All posts tagged: chicken cacciatore

The Fixer

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Hey friends, come join us at the table, we’ve got a great dish for you this Thursday: chicken cacciatore on angel hair pasta. Come join us at the table, we’d love to see you! What We’re Cooking for You This Week If you can’t make it for lunch, let us cook supper for you! Please give us a call at (318) 267-4457, we’ll set aside some supper for you of our lunch special for the day, and you can pick it up at the shop after lunch service. Thursday, June 1, 2017 Chicken cacciatore on angel hair pasta with house bread and salad. Our chicken breast is pan-fried in butter with a crushed plum tomatoes, fresh mushrooms, and fresh red peppers sauce served on a bed angel hair pasta. Correcting on a typewriter wasn’t always so easy. Texas native Bette Nesmith Graham struggled to type well in her day job until one day as she was painting holiday decorations she wondered, “Why can’t I do this when I make a mistake on my typewriter?” In her kitchen in 1951 …

May 30, 2017 Weekly Menu

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Hey friends, come learn about cotton candy and dental floss this week! We’ve got a great week of specials from Mrs. Clélie’s kitchen. Here’s what’s cooking for you this week: Louisiana red beans & rice, sandwich and wrap Wednesdays, and chicken cacciatore. Come join us at the table, we’d love to see you! What We’re Cooking for You This Week If you can’t make it for lunch, let us cook supper for you! Please give us a call at 267-4457, we’ll set aside some supper for you of our lunch special for the day, and you can pick it up at the shop after lunch service. We’re making some menu changes with a reduced menu available. We will focus on the special each Tuesday and Thursday lunch service, with all our salads being available each day. On Wednesdays, we’ll do all our special sandwiches and wraps. Thanks so much for your patronage, we’re delighted to serve you! Tuesday, May 30, 2017 Louisiana red beans & rice with hot water cornbread. Our red beans come fully and deeply flavored, cooked in our …

There’s No Business Like Show Business

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Ethel Merman will be giving us a little singing jolt to help get us through the week. We’ve got a great week of food just for you — come get a little love at the table! We look forward to seeing you! Here’s what’s cooking for you this week: chicken cacciatore on angel hair pasta and pan-sautéed drum with a quenelle and creole sauce. We’re Changing Our Lunch Schedule! We are truly thankful for all the folks who frequent our table and enrich our lives. Our catering schedule has greatly increased, so we’ll be serving lunch Tuesday through Thursday each week with our lunch specials and regular menu. We look forward to seeing you at the table this year! Thanks for giving into our lives with your time and talk, our lives are blessed because of you. What We’re Cooking for You This Week Wednesday, February 15, 2017 Chicken cacciatore on angel hair pasta with house bread and salad. Our chicken breast is pan-fried in butter with a crushed plum tomatoes, fresh mushrooms, and fresh red peppers sauce served on a bed …

February 14, 2017 Weekly Menu

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It’s Valentine’s Day week, and we’ve got some great love advice from Lord Byron and, surprise, Calvin Coolidge. We’ve got a great week of food just for you — come get a little love at the table! We look forward to seeing you! Here’s what’s cooking for you this week: pork and brisket quesadillas, chicken cacciatore on angel hair pasta, and pan-sautéed drum with a quenelle and creole sauce. We’re Changing Our Lunch Schedule! We are truly thankful for all the folks who frequent our table and enrich our lives. Our catering schedule has greatly increased, so we’ll be serving lunch Tuesday through Thursday each week with our lunch specials and regular menu. We look forward to seeing you at the table this year! Thanks for giving into our lives with your time and talk, our lives are blessed because of you. What We’re Cooking for You This Week Tuesday, February 14, 2017 Pork and brisket quesadillas with Monterrey jack cheese, house-made adobo sauce, fresh salsa, a light salad, and charro black beans. Slow-cooked pork and brisket quesadillas with delicious adobo sauce …

I Dreamed I Was a Shrimp Étouffée

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“What I like about the man is he’s a philosopher,” Gus tells Call in Lonesome Dove after they hire Pocampo. Well, have we some philosophy for you as we head into the weekend. Pocampo will join us with Zhuangzi, an ancient Chinese philosopher, and something miraculous just might happen. Here’s what we’ve got cooking for you at week’s end: Chicken cacciatore and shrimp étouffée. What We’re Cooking for You at Week’s End Thursday, September 29 Chicken cacciatore on creamy polenta. Our chicken breast is pan-fried in butter with a crushed plum tomatoes, fresh mushrooms, and fresh red peppers sauce served on a bed of creamy rosemary polenta. S. Parkes Cadman observes, “We can see a thousand miracles around us every day. What is more supernatural than an egg yolk turning into a chicken?” Well, he’s right, but we’d suggest seeing what happens when take that miraculous chicken and turn it into chicken cacciatore. It’s nothing short of heavenly. If you can’t make it for lunch on Thursday, just give us a call at 267-4457, we’ll set aside some supper for you including …

September 27, 2016 Weekly Menu

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Well, the first presidential debate’s in the books. We’re not sure anything much has changed — but, we’ve got some great food at the table this week to help us get over all the hullaballoo. Here’s what we’ve got cooking for you as we continue moving into early fall: Chicken and sausage gumbo, marinated pork loin, savory-sweet beans with mama’s rice, chicken cacciatore, and shrimp étouffée. What We’re Cooking for You This Week Tuesday, September 27 Chicken and sausage gumbo. We make our gumbo with a dark roux, chicken, sausage, and the trinity of bell pepper, onion, and celery. Oh, Grandpa Justin would add sauterne wine, a cup or two or three, and so do we. Modern presidential debating started interestingly about this week 56 years ago with the first Kennedy-Nixon debate. Because of heavy campaigning and preparing, Mr. Nixon looked a little pasty, sweaty, and tired on camera. Mr. Kennedy, on the other hand, looked suave, debonair, and rested. The secret, you wonder? Naps. Because of his back issues from the PT-109 sinking in World War II, Mr. Kennedy …

August 9, 2016 Weekly Menu

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Apparently, Francois Hollande’s hair is worth a small car. Believe it or don’t, the news across the Atlantic is how much the president of France spends on his haircuts ($11,000 per month). We guess there’s nothing else happening in France. Here’s what we’ve got cooking for you as summer slowly moves to a finish: Chicken cacciatore on angel hair pasta, curry chicken salad, pan-fried pork loin chop with mana’s rice, and shrimp étouffée. What We’re Cooking for You This Week Tuesday, August 9 Chicken cacciatore on angel hair pasta with fresh marinara sauce. Lightly floured with parmesan and bread crumbs our chicken is breast pan-fried in butter with a crushed plum tomatoes, fresh mushrooms, and fresh red peppers sauce served on a bed of angel hair pasta. Our old friend Harper Lee penned in To Kill a Mockingbird, “Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a …

June 28, 2016 Weekly Menu

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Sly and the Family Stone remind us, “End of the spring and here she comes back. Hi, hi, hi, hi there. Them summer days, those summer days. That’s when I had most of my fun back. High, high, high, high there. Them summer days, those summer days…hot fun in the summertime.” Apparently, we’re supposed to be having fun in all this heat. It just might be too hot to have fun. Join us at the table this week — we have AC! Here’s what we’ve got cooking for you this week: Chicken cacciatore, overnight brisket po-boys, curry chicken salad, and a shrimp pasta primavera. Fourth of July Freezer Special — 15% Off Any Freezer Item! What We’re Cooking for You This Week Tuesday, June 28 Chicken cacciatore. Lightly floured chicken breast pan-fried in butter with a crushed plum tomatoes, fresh mushrooms, and fresh red peppers sauce served on a bed of creamy polenta. It’s an old dish: cacciatore means “hunter” in Italian, and it’s simply prepared with fresh ingredients, including the latest bird hunted, e.g. dove, pheasant, or if you’re particularly adventuresome, yardbird. We hunted our …