The Best Valentines Dinner Package Ever!      

A Celebratory Martini or Champagne Cocktail for each, plus…

Four Courses:

An Appetizer to share;

Salads for each of you;

Choice of Any Entree for each of you

And A Dessert To Share

AND

PEARLS BY LONNIE

Cultured fresh water pearls.

Pearls by Lonnie in Astoria has given us his entire collection for your Valentine to choose from at dinner on Valentine’s Day when you enjoy one of the special Valentines Dinner packages.  The assortment is wide but numbers of each item are limited and will be rewarded with dessert at the end of your meal on a first come first served basis.  Reservations are recommended.  Price: $70.00 per couple.

Note: Dinner specials on Valentine’s Day will include: an Appetizer/Antipasto Plate of Lemon Oregano Albacore Tuna Mousse, Silky Sweet Bell Peppers,  Pickled Razor Clams , House-smoked Oyster and Olive “Tapenade” & Orange Scented Pickled Asparagus.  Plus scheduled Entree Specials include: Classic Chicken Cordon Bleu using hormone free Foster Farms Chicken Breast Stuffed With Gruyere Cheese and Ham and a Char-broiled all natural Black Angus Top Sirloin With Cilantro, Jalapeno and Lime Chimichurri Salsa and Smoked Spanish Paprika ”Shoestring” Fries.

Special Note:  the regular menu will be available, and includable in the Valentine’s Package, too.

Call now for reservations: 360-642-2323.

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Those who know, know where to go for the Holidays!

The beach is the best in the winter.  The air is invigorating.  The wind and waves can be spectacular.

The Christmas decorations are up.  Prime rib and Yorkshire pudding are on the menu Christmas Eve.  And the New Year’s Eve dercortations are ordered.  On New Years Eve we’ll serve Breakfast and Lunch from 8 am until 2 pm.  Then, we’ll pull out the decorations, hats and noise makers for New Year’s Eve dinner.  No music this year, because our new liquor license won’t allow it.  But it will allow Martini’s and champagne flow until 9 pm PST when the “Ball drops in New York”.

As usual, reservations are recommended.

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Yes, you can have Thanksgiving Dinner at home or  in your hotel room and not dirty a pot or pan. This is such a great idea….

Here’s why you’ll love this:

1. A professional chef with  over thirty years experience creates you meal.
2. You’ll have more time to  spend with your family and friends.
3. You’ll have minimal clean up (more time to enjoy your loved ones).
4. You can dine with an ocean view if you’ve got one.
5. You can watch the game,  too.

Order Now.

You get:

A the traditional ready-to-roast turkey with herb stuffing or a deep-fried turkey.

Both include:

• a 14 – 16 lb. Turkey
• mashed potatoes with turkey gravy
• cranberry chutney
• butternut “rum” squash
• winter vegetable gratin
• bread, cornbread, and butter
• Marionberry Conserve and Corn Relish
• and two pies: pumpkin, chocolate pecan or both for dessert.

All for just $175.00 plus tax.

Note: Orders must be placed by Noon, Wed., Nov. 16th.

You can submit your order via our online order form. A staff member will be in touch with you to confirm your order, arrange a pick-up time and collect payment information.  Or, you can call us direct at 360-642-2323 to place your order.

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Dinner Friday and Saturday & Breakfast Saturday and Sunday.

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The Columbia Pacific Farmers Market…

The Only Farmers Market Where
Fresh Produce And Fresh Seafood Can Be Found Side By Side.

What is sweeter than a strawberry just plucked from the garden?  An oyster just shucked and served on the half-shell, that’s what.  Now, for the first time we know of you can find both in the same place every Friday afternoon in Long Beach, WA. Every Friday from 3 pm to 7 pm the Columbia Pacific Farmers’ Market is open in the park behind the police station with fresh breads, produce, plants, jams and seafood available for purchase, as well as live music and a horseshoe pit.

To honor this event, this Friday night there will be an Oyster Bar set up in the dining room.  Goose Point oysters will be served on the half-shell by representatives of the Nisbett Oyster Co acting as our guest “oyster bar” tenders.  We will also feature their
fresh oysters as our special appetizer and special entrée all evening.  Look for:

Cold Poached Pepper and Lime Oyster,

Cornmeal and Rice Flour Dusted Pan-fried Oysters

Baked Oysters Muffaletta

Green Gumbo with Pan-fried Oysters

Here’s a recipe for Green Gumbo just to make your mouth water:

Green Gumbo 

4 ounces thick cut bacon chopped up
12 ounces andouille sausage sliced 1/4? thick
3 tablespoons flour
8 cloves garlic finely minced

1 large onion minced
2-3 jalapeno chili seeds removed and minced (add less if you want it mild)
1 pound greens (Ex: 1 bunch of  kale, 1 bunch beet greens, mustard greens, and some carrot and celery leaves)
8 ounces clam juice
2 cups vegetable stock
6 ounces okra trimmed and roughly chopped

1 teaspoon
celery seed
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
1/4 teaspoon white pepper

Cooked brown rice

Add the bacon and andouille to a large pot and fry over medium heat, until most of the fat has rendered out and the sausage is browned. Use a slotted spoon to transfer the sausage and bacon to a plate. You should have about 1/4 cup of fat in the pot, if you have more, remove some, if you have less, add butter.

Add the flour to the fat and fry, stirring frequently to make the roux. Keep frying until it reaches a golden brown color. Add the garlic and onions and fry until the onions are browned, soft and fragrant.

To save time, pulse the greens in a food processor along with some of the stock, but if you
like it more chunky you can hand chop the greens. Add the jalapenos, greens,
clam juice, vegetable stock, and okra to the pot. Return the bacon and sausage,
then add the celery seed, oregano, paprika and pepper.

Lightly salt the gumbo. It should be a little less salty than you think it should be since
some of the water will evaporate as it cooks. Cover and simmer over medium low
heat for 40 minutes, or until the greens are tender and the green gumbo is thick and flavorful.

Serve the green gumbo over hot rice with hot sauce.  Top with pan-fried oysters.  Pow!

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So It’s Grilled Roasted Garlic Caesar Salad Time.

How can you improve a Caesar salad?  Nothing seems to refresh like crisp romaine lettuce tossed with olive oil, fresh egg, garlic, salt, pepper and Parmesan cheese with enough lemon to cut the richness of the dressing and brighten the flavors.  Here are two things we do as summer approaches to ratchet up the flavor in our Caesar salad entrees during Garlic Festival Weekend.

First, we roast the garlic we use in the dressing.  To do this slice the tips the top off a garlic bulb.  Then  place the garlic in a baking dish, drizzle with olive and bake in a pre-heated oven at 250 degrees for approximately 20 minutes (or until the smell of garlic is permeating the kitchen).  The bulb will be brown; the garlic soft.  Squeeze the bulb to extract the garlic.

Roasted garlic caramelizes the starch in the bulb producing a sweeter, more buttery flavor.  It takes some of the heat and sharpness out which you taste in raw garlic.  Roasted garlic can be spread on bread like butter and eaten straight (if you try that with raw garlic you won’t taste anything else for a week, nor be kissed by a stranger… but safe from vampires).

Second, we grill the romaine lettuce.  The head of romaine is sliced in half lengthwise.  The flat part is placed on the char-broiler and grilled.  The resulting grill marks add a smoky flavor to the lettuce.

To finish the salad place two of the romaine halves on a plate.  Drizzle with your Caesar dressing and top with Parmesan cheese.  Or add grilled chicken or strips of grilled steak and some garlic toast and you’ll have a complete dinner.

We will be featuring our Caesar Salad Entrees this way on Garlic Festival Weekend, but we can do grilled Caesar salads upon request any time.

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Everyone wins something!

Jim Border Won A Complimentary Dining Certificate With This Clam.

The last clam ‘dig’ of the spring is this Saturday and Sunday, May 21st and 22nd.  Just bring your best clam in to be weighed.   The largest wins a $50 Dining Certificate.  Second, a $25.00 Certificate.  Third, a $15 certificate.  And every entry will be mailed a $10 certificate as an official “runner up”.  But This Is Your Last Chance!  The State Of Washington Says This Is It.  And if the weather holds, the beach could look like this…

and you could look like this…

Or you could just watch everyone chase those delectable delights in the surf and sand; then enjoy them with us at Breakfast , Lunch or Dinner.

Hope we see you this weekend.  If not then next weekend. –

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Watch this…

Click here to view the embedded video.

This family makes (made!) artisan cheeses sold across the US.  The FDA has shut down their business.  It found a dangerous bacteria in one of their cheeses but, rather than removing that product for investigation, it made them stop making all of their cheeses even though the others were perfectly safe and healthy.  They have lost their ability to support themselves and can’t even use their own cheese to feed themselves.  Why?

Wednesday March 16th We Will Donate 15% of Our Sales To Help Them Stay In Business.

Plus, all month long we are rewarding donations for their assistance with chances to win a can of Cougar Gold cheese.  But, if you can’t visit during March, you can contribute directly to their support at:  http://pledgie.com/campaigns/13917

For more details about their situation click here and read the latest updates in their “battle” with the FDA:  http://estrellacheese.wordpress.com/?tag=abuse-of-power

 Sincerely,

Blaine, Cheri and all the Fools For Flavor at 42nd Street

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Pasta with Arugula/mint pesto!

Great Pasta For Only $10.00!

You can have gourmet pasta with big flavors and good friends, plus a great time every Thursday night.  You can have it simple, flavorful and comforting or you can create you’re own decadent plate of pleasure.  Starting February 17th you find a couple of new tastes to enjoy.  Linguine Alfredo is always on the ticket.  But this week we are adding Fusilli with Arugula/mint pesto and shaved Parmesan cheese (it is garlicy and refreshing!), plus Angel Hair Pasta Muffaletta with Fetta cheese (Why?  Why?  Why does Fetta cheese make olives and garlic zing with flavor?!?  Never liked olives until Cheri put them together.).

Add and of these items to create your own special dinner:

Grilled Chicken Breast 5

Smoked Salmon 7

1/2 lb of Manila Clams 8

Rock Shrimp 8

Grilled Flat Iron Steak 9

Spicy Andouille Sausage

And Tasso ham  7

Roasted Autumn Vegetables  4

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For Her…

A Cultured Pearl Necklace.

A gift for her.  And a great dinner for both of you.  There is nothing you need to do except show up and have a great time.  It is so simple.  Our Valentine’s Day Dinner package takes care of all your worries about what to do and what to get for your Valentine.  You will get:

Two glasses of champagne (or sparkling cider)

Any Appetizer on our menu that night to share.

Two House Salads

Any Two Entrees .

One Our Special Desserts To Share

Coffee or Tea.

And One Gorgeous Chinese Cultured Pearl Necklace.

Price: $70

Valentine’s Day Dinner is from 4:30 to 8:00 pm.

Call 360-642-2323 now to reserve your table.

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