We Have No Bean-nanas Today!

Dear friends, we be closed for business on Monday, January 25, 2016. We hope to see you on Tuesday, January 26 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, January 25 — Closed Today!

Closed today! Sorry! We have no bean-nanas today. Come see us Monday, February 1 for a freshly picked batch of Louisiana red beans and rice.

Tuesday, January 26

Fried pork chops, smashed potatoes and gravy, and roasted broccoli.

Wednesday, January 27

All we need is one word: Gumbo!

Thursday, January 28

Spaghetti and meatballs with a fresh, house-made marinara.

Friday, January 29

Shrimptastic Friday: Barbecued shrimp stuffed po-boys or fried green tomato and shrimp po-boys with house-made remoulade sauce.

"Dang, how I am going to make it this week with no bean-anas? Dude, I am totally bummed...." — “Dang, how I am going to make it this week with no bean-anas? Dude, I am totally bummed…well, fiddle-dee-dee, tomorrow is another day.”

We want to express our deep gratitude to all those folks who filled our house Friday night for the Downton Abbey Premier Party. A wonderful time was had by all, and the gracious company made the difference. Thanks for gracing our table with your presence, we loved serving you!

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

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated,” observed Confucius one day as he spoke to his students over a breakfast of steamed bread and boiled eggs.

Image Credits: “Warning, Area Closed,” from WikipediaCommons.org and “Orangutan,” Iain A. Wanless, CreativeCommons.org.

Closed Monday, January 25, 2016

Dear friends, sorry to interrupt your Saturday morning cartoons and coffee, but we’ll be closed for business on Monday, January 25, 2016. We hope to see you on Tuesday, January 26 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

We want to express our deep gratitude to all those folks who filled our house Friday night for the Downton Abbey Premier Party. A wonderful time was had by all, and the company made the difference. Thanks for gracing our table with your presence, we loved serving you!

Monday, January 25

Closed today!

Tuesday, January 26

Fried pork chops, smashed potatoes and gravy, and roasted broccoli.

Wednesday, January 27

All we need is one word: Gumbo!

Thursday, January 28

Spaghetti and meatballs with a fresh, house-made marinara.

Friday, January 29

Shrimptastic Friday: Barbecued shrimp stuffed po-boys or fried green tomato and shrimp po-boys with house-made remoulade sauce.

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

“I live on good soup, not on fine words,” wrote the seventeenth century playwright, Moliere. Obviously, he was a fin gourmet before fin gourmets were so named. FYI: “fin gourmet” is foodie in French.

Image Credit: “Closed Sign at the Entrance to the Queue Line,” CreativeCommons.org.

Mama’s Little Baby Loves Dumplin’s

Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys surfed into town this week looking for some dumplings. Have a look at what’s cooking in the kitchen for you at week’s end: chicken and dumplings and shrimptastic Friday!

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

Thursday, January 21

Chicken and herbed dumplings with house salad and house bread. These dumplings come seeded with herbs in a house-made stock and cream sauce, and there’s no elegant way to love, let alone eat, chicken and dumplings. Folk melody, “Mama’s Little Baby Loves Shortin,'” first came to light in the early 1900’s from writer James Whitcomb Riley. Turns out Brian Wilson of Beach Boys fame had an odd thing for this shortin’ song, trying to get folks like Micky Dolenz, John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, Elton John, and Iggy Pop to sing along with him in the early 1970’s. Yes, truth is stranger than fiction. We thought it would make a great dumpling song: “Mama’s little baby loves dumplin’s, dumplin’s; mama’s little baby loves dumplin’s, yeah.” Try not to sing that one all day long.

Friday, January 22 — Take Out Orders Only!

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.” Written and directed by Wolfgang Peterson, Das Boot, tells the story of a German U-boat crew fighting in the cold seas during World War II. We were thinking Peterson could do a jaunty little re-boot musical about German sailors hopelessly lost in the Gulf of Mexico called Das Shrimp Boot. Forest Gump would make a special appearance, and since he doesn’t speak German, he could just bring his box of chocolates. Might work, it just might work. “Germans love shrimp toast, shrimp toast, shrimp toast; Germans love shrimp toast, shrimp toast, prost!”

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

Our good, old friend Ludwig van Beethoven once remarked, “Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.” Well, he always was an idealist.

YouTube Credit: “Mama’s Little Baby Loves Shortnin'” from mycampfiremusic.

January 18, 2016 Weekly Menu

Neil Diamond and UB40 have come to town to sing about “Red, red beans” and “Dumplings, oh dumplings, oh baby.” Don’t forget the Downton Abbey Premier Party on January 22! Have a look at what’s cooking in the kitchen for you this week: red beans and rice, cheesy chicken spaghetti, pulled pork sandwiches, chicken and dumplings, and shrimptastic Friday!

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Monday, January 18, 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, once upon a time, Neil Diamond had a crazy idea for a song: “Red, Red Beans.” “Red, red beans, I’d have sworn, that with time, thoughts of you would leave my head. I was wrong, now I find, just one thing makes me forget…red, red beans.” Of course, Neil loved red beans (no ham stock, though, he really loved a kosher ox tail stock), but he realized the song just wouldn’t work; beans just couldn’t help someone get over a lost love — red wine sure could, though. Nevertheless, what gave Neil the power in a denim suit with long hair on a “Hot August Night”? Yep, you guessed it, red, red beans. They are the truly musical fruit.

Tuesday, January 19

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. It’s like a sexy, saucy, and mature mac and cheese for big people. Watch out, it comes with an MA rating, and if you eat some, you, well….

Wednesday, January 20

Pulled pork sandwiches with apple cole 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. Joel Edgerton, who played the young Uncle Owen in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, rightly notes, “Pulled pork jokes never get old.” Our pulled pork is no joke. Serious. Pulled. Pork. Goodness. And, it just might save your life, but not on Tatooine.

Thursday, January 21

Chicken and herbed dumplings with house salad and house bread. These dumplings come seeded with herbs in a house-made stock and cream sauce, and there’s no elegant way to love, let alone eat, chicken and dumplings. The English reggae band UB40, and we don’t know how it happened, began to compose a song about dumplings. “Dumpling, O, dumpling O, baby, don’t you know I’m in need of thee? If you don’t believe it’s true, what have you left me to do? So long I’ve been waiting, for you to come right in. And now that we are together, please make my joy run over.” Yeah. Who sings about chicken and dumplings? And, what would some folks from Birmingham, England know about a quintessentially southern dish? Who knows? Well, like Neil, they had to change the song, but these chicken and dumplings will transport you to a place where you can’t help falling in love.

Friday, January 22 — Take Out Orders Only!

We’ll be hosting a special Friday evening on January 22, 2016 to celebrate the premier of the final season of Downton Abbey! Get your reservation for some great food and fun at the table! Click here for more information!

Dessert Offerings This Week

Lavender scones, with either lemon curd or strawberry shortcake, chocolate flan cake, and butter pecan cake. Our good friend Martha Stewart admits, “I love dessert. I can’t be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.” Well, let’s get experimental this week. It just might make you feel slightly scientific and certainly sweet.

Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

We’ll be hosting a special Friday evening on January 22, 2016 to celebrate the premier of the final season of Downton Abbey! Get your reservation for some great food and fun at the table! Click here for more information!

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

Well, our old friend Ralph Waldo Emerson admits to talking to the veggies, “The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.” Well, nodding to the veggies must be oddly transcendental. Well have to try that sometime.

Hail Caesar! We Love Your Salad!

So, you didn’t with the lottery. What in the world would we do if we really were instant bazillionaires? Well, come on by our house for a consolation lunch of grilled chicken caesar salad, it will return your to the bonny salad days of life. Don’t forget the Downton Abbey Premier Party on January 22! Have a look at what’s cooking for you at week’s end: grilled chicken caesar salad and pan-fried catfish with crab sauce!

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

Thursday, January 14 — New Offering!

Grilled chicken caesar salad. Take our grilled chicken, add some romaine lettuce tossed with our newly fashioned house-made caesar dressing and some of our own croutons, and you’ve got a new offering in our salads! When you think of Caesar, you might think of our friend Willie Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, but we think about Dom Deluise in Mel Brook’s History of the World, Part I and how silly he is about getting a treasure bath. Of course, the real question is how Mel Brooks keeps ending up with beautiful women (like Miriam, the Vestal Virgin — or Mrs. Robinson, for that matter). Must be the caesar salad he eats before filming. And, we’re sure it was a kosher caesar salad.

Friday, January 15

Pan-fried catfish with crab meat sauce and dirty rice, Stone House Eats style ($15). Ralph Waldo Emerson famously argued, “Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.” Hey, we’re with Ralph — come have a transcendental experience before heading into the weekend with our pan-fried catfish.

We’ll be hosting a special Friday evening on January 22, 2016 to celebrate the premier of the final season of Downton Abbey! Get your reservation for some great food and fun at the table! Click here for more information!

Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

We’ll be hosting a special Friday evening on January 22, 2016 to celebrate the premier of the final season of Downton Abbey! Get your reservation for some great food and fun at the table! Click here for more information!

Stone House Eats Bread Baked Daily

Drinks — Sweet & Unsweet Tea, Bottled Water, Housemade Lemonade, Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Dr. Pepper, and Sprite

Lunch Served | 11am-2pm Monday—Friday

Lunch Special | $12 — Includes Daily Special & Drink

Sandwiches & Salads — Includes Drink with Lunch Order

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 Food Quotes

Famous German scientist of the 18th century Georg Lichtenberg interestingly suggested, “Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?” Well, besides a cool name, he might just be right. The solution to world peace might just be found in a fantastic meal at the table.

A Few Places Left for Downton Abbey Party!

We’ll be hosting a special Friday evening on January 22, 2016 at 6:30pm to celebrate the premier of the final season of Downton Abbey! Get your reservation for some great food and fun at the table — just a few seatings left!

Special Invitation

Clélie and Henry of Stone House Eats wish to invite you to a gala dinner celebrating the premier of the wildly successful show Downton Abbey. The dinner will take place at Stone House Eats, 828 Julia Street, Rayville, Louisiana on Friday the 22nd of January at half past six o’clock. The dress is either cocktail wear or period clothing.

We hope you will manage to join us for a wonderful night of great dining and visiting. The evening will start as we gather to be seated, and a complete dinner of appetizer, soup, salad, entrée, and dessert will be served. 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 $60 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, January 20. We look forward to seeing you at the table of good food and fun.

The Menu

Appetizer

Fried green tomato topped with shrimp and house-made remoulade sauce on a bed of jicama.

Soup

Potato and leek puree with house-made chicken stock.

Salad

Mixed greens with a dijon vinaigrette or a wedge salad with blue cheese dressing.

Entrée

Beef wellington with stuffed tomato, garnish of chicken liver pâté and horseradish sauce, and served on a bed of cauliflower puree.

Dessert

Chocolate souffle.

Highclere Castle, built and opened in the 1840’s, sits on a 5,000 acre in Newbury, West Berkshire, England. It’s the shooting location for the Downton Abbey series.

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 Party Quotes

Henny Youngman offers the secret to a happy marriage: “Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.”

Image Credits: “Downton Abbey Cast” from Wired.com, and “Highclere Castle,” from Haley Blackmore, CreativeCommons.org.

January 11, 2016 Weekly Menu

Happy New Year! We look forward to having you drop by the house this week for some great food! Don’t forget the Downton Abbey Premier Party on January 22! Have a look at what’s cooking in the kitchen for you this week: red beans and rice, pork loin with black-eyed peas and lady creams, chicken enchiladas, grilled chicken caesar salad, and pan-fried catfish with crab sauce!

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Monday, January 11, 2016

Special made Louisiana red beans & rice with house-made biscuits. Revolutionary lean diet promoter Kathy Freston remarks, “Whole foods like grains and beans release their sugar very, very slowly because of the fiber in them, and they don’t give you a sugar rush. They feed your cells as needed, and as a result, you have loads of stable energy that powers you through the day.” Right, Kathy, it’s the slowly released sugar that’s the real power in beans….

Tuesday, January 12

Specially baked pork loin, black-eyed peas with lady creams, and mixed greens. We take a pork loin, rub it with all kinds of seasoning goodness, then slow cook it in the oven. Add some black-eyed peas with lady creams and greens, and you’ve got a good old fashioned Southern start to the year. The capital city of Burkina Faso is Ouagadougou, and inhabitants of the city call themselves ouagalais. We don’t about you, but any place called “Ouagadougou” and inhabited by “ougalais” has got to be cool and totally worth a visit. No, it doesn’t have a thing to do with pork.

Wednesday, January 13

Chicken enchiladas, Spanish rice, charro beans, and fresh-made green and red salsa. Time for a grammar lesson in Spanish: enchilada is the past participle for enchilar which means “to add chili pepper” or “season (or decorate) with chili.” These chili pepper babies predate the Spanish language adaptations, though, and we find them part of Nahuatl culture in really old Mexico. In Nahuatl the word for enchilada is a combination of two words, “chili” and “flute.” So, yes, the Spanish brought these “chili flutes” from the New World to the Old World with some help from the Spanish Main. Well, there you have it — the whole enchilada.

Thursday, January 14 — New Offering!

Grilled chicken caesar salad. Take our grilled chicken, add some romaine lettuce tossed with our newly fashioned house-made caesar dressing and some of our own croutons, and you’ve got a new offering in our salads! Caesar Cardini, an Italian immigrant living in San Diego, but cooking food in Tijuana, developed the now famous dressing in the early 1920’s. A huge rush on the restaurant one July 4th depleted the kitchen cupboard, and Caesar was forced to get creative with the few elements he had on hand. Oh, by the way, Julia Child swears she had a caesar dressing when she was a “child” sometime in the late 1920’s. Wow. Sounds like a crazy food movie — only in the kitchen do such amazing things happen.

Friday, January 15

Pan-fried catfish with crab meat sauce and dirty rice, Stone House Eats style ($15). Take some great catfish fillets, season them well, and pan fry to perfection. Add a little crab meat sauce, and you’ve got a great way to head into the weekend. Dolly Parton laughingly admits, “My husband calls me ‘catfish.’ He says I’m all mouth and no brains.” Well, we like her big hair, long nails, and old country tunes. Hey, eat some of this catfish and you, too, can end up with big hair and fancy sequined duds singing old country tunes with Porter Wagner. Yep. It can totally happen.

We’ll be hosting a special Friday evening on January 22, 2016 to celebrate the premier of the final season of Downton Abbey! Get your reservation for some great food and fun at the table! Click here for more information!

Dessert Offerings This Week

Lavender scones, with either lemon curd or strawberry shortcake, cranberry orange scones, cookies, and honey cake. Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa philosophically remarked, “Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.” Well, desserts can take you to another world. Ours certainly will.

Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

We’ll be hosting a special Friday evening on January 22, 2016 to celebrate the premier of the final season of Downton Abbey! Get your reservation for some great food and fun at the table! Click here for more information!

Stone House Eats Bread Baked Daily

Drinks — Sweet & Unsweet Tea, Bottled Water, Housemade Lemonade, Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Dr. Pepper, and Sprite

Lunch Served | 11am-2pm Monday—Friday

Lunch Special | $12 — Includes Daily Special & Drink