that sounds like some good food to get you ready for a big holiday weekend.

Friday, May 27

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.” Well, someone once said, “There is nothing that a po-boy can’t fix.” What else can we say as we head into the holiday 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

Old Abe possessed a great sense of humor, “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?” Uhhh, no Mr. President, probably not. But, you still have that cool hat….

Talkin’ ‘Bout My Grits and Grillades

Who’s on first? The Who, that’s who. Yeppie, Roger, Pete, John, and Keith are in town whooping, hollering, and smashing guitars — apparently they’re excited about the grits and grillades. Here’s what’s cooking for you heading into the weekend: grits and grillades and a fantastic Friday with blackened catfish over dirty rice.

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

Thursday, May 19

Grits and grillades. Our lovingly cooked pork loin medallions rest atop baked garlic cheese grits covered with a sumptuous tomato gravy. The band, ever-fighting, found itself in the quits. Then, parked in the wrong place near Buckingham Palace, his car — an old Packard hearse for which he’d paid £30 — had been towed because the Queen Mother felt it reminded her of her late husband. The Metro police wanted £250 just to get it from the tow yard. Yes, dear friends, Pete Townsend hit a very low place that terrible day in May. So, he penned “My Grits and Grillades” on May 19 as he celebrated, in a lowly and sad way, his 20th birthday. Nooooo, it’s really “My Generation,” and it helped the band repair the breach long enough to make that song the tune of a generation and formed the launching pad for one of the greatest bands of the 2oth century. And, yes the bit about the hearse and the Queen Mother is true. “Talkin’ ’bout my grits and grillades” has a catchy feel, though. Right?

Friday, May 20

Blackened catfish with a beurre blanc crabmeat sauce, dirty rice, and house bread, ($15). Seasoned like our old friend Chef Paul Prudhomme, we blacken the catfish in a white hot cast iron skillet, serve it atop dirty rice, add a little buerre blanc, and put a little house bread on the side. Yummy. Well, in writing for Tommy the boys wanted to pay homage to some of their jazz and blues influences, so they composed a little ditty called “Catfish Wizard” about an old guitar bluesman who caught lots of catfish way down Mississippi way. Only problem, they didn’t know a thing about catfish. But, apparently, they knew lots about “that deaf, dumb, blind kid [who] sure plays a mean pinball.” Go figure. There’s wizardry happening on the stove this Friday, and it just might make you feel like smashing a guitar at the end of the meal.

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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 yellow-haired friend Roger Paltry admits, “You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn’t do. I was totally anti-everything.” That’s why he quit school at fifteen and took a construction job before taking a detour [band joke] that led him to The Who. No kidding. Rock on, Roger.