HAVE FUN & RAISE MONEY FOR MRFRS AT THE STRUT FOR STRAYS MAY 20th!
This annual fundraising event and walk will be held on Sunday, May 20th at the Bartlet Mall in Newburyport. There will be live music, great food, fun vendor booths, and of course, the walk! Click here to download a walk sign-up brochure — or visit http://www.firstgiving.com/mrfrs to sign up today!

Carry Out Cafe & Catering is a supporter of this event & we aren’t pussyfooting around. We are planning to rock the route with our own compilation of Cat Tracks. (Some of these ideas are courtesy of Robert of the Radish on the Yahoo Music Blog and others spring from Catster.com.)

A search on Rhapsody, Pandora, iTunes, Amazon or other music sites will help you find these Top Feline-themed Songs to make your own mix-tape. Stray Cat Strut by the Stray Cats and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats Soundtrack are obvious choices. But maybe you should consider these other options, from pop, rock, country, rap, jazz and Looney Tunes:

The Love Cats – The Cure (1983)
All Cats Are Grey – The Cure (1981)
Year Of The Cat – Al Stewart (1976)
Cat People (Putting Out Fire) – David Bowie (1983)
The Siamese Cat Song – Peggy Lee (1955)
We the Cats Shall Help You – Cab Calloway (1935)
Mean Eyed Cat – Johnny Cash (1960)
Three Cool Cats – The Coasters (1958)
Cat’s In The Cradle – Harry Chapin (1974)
Cat Scratch Fever – Ted Nugent (1977)
Cool for Cats – (1979)
Honky Cat – Elton John (1972)
Leave My Kitten Alone – Little Willie John (1959) and later by The Beatles.
Look What the Cat Dragged In – Poison (1986)
Cat Daddy – Rej3ctz (2011)
I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat – Mel Blanc (1950)
Black Cat – Janet Jackson (1989)
Stray Cat Strut – Stray Cats (1982)
The Cat – Jimmy Smith (1964)
Cat in the Window (The Bird in the Sky) – Petula Clark (1967) and later by The Turtles.
Phenomenal Cat – The Kinks (1968)
Pussycat Meow – Deee-Lite (1992)

And my personal favorite:
What’s New, Pussycat? – Tom Jones (1965)

Please support this great cause & get out to Strut for the Strays!!

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Featuring father and daughter exhibit by artists…
Lauryn Welch & Chuck Welch

ARTIST BIO Lauryn Welch

Lauryn Welch is a painter and mail artist from Peterborough, New Hampshire. She studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, and is currently taking some time on her own to develop her projects on color and pattern recognition. Her work has a neurotic life of its own, oscillating between irreverent humor and compulsive repetition. She has been featured at the Sharon Arts Gallery, as well as TEDxWoods Hole presented by Dr. Roger Hanlon. For more about Lauryn and her work, visit http://cargocollective.com/laurynwelch

ARTIST BIO Chuck Welch

Chuck Welch is a writer, papermaker, musician, and mail artist who pioneered the creation of the World Wide Web’s first virtual reality art museum, The Electronic Museum of Mail Art: www.actlab.utexas.edu/emma/ He and his daughter, Lauryn are members of Ray Johnson’s legendary New York Correspondence School of Art. Welch was among the first artists to write and publish books about mail art networking. He is widely known for linking the international mail art movement with the internet in 1991. Welch is particularly fond of creating artistamps and was among the first artists to be involved with the evolution of that new genre. His mailart pseudonym, CrackerJack Kid, was created in 1978 when he realized while eating a box of crackerjack candy and pulling out the free surprise, that mail art too was like receiving a surprise in every mailbox. He is a Fulbright recipient, and National Education Association Hilda Maehling Fellowship scholar. Welch’s artwork and books appear in leading museums and research collections around the world including the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art’s Library collection of artists’ books.

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Mother and Child by Gustav Klimt (detail from The Three Ages of Woman), c.1905

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So please her with a well-deserved night off & give her a gift certificate to Carry Out Cafe. Even if you have already ordered flowers, drawn a card or planned a special restaurant meal out, throw in a Carry Out Cafe gift certificate for a future night of NOT COOKING. They come in any denomination. It’s the perfect size, color and option for Mom for Mother’s Day (or any other time you want to win her over). Stop by the Cafe & get ‘em while they are hot!

A perfect Mother's Day present

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May Day (May 1) festivities at National Park Seminary (Forest Glen, Maryland) in 1907.

Although Mother Nature is a bit confused lately, May has officially arrived. We welcome today’s much-needed rain as well as the explosion of colors, flowers & plants that are popping up all over. So dance on over to the cafe and enjoy some homemade soup. Today we have four choices to warm your soul and put some “spring” in your step:
* Lentil with Ham
* Homestyle Chicken Noodle
* Corn Chowder
* Cafe Chili – Always Great .. Available Daily

Enjoy your May Day!

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Today
By Billy Collins

If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze

that it made you want to throw
open all the windows in the house

and unlatch the door to the canary’s cage,
indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,

a day when the cool brick paths
and the garden bursting with peonies

seemed so etched in sunlight
that you felt like taking

a hammer to the glass paperweight
on the living room end table,

releasing the inhabitants
from their snow-covered cottage

so they could walk out,
holding hands and squinting

into this larger dome of blue and white,
well, today is just that kind of day.

Source: Poetry (April 2000).

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We are looking forward to the Salvation Army Volunteer Appreciation Dinner this Wednesday, April 25th, where so many locals will be honored for their community service. It’s nice to be recognized for volunteer efforts but that is not why we do it.
To quote Winston Churchill, “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”

And the Salvation Army gives a lot to individuals and families in need. We believe that all people deserve to have their basic human needs met. By helping them get through the tough times, the Salvation Army helps them avoid eviction and avoid getting further into a financial crisis.

Assistance may be given in areas such as:
** Utility assistance through the Good Neighbor Energy Fund or FEMA
** Food packages including meat and cheese
** Rental/mortgage assistance
** Referrals and case management
** Counseling
** Budgeting
** Help with assistance forms
** Family Development Plan
** Life Lesson Classes

If you need help, please call to schedule an appointment with the Social Ministry Director. For more info, contact Lieutenants Jeffrey and Meghan Brunelle, Corps Officers at (978) 465-0883 or by email at JBrunelle@use.SalvationArmy.org

If you are interested in volunteering, there are a number of ways to give back. Not all of their needs revolve around Christmas and bell-ringing. Consider helping out by:
** Assisting with Food Drives
** Answering Phones
** Friendship Table-preparing, serving and clean-up
** Visiting area nursing homes on behalf of The Salvation Army
** Doing yard work or other projects around the facility
** Teaching a craft or your specialty to the Teen and/or Youth groups
** Playing piano for church service

Remember: No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

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We wish you a Happy Earth Day on Sunday. Pick up some trash, walk instead of drive, buy local products, recycle ~ Do something nice for Mother Earth!

Did you know?: (info reused courtesy of Wikipedia)

** Earth Day, held worldwide to increase awareness and appreciation of the Earth’s natural environment, is celebrated in more than 175 countries every year.

** The theme of 2012 Earth Day is “Mobilize the Earth.”

** The name and concept of Earth Day was allegedly pioneered by John McConnell in 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco. Earth Day was first observed in San Francisco and other cities on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere.

** A separate Earth Day was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970.

** While this April 22 Earth Day was focused on the U.S., an organization launched by Denis Hayes, who was the original national coordinator in 1970, took it international in 1990 and organized events in 141 nations.

** Numerous communities celebrate Earth Week, an entire week of activities focused on environmental issues.

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KARIBUNI! JOIN US!

We will be serving meals from an African menu this Saturday evening, March 31st from 5-7 p.m. 20 percent of the proceeds will be donated to the Greater Newburyport/Bura Alliance. Members of GNBA will be on hand with photos and information about the group and its projects in southern Kenya, which include the support and education of orphans and vulnerable children, material and financial assistance to area clinics, an environmental program, a soccer program involving ten schools, and a computer program at the Bura Primary School.

Entrees are priced between $12 and $14. The public is invited to attend.

Chef Jess Zulkaiewicz and Café owner Paula Simpson collaborated on the creation of the menu which includes:
~ African Peanut Soup with Chicken
~ Kuku Tikka Masala (chicken) with Long Grain Rice
~ Bobotie – South African curried beef casserole
~ Mtuza Wa Samaki (fish in curried coconut milk) with Rice.

Side dishes include:
~ Irio – a vegetable patty of peas, mashed potatoes and corn
~ Sukama Wiki (collard greens)
~ Ugali (similar to cornmeal porridge), a staple food of Kenya.

The featured dessert is Crunchy N’dizi (baked bananas which have first been steamed and then rolled in butter and ground nuts).

Please stop by, try a new cuisine and help out this wonderful organization!

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Carry Out Cafe Easter Menu
For orders call 978-499-2240

BRUNCH

Quiche / Tart
Roasted Pepper, Spinach & Feta
Asparagus & Dill Havarti
Bacon Artichoke, Tomato & Cheddar
Caprese – Fresh Mozzarella, Roasted Tomatoes & Basil
$16 Serves 4 – 6

SIDES

Sauté of Haricot Vert & Baby Carrots
Real Mashed Potatoes or Butternut Squash
$5.50 Pint/ $11 Quart

Roasted Sherried Brussels Sprout Casserole with Bacon & Cream
Scalloped Potatoes with Caramelized Onion & Gruyere
$8 Pint / $16 Quart

Homemade Pierogis – Zulkiewicz family recipe ½ dozen / dozen
Shrimp Scampi $9 / $18
Asparagus & Mushroom $ 7.50 / $15

Traditional $6 / $12

SALADS

Caesar Salad $20 for 6 / $39 for 12

Strawberry Spinach Salad with Praline Pecans & Apple Cider Dressing $23 for 6 / $45 for 12

Minted Melon Salad with Blueberries $6 Pint/ $12 Quart

DESSERTS & BREADS

Lemon Meringue Pie $16

Chocolate Cake with Toasted Coconut Butter Cream Icing $6 / $12

Tea Breads:
Blueberry Lemon, Morning Glory or Sour Cream Cinnamon Coffee Cake $10

EASTER DINNER

Bourbon & Brown Sugar Glazed Ham

Individual Dinner- choice of potato & haricot vert & carrot sauté $12

Ham by the Pound $11 per pound

Sides by the pint and quart as noted above

Pick up your order on Saturday, April 7th from 10AM to 2PM. We will be closed on Easter Sunday.
All prices subject to 7 % Massachusetts Meals Tax

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