She Rode a Flaming Turkey

“She rode a flaming turkey, she held a shining spoon. She she came to cook some vittles for her folks in the room,” Frankie Laine wrote in some altered lyrics for “Blazing Saddles.” You, too, can come whooping and hollering into Thanksgiving Day with some great food, wielding a mighty spoon! We’d love to cook some things for your Thanksgiving table. Have a look at our starters, sides, breads, and desserts to see how we can help you have a wonderful Thanksgiving meal with your family.

Cooking for Your Thanksgiving Day Table

Thanksgiving Day remains a very important day for us to express our gratitude for the goodness and faithfulness of God in our lives. Folks get together with families and friends, celebrating and remembering how good life truly is. Sure, most of us will probably eat too much, but let’s think just a little differently. Can we really be too full of gratitude? Let our full bellies reflect the fullness of our hearts in deep gratitude for how God has given into our lives.

How to Place Your Orders

Please place your orders by telephone at (318) 267-4457 by Friday, November 20 at 6pm. They will be available for pickup at the house Wednesday, November 22 from 10am — 3pm.

Just what Thanksgiving should be, a sumptuous meal with a monkey, a parrot, a poodle, and a lute-playing lobster. Looks like our family, except for that whole mince-meat pie thing….

Starters

Plain Cheeseball, $10 (Small), $20 (Large)

Bacon Cheeseball, $12 (Small), $24 (Large)

Shrimp Cheeseball, $14 (Small), $28 (Large)

Bacon and Shrimp Cheeseball, $15 (Small), $30 (Large)

Our cheeseballs are made with our house-made pimento cheese, cream cheese, and rolled in pecans. The small cheeseball comes from our pint of pimento cheese and the large from our quart of pimento cheese.

Breads & Biscuits

House-Made Bread Loaf, $5

Parmesan Garlic or Honey Buttermilk Biscuits, $15/Dozen

Sides

Green Beans Almandine, $24 (Large)

Our green beans come with a sweet and savory sauce and roasted almonds. The large size will feed 10-12 people.

Mama’s Rice, $22 (Large)

Our flavorful rice, made with beef stock, mushrooms, and green onions, will feed 10-12 people. 

Signature Potatoes, $25 (Large)

Whole cooked potatoes swimming in a black pepper cream gravy sauce with fresh parsley will feed 10-12 people.

Loaded Signature Potatoes, $30 (Large)

Add cheddar cheese and bacon to our whole cooked potatoes swimming in a black pepper cream gravy sauce with fresh parsley, and you’ve got a surprisingly delicious side which will feed 10-12.

Baked Garlic Cheese Grits, $20 (Large)

Baked. Garlic. Cheese. Grits. Yep. Will feed 10-12 people.

Pimento Cheese Grits, $25 (Large)

Baked. House-made pimento cheese. Grits. Yippee! Will feed 10-12 people.

Desserts

Apple Pie, $25

Our apple pie, cooked with shredded granny smith apples will delight your whole family.

Browned Butter Pecan Pie, $25

Browned butter and pecans make this pie something you won’t want to miss.

Butter Pecan Pound Cake, $25

This pound cake, with buttered pecans and a hint of coconut, will have the folks at your table excited.

Chocolate Pie, $25

Well, what’s better after a large meal than a sumptuous chocolate pie?

Chocolate Flan Cake, $40

Holy cow, this has chocolate cake, caramel, and flan in a bundt pan. It’s our new favorite, and we’ll just bet it’ll be yours.

Pumpkin Bread Pudding with Rum Sauce, $50

White Chocolate Bread Pudding with Rum Sauce, $50

Our bread puddings come served in a half-steam bin that’ll feed 15-20 folks, and they are delicious, delightful, and devilishly good.

Scones (Lavender or Pumpkin Peach), 1/2 Dozen $18 | Dozen $36

For a lighter repast after the meal, try these scones with their lightly sweet taste and delicate texture.

Lemon Curd or Chocolate Sauce for Scones, 1/2 Pint $5 | Pint $10

How to Place Your Orders

Please place your orders by telephone at (318) 267-4457 by Friday, November 20 at 6pm. They will be available for pickup at the house Wednesday, November 22 from 10am — 3pm.

Check out What’s in the Fridge.

 You can find our house at 828 Julia Street in Rayville, Louisiana.

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

Famous Gratitude Quotes

William Law asked a powerful question and provided a wonderful answer in his devotional work A Devout and Serious Call. Have a listen: “Would you know who is the greatest saint in the world? It is not he who prays most or fasts most; is not he who gives most alms, or is more eminent for temperance, chastity, or justice; but it is he who is always thankful to God who wills everything that God willeth, who receives everything as an instance of God’s goodness, and has a heart always ready to praise God for it.”

Photo Credit, “Adriaen van Utrecht’s Banquet Still Life,” CreativeCommons.org.

November 9, 2015 Weekly Menu

Teddy Roosevelt, Bing Crosby, and Ingrid Bergman will rough ride their way into town this week. Have a look at what’s cooking in the kitchen for you this week: red beans and rice, grits and grillades, fajita tacos, sampler sandwich with fried green tomatoes, and fried green tomatoes with barbecued shrimp po-boy!

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Monday, November 9

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, they wanted to call that old movie with Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman The Beans of St. Mary’s because their little parochial school was famous for its beans prepared by and for the nuns each week. Unfortunately, the thoughts of, well, bean-powered nuns would’t play well in 1940’s America. So, they chose the safe bet: The Bells of St. Mary’s. Not as exciting, but it did well in the theaters. Our beans, on the other hand, are rather exciting, but probably won’t do well in theaters. As an historical note, America wouldn’t be ready for bean-powered flying nuns until the 1960’s with Sally Fields in The Flying Nun.

Tuesday, November 10

Grits and grillades. Our lovingly cooked pork loin medallions rest atop baked garlic cheese grits covered with a sumptuous gravy. Journalist and humorist Roy Blount Jr. rightly observed, “True grits, more grits, fish, grits, and collards. Life is good where grits are swallered.” Amen, and all we need is some pork to swaller with those grits to make a good life.

Wednesday, November 11 — Veterans Day!

Fajita tacos with Spanish rice and house-made salsa. Thomas Jefferson poignantly wrote, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” As we celebrate Veterans Day this year, let us remember the tremendous cost and prodigious gift of liberty. Take time today to thank a veteran for serving this country, and take a moment to pray for those folks serving in the armed services at home and abroad and their families.

Thursday, November 12

Sampler sandwich with fresh tomatoes or fried green tomatoes. This is “everything and the kitchen sink.” The sampler sandwich comes rolling into town on our fresh house made bread. Our house made pimento cheese, toasted, comes with our own chicken salad, some bacon, and just a little dab of salad with our house dressing and either a garden fresh tomato or fried green tomato. It’s big, it’s messy, and it’s delicious — plus, you can have it with fried green tomatoes. Andy Rooney once quipped, “I don’t like food that’s too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I’d buy a painting.” This sandwich is just too messy to be a painting, but with the juices and flavors dripping on your fingers, you can do your own finger painting.

Friday, November 13

Fried green tomatoes with shrimp and house salad po-boy ($15). Take our fried green tomatoes, add some shrimp sautéed in our barbecue sauce and our house salad with house-made dressing and you’ve got a little more than a po-boy, you’ve got a “Whoa-boy.” Teddy Roosevelt once remarked, “The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.” We were thinking this po-boy could set the world to rights, but a good kick in the pants might help, too. Old TR might be right, after all, they named the teddy bear after him.

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Dessert Offerings This Week

Lavender scones with either lemon curd or strawberry shortcake or black and white scones with dark and white chocolate. Ben Franklin took to counseling folks over the scone breakfasts at the Continental Congress, telling them things like, “Think of three things — whence you came, where you are going, and to Whom you must account.” He also told them, “A full belly makes a dull brain.” We wonder how many dull brains stood the famed floor in Philadelphia after having breakfasted with Mr. Franklin.

Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

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 Tea or Bottled Water

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

TV Chef and culinary explainer Alton Brown channels the true food feelings of men when he says, “Outlaw Cook was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I’ve ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows.” He shouldn’t be telling manly secrets.

November 3, 2015 Weekly Menu

Watch out! Towanda’s in town! She’s hopped up on fried green tomatoes, and she’s righting all wrongs. Have a look at what’s cooking in the kitchen for you this week: fried chicken, brisket tacos, grilled chicken bacon ranch sandwich, and fried green tomatoes and shrimp po-boys!

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Tuesday, November 3

Fried chicken tenders with smashed potatoes and a greens trio (collards, mustard, and turnip) and a honey buttermilk biscuit. Lovingly bedded overnight in buttermilk and hot sauce, our chicken tenders come fabulously fried in a special flour recipe and served with our white cream gravy signature potatoes. “I love the smell of fried chicken in the morning,” Lt. Colonel Bill Killgore mused as wandered into the kitchen where his wife was cooking. “Smells like…heavenly,” he finished philosophically. Come grab your little piece of heaven and get apocalyptically philosophical with some of our fried chicken.

Wednesday, November 4

Brisket tacos served with cilantro lime slaw, charro beans, and fresh salsa. Our overnight brisket chopped and served on lightly fried corn tortillas will help you rethink the traditional taco. How do tacos say grace? Lettuce pray. Hey, let these tacos grace your mid-week as you head to Friday.

Thursday, November 5

Grilled chicken bacon ranch sandwich ($13.50). Say that five times quickly! Take our grilled chicken sandwich with our house-made bread, add bacon, house-made ranch, and our house salad, and you have a sandwich to behold. What would happen if you genetically crossed a chicken and pig? We don’t know either, but it might solve breakfast crises all over the world.

Friday, November 6

Fried green tomatoes with shrimp and house salad po-boy ($15). Take our fried green tomatoes, add some shrimp sautéed in our barbecue sauce and our house salad with house-made dressing and you’ve got a little more than a po-boy, you’ve got a “Whoa-boy.” In the movie Fried Green Tomatoes, Evelyn (played by Kathy Bates) tells Mrs. Threadgood (played by Jessica Tandy), “I never get mad, Mrs Threadgoode. Never. The way I was raised, it was bad manners. Well, I got mad…and it felt terrific! I felt like I could beat the crap out of all those punks. Excuse my language. Just beat ’em to a pulp. Beat ’em till they begged for mercy! Towanda the avenger. And after I wipe out all the punks of this world, I’ll take on the wife-beaters, like Frank Bennett, and machine-gun their genitals! Towanda will go on the rampage. I’ll put tiny little bombs in Penthouse and Playboy so they’ll explode when you open them. And I’ll ban all fashion models who weigh less than 130 pounds. And I’ll give half the military budget to people of 65 and declare wrinkles sexually desirable. Towanda, righter of wrongs, queen beyond compare! To which Mrs. Threadgood wondered, “How many of them hormones are you taking, honey?” This sandwich may not right all wrongs, but it’s a good start.

DSC_1757Dessert Offerings This Week

Lavender scones with either lemon curd or strawberry shortcake or black and white scones with dark and white chocolate. William Ewart Gladstone, prime minister of England during Queen Victoria’s reign rightly observed, ““If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; if you are depressed, it will cheer you; if you are excited, it will calm you.” Tea and scones — setting the world to rights one cup at a time.

Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

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 Tea or Bottled Water

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 painter Gustav Klimt said, “After tea it’s back to painting — a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.” Who knew tea and bowling had such influence on art?

Beans of the Mountain Monday

Don’t let “rainy days and Mondays get you down!” Eminent bean expert Dr. Emilio Katanga will hold forth this Monday on the cultural, political, and agricultural powers of red beans at the shop. Just a little teaser preview this morning, the full menu will come later. Have a look at what’s cooking in the kitchen for you this week: red beans and rice, fried chicken, brisket tacos, grilled chicken bacon ranch sandwich, and fried green tomatoes and shrimp po-boys!

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Monday, November 2

Special made Louisiana red beans & rice with hot water cornbread. Our red beans come full of flavor, cooked in our own house made smoked ham hock stock. Our red beans, grown in clear mountain air, nourished by salty rains off the ocean, and bedded in super-fertile soil, come to us from the loving hands of bean-harvesting mountain gorillas. Yes, the untold story of these farmer gorillas makes us marvel at the power of nature: a tribe of gorillas, hidden in the central African mountain jungles, decided to cultivate beans for their gargantuan vegetarian diets. The rarified air and the careful cultivating and hand-harvesting make, well, majestically airy beans. Some folks say these beans make them feel as if they’re floating on a magic carpet. Come take a magic carpet ride with us this Monday.

Preview for the Rest of the Week

Tuesday — Fried Chicken and Greens

Wednesday — Overnight Brisket Tacos

Thursday — Grilled Chicken & Bacon Sandwich

Friday — Fried Green Tomatoes & Shrimp Po-Boy

 

Gorilla farmer Dr. Emilio Katanga explaining the benefits of pesticide and herbicide free beans to agricultural experts in Bwindi, Uganda.

Dessert Offerings This Week

Lavender scones with either lemon curd or strawberry shortcake or black and white scones with dark and white chocolate. The morning after the Halloween masquerade ball where he dressed as “Horsense the Horse,” Ben Franklin mused over his scones and tea breakfast, “Men take more pains to mask than mend.”

Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

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 Tea or Bottled Water

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

Dr. Suess wrote in one of his great stories: “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Yep. There it is. Life philosophy from the Cat in the Hat — who loved mountain gorilla beans, by the way. That’s how he stayed so airily happy.

Photo Credit: “Mountain Gorilla in Bwindi, Uganda,” Creative Commons.org.

Tippy-Tippy-Tay Your Way

Dean sang it well, “Bells will ring ting-a-ling-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling, and you’ll sing ‘Vita bella.’ Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay, tippy-tippy-tay like a gay tarantella.” Bell’s are ringing for the good food cooking, so “tippy-tippy-tay” your way to our house. We’d love to see you! Have a look at what’s happening in the kitchen for you at week’s end: spaghetti and homemade meatballs and blackened catfish with a crabmeat sauce!

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

Thursday, October 29

Spaghetti and meatballs. Yes, it’s the old stand-by, but ours contains homemade marinara sauce and hand-patted meatballs served over piping hot pasta. Someone once wrote, “Love is like Lady and the Tramp. You know that they didn’t know their future, but the spaghetti did.” Well, there it is, the romantic potential inherent in spaghetti. Come get romantic with some spaghetti and meatballs today — it’s what made Dean Martin sing, “When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore…when you walk in a dream and you know you’re not dreaming.” Yep. Spaghetti. Who knew?

Friday, October 30

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 skillet, serve it atop dirty rice, and put a little house bread on the side. Willard Scott, famous TV meteorologist, acknowledged one time: “If I go down in for anything in history, I would like to be known as the person who convinced the American people that catfish is one of the finest eating fishes in the world.” Well, we hope folks all over heard that. Of course, down here, we already knew. Come join us this Friday!

Cool Deano from 1957.

Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

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 Tea or Bottled Water

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

Donut philosopher Homer Simpson once remarked, “Porkchops and bacon, my two favorite animals.” Wisdom from the mouths of cartoons.

Photo Credit: “Dean Martin 1957,” Creative Commons.org.

October 26, 2015 Weekly Menu

We feel like Gene Kelly, “I’m singing in the rain, just singing in the rain! What a glorious feeling, I’m happy again!” Funny how a little change in weather can make such a difference. Come get happy with us this week as we sing our way to the table. Have a look at what’s cooking in the kitchen for you this week: shrimp and garlic cheese grits, chicken enchiladas, spaghetti and homemade meatballs, and blackened catfish with a crabmeat sauce!

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Monday, October 26 — Closed Today!

Red beans and rice will return next Monday, November 2!

Tuesday, October 27

Shrimp served on baked garlic cheese grits. Shrimp lovingly cooked with chopped veggies in a delicious sauce served over baked garlic cheese grits will make you toot your horns up and down the street. “Shrimp and grits, shrimp and grits, shrimp and griiiiiiits!” It’s like a John Philip Sousa march, moving us down the street with brassy strains and thumping bass, only this march is more like The Soul Rebels funky-cool rendition of The Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams. Have a listen to the MP3 here or watch a live performance here. You won’t be disappointed, and you just might want to start playing a brass instrument. Sweet dreams really are made of shrimp and grits.

Wednesday, October 28

Chicken enchiladas served with Spanish rice and lime cilantro cole slaw. Our Chef friend Jacques Pepin relaxedly relates, “When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what’s the big deal? Relax.” Hey, join us for a relaxing Wednesday, the chicken enchiladas have come home to roost.

Thursday, October 29

Spaghetti and meatballs. Yes, it’s the old stand-by, but ours contains homemade marinara sauce and hand-patted meatballs served over piping hot pasta. Reminds us of a scene in Grumpier Old Men where Max Goldman (Walter Matthau) meets Maria Ragetti (Sophia Lauren): Max says, “So, you’re spaghetti Ragetti’s cousin?” “Yes,” Maria replies. “I expected someone that looked like Rick,” he says. “How’s that?” she wonders. “Fat, hairy, homely. But you’re not so fat.” No, she isn’t, and Sophia claims that everything you see comes from eating spaghetti. Well, why not give spaghetti a try? It could be the new beauty treatment.

Friday, October 30

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 skillet, serve it atop dirty rice, and put a little house bread on the side. We’ve got some whiskery friends in low places, but we’ll dress these catfish in black tie just for you. You’ll feel casually formal or formally casual as you take these friends to dinner to start your weekend.

United States Marine Corps tuba line.

Dessert Offerings This Week

Lavender scones with either lemon curd or strawberry shortcake or black and white scones with dark and white chocolate. Utterly amazed at his baker’s prowess in making scones, Ben Franklin lavishly waxed, “If you would reap praise you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.” His baker sowed some serious scone seeds.

Dark chocolate cake. This cake is so dark, delicious, and devilish, you’ll turn to the dark side. No wonder young Anakin had such trouble after that saucy, overdressed Padme got hold of him. He had to ease his pain, and dark chocolate cake formed the path to the dark side. Well, there you have it: another Star Wars mystery revealed.

Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

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 Tea or Bottled Water

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

Janis Owens, author of The Cracker Kitchen: A Cookbook in Celebration of Cornbread-Fed, Down Home Family Stories and Cuisine tell us, “Grits are hot; they are abundant, and they will by-gosh stick to your ribs. Give your farmhands (that is, your children) cold cereal for breakfast and see how many rows they hoe. Make them a pot of grits and butter, and they’ll hoe till dinner and be glad to do it.” Grit power: the real secret to the southern farm economy.

Photo Credit: “USMC Tuba Line,” Creative Commons.org.

Interrupting Saturday Morning Cartoons

Sorry to interrupt your Saturday morning cartoons, but we will be closed Monday, October 26. We have a great week of food planned as we finish October, though, so come by for some great vittles and visiting — we’d love to see you! See our preview menu for next week under the missile testing sign!

We’ll Be Closed Monday, October 26!

Preview of Next Week’s Menu for October 27—30

Shrimp and Grits on Tuesday 

Chicken Enchiladas on Wednesday

Spaghetti and Meatballs on Thursday

Blackened Catfish on Friday

 

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“Put the channel back on Bugs Bunny and Road Runner before we have a major incident…,” Jake warns.

Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

Stone House Eats Bread Baked Daily

 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

Miss Piggy suggestingly remarked, “I hate how chocolate melts on my hands. Am I that hot?” We’ll bet Kermie thinks so.

Photo Credit: “Road Closed for Missile Testing,” Creative Commons.org.

“Use the Fork, Luke”

Big screen, big music, big scrolling text — that’s how you make food. No, wait, that’s how you make a movie. Have a look at what’s cooking at week’s end, you’ll feel like you’re in a movie: chicken pasta primavera and barbecued shrimp stuffed po-boys!

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

Thursday, October 22

Chicken pasta primavera served on linguini. George Lucas has long been a pasta eater, but what few know is that he originally liked to eat his pasta with two knives held like chop sticks. While we’re sure that somehow evidences creative genius (doesn’t all odd behavior), we need to thank his mom for redirecting her son with these immortal words: “Use the fork, George, use the fork.” Well, there you have it: George Lucas’ mom gave us those super-memorable words. Come eat some pasta with us — and use a fork (or not).

Friday, October 23

Barbecued shrimp stuffed po-boy and a house salad. 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. “Cary Grant, born Archie Leach, was a poor boy who could barely spell ‘posh.’ That’s acting for you — or maybe Hollywood,” writer Melvin Maddocks famously quipped. Well, we don’t know Melvin, but Cary was cool, totally cool, and we’ll just bet he would have loved these po-boys. Come get a little Hollywood this Friday.

Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

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 Tea or Bottled Water

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

And, one more from our old friend Chef Paul: “What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.” We’re certainly glad he thought differently — so differently in fact, that even though “Paul” is on his birth certificate, when he was young he saw fit to call himself “Gene Autry Prudhomme.” Giddy-up, and let’s hit the foodie trail!

Photo Credit: “Pasta Made from Durum Wheat,” Creative Commons.org.

October 19, 2015 Menu

Chef Paul, Bigfoot, and a teen-see-weensy dose of silliness coming your way. Have a look at what’s cooking in the kitchen for you this week: red beans and rice, blackened catfish with a crabmeat sauce, pork loin roast and lady cream peas, chicken pasta primavera, and barbecued shrimp stuffed po-boys!

What We’re Cooking for You This Week

Monday, October 19 — Happy Monday!

Special made Louisiana red beans & rice with hot water cornbread. Our red beans come full of flavor, cooked in our own house made smoked ham hock stock. Bigfoot lives! Yes, it’s totally possible that a very large bipedal primate remains undiscovered in all the untracked wilderness of the northern or southern hemispheres. After all, Dian Fossey’s famous mountain gorillas (once thought to be complete fancy) remained undiscovered until 1902. Yep. We’re going to capture the elusive creature with special cryptozoology techniques: red beans. Apparently, the secretive, hairy missing link loves red beans. Well, really it’s the homemade ham stock — Bigfoot is a sucker for pork. But, then again, who isn’t? Come grab some beans with us, Bigfoot will be there.

Tuesday, October 20 — Celebrating Chef Paul Prudhomme

Blackened catfish with crabmeat sauce, vegetable medley, and house bread ($15). We honor the passing of a Louisiana culinary institution on Tuesday as we make some delicious blackened catfish and remember Chef Paul. Few folks have so dramatically affected Louisiana food culture like he did. From his blackened redfish to his “Magic Seasoning” to his great cooking show, he helped put Cajun and Creole cooking on the foodie map. Chef Paul remarked, “It’s the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.” Let’s get together and celebrate life and Chef Paul by eating some great food. Moma’s in the kitchen.

For some great info on Chef Paul click here (Nola.com) and click here (NPR.org).

Wednesday, October 21

Pork loin roast au jus, rice pilaf, and lady cream peas. You’ll love the slowly roasted pork served over rice pilaf with some absolutely fresh and delightful lady cream peas (they should call them “lady dream peas”). Chef Tom Douglas made this prescient porcine pronouncement: “Pork is my friend.” Well, let’s get friendly.

Thursday, October 22

Chicken pasta primavera served on linguini. What’s in a word? First developed by Chef Sirio Maccioni at the Canadian summer home of Italian Baron Carlo Amato in 1975, and soon transported to New York, pasta primavera first came to pasta prestige in 1977 at New York’s Le Cirque Restaurant after a New York Times article celebrating those fresh vegetables swimming in a buttery cream sauce. And, all the baron and his guests at “Shangri-La” (yes, that’s the summer home name) wanted was something different than fish and game. Thank goodness for noblesse ennui.

Friday, October 23

Barbecued shrimp stuffed po-boy and a house salad. 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. “When I am done with this meal you can have my life. It is heaven,” said Chef Paul one day. Thanks for sharing your life, Chef Paul, our tables are the richer for it.

Chef Paul Prudhomme’s famous blackened redfish.

Dessert Offerings This Week

Lavender scones with either lemon curd or strawberry shortcake or black and white scones with dark and white chocolate. Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder once sang about race relations in their famous “Ebony and Ivory.” Our favorite version, though, comes from Saturday Night Live’s Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy. Yes, these scones are that silly and that delightful.

Chocolate pie. Charles Dickens, in a surprisingly terse moment once remarked, “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it’s a friend with chocolate.” Few know he wrote a previously undiscovered serial, Chocolate Corker, about a chocolatier’s daughter. Only thing, it didn’t do well. Good news, though, the character’s name found resurrection with Ian Fleming as a Bond girl. Eat the pie, you’ll feel, well, serially and spy-fully chocolatey.

Butter pecan cake with cream cheese frosting. Butter pecan, cake, and cream cheese frosting. Sounds like a recipe for transportation into the heavenly realms. “When I got to France I realized I didn’t know very much about food at all. I’d never had a real cake. I’d had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn’t have anything like that in it — it’s all egg power,” Julia Child once shared. Eggs, who knew they were the heavenly elevators? Well, Julia did.

Have a look: Stone House Eats Standard Menu!

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 Tea or Bottled Water

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

Chef Paul talked about growing up poor, “We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment — the most fun thing that we could do was food.” Food is fun. Yeeehaaaa!

Photo Credit: Anna Fox (Flickr), “How Chef Paul Prudhomme Invented Cajun-Creole Fusion Food,” KWIT.org.

Paul Prudhomme Article Credits: Sir Walter Cochran of Rayville, who’s working on an updated version of Ivanhoe about a young sharecropper who falls madly in love with a land owner’s daughter, Miss Rowena.

Dealing with Passing Ruffians

Watch out! Some great food coming your way to ease you nicely into a blissful weekend. Have a look at what’s cooking in the kitchen for you at week’s end: creamy pesto chicken pasta and barbecued shrimp stuffed po-boys!

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

Thursday, October 15

Creamy chicken pesto sauce served on angel hair pasta.  “Are you saying ‘Ni’ to that old woman?” “Yes,” replies Arthur, King of the Britons in Monty Python’s The Holy Grail. “Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history,” says a deeply saddened, but slightly sarcastic, Roger the Shrubber. Come grab some ease from the passing ruffians with this creamy pesto pasta — nothing like lots of cream to relieve the pestilence in a land (and help the shrubbery economy).

Friday, October 16

Barbecued shrimp stuffed po-boy and a house salad. 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. Few know the late James Brown was a lover of shrimp. “Get Up Offa That Thing” is his stylish, grooving homage to shrimp. “Get up offa that thing, and shake ’till you feel better! Get up offa that thing, and shake it, sing it now!” Yep, that’s what shrimp did, made him want to get up offa that thing, shake it and sing it. It’s Friday. Do a little shrimp dance with the godfather of soul.

James Brown performing in Hamburg, Germany 1973. He just had some fantastic North Sea shrimp!

For a PDF of the Standard Menu, click here.

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 Tea or Bottled Water

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.