February 16, 2016 Weekly Menu

Everybody’s trying to predict who’ll be the next president — from job approval ratings to the Gross Domestic Product to unemployment numbers to the need for political change — everybody’s got an idea of who might win from their own model. Problem is, the models rarely work, and frontrunners rarely stay in front. So, we think having a look at favorite foods might work better. Let’s pick a president based on the foods they like to see at the table. Here’s what we’ve got cooking for you that we’ll bring to our table: fried pork chops with mama’s rice, beef burgundy with lots of veggies, meat lasagna with fresh pasta, and shrimp po-boys extravaganza. Have a look below the picture for info on the Foodie Krewe Magic and Mayhem Party for February 26!

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Tuesday, February 16

Fried pork chops, mama’s rice, and roasted broccoli. 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 hearty dish of rice, mushrooms, and green onions that’s almost a food group by itself. John Adams remarked on the sumptuous feast at the home of Chief Justice Chew, describing it wryly: “About four o’clock we were called to dinner. Turtle and every other thing, flummery, jellies, sweetmeats of twenty sorts, trifles, whipped syllabubs, floating islands, fools, etc., with a dessert of fruits, raisins, almonds, pears, peaches. A most sinful feast again! Everything which would delight the eye or allure the taste…parmesan cheese, punch, wine, porter, beer.” Since historians report the fare at the Adam’s White House table was New England, simple and spare, a sinfully scrumptious meal was probably just what the doctor ordered for Adams (too bad the doctor couldn’t help his presidency, though). Our pork chops and mama’s rice are worth writing home about.

Wednesday, February 17

Beef burgundy pot roast, potatoes, carrots,and rice. Beef burgundy slowly roasted in a richly flavored sauce with lots of beautiful vegetables will make this hump day a happy day. Old Abe Lincoln loved fresh food from the garden, wild game, corn cakes, honey, and (this is why we like him) he loved bacon. Mary, raised with a silver spoon in a higher station in Kentucky, liked things on her White House table such as aspic of tongue, pate de foie gras, turkey stuffed with truffles, and all sorts of wild game from venison to pheasant to canvasback duck. She could tempt the president with chicken fricassee, but mostly he just picked at his food. We wonder if Mr. Lincoln wasn’t preoccupied with a few small things like the Civil War and emancipation that kept him from enjoying the table. Well, you’ll dig into this beef burgundy and vegetables, and it’ll make you forget all the small things for a while.

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. Sunday nights during the Carter Administration, the White House staff was off, and those evenings often found Jimmy and Roselyn cooking leftovers together in the kitchen. Sometimes, though, they’d fire up the kitchen stove making fried pork chops with cornbread stuffing, chicken breasts stuffed with cheddar cheese, kale and collard greens, or lots of garden veggies (Mr. Carter’s favorite was eggplant), and, of course, they introduced grits to the White House. Well, it was about time to have some grits in Washington.

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.” Well, it’s no surprise former president Bill Clinton loved the greasy fare and lots of sweets: jalapeño cheeseburgers, chicken fried steaks smothered in gravy, barbecue, big steaks and cinnamon rolls, pies, and cake donuts. No chocolate or milk, though — Mr. Clinton was allergic. He’d probably love these po-boys, like everything else among his favorites, they totally ignore the cholesterol factor.

As he practiced for his inaugural address on Jan. 21, 1961, Mr. Kennedy teased his speech writer Ted Sorenson by inserting his favorite lunch time food in that famous quote: And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your chowder can do for you, ask what you can do for your chowder. By the way, Kennedy loved soup, he had it almost everyday for lunch.
As he practiced for his inaugural address on Jan. 21, 1961, Mr. Kennedy teased his speech writer Ted Sorenson by inserting his favorite lunch time food in that famous quote: “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your chowder can do for you, ask what you can do for your chowder.” By the way, Kennedy loved soup, he had it almost everyday for lunch. 

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

Most folks think President John F. Kennedy committed a laughable error in his 1961 speech in Berlin, showing U.S. support for West Germany when he said, “Ich bin ein Berliner.” Now, it’s true a Berliner is a jelly donut in German — just not in Berlin. Why? Because folks in Berlin were Berliners, hence the definite article in German. So, while there’s a silly connection, there’s no hole in Mr. Kennedy’s phrase.

Image Credit: “Remembering Mr. Kennedy by Watching His Inaugural Address,” NCPR.org.

The Supreme Bean

Dear friends, it’s a rainy day in the neighborhood, and we hope you’re having a peppy President’s Day. We’ll be closed for business today. We hope to see you on Tuesday, February 16 as we open with some good, old fashioned southern cooking guaranteed to fill your bellies and warm your hearts. Hope to see you then!

What We’re Cooking for You Next Week

Foodie Krewe Magic and Mayhem Party, Friday 26, 2016 with great food like gumbo and crawfish stuffed mirliton squash. Reservations needed, and details will follow tomorrow!

Monday, February 15 

Closed today to celebrate the POTUS (how do you make that plural)! George Washington philosophically noted, “It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Bean.” Apparently, he loved his beans like he loved hoe cakes (pancakes made with cornbread), mashed sweet potatoes, steak and kidney pie, and fish muddle (whatever that is). Of course, Martha’s Whiskey Cake found its way to the table often, as did port and dark ales. We’ll have a look at more presidential favorite foods this week!

Tuesday, February 16 — Papa Stone’s Birthday!

Fried pork chops, mama’s rice, and roasted broccoli. 

Wednesday, February 17

Beef burgundy, potatoes, carrots, and rice.

Thursday, February 18

Special house-made meat lasagna with fresh pasta.

Friday, February 19

Shrimptastic Friday: Barbecued shrimp stuffed po-boys, open-faced fried green tomato and barbecued shrimp on our house bread with remoulade sauce, or the full fried green tomato and barbecued shrimp po-boy with remoulade sauce.

Old George looking dashing during the French and Indian War in a portrait by Charles Wilson Peale. He's reaching into his jacket for a hoe cake (or maybe some of Martha's Whiskey Cake).
Old George looking dashing during the French and Indian War in a portrait by Charles Wilson Peale. He’s reaching into his jacket for a hoe cake (or maybe some of Martha’s Whiskey Cake).

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

Sometime in 1990 President George H. W. Bush banned broccoli from Air Force One saying, “I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.” Well, he probably won’t eat the fried pork chops this week as the veggie side is that rascal broccoli.

Image Credit: “George Washington in the French and Indian War,” CreativeCommons.org.

Closed February 15, 2016

Dear friends, it’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, and we hope you’re having a wonderful weekend. We’ll be closed for business on Monday, February 15, 2016 on President’s Day. We hope to see you on Tuesday, February 16 as we open with some good, old fashioned southern cooking guaranteed to fill your bellies and warm your hearts. Hope to see you then!

What We’re Cooking for You Next Week

In honor of President’s Day, we point you to the museum of the weird — yep. The Smithsonian has in its expansive collection a fairly large frame with hair from the first fourteen presidents. No kidding! Well, everybody thought the POTUS was a hairy job, anyway. Check the link here. And, for a little more history, we’re posting today from the gentleman’s parlor of Duff Green Mansion in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Foodie Krewe Magic and Mayhem Party, Friday 26, 2016 with great food like gumbo and crawfish stuffed mirliton squash. Reservations needed, and details will follow on Monday!

Monday, February 15 

Closed today! 

Tuesday, February 16 — Papa Stone’s Birthday!

Fried pork chops, mama’s rice, and roasted broccoli. 

Wednesday, February 17

Beef burgundy, potatoes, carrots, and rice.

Thursday, February 18

Special house-made meat lasagna with fresh pasta.

Friday, February 19

Shrimptastic Friday: Barbecued shrimp stuffed po-boys, open-faced fried green tomato and barbecued shrimp on our house bread with remoulade sauce, or the full fried green tomato and barbecued shrimp po-boy with remoulade sauce.

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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

One last quote for Valentine’s Day from the poet John Keats: “You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.” He was talking to his favorite dog, Aphrodite, trying out new poetic pick-up lines.

Image Credit: “Closed Sign at Yellowstone,” by Brian Mills from CreativeCommons.org.

Sanctified by a Kiss

Old Willie Shakespeare wrote, “A strawberry by any other name would taste sweeter covered in chocolate.” Willie knew love, writing things like this: “You have witchcraft in your lips” (Henry V). Well, we know food, and here’s what’s cooking at week’s end just for you: chicken carbonara and shrimp étoufée! 

Come grab some Valentine’s Day goodies for your special ones. Nothing says, “Be my Valentine” like some chocolate covered strawberries or glazed raspberry scones! Hope to see you at the table!

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

Valentine’s Day Goodies for Your Honey!

Lovingly prepared and specially packaged just for your Valentine’s Day surprises, we’ve got beautiful blondies, dangerous brownies, delightful glazed raspberry scones, tantalizing chocolate dipped strawberries, delectable peppermint bark, and scrumptious chocolate truffles (yes, we totally raided the thesaurus for those adjectives) in the shop. Drop by today or tomorrow to grab some goodies for your honey. We can help you be a super-love hero!

Thursday, February 11

Chicken carbonara. 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. A. A. Milne wrote, “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” Old Pooh Bear loved him some honey, but when he and Piglet hungered for pasta (which they did regularly), chicken carbonara always fit the ticket. Of course, they followed the meal with honey.

Friday, February 12

Shrimptastic Friday: Shrimp étouffée. Shrimp lovingly cooked with tomatoes and other tasty veggies in a delicious sauce served over Louisiana rice will make you boogie up and down the street. Seventeenth century poet Robert Herrick waxed, “Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; then to that twenty, add a hundred more: a thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, to make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, let’s kiss afresh, as when we first begun.” Well, Robbie, okay. We say, substitute ‘shrimp’ for ‘kiss’ — and he just might be onto something savory and shrimptastic! “Give me a shrimp, and to that shrimp a score….”

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Valentine’s Day Goodies for Your Honey!

Lovingly prepared and specially packaged just for your Valentine’s Day surprises, we’ve got beautiful blondies, dangerous brownies, delightful glazed raspberry scones, tantalizing chocolate dipped strawberries, delectable peppermint bark, and scrumptious chocolate truffles (yes, we totally raided the thesaurus for those adjectives) in the shop. Drop by today or tomorrow to grab some goodies for your honey. We can help you be a super-love hero!

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

Known for his pithy, short writings, Christian Nevell Bovee penned, “It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.” Rock on, brother. Sanctify someone with a kiss today.

Valentine’s Day Special Love Pasta Leaving on the Midnight Train

Gladys Knight and the Pips sang, “He kept dreaming (dreaming) Ooh, that some day he’d be a star (a superstar, but he didn’t get far)…But he sure found out the hard way That dreams don’t always come true, oh no, uh uh…Bought a one way ticket back to the life he once knew, oh yes he did, he said he would. Oh-oh, he’s leaving (leaving) on that midnight train to Georgia, yeah (leaving on a midnight train). Said he’s going back to find, ooh (going back to find) a simpler place and time, ooh, yeah.”

Wish we had a back up group like the Pips parenthetically seconding in harmony all our words (yes, we do, ooh ooh). Hey, last chance on the Valentine’s Day Love Special Love Pasta. Orders end tonight at 6:00pm. Let us take you back to a simpler time where we can be the harmonic backup group to your Valentine’s Day!

Valentine’s Day Special Love Pasta

We want to help you have a wonderful and trouble-free Valentine’s Day meal. For $45.00, you can have a freshly made meal from our kitchen to your home that will be plenty of love-filled food for two people. See what’s cooking — to help you get cooking!

Soup 

Our creamy, dreamy and delicious spinach artichoke soup.

Salad

Our house salad of mixed greens, tomatoes, and purple onion with a choice of house or ranch dressings.

Bread

Half a loaf of our freshly baked house-made bread generously spread with garlic butter.

Entrée

A generous portion of our chicken carbonara — bow tie pasta swims in a creamy white sauce with lots of good friends — oven-roasted chicken breast, mushrooms, garden fresh veggies, and green onions.

Dessert

Our famous white chocolate bread pudding with lots of rum sauce.

What You’ll Need to Do

For $45.00, you can have a freshly made meal from our kitchen to your home. Please call us at (318) 267-4457 by Wednesday, February 10 at 6:00pm to order your meal. We’ll have everything prepped and ready for pickup with instructions on how to get the meal ready on Friday, February 12.

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 We are truly thankful for all the folks who frequent our table. Thanks for giving into our lives with your time and talk, our lives are enriched because of you. We look forward to seeing you next week at the table!

Famous Love Quotes

The lovely Cameron Diaz tells adoring fans, “I’d kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.” Watch out, Cam, a little too much information there. But, if anyone’s got a frog suit…. Happy Valentine’s Day!

Image Credit: “The Graphics Fairy Vintage Valetine,” CreativeCommons.org.

February 8, 2016 Weekly Menu

Data suggests that cities whose teams win the Super Bowl see a significant rise in births nine months later. We like to call it the “September Phenomenon.” They even had a “Super Bowl Baby Choir.” Whatever. Who keeps those kinds of stats and sings about it? Folks who don’t eat so well, that’s who. Well, great food is cooking just for you: Louisiana red beans and rice, chicken and sausage jambalaya, pork tenderloin and smashed potatoes, chicken carbonara, and shrimp étoufée! Hope to see you at the table! Congratulations to the Denver Broncos for winning Super Bowl 50!

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Monday, February 8, 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. Well, our old friend, David Bowie, who’s gone now, sang a great song: “There’s a starman waiting in the sky. He’d like to come and meet us, but he thinks he’d blow our minds. There’s a starman waiting in the sky….” Starman. Right. More like “Beanman.” How do you think he stayed so suave and thin — and married a beautiful supermodel? Like us, Bowie was a total beanhead. “This is Major Tom to ground control…though I’m past one hundred thousand miles, I’m feeling very still. And I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my beans I love them very much….” Hey, come join us for some red beans, and you can float your way through the week with Ziggy Stardust and his totally cool sequined onesies.

Tuesday, February 9

Chicken and sausage jambalaya. Well, Cajun calling! What’s better than a delicious, hearty mix of chicken, sausage, rice, and tasty goodies? Another adventure of Superchicken: “Operation Jambalaya.” “Do you have the Quakefeed App?” Superchicken asked his stalwart sidekick Wonder Kid. “No, Why?” “I hear that malicious Mexican bandito Oaxaca Molé plans a dastardly deed for the finale of Super Bowl 50.” “Who?” Wonder Kid wonders. “Oaxaca Molé stands alone for underhanded underground paroxysms. He and his maleficent mole minions make massive messes that mimic earthquakes. Remember the Bayou Corne sinkhole? Yep, it was Oaxaca Molé.  Just for giggles. The earth quakes, buildings shake, and Oaxaca Molé makes messes.” “How do you know this?” Wonder Kid quizzes. “Well, I have friends in low places. Most folks north of the border just call him ‘Wacky Mole’ because his attacks make no sense. But, he’s gaining confidence and strength, and I hear he plans a surreptitious strike. What better place than quake-ridden California during the most watched television event in 2016?” “So,” Wonder Kid sees, “Wacky Mole strikes again. How do we stop him?” “I have some power-filled potion: pídàn zhádàn.” “What’s that?” Wonder Kid queries. “1,000 year old egg bombs. The moles hate the taste and smell. We’ll put them in strategic places around the stadium.” “I see,” Wonder Kid observes, “An ancient Chinese delicacy will stave off a Mexican fake earthquake to save the Super Bowl.” “Ya durn tootin’ little man,” Superchicken says before asking, “Hey, the games’s on, where’s the earthworm jambalaya — or as Oaxaca Molé would say, jambalaya de lombriz?”

Wednesday, February 10

Pork tenderloin, smashed potatoes, and savory-sweet green beans. Specially marinated pork tenderloin, roasted potatoes beaten into submission with butter and cream, and savory-sweet green beans come to the table to help you make it safely to the weekend. “When I was a kid everyone used to call me pork ‘n,” admits actor Michael Biehn. Get it? Thank goodness, he totally saved us from the terminator, and this pork will save you, too, from the rise of the machines.

Order Your Valentine’s Day Love Pasta by Today!

For $45.00, you can have a freshly made meal from our kitchen to your home. Please call us at (318) 267-4457 by Wednesday, February 10 at 6:00pm to order your meal. We’ll have everything prepped and ready for pickup with instructions on how to get the meal ready on Friday, February 12. Click here for the menu.

Thursday, February 11

Chicken carbonara. 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.   “My God, he looks like he’s beating a chicken,” the great Byron Nelson ragged in a rare trash-talking golf moment. You know, you just can’t buy memories like that, but you can buy some great pasta on Thursday.

Friday, February 12

Shrimptastic Friday: Shrimp étouffée. Shrimp lovingly cooked with tomatoes and other tasty veggies in a delicious sauce served over Louisiana rice will make you boogie up and down the street. “How do you want to be remembered, Peyton?” the sportscaster asked Peyton Manning. “Well, I’d like to be remembered for being a good teammate, and I’d like to be remembered for respecting my coaches. I’d like to be remembered,” as his voice broke, “as someone who loved the game of football.” Well, Mister 200 NFL wins, this shrimp’s for you — kiss your wife, hug your kids, have some Budweiser, and say a prayer of thanks to the man upstairs. We’ll send the shrimp, it goes very well with hugs, kisses, Bud, and prayers.

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Dessert Offerings This Week

Lavender scones, cookies, raspberry Charlotte, and chocolate chess pie. The noted author Bauvard suggested in Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic, “Love is the cake under the icing. The immature lick it clean and throw the rest away; adults scrape off the top and eat it dry.” Well, who knew maturity meant eating cake? Eat on, dear friends, and show everybody you know how to love.

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

Anquan Boldin, one of the 13 players to make 1,ooo receptions in the NFL, won the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year for 2016, and he graciously offered, “I’m beyond humbled to be selected as the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year. I used to dream that I could play like Walter Payton when I was growing up, but he became even more of an inspiration to me as I learned about his legacy as a humanitarian. I commend the other 31 finalists throughout the National Football League who continue to use this platform to influence the lives of others in a positive way. May we continue to open our hearts and make an impact in our communities and throughout this world.” The Anquan Boldin Foundation (Q81) provides wonderful educational and life opportunities, including 4-year college scholarships, for underprivileged children in the United States, particularly in his home state of Florida. Anquan might not be the Super Bowl 50 Most Valuable Player like veteran player Von Miller, but he’s definitely the Most Valuable Person in the way he uses his gift to give into the life of his community. Find out more about Anquan and the award here and here and here .

Valentine’s Day Special Love Pasta

Miracle Max told Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride, “Sonny, true love is the greatest thing, in the world-except for a nice MLT — mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe. They’re so perky, I love that.” Well, Inigo looked for a miracle that would solve everybody’s problems. We don’t know about an MLT, just pasta and love. Let us help you have a wonderful Valentine’s Day with a little love from our kitchen to your home — it might just prove miraculous!

Valentine’s Day Special Love Pasta

We want to help you have a wonderful and trouble-free Valentine’s Day meal. For $45.00, you can have a freshly made meal from our kitchen to your home that will be plenty of love-filled food for two people. See what’s cooking — to help you get cooking!

Soup 

Our creamy, dreamy and delicious spinach artichoke soup.

Salad

Our house salad of mixed greens, tomatoes, and purple onion with a choice of house or ranch dressings.

Bread

Half a loaf of our freshly baked house-made bread generously spread with garlic butter.

Entrée

A generous portion of our chicken carbonara — bow tie pasta swims in a creamy white sauce with lots of good friends — oven-roasted chicken breast, mushrooms, garden fresh veggies, and green onions.

Dessert

Our famous white chocolate bread pudding with lots of rum sauce.

What You’ll Need to Do

For $45.00, you can have a freshly made meal from our kitchen to your home. Please call us at (318) 267-4457 by Wednesday, February 10 at 6:00pm to order your meal. We’ll have everything prepped and ready for pickup with instructions on how to get the meal ready on Friday, February 12.

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 We are truly thankful for all the folks who frequent our table. Thanks for giving into our lives with your time and talk, our lives are enriched because of you. We look forward to seeing you next week at the table!

Famous Love Quotes

Our old buddy Victor Hugo once said, “How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.” He was right, and when he said it in French it sounded much more cool and romantic. But, in any language, especially the language of love, he’s still right, “A kiss, and all was said.” Happy Valentine’s Day!

Image Credit: “Could Love Be on the Cards?” Luke Hayfield, CreativeCommons.org.

1.3 Billion Chicken Wings Spent on Presidential Election

Yep. Experts project 1.3 billion chicken wings will flap into the election economy in a flurry of advertising for the flock of presidential candidates. Wait a minute…hold the phones! Experts project 1.3 billion chicken wings will be consumed on Sunday for Super Bowl 50. Sorry for the confusion — call it a bad case of PCHS: “Post-Caucus Hangover Syndrome.” Here’s what’s cooking at week’s end: chicken pot pie and shrimp on fried grits! Hope to see you at the table!

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

Thursday, February 4

Chicken pot pie. Made with specially cooked chicken breast meat, a host of roasted root vegetables, and a scrumptious sauce made with our own chicken stock, S.H.E. chicken pot pie redefines mom’s old standby meal. Believe it or don’t, but the Republican Party published a circular during the 1928 election affirming that if Herbert Hoover were elected President of the United States, there would be “a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.” Sadly enough, several months into Hoover’s first year a little thing called the Great Depression started. Hoover wore that chicken around his neck until Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected in 1932. Well, we can promise a chicken pot pie on your plate, and nobody has to get elected — just drop by the table.

Friday, February 5

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. Well, old Franklin Delano Roosevelt loved scrambled eggs, fish chowder, and any food “you could just dig into.” A gift to the family in 1940, Fala was a black Scottish terrier who became FDR’s constant companion. Fala, who’s full name is “Murray, the Outlaw of Fala Hill,” is responsible for brokering the secret deal to have Prime Minister William Churchill come to the White House for Christmas 1941. In fact, most experts agree Fala was the power behind the FDR’s override of the Joint Army and Navy boards’ refusal to help Great Britain in the summer of 1940. Well, we feel sure Fala and FDR would approve the shrimp and grits because you really can just dig into them, and they will help you develop great public policy. Yep.

For the full skinny on chicken wing consumption, please take a gander at the National Chicken Council’s (“Yes, Virginia, there is a Chicken Council”) projections and interesting facts: “Americans to Eat 1.3 Billion Chicken Wings for Super Bowl 50.” Facts like this: “Weighing in at about 162.5 million pounds, 1.3 billion wings weigh 6,325 times more than the combined weights of the Panthers and Broncos entire 52-man rosters.” That’s a super-fat yardbird.

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Be on the lookout for a special Valentine’s meal!

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

Well, good ol’ Harry S. Truman quipped one time, “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” Yep. He totally wished he had a special advisor to the president like Murray, the Outlaw of Fala Hill.

Image Credit: “Spicy Garlic Chicken Wings,” Ginny at CreativeCommons.org.

February 1, 2016 Weekly Menu

Danny Zuko, Sandy Young, and all the “Grease” gang danced into town with a little hand jive to join us at the table. Grease is the word for a special “Grease Live” edition of the menu. Here’s what’s cooking this week in the Rydell High School Cafeteria: Louisiana red beans and rice, fried chicken and signature potatoes, beef stroganoff, chicken pot pie, and shrimp on fried grits! Hope to see you at the table!

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Monday, February 1, 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. “Stranded at the drive in, branded a fool, what will they say Monday at school?” Danny whined after Sandy slapped him down. Well, Danny, you should have eaten the beans, they would’ve helped you woo Sandy so well — you know, all that plant protein and fiber. And, you should’ve kept your cotton-pickin’ hands to yourself.

Tuesday, February 2

Fried chicken tenders, signature potatoes and fried cabbage. Chicken tenders lovingly bedded overnight in buttermilk and hot sauce come famously fried in a special flour recipe and served with smashed potatoes. “But now there’s nowhere to hide, since you pushed my love aside. I’m out of my head, hopelessly devoted to you, I’m hopelessly devoted to you.” Sandy sang it so beautifully, and she wasn’t singing about Danny, either. She had a serious fried chicken problem. How do you think she got into those black, tight pants for the final scene? Chicken grease from her fingers. Yep.

Wednesday, February 3

Beef stroganoff. Deeply saucy and delicious, our tender cooked beef stroganoff served with wonderful loads of pasta will help make the difference for the rest of your week. “Attention seniors,” Principal McGee intoned over the school P.A. “Before the merriment of commencement commences, I hope that your years with us here at Rydell have prepared you for the challenges you face….” Of course, the last day of school means no more Rydell High cafeteria beef stroganoff. “Oh, Blanche, stop blubbering…we can get some stroganoff next year!” Come on by our house, Principal McGee and Blanche will be dinging the P.A. xylophone for every order of beef stroganoff.

Thursday, February 4

Chicken pot pie. Made with specially cooked chicken breast meat, a host of roasted root vegetables, and a scrumptious sauce made with our own chicken stock, S.H.E. chicken pot pie redefines mom’s old standby meal. Frenchy’s mom made the most famous chicken pot pie in town. All the cool Rydell kids came by singing, “Chicken pot mama, make us some more, please; chicken pot mama, make us some more, please.” Good thing Frenchy dropped out of beauty school — all her friends stayed fed…well fed.

Friday, February 5

Shrimptastic Friday: Special made shrimp served 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. “Shrimp is the word, it’s got groove, it’s got meaning. Shrimp is the time, is the place, is the motion. Shrimp is the way we are feeling,” Barry Gibb originally wrote as he put a few shrimps on the barbie. His mama told him he should write about that gel that made his hair so big. Grease is the word for Barry’s big hair, but shrimp is the word at our house. We’re pimpin’ your shrimp with fried grits on Friday, and it’ll send you singing into your own personal musical: “We go together, like rama lamma lamma ka dinga da ding dong. Remembered forever, as shoobop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom. Chang chang changitty chang shoobop — that’s the way it should be, wha ooohhhh, yeah….”

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Dessert Offerings This Week

Lavender scones, cookies, chocolate cake, and banana pudding. Food writer Bill Buford remarks, “I didn’t know why dessert was invented or what function it was meant to perform. Raising livestock and the harvesting of grains are ancient activities, but when did humankind decide it also needed creme brûlée?” Who knows, and who cares? Well, truth be told, it was the creme brûlée fairy who has a tiny blow torch for a fairy dust wand. Yep.

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

Our buddy Jonathon Swift remarked once, “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” Or, he could have just been hungry when he arrived on the shores of Lilliput.

Image Credit: “Grease Live Photos,” Yahoo! TV.

January 26, 2016 Menu

A cold day, a wet day — pork chops of the world unite! The pork chop express rolls into town on some lovely, greasy skids. Here’s what’s cooking this week: pork chops and smashed potatoes, gumbo, spaghetti and meatballs with fresh marinara, and shrimptastic Friday! Hope to see you at the table!

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Tuesday, January 26

Fried pork chops, smashed potatoes and gravy, and roasted broccoli. 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. Danny Zuko in Grease excitedly says, “Why, these pork chops are auto-matic. They’re system-matic. They’re hyyyyydro-matic. Why, they’re greased lightning!” as he sits at the table with Granny Zuko over a greasy, feasty plate of special fried pork chops. Danny had it right. Too bad we can’t put graphic flames down the sides of the pork chops to show how cool they really are.

Wednesday, January 27

All we need is one word: 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. “Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart,” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe gushed in a letter to his true love. He must have had the gumbo for lunch.

Thursday, January 28

Spaghetti and meatballs with a fresh, house-made marinara. 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 to the weekend. Comedian Jim Gaffigan slyly remarks, “The pasta was amazing! It was like an angel’s hair. You know how when you think of an angel and you want to eat their hair.” Good thing it’s spaghetti noodles today….

Friday, January 29

Shrimptastic Friday: Barbecued shrimp stuffed po-boys or fried green tomato and shrimp po-boys with house-made remoulade sauce. Take a half-size po-boy, hollow the bread to make a bread cave, stuff it with our own New Orleans style barbecued shrimp (prepped in loads of butter, white wine, and saucy spices), cover it with barbecue sauce, and grab the napkins. Or grab our fried green tomatoes, add some shrimp sautéed in our barbecue sauce, our house salad with house-made dressing, some remoulade sauce, and you’ve got a little more than a po-boy, you’ve got a “Whoa-boy.” Humorist Dave Berry remarks, “The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn’t have eyeballs or fins.” Dave probably got bitten by a crab or stung by a jellyfish while at the beach as a young boy. Our prescription: a shrimp po-boy, it will cure all your irrational ills.

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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 Quotes

In a moment of deep honesty, Robert Redford admits, “Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.” Go, Bobby, go, go, go!