March 8, 2016 Weekly Menu

Is anyone tired of the presidential “Super Tuesday” talk? Come to our house for a different kind of “super Tuesday” — Elmer Fudd’s in town, and he’s dressed for heavy metal. Here’s what’s cooking for you this week: stuffed chicken thighs on creamy polenta, white chili, overnight brisket with rice, and shrimp with grits.

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Tuesday, March 8

Stuffed chicken thighs with creamy polenta and a housemade tomato sauce. Our baked chicken thighs come stuffed with a mixture of our house made pimento cheese, cream cheese, and mozzarella cheese, topped with a fresh tomato sauce. Dressed in black leather and chains, Elmer Fudd leads a heavy metal revival effort as the lead singer of Judas Fudd Motorhead. His top tune is a remake of Neil Young’s “Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World.” One can imagine the Fuddsian strains: “Keep on wockin’ in the fwee woorrrld…I see a wabbit in the night wiff a cawwot in his hand…keep on rockin’ in the fweee world.” Of course, he’s invited Bugs along for a little headliner he calls “Judas Fudd Motorhead and Roses” where Bugs does some Axl Rose stylings dressed as that little Wagnerian wabbit. It totally happened. They’ll be at the house on Tuesday!

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. The ad campaign developed in 1987 for the National Pork Board (yes, there is one) that we know so well, “Pork: The Other White Meat,” had one little tiny problem. According to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, pork is not a white meat. Who are we going to believe, the government or an ad agency hocking pork? Who cares? This chili is porktacular!

Thursday, March 10

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. For a little bovine anatomy: did you know beef cattle have no collar bones? Yep. Guess what supports 60% of their weight in standing and moving forward? You guessed it, the lowly brisket. Funny isn’t it? The brisket keeps the cows from tipping. Well, our brisket will totally help you get about 60% closer to the weekend, and you won’t tip over.

Friday, March 11

Shrimptastic Friday: Special made shrimp served on fried 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. Pepino Rodrigo Serrano Gonzales started chef work in Madrid, Spain before moving to Hollywood to follow his true calling. He told folks he had too many close calls in the kitchen where he was repeatedly mistaken for an appetizer, so he left for the glam of movie land. We know him as Pepe the King Prawn of Muppet fame.

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

“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne,” our good friend Samuel Johnson opines. That’s why we like Dr. Johnson, feelings combined with food. It must be all that dictionary work that inspires him.

Cooking for Your Family’s Table at Easter

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!

Dr. Albert “Feelgood” Einstein with more helpful advice: “Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life!” Yep. The physics of love.

Please place your orders by telephone at (318) 267-4457 by Tuesday, March 22. They will be available for pickup at the house Friday, March 25  from 10am — 2pm.

Bread & Biscuits

Loaf of fresh house-made bread, $5

Honey buttermilk or parmesan garlic biscuits, $18/dozen

Sides

All sides come in half-steam bin size, feeding 12-15.

Baked garlic cheese grits, $45

Creamy baked cabbage casserole, $45

Mama’s rice, $45

Savory-sweet green beans, $55 

Signature potatoes, $65

Entree 

Savory, delicious pork roast will feed 12-15.

Crown pork roast with gravy, $225

Desserts

Apple Pie, $25

Browned butter pecan pie, $25

Butter pecan pound cake, $25

Carrot cake, $55

Chocolate flan cake, $55

White chocolate bread pudding or butter pecan bread pudding (half steam bin) with chocolate rum sauce, $55

All of our house-made dressings will be available for your salads (house, ranch, chipotle ranch, blue cheese), $4/half pint, $8/pint, $16/quart.

Please place your orders by telephone at (318) 267-4457 by Tuesday, March 22. They will be available for pickup at the house Friday, March 25  from 10am — 2pm.

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Starting March 7, 2016, we’ll be closing on Mondays. We want to devote more time to making great lunches for you Tuesday through Friday, and our catering business gets livelier every month. We’re so thankful for the folks who join our table every week. We look forward to seeing you all!

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.

Image Credit: “Heritage Pork Crown Roast,” by Chuck Heston, CreativeCommons.org.

A More Serious Hullabaloo

Thank goodness all that Academy-Awards-red-carpet-gold-statue-hullabaloo is done. Sure, it’s fun — for about five minutes. Then, we all return to the real world where people have real lives and real jobs. How about a more serious, sustainable kind of hullabaloo that real people can enjoy all the time: great food at the table. Here’s what’s cooking for you at week’s end: spaghetti and meatballs with fresh marinara sauce and shrimp étouffée.

Be on the lookout for an Easter meal menu! We want to help you have a wonderful Easter meal with your family!

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

Thursday, March 3

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. Our old friend Ralph Waldo Emerson once quipped, “Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.” If you want a transcendentally healthy experience (and life) drop by the table with some good friends. Ralph will be there sticking to people.

Friday, March 4

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. Albert Einstein, known for his theory of relativity, also knew a little about love: “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.” Speak on, old friend, we need your love physics.

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives,” Dr. Albert “Feelgood” Einstein says. It must be the hair….

Starting March 7, 2016, we’ll be closing on Mondays. We want to devote more time to making great lunches for you Tuesday through Friday, and our catering business gets livelier every month. We’re so thankful for the folks who join our table every week. We look forward to seeing you all!

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 Quotes

Some more romantic advice from Dr. Albert “Feelgood” Einstein, “Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.” Yep. Have a great weekend, giving the people in your life the attention they deserve (just not while driving).

Image Credit: “Albert Einstein,” CreativeCommons.org.

March 1, 2016 Weekly Menu

Time is, well, ‘marching’ on. It’s already March 2016! Who can believe it? Here’s what’s cooking for you this week: fried chicken with signature potatoes, roasted pork loin with baked garlic cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs with fresh marinara sauce, and shrimp étouffée.

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Tuesday, March 1

Fried chicken, signature potatoes, and pan-fried cabbage. Chicken tenders lovingly bedded overnight in buttermilk and hot sauce come famously fried in a special flour recipe and served with signature potatoes and pan-fried cabbage. Can you believe the average American ate about 25 chickens in the year 2014? Well, it’s true, and chicken has overtaken beef as America’s favorite meat. Well, come by, we’ll help you feel above average with our fried chicken.

For our crispy fried chicken, why not try the fried chicken on a house salad ($12), in a bacon chicken wrap ($12), or on a sandwich ($12)!

Wednesday, March 2

Roasted pork loin with baked garlic cheese grits and greens. Specially marinated with butter, spices, and dijon mustard, this pork loin will make your Wednesday. Writer Anne Tyler observes, “Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul — chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!” We don’t think Rufus and Jake, our dogs, care about our hunting habits; all they want is the grub. Yep.

Thursday, March 3

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. Actress Sophia Bush remarks, “Life is too short, and I’m Italian. I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.” Well, not much we can add to that righteous observation.

Friday, March 4

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. Believe it or don’t, the word “étouffée” comes from the French verb étouffer which means “to smother” or “to suffocate.” Interesting. It’s Friday, you might as well come by and smother yourself in shrimp étouffée. What is a better way to start the 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

Chef Mario Batali tells us, “The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn’t waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.” Grandma’s cooking, and it will make everything better. Yes, it will.

Image Credit: “Deep Frying Chicken Wings,” CreativeCommons.org.

Closed Monday, February 29

Dear friends, it’s a gorgeous day in north Louisiana, and we hope you had a blessed weekend. We’ll be closed for business on Monday, February 29, 2016. We hope to see you on Tuesday, March 1 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 This Week

Monday, February 29 

Closed today — it’s Aunt Katherine’s birthday, and she only gets one every four years, so we have to take a whole day to celebrate! Woo-hoo! 

Tuesday, March 1

Fried chicken, signature potatoes, and pan-fried cabbage. 

Wednesday, March 2

Roasted pork loin with baked garlic cheese grits and greens.

Thursday, March 3

Spaghetti with fresh marinara sauce and meatballs.

Friday, March 4

Shrimptastic Friday: Shrimp étouffée with rice.

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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

Ever the health food nut, Calvin (“Calvin and Hobbes” by Bill Watterson) firmly stated, “I won’t eat any cereal that doesn’t turn the milk purple.” Yes, we know. That’s why your hair sticks straight up and your best friend is a stuffed animal named after a philosopher.

Closed Thursday & Friday Due to Illness

Well, a little rain must fall in every life. Dear friends, we’re sorry to say the cook is sick, so we’ll not have lunch service on Thursday or Friday, February 25-26, and the Krewe of Foodies Party will be cancelled. It’s nothing serious, but Clélie needs some recovery and rest time. Thanks so much for your understanding, and we hope to see you next week for regular lunch service. Take care, and have a great weekend!

 

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Getting the best care a Lego nurse with a large plastic needle can provide. Thanks for your thoughts and prayers!

Lunch Served | 11am-2pm Monday—Friday

Lunch Special | $12 — Includes Daily Special & Drink

Sandwiches & Salads — Includes Drink

Check Out What’s in the Fridge!

Let Us Cater Your Next Event!

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

M.F.K. Fisher once noted, “Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.” Hope to see our great companions at the table next week!

Image Credit: “Closed,” by Talent Show and”Nurse in Training,” by Pascal from CreativeCommons.org.

Closed Today, February 24, 2016! Sorry!

“Houston, we have a problem.” Dear friends, we’ve had a minor little problem — no biggie, and we’ll have to close today. Nothing serious, and no one’s hurt, we just won’t be open for lunch on Thursday, February 25. Sorry! Hope to see you tomorrow for chicken enchiladas! Take care, and have a great week!

See this week’s menu here.

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“Bummer!” Rufus whines, “I was looking forward to some chili on this chilly day….”

Lunch Served | 11am-2pm Monday—Friday

Lunch Special | $12 — Includes Daily Special & Drink

Sandwiches & Salads — Includes Drink

Check Out What’s in the Fridge!

Let Us Cater Your Next Event!

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.

February 22, 2016 Weekly Menu

Apollo 10 astronauts reported hearing “space music” as they flew around the dark side of the moon. We suspect it was a big-haired Jeff Lynne and the E.T.O., Extra-Terrestrial Orchestra, jamming an ethereal rendition of “Sweet Talkin’ Woman” on the space waves with E.T. rocking the keys. It happened. Here’s what we’ve got cooking just for you in the kitchen: Louisiana red beans and rice, cheesy chicken spaghetti, white chill, chicken enchiladas, and blackened catfish with dirty rice.

Don’t forget to make reservations for the Krewe of Foodies Magic and Mayhem Party!

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Monday, February 22, 2016

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. Yes, the Apollo 10 astronauts, Thomas Stafford, John Young, and Eugene Cernan, heard the eerily wonderful music of the spheres as they circled around the moon (click here for video). NASA experts, though, deny any space music, explaining that the “music” probably originated with radio and electronic interference. Right. You know, those toothpaste tubes of astro-food? They contain lots of the super-food beans: protein, fiber, carbs, and lots of vitamins and minerals. Yep. Space music with the musical fruit. By the way, Guinness Book of World records reports that Apollo 10, the warm-up for the Apollo 11 moon landing, set the record for the fastest manned space flight so far at 24,791 mph on the return trip from the moon — and we know why.

Tuesday, February 23

Cheesy chicken spaghetti. Just three words. It ain’t easy being cheesy, but this casserole with chicken, cheese, tomatoes, and spaghetti noodles will bring the pleasing, cheesing comfort of pasta to a new level in your life. “What will we do with Maestro Cheestro?” Wonder Kid wonders as he watches the wires. “Who cares,” Superchicken grumpily grouses as he picks over his mixed greens lunch. “Well, the Maestro and his combattants de fromage have vowed to cripple the world’s cheese supplies by destroying the molds and bacterias used to make cheese. It’s a destructive and diabolical dairy dilemma.” “So?” “Well, you know how much you love queso and chips or the fondue pot?” “Yeah,” Superchicken begins to blink to attention. “Well, queso is Spanish for “cheese.” “Arrahagaarararaggfhfhhattatatatrrrrff,” Superchicken squawks through tears of fear. “I am really cheesed off!” Superchicken squalls. “We have to stop the Maestro from playing his cheese-killing cello of cacophony…call our friends at the Airborne Bovine Battalion. It’s time we dropped in for a visit….”

Wednesday, February 24

White chili with pork loin, navy 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. Baseball great Chili Davis admitted, “My dad gave me a haircut… and it wasn’t a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.” Don’t let your old friends sweat you, Chili, come by our house, and we’ll make it all better with some special white chili.

Thursday, February 25

Chicken enchiladas, Spanish rice, charro beans, and fresh-made green and red salsa. Rick Riordan, author of Percy Jackson and the Heroes of Olympus series, writes, “While Coach Hedge was having dinner on the foredeck, a wild pegasus appeared from nowhere, stampeded over the coach’s enchiladas, and flew off again, leaving cheesy hoof prints all across the deck. ‘What was that for?’ the coach demanded.” Uhh, no flying horses around here to stampede your enchiladas, but hurry, the Apollo 10 astronauts are over-excited about the space music, and only chicken enchiladas can sooth the spacey beasts.

Friday, February 26 — Take Out Orders Only!

Blackened catfish with a mock hollandaise 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, and put a little house bread on the side. Country singer Blake Shelton advises, “The only thing you can do to make catfish edible is fry them.” Uh, Blake, we need to have a talk, a long, long talk…and it might involve the gentle massaging of knuckles to bring you to the truth about blackened catfish.

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Krewe of Foodies Magic & Mayhem Party!

Friday, February 26 starting at 6:30pm, we’ll host a Krewe of Foodies Magic and Mayhem Party! We know Mardis Gras is past (it came so early this year), but we’d like to celebrate anyway with some fantastic Louisiana fare and some special magic from giant leprechaun Connor O’Carraig. See the full menu here.

How To Join us at Foodie Krewe Magic and Mayhem Party!

We hope you will join us for a wonderful night of great dining and visiting. The evening will start as we gather to be seated. Guests will be permitted to bring their own alcoholic beverages, with a small corkage fee of $5 charged for wine. The cost of the meal will be $75 per person, tax and gratuity not included.

Please call (318) 267-4457 for reservations. Seating is limited, so please call early. Reservations close on Wednesday, February 24. We look forward to seeing you at the table of good food and fun. 

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 Quotes

Indian film star Randeep Hooda remarks, “February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.” Well, good for you Bollywood! Love can happen every day, especially when you take the time to sit at our table! Happy February!

Krewe of Foodies Magic & Mayhem Party!

“Leipreachán fathach ghabhtar ag déanamh draíochta!” It’s all Gaelic to us, but a giant leprechaun was caught doing magic! Come join us Friday, February 26 starting at 6:30pm as we host a Krewe of Foodies Magic and Mayhem Party with wonderful food and a great magic show by Connor O’Carraig!

Krewe of Foodies Magic & Mayhem Party!

Friday, February 26 starting at 6:30pm, we’ll host a Krewe of Foodies Magic and Mayhem Party! We know Mardis Gras is past (it came so early this year), but we’d like to celebrate anyway with some fantastic Louisiana fare and some special magic from giant leprechaun Connor O’Carraig:

Appetizer

Jambalaya balls with a crab sauce. Take our chicken and sausage jambalaya, roll it in our house-made bread crumbs, fry it, and add a little crab sauce, and you’ve started a parade of happiness.

Soup

We make our gumbo with a dark roux, chicken, sausage, and the trinity of bell pepper, onion, and celery.

Salad

Mixed greens, purple onions, and tomatoes with your choice of our house-made dressings (house, ranch, or blue cheese).

Entree

Crawfish stuffed mirliton squash served over a bed of mushroom spinach risotto will make you feel like the king or queen of the Mardi Gras parade.

Dessert

Crème brûlée will be the fantastic finish to this wonderful meal.

Magic Show

Seasoned on the streets of New Orleans, magician Connor O’Carraig brings a special blend of cards, coins, and humor to entertain all the foodies gathered. You’ll tremendously enjoy his talent and tricks, so drop by for a wonderful evening of magic and fun!

How To Join us at Foodie Krewe Magic and Mayhem Party!

We hope you will join us for a wonderful night of great dining and visiting. The evening will start as we gather to be seated. Guests will be permitted to bring their own alcoholic beverages, with a small corkage fee of $5 charged for wine. The cost of the meal will be $75 per person, tax and gratuity not included.

Please call (318) 267-4457 for reservations. Seating is limited, so please call early. Reservations close on Wednesday, February 24. We look forward to seeing you at the table of good food and fun. 

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It’s the old cups and ball routine with a giant leprechaun named Connor O’Carraig performing at a Renaissance Fair in Memphis, TN (2015).

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 Quotes

A famous Irish quote we love goes, “If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t there more happy teenagers?” Still another says, “My mother’s menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.” Well, there you have it, some Irish wit we needed to carry us through the weekend. Or perhaps our favorite: “May the curse of Mary Malone and her nine blind illegitimate children chase you so far over the hills of Damnation that the Lord himself can’t find you with a telescope.” Not sure who Mary Malone is, but we’re pretty sure we don’t want to meet her.

Image Credit: “Bacchus Beads,” by Mark Gstohl, CreativeCommons.org.

Old Hickory Loved Leather Britches

Called King Andrew because of his lavish tastes and banquets, Andrew Jackson was not so backwoodsy as some may think. He loved lamb with rosemary, oysters on the half shell, and French wines. Old Hickory also loved a dish called leather britches: green beans cooked with water and bacon served alongside braised wild duck or wild goose with fried apple pies. Here’s the lavish fare we’ve got cooking for you at week’s end: meat lasagna with fresh pasta and shrimp po-boys extravaganza. It just may make you feel presidential!

Come on by for our Foodie Krewe Magic and Mayhem Party for February 26!

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

Thursday, February 18

Meat lasagna with fresh pasta and house-made sauces. Our lusty lasagna comes with house-made fresh pasta, house-made ricotta cheese surrounded by a delicious house-made traditional tomato sauce full of lean ground beef and seasoned sausage — all bound together with lots of mozzarella cheese. You won’t really need anything else, but the bread sure will help sopping the sauce and cheese. The first Mr. Roosevelt, Theodore, kept his tastes at the table pretty simple: he loved fried chicken with gravy, steak, and cookies. In fact, he had a notorious sweet tooth — he had coffee with his sugar, seven lumps per cup. One observer noted his prodigious appetite in that Mr. Roosevelt ate a whole chicken, downing the roast fowl with four glasses of milk. We guess it took lots of energy to keep up with his mustache and his favorite phrase: “Bully!”

Friday, February 19

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.” Though he typically ate very lightly, Mr. Thomas Jefferson loved a variety of foods and drinks, all mostly of French origin, but he loved none so well as wine. During his two-term presidency, the wine bill reached almost $11,000 (that’s over $212,000 in today’s money or about $26,500 per year or $72.50 per day). Well, TGIF! Head into the weekend Tommy J. style: a good Madiera (his favorite) in hand, toasting good ol’ number three and thanking him for that crazy thing called the Louisiana Purchase.

After we can get over that whole Great Depression thing, we might remember Mr. Hoover for the work he did in helping a fledgling country stay fed in a terrible famine of 1921 or his work in helping feed thousands of German school children following World War II (the “Hooverspeisung” or “Hoover meals”). We remember him because he loved to travel to Opelousas, Louisiana for one of his favorite dishes: gumbo. No kidding. Oh, by the way, the “fledgling country” Mr. Hoover helped save: the Soviet Union. Yep, old folks from those harrowing, hungry days of famine told their grandkids, “Remember, Mr. Hoover saved us.” Maybe Edith and Archie had it right. History. What a ride.

Krewe of Foodies Magic & Mayhem Party!

Friday, February 26 starting at 6:30pm, we’ll host a Krewe of Foodies Magic and Mayhem Party! We know Mardis Gras is past (it came so early this year), but we’d like to celebrate anyway with some fantastic Louisiana fare and some special magic from giant leprechaun Connor O’Carraig:

Appetizer

Jambalaya balls with a crab sauce. Take our chicken and sausage jambalaya, roll it in our house-made bread crumbs, fry it, and add a little crab sauce, and you’ve started a parade of happiness.

Soup

We make our gumbo with a dark roux, chicken, sausage, and the trinity of bell pepper, onion, and celery.

Salad

Mixed greens, purple onions, and tomatoes with your choice of our house-made dressings (house, ranch, or blue cheese).

Entree

Crawfish stuffed mirliton squash served over a bed of mushroom spinach risotto will make you feel like the king or queen of the Mardi Gras parade.

Dessert

Crème brûlée will be the fantastic finish to this wonderful meal.

Magic Show

Seasoned on the streets of New Orleans, magician Connor O’Carraig brings a special blend of cards, coins, and humor to entertain all the foodies gathered. You’ll tremendously enjoy his talent and tricks, so drop by for a wonderful evening of magic and fun!

How To Join us at Foodie Krewe Magic and Mayhem Party!

We hope you will join us for a wonderful night of great dining and visiting. The evening will start as we gather to be seated. Guests will be permitted to bring their own alcoholic beverages, with a small corkage fee of $5 charged for wine. The cost of the meal will be $75 per person, tax and gratuity not included.

Please call (318) 267-4457 for reservations. Seating is limited, so please call early. Reservations close on Wednesday, February 24. We look forward to seeing you at the table of good food and fun. 

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 Quotes

Ever simple, with a hint of silly, Ulysses S. Grant once quipped, “I know only two tunes: one of them is ‘Yankee Doodle’, and the other isn’t.” Well, he loved simple fare at the table, but his bounteous breakfasts impress us most: broiled Spanish mackerel, steak, bacon and fried apples, flannel cakes or buckwheat cakes, and a cup of strong black coffee. Apparently, he remembered all too well those sparse Civil War breakfasts of cucumbers and coffee (although that might not make for a bad weight-loss diet) that kept him hungry all the time.

Image Credit: “Herbert Hoover Official Portrait,” from Periodic Table of the Presidents.