Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man

Look what love can do — it’ll make Conway Twitty brave the Mississippi for the love of a Louisiana woman named Loretta Lynn. Well, we know Loretta hailed from Butcher Holler, but old Conway’s birthplace is Friars Point, Mississippi. Here’s what’s cooking at week’s end: roasted cherry tomatoes, kalamata olives, and sausage in a fresh house-made sauce on angel hair past and shrimp served over crispy or baked grits.

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

Thursday, April 14

Roasted cherry tomatoes, kalamata olives, and sausage in a fresh house-made sauce on angel hair pasta. Roasted cherry tomatoes combined in a fresh, house-made sauce with kalamata olives and sausage comes served over angel hair pasta for a wonderful way to get ready for the weekend. Call us crazy, but that’s some kind of love: “Hey, Louisiana woman, Mississippi man, we get together every time we can. The Mississippi River can keep us apart. There’s too much love in the Mississippi heart. Too much love in this Louisiana heart…See the alligators all a waitin’ nearby, sooner or later they know I’m gonna try. When she waves from the bank don’t you know I know, it’s goodbye fishin’ line, see you while ago. With a Louisiana woman waitin’ on the other side, the Mississippi River don’t look so wide.” Powerful love from a powerful duo — Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty won a string of awards in the early seventies singing about love. This pasta will have you singing about love, too. And, you might just feel crazy enough to swim the Mississippi. Well, maybe not.

Hear Loretta and Conway sing the love in “Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man” (and, if for nothing else, have a look at all the hair).

Friday, April 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. Did you know Abraham Lincoln kept an open office? If you wanted to visit the POTUS, you just dropped by the White House for a visit. You might have to wait a bit, but old Abe wanted to meet the folks. He loved to talk, telling all kinds of jokes and stories, but he also loved to listen. Being from Illinois, we wonder if he had any good shrimp stories. Well, he’ll be here on Friday, telling some of his favorite stories like this one: “At an editors’ banquet held in 1856, Lincoln — not being a journalist — felt rather alienated. Addressing his audience, he compared himself to the ugly horseman. ‘This fellow, while riding one day, happened upon a woman who curtly remarked, “Well, for land sake, you are the homeliest man I ever saw.”  “Yes, madam, but I can’t help it,” he responded. “No, I suppose not,” she allowed, “but you might stay at home.”'”

For more of Abe’s favorite stories or jokes try here or here.

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Francis Bicknell Carpenter painted this famous work about the Emancipation Proclamation. It took him four months of living in the White House to get it finished. That’s why we see the sour faces. Lincoln was a terrible subject, always cracking jokes and telling stories. The three guys with their arms folded are totally ticked: l to r, Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War (seated); Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury (standing); Lincoln; Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy (seated); Caleb Blood Smith, Secretary of the Interior (standing); William H. Seward, Secretary of State (seated); Montgomery Blair, United States Postmaster General (standing); and Edward Bates, United States Attorney General (seated). Try to ignore the historical irony of Andrew Jackson looking over the proceeding….

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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

Loretta Lynn joked, half-seriously, that “I didn’t know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.” Apparently, Doo just loved those baloney sandwiches. Yep. He was smart enough to buy her a $17 Harmony guitar in 1953, and the rest, well, it’s the history of an unlikely rise of a coal miner’s daughter.

Story Credit: “11 of Abe Lincoln’s Favorite Stories,” MentalFloss.com.

Image Credit: “Emancipation Proclamation,” from blog.ConstitutionCenter.org.

April 12, 2016 Weekly Menu

Galileo is shaking the foundations of science with his new food theories, and you’ll feel like you’ve had history, science, and philosophy all rolled into a huge bowl of grits. Here’s what’s cooking for you this week: Fried pork chops with whipped sweet potatoes, overnight brisket with signature potatoes, roasted cherry tomatoes, black olives, and sausage in a house-made sauce on angel hair pasta, and shrimp served over crispy or baked grits.

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Tuesday, April 12

Fried pork chops, whipped sweet potatoes, and lady cream peas with green beans. 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 whipped sweet potatoes sided by lady cream peas with green beans. French actor Jean Dujardin shares about his life away from fame, “I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin — ‘from the garden.’ I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food.” Well, all these things today come fresh “from the garden,” and we carefully harvested the wild boars stealing Dujardin’s food to make these beautiful fried pork chops. Yes, we had them airmailed to us for today. FedEx does a lovely job transporting wild boars and fresh vegetables from France.

Wednesday, April 13

Overnight brisket, signature potatoes, and roasted broccoli. 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. Few people remember Father Vincenzo Maculano da Firenzuola, the priest appointed by Pope Urban VIII in the early 1630’s to try our old friend Galileo Galilei. Unfortunately, Galileo found himself convicted of arguing falsely that the earth revolves around the sun (the heliocentric theory of the universe). As the world turns, though, he was right, and we don’t remember anyone but him. Well, this Wednesday, the world revolves around overnight brisket, and after a heaping serving of brisket and signature potatoes you’ll be converted to the bovina-centric theory of the universe. Yep. Gastric science at work for you.

Thursday, April 14

Roasted cherry tomatoes, black olives, and sausage in a house-made sauce on angel hair pasta. Roasted cherry tomatoes combined in a fresh, house-made sauce with black olives and sausage comes served over angel hair pasta for a wonderful way to get ready for the weekend. You know, tracing the history of pasta looks like a picture of world civilization. Folks made pasta from a rice or wheat flour way back in China’s Shang Dynasty (1700-1100 B.C.). And, our favorite noodle, lasagna, actually originated in Greece in the first century B.C. with strips of dough made from flour and water called laganon. Come grab some pasta this Thursday, you’ll feel positively historic, and you won’t have to read some Western civ textbook.

Friday, April 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. Southern humorist Lewis Gizzard wrote, “The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.” As there’s nothing better than fresh, we couldn’t agree more. Although, we probably wouldn’t say “idiot.” We’d probably say something nicer like, “Bless his heart, he just doesn’t have the sense God gave a turkey.” That’s the nice, Southern way of saying, “What an idiot.” Grits, it’s brain food in a whole new way.

For a short history of shrimp and grits from “Deep South Magazine” click here or try this longer article from “Serious Eats Magazine.”

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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 funny friend Mike Myers once said, “My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.” Well, haggis black pudding, neeps, and tatties might just prove him true.

Get Your True Grits Here

This week last year, the Duke won his first academy award for his role as Rooster Coburn in “True Grit.” We love John Wayne around here, and we loved his Chinese cook and cat! Here’s what’s cooking for you at week’s end: chicken carbonara with bow tie pasta and shrimp étouffée.

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

Thursday, April 7

Chicken carbonara with bow tie pasta. 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. Hey, anybody named Rooster Coburn would love this chicken dish. We’re just hoping he shows with Kate Hepburn and that crazy gatling gun. Isn’t it funny how a good-looking, smart woman and a cool gun can make a difference? Come get some chicken, it’ll do you just right. And, you might get to shoot a gatling gun.

Friday, April 8

Shrimptastic Friday: Shrimp étouffée with rice. Shrimp lovingly cooked with tomatoes, other tasty veggies, and delectable Cajun spices in a delicious sauce served over Louisiana rice will make you boogie up and down the street. Rooster is galloping his way toward us on Friday, both guns blazing and reins held tightly in his teeth — he wants his shrimp étouffée. What a way to start the weekend! General Sterling Price will be here — apparently he’s a big shrimp eater, too.

 

The young Duke in 1937’s “Born to the West,” gun in hand and a cute girl (Marsha Hunt) on his arm.

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

The Duke observed about movie fights one time, “All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.” Well, doesn’t everybody like giving it to the bad guys John Wayne style — nothing more gentle than a good knuckle-busting fight?

April 5, 2016 Weekly Menu

Guess who got married today about 402 years ago? That’s right, Pocahontas married Virginia tobacco planter John Rolfe in Jamestown. Let’s help them have a great anniversary this week with a wonderful week of food — (obviously they won’t be joining us at the table, they’re honeymooning on Aruba)! Here’s what’s cooking for you this week: Louisiana red beans and rice, chicken enchiladas with Spanish rice, chicken carbonara pasta, and shrimp étouffée. And, order the chicken enchiladas or chicken carbonara for your family’s evening meal. Details below!

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Tuesday, April 5

Special made Louisiana red beans & rice with hot water cornbread. Our red beans come fully and deeply flavored, cooked in our own house-made smoked ham hock stock. 31,420 is a huge number. That’s how many points 7’2″ basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar reached on this day way back in 1984 on an assist from Magic Johnson (Kareem’s career points total 38,387). How did Kareem get so big? How did Kareem score so many points? How did Kareem take on Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon? You already guessed it (or should I say, “gassed”?): bean power. Yep. Kareem loved our legume friends, and they literally catapulted him to NBA greatness. Come get catapulted into this week with some great red beans and rice.

Wednesday, April 6

Chicken enchiladas, Spanish rice, charro beans, and fresh-made green and red salsa. SNL’s philosophical life-hack Jack Handy noted, ““If God dwells inside us like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that’s what He’s getting.” Well, come give God some chicken enchilada goodness.

Hey, if you want chicken enchiladas or chicken carbonara for your family table, just give us a call by noon on Wednesday, and we’ll put together a whole meal for you: salad with your choice of dressing, chicken enchiladas or chicken carbonara, and plenty of house-made bread. Meals generously portioned for 4-6 people at $55. Please place your orders ready for pickup by 6:00pm on Wednesday for the enchiladas and Thursday for the chicken carbonara.

Thursday, April 7

Chicken carbonara with bow tie pasta. 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.  Ever in a good humor, even with the press corps, President Ronald Reagan once quipped, “Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.” Let this chicken carbonara protect you from an unruly press mob as you head into the weekend.

Friday, April 8

Shrimptastic Friday: Shrimp étouffée with rice. Shrimp lovingly cooked with tomatoes, other tasty veggies, and delectable Cajun spices in a delicious sauce served over Louisiana rice will make you boogie up and down the street. Our old friend Bob Hope joked, “I have a wonderful make-up crew. They’re the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.” Hey, these shrimp will totally restore you, getting you made-up and ready for the weekend. Drop by for a fantastic make-over!

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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

In an odd take on a well-known scripture, President James A. Garfield remarked, “Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.” Well, we love peanut butter too, but we’d say, just add some fresh unsalted butter — that always makes bread better.

Everybody Wang Chung

Wang Chung joins us at the table to encourage everybody to have some good food fun eating po-boys. Yep. It’ll be just the right note to ring in the weekend. Here’s what’s cooking for you at week’s: chicken and dumplings and shrimptastic line-up of po-boys.

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

Thursday, March 31

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. Our buddy Wolfgang Puck remembers, “I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth….It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.” Well, we think this chicken and dumplings will transport you to yesteryear in a dumpling pirogue floating down a creamy sauce river. Puck Finn will pole the way for you singing German love songs about wiener schnitzel.

Friday, April 1

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.” Need just the right note to start the weekend? Hey, it’s Wang Chung, the band whose name literally means “yellow bell” and signifies the first note in the classical Chinese music scale. They sang, “I’ll drive a million miles to be with you tonight. So if you’re feeling low,” grab one of these po-boys. “Everybody po-boy today” probably should have been their lyrics, at least on Fridays at our house.

Fried green tomato and barbecue shrimp on house-made bread with our very own remoulade sauce.
Fried green tomato and barbecue shrimp on house-made bread with our very own remoulade sauce. This just might be the best launch pad for a great weekend. 

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 funny friend Lily Tomlin philosophically wonders, “If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?”

March 29, 2016 Weekly Menu

Believe it or don’t, Tom Jones became Sir Tom Jones on March 29, 2006. Sir Tom wows with his cool songs, and “it’s not unusual” to find him loving the food at our table. Here’s what’s cooking for you this week: fried chicken and signature potatoes, meatloaf and savory-sweet green beans, chicken and dumplings, and shrimp po-boys.

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Tuesday, March 29

Fried chicken, signature potatoes, okra and tomatoes, and a honey jalapeño biscuit. Chicken tenders lovingly bedded overnight in buttermilk and hot sauce come famously fried in a special flour recipe and served with signature potatoes bathing in a delicious black pepper cream gravy and the old southern-mama standby, okra and tomatoes. Sir Tom sang so well one of our favorite James Bond themes, “Thunderball.” “He always runs while others walk. He acts while other men just talk. He looks at this world, and wants it all, so he strikes, like Thunderball.” Sir Tom loved fried chicken, and he dedicated this song to that old Welsh favorite food (we call that dramatic license — notice “lie” is the first part of the word). Yep. It’s what helped him hit that crazy high note at the end. Hey, this fried chicken will help you hit all the high notes in your life this week.

For a video of very cool and young Sir Tom singing “Thunderball” click here or for an older version of Sir Tom singing at the 2012 BAFTA Awards click here. We like the BAFTA version for the live band, adoring superstar fans in the audience, and the Bond montage shown.

Wednesday, March 30

Stone House Eats special meatloaf with rice and savory-sweet green beans. Our meatloaf is a wonderful mix of beef, our own Stone House Eats house-made bread crumbs, and chopped-to-bits veggies. Meatloaf is mom’s way of hiding surprisingly good things in a bastion of beef covered in a sweet and sour tomato sauce flavored with Panola Gourmet Sauce. Holy cow, meatloaf is the answer! Of course, you’re wondering, “What’s the question?” “Who can take the sunrise, sprinkle it with dew, cover it in chocolate and a miracle or two…the meatloaf, man, can.” Well, there you have it. The meatloaf, man, it’s a sunrising, dew-forming miracle maker of a meal.

Thursday, March 31

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. Our old friend Dolly Parton tells of her kitchen prowess, “If you like good ol’ fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.” It’s a good, old-fashioned Southern soul food kind of day.

Friday, April 1

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.” For a little history, in the 1800’s, fried oysters served on French bread in New Orleans were known as “oyster loaves,” but it wasn’t until the 1929 streetcar driver strike that these loaves got a new name. Benny and Clovis Martin served the strikers free sandwiches, and the strikers, called “poor boys” during this time, gave the sandwiches that wonderful name we celebrate, “po-boys.” Well, we just say, “Ain’t nothin’ po, here, tho, cuz these sammiches filled with shrimp lovin’ gudnessss.” That’s what food inspires Louisiana folk to do around here, make up our own language. Come grab a po-boy and have some language lessons.

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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

Small business owner James Gorton once remarked, “Every boy should have a dog and every dog should have a boy.” Well, we’re just wondering how to fit “po-boy” into that sentiment. Not sure “Every dog should have a po-boy” really fits, but “Everybody should have a po-boy” totally works. Come join us at the table for some wonderful food this week!

Image Credit: “Shrimp Po-boy and Crawfish Étouffée,” by vxla on CreativeCommons.org.

March 22, 2016 Weekly Menu

We join the rest of the musical world in wishing our old friend J. S. Bach a happy 331st birthday! So, rock the Bach in his honor today! Also, please continue to keep all the folks affected by these flood waters in your thoughts and prayers, lending a helpful, loving hand as you’re able. Here’s what’s cooking for you this week: Louisiana red beans and rice, chicken and sausage gumbo, and shrimp pasta primavera. Don’t forget the Easter menu!

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Last Call for the Easter Menu!

We want your family to have a wonderful time at the table, so we’ll cook some deeply flavorful dishes for Easter Sunday just for you. Please give us a call, and let us cook some great food for you! Have a look at the menu here.

Tuesday, March 22

Louisiana red beans and rice. Our red beans come fully and deeply flavored, cooked in our own house-made smoked ham hock stock. “Mississippi queen, well you know what I mean…Mississippi queen, she taught me everything…,” the band Mountain sang. They wanted to call it “Mississippi Bean,” but somehow that didn’t capture the magic of a sultry woman who danced better with wine. Of note, though, the signature beginning for the song with that powerful cowbell was something of an accident. The drummer, tired of beating out a thunderous start to the now classic song, simply clanked that cowbell. Well, they kept it in the final recording. Yep. We need more cow bell, and you’ll love these beans.

Wednesday, March 23

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. You know, we found a meatless variety of gumbo for those having meatless Lents called “gumbo z’herbes.” Take a mix of different greens, cook them to mush, and serve the viscous soup with rice, hot sauce, and filé. While it sounds like a great way to observe Lent, it’s very rare in restaurants and just doesn’t make it to the table much any more. Very interesting. Have a look at some recipes: Emeril’s here and Saveur’s here and NOLA.com’s here and Chowhound’s here.

Thursday, March 24

Shrimp pasta primavera. Shrimp will do a wonderful little saltarello dance in pasta with some happily fresh veggies. The Italians have a saying, “Pan di sudore, miglior sapore.” Translated, it means, “Bread that comes out of sweat, tastes better.” We couldn’t agree more. What tastes better than a meal diligently, thoughtfully, and lovingly prepared from food and animals you’ve labored to grow yourself?

Friday, March 25

Closed for Good Friday. Have a blessed and safe Easter Weekend!

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We want your family to have a wonderful time at the table, so we’ll cook some deeply flavorful dishes for Easter Sunday just for you. Please give us a call, and let us cook some great food for you! Have a look at the menu here.

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

British sports journalist Frank Butler noted, “I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.” He also wisely observed, “When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he’d learned in three years.” Well, what else can we say? Have a blessed and happy Easter weekend!

March 15, 2016 Weekly Menu

Well, we’re feeling like Barry Manilow, “I made it through the rain, I kept my world protected, I made it through the rain, and I found myself respected by the others who got rained on too….” Please keep all the folks affected by these flood waters in your thoughts and prayers, lending a helpful, loving hand as you’re able. And, to keep our energies, we’ve gotta eat, so here’s what’s cooking for you this week: chicken and sausage jambalaya, pulled pork sandwiches with apple slaw, brisket tacos with lime cilantro slaw, and blackened catfish on dirty rice.

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Tuesday, March 15

Chicken and sausage jambalaya. Well, Cajun calling! What’s better than a delicious, hearty mix of chicken, sausage, rice, and tasty goodies? “I’m sick and tired of all this presidential election blather,” complains Superchicken. “What we need is something special, something surprising, something sublime.” Wonder Kid wonders, “What do you have in mind?” “Well, we need a powerful way of refocusing people, so let’s create a campaign called ‘Bach the Vote!’ We’ll get the world’s greatest organists, connect them via the internet, and have a Bachian revolution with pipe organs recharging the pulse of the world like some heavenly sized defibrillator.” “That is totally ridiculous,” Wonder Kid says. “Yeah, maybe,” Superchicken admits, “but it’s a heckuva lot better than another Super Tuesday bit of frenzied feeding that leads us down the road to perdition.” Hey, our jambalaya can fix just about anything, even the craziness of a presidential election. You might even hear some Bach playing.

Wednesday, March 16

Pulled pork sandwiches with apple slaw. Slow cooked pork, pulled to tender pieces, house made barbecue sauce, and jalapeño mayonnaise form a porkalicious sandwich that simply makes your week better by helping you slide faster over hump day. You know, it’s reported that Kevin Bacon has a thing for pork cracklings. Yep. Are we surprised, his last name is ‘Bacon’? After having these pulled pork sandwiches, you may just want to change your name to some porcine-related word. “Hi, my name is John Crackling.”

Thursday, March 17 — St. Patrick’s Day

Brisket tacos with lime cilantro slaw, charro black beans, and fresh salsa. Our overnight brisket chopped and served on lightly fried corn tortillas will help you rethink the traditional taco. Miguel Cervantes once observed, “El hombre es la mejor salsa” (Hunger is the best sauce). Well, we’d have to agree, after all, Don Quixote is like the first major classic in Western literature. Come have some brisket tacos, Sancho and Dulcinea will be here.

Friday, March 18

Blackened catfish with a mock hollandaise crabmeat sauce, dirty rice, and house bread. Seasoned like our old friend Chef Paul Prudhomme, we blacken the catfish in a white hot cast iron skillet, serve it atop dirty rice, and put a little house bread on the side. Educator John Hope wrote one time, “We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.” Well, we don’t feel much like Ishmael, Queequeg, or Captain Ahab, but if we can’t harpoon a whale before the weekend in Bayou Lafourche, at least we can catch some blackened catfish. Yes, they do come fully cooked out of the water.

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We want your family to have a wonderful time at the table, so we’ll cook some deeply flavorful dishes for Easter Sunday just for you. Please give us a call, and let us cook some great food for you! Have a look at the menu here.

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

“After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual ‘food’ out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps,” our philosophical pig pal Miss Piggy snarked one time. Well, we wonder if Kermit likes pork cracklings with fellow actor Kevin Bacon. Maybe that’s why he takes Miss Piggy to the beach so much. He would never introduce himself, “Hi, my name is Kermit Crackling.” Nopey.

Many Rivers to Cross

Holy water-logged cow! It’s crazy-time, history-making rain, and we’ll have to sing with Jimmy Cliff this morning — “Many rivers to cross, and I can’t seem to find my way over….” We will not be open today. Please stay home, stay dry, and pray for all the folks, homes and businesses, affected by this distressing weather. Take care, and we’ll see you at the table on Friday for brisket and shrimp!

Not Open Today Because of the Heavy Rains!

Friday, March 11

Overnight brisket served over Louisiana rice with lots of au jus. 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.

Shrimptastic Friday: Special made shrimp served on baked garlic cheese grits. Shrimp lovingly cooked with chopped veggies in a delicious sauce served over baked garlic cheese grits will make you toot your horns up and down the street.

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We want your family to have a wonderful time at the table, so we’ll cook some deeply flavorful dishes for Easter Sunday just for you. Please give us a call, and let us cook some great food for you! Have a look at the menu here.

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

“Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life,” our buddy John Updike wrote one time. Well, we’re wondering if you can get too much grace. While you’re at home, eating popcorn, and watching the rain, ponder that theological question.

Image Credit: “Flood Waters Up to Mailbox in Minnesota,” by FEMA at CreativeCommons.org.

An Ark of Gopher Wood

Holy cow! It’s raining and raining and raining, and we’ll bet the Cat in the Hat stayed home with Theodore! We’ll be open because Noah made this fantastic ark of gopher wood — it’ll be a Love Boat kind of bayou cruise on the Boeuf or Lafourche or just down Julia Street. We’ve got some great rainy day food just for you! We’d love to see you at the table!

Open Today in Spite of the Heavy Rains!

Wednesday, March 9

White chili with pork loin, myacoba beans, and house-made stock. Just the thing for Wednesday, a specially cooked chili with the other white meat, a wonderful assortment of white beans, a few veggies for giggles, and some house-made stock. Langston Hughes poetically suggests, “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” Let the rain will be the background lullaby music for a great lunch of chili, grilled pimento cheese, or salmon croquettes. We’d love to see you at the table!

Henry's Chili

We want your family to have a wonderful time at the table, so we’ll cook some deeply flavorful dishes for Easter Sunday just for you. Please give us a call, and let us cook some great food for you! Have a look at the menu here.

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 friend G. K. Chesterton says, “And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.” Thanks, G. K.

Image Credit: “Eleventh Century Painting of Noah’s Ark,” by Unknown Artist CreativeCommons.org.