Blue Mountain Pizza’s Other Side of the Mountain fine dining menu for April is now available.  Reservations are required and seating is limited for these dinners so make those reservations now if you want to attend.  To make a reservation, go submit the form on the Monday Dinners page of their website.

The Other Side of the Mountain Menu
April 21, 2008
Seating beginning at 6:30 to 7 pm
Music provided by David Fields

Appetizer
Shrimp and Scallop Ceviche served with Crispy Fried Plantains

Salad
Mixed Greens with Mango, Strawberry, Avocado, and Sunflower Seeds with Citrus Vinaigrette

Entrée
Lightly blackened Carolina Grouper served over Black Beans and Roasted Corn and topped with Watermelon Salsa

Or…

Steak Au Poivre – carved Sirloin with Au Poivre sauce served with Caramelized Onion and Potato A Gratin and Snow Peas

Dessert
Red Berry Tart with Lemon Cream filling garnished with edible spring flowers

This month they also have some special wines available.  More information about those is available at the Monday Dinners page on their website.

Slow Food Asheville presents this Italian cooking class featuring Weaverville’s Wally Wyatt.  It’s not in Weaverville, but it’s close:

When: Sunday April 13, 4:00 p.m.
Where: Log Cabin Cooking & Music, 111 Bell Road, Asheville
Cost:  $20, Space limited to 40 participants
 
From the mother country of Slow Food comes this memorable pasta steeped in ancient Northern Italian tradition.  Learn to make this unusual and fragrant ravioli with Wally Maria Mazzucco Wyatt, a native of Pordenone in the Italian region of Friuli.  Bring those dusty forsaken pasta machines you have but never use to the Woodfin Community Center and we’ll make ravioli stuffed with potato, silene (a Friulian herb from Wally’s garden), nutmeg, and cinnamon topped with a spiced butter sauce, smoked ricotta and a dusting of bitter chocolate.  Pasta machine not necessary, we’ll be working in groups.
 
Bring a mixing bowl, wooden bread board, and pasta machine (if you have one), as well as a salad, bread, or dessert to share to accompany our ravioli feast and wine if you like. We’ll  provide tea and coffee. The cost is $20, and space is limited to 40 participants.
Mail your check, payable to Slow Food Asheville to:

Barbara Swell
109 Bell Rd.
Asheville, NC 28805

For more information, email Barbara at swellcookin@hotmail.com, or after April 1, call 298-2270 or 335-7219. 
 
Wally teaches traditional Italian cooking and language classes at her home in Weaverville. For more information about her, go to http://www.discoveritalian.com.

Maggie B’s Wine & Specialty Store is hosting a Four Sisters Wine Tasting 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 28.

Four Sisters is a wonderful winery in Victoria, Australia. This week we will be tasting four of their wines:  Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Merlot, and Shiraz

Can’t wait to see you there!

For information call Maggie B’s Wine & Specialty Store at 645-1111.  They’re located at 113 North Main Street.

Happy Easter!

Every Saturday Shop Around the Corner offers free samples of some of the dips, dressings, preserves, or other food items they’re now carrying in their new location.  I haven’t been able to pin them down about an exact time for these tastings, but they generally start after Noon.  If it’s a cold day, like last Saturday when I took this picture, you might score a cup of hot tea too!

Shop Around the Corner is located at 55 North Main Street.

If you’ve been to Blue Mountain Pizza recently, you’ve probably noticed the Weaverville Elementary School / Weaverville Primary School PTO Fund raiser money jar next to the cash register. Blue Mountain put out the donation jar with an offer to match all donations made. No word on the tally so far but it was looking pretty full last night.

Blue Mountain Pizza is also donating 10% of their receipts on Thursday, March 20 to the fund raiser. Doesn’t matter if it’s for lunch or dinner, or if it’s one slice of cheese pizza or 5 extra large Weavervegas pizzas, 10% is going to the PTO.

If you’re looking for an excuse not to cook tomorrow night, this sounds like a pretty good one.

Maggie B’s Wine & Specialty Store is hosting an Easter Wine Tasting 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Friday, March 21.

This week we will be tasting wines that will compliment any Easter feast! If you’re having lamb or ham, we’ve got the wine for you.

Happy Easter!

For information call Maggie B’s Wine & Specialty Store at 645-1111.  They’re located at 113 North Main Street.

Maggie B’s Wine & Specialty Store is having a sale all day Friday, March 14 and Saturday, March 15.  Select brands will be marked 50% off:

• Brumby Canyon
• Boynton’s Paiko
• Alianca
• Quinta dos Roques
• Bodega Nanni
• Kawarau
• Richmond Plains
• Bodegas Farina

They suggest you come early because once they’re gone, that’s it.   For information, call Maggie B’s at 645-1111.  They’re located at 113 North Main Street.

Maggie B’s Wine & Specialty Store is hosting a St. Patty’s Day Beer Tasting 3:30-5:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 15.

Come celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in true form, with a beer tasting! Wear green while you’re tasting Irish style beers and get 10% off.  May the luck of the Irish be with you!

For information call Maggie B’s at 645-1111.  They’re located at 113 North Main Street.

Here’s the March menu for Blue Mountain’s “Other Side of the Mountain” fine dining event, which takes place Monday, March 17 (seating 6:30-7 p.m.). If you’re wondering whether you should give it a try, check out the Mountain Xpress review of February’s dinner. With limited seating, be sure to make your reservations early, especially now that the word is out.

The Other Side of the Mountain Menu
March 17, 2008
Seating beginning at 6:30 to 7 pm (note new time)
Music provided by David Fields

Appetizer
Guinness beer battered jumbo shrimp served over a fried green tomato and topped with jezebel sauce

Soup
Roasted leek and garlic potato soup served with Irish soda bread

Entrée
Blood orange and cherry stuffed Cornish Game Hen served over pecan brown rice and wilted chard

Or

Jameson glazed wild salmon served with purple new potatoes and roasted root vegetables

Dessert
Baileys Irish Cream cheesecake

Maggie B’s Wine & Specialty Store is hosting an Italian Wine Tasting 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, March 7:

Yeah, so you’ve had Chianti, but what about all the other wonderful wines from Italy! Come join us and Kristen Adams from Tryon Distributing to explore some of what Italy, the world’s largest wine producer, has to offer.

For information call Maggie B’s at 645-1111.  They’re located at 113 North Main Street.

Blue Mountain Pizza celebrates their fourth year of business with an Anniversary Celebration on Tuesday, March 4. The celebration will feature an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet from 5-9 p.m. for only $10, including soda or tea, as well as music and Anniversary surprises.  This event always draws a large crowd, so get there early if you can.

Girl Scout cookies will be on sale at various locations throughout Weaverville beginning tomorrow through March 14.  Here’s where you can find them:

Friday, February 29
Flick Video, 3 Tri-City Plaza, 5:30-8 p.m.
Tractor Supply Company, 14 Monticello Road, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Saturday, March 1
Ace Hardware, 61 Weaver Blvd., 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Roses, 165 Weaver Blvd., 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Monday, March 3
Flick Video, 3 Tri-City Plaza, 5:30-8 p.m.

Friday, March 7
Flick Video, 3 Tri-City Plaza, 5:30-8 p.m.

Sunday, March 9
Tractor Supply Company, 14 Monticello Road, 1-3 p.m.

Monday, March 10
Flick Video, 3 Tri-City Plaza, 5:30-8 p.m.

Friday, March 14
Flick Video, 3 Tri-City Plaza, 5:30-8 p.m.
 

Maggie B’s Wine & Specialty Store is hosting a Jacques & Francois Lurton Wine Tasting 3:30-5:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 1. They will be featuring wines from the Lurton brothers, who are the sons of renowned wine estate owner, Andre Lurton. They own wineries all over the world, but Maggie B’s will be featuring wines from three countries:

• Bodega Lurton Pinot Gris (Argentina)
• Araucano Sauvignon (Chile)
• Hacienda Araucano Pinot Noir (Chile)
• Hermanos Lurton Red (Spain)

For more information call 645-1111. Maggie B’s Wine & Specialty Store is located at 113 North Main Street.

Last year’s Weaverfest BBQ Cookoff proved we have our share of BBQ connoisseurs (a word which makes me especially grateful for spellcheck).  Here’s another chance to prove your BBQ chops:

VisitNC.com and Cottage Living magazine are sponsoring a contest for this year’s Blue Ridge BBQ Festival in Tryon.  To enter, all your have to do is submit your favorite BBQ side dish recipe.  Cottage Living Food Editor, Sara Foster, will choose and prepare the winning recipe live at the festival on Saturday, June 14. Prize includes two tickets to the festival, accommodations at a historic inn, a travel voucher and a gift basket.

Full details and entry form here: http://www.visitnc.com/sweeps/bbq_08.asp