Valle Crucis Winter Weekends 2016

Valle Crucis Winter Weekends 2016 • The Mast Farm Inn & Over Yonder winter lodging & dining benefit series. The series enables you to enjoy classic North Carolina foods, spirits, craft beers, wines, while giving back to local non-profit organizations at no cost to you. On the contrary you benefit from our lowest available rate plan, and we donate five percent of our sales to five Western North Carolina non-profit associations.
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While the two night lodging packages below are available at highly favorable rates for these weekends, you do not have to be a lodging guest at The Mast Farm Inn to attend these events. Inn guests, local diners, traveling diners, and their guests, are equally welcome. Walk-ins are also welcome. You can also order from the regular seasonal menus at Over Yonder and Simplicity during these weekends.• Click Here to see pricing • Click Here to reserve.
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The series has five sets of weekends, each presented twice throughout the months of January, February, and March 2016: The Pot Pie Weekend, The Mountain Trout Weekend, The Heritage Pork Weekend, The Meat & Potatoes Weekend, and The Chicken & Dumplings Weekend. • Click Here to see pricing • Click Here to reserve.
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"Valle Crucis Winter Weekends 2016" is a unique opportunity to participate and support this community-focused series of special events, while enjoying innovative interpretations of classic North Carolina meals by Executive Chef Andrew Long. Each weekend will feature a special menu, will benefit a High Country non-profit, feature a North Carolina food, spirit, beer, and wine and their local suppliers. Each weekend in the series will be repeated twice. See calendar & schedule below.
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The concept is simple and straightforward. On the following winter weekends, on Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays
JANUARY • 8, 9, 10th • 15, 16, 17th • 20, 23, 24th
FEBRUARY • 5, 6, 7th • 19, 20, 21st • 26, 27, 28th
MARCH • 4, 5, 6th • 11, 12, 13th • 18, 19, 20th • 25, 26, 27th
The Mast Farm Inn will offer special reduced rate lodging packages & Over Yonder will feature a themed menu of North Carolina classics, paired with a high-quality NC craft beers, wines, and spirits, created from NC local ingredients from NC local suppliers. Both lodging and dining represent great value. The lodging packages, based on our teacher’s rates, are priced at our absolute lowest rates. They are 2 night packages and available for any two consecutive nights: Thursday & Friday nights, Friday & Saturday nights, or Saturday & Sunday nights. Please note the prices listed on that page are the total charge for both nights, and are not a per night price, and they include breakfast for two each morning, and all state, county and occupancy taxes. • Click Here to see pricing • Click Here to reserve.

For each of the ten winter weekends above, five percent of our gross lodging & dining sales for the weekend, Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays, both at The Mast Farm Inn and at Over Yonder, will be donated to a local non-profit. We stress that the proceeds will be calculated from the total gross sales at both companies for the weekend, not just from sale of the featured services, items & products presented here. Yes, five percent of the whole shebang at both.

The “Valle Crucis Winter Weekends” Lodging Packages
The lodging packages for each of the rooms, cottages and cabins are priced at our absolute lowest rates. They are 2 night packages and available for any two consecutive nights: Thursday & Friday nights, Friday & Saturday nights, or Saturday & Sunday nights. The lodging package rates, based on our teacher’s rates, are priced at our absolute lowest rates. Please note the prices listed on that page are the total charge for both nights, and are not a per night price, and they include breakfast for two each morning, and all state, county and occupancy taxes. • Click Here to see pricing. Click Here to reserve.

The “Valle Crucis Winter Weekends” Themes & Menus
Below is a resume of the “Valle Crucis Winter Weekends” series menus. Each menu will offer three dishes, variations on the North Carolina Classics at Over Yonder, and we will also be serving at both our restaurants, Over Yonder & Simplicity, from the regular seasonal menu. The series will be feature:

The Valle Crucis Pot Pie Weekend
Dates • January 8, 9, 10 & February 26, 27, 28
Featured High Country Non-Profit • F.a.r.m. Café
Featured NC Supplier • New Appalachia
Featured NC Spirit • Junior Johnson’s Midnight Moon
Featured NC Beer • Blowing Rock Brewing Company
Featured NC Wine • Wine to Water
Featured Foods • The Menu • Lamb Shepherd’s Pie, Braised Leg of Lamb, Cabbage, Mash Pot Crust, Provolone. Winter Vegetable Pot Pie, Roots & Herbs, White Wine Broth, Butter Crust. Traditional Chicken Pot Pie, Potatoes, Carrots, Herbs.
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The Valle Crucis Mountain Trout Weekend
Dates • January 15, 16, 17 & March 4, 5, 6
Featured High Country Non-Profit • Valle Crucis Elementary School
Featured NC Supplier • Sunburst Trout Farms
Featured NC Spirit • Covington Spirits
Featured NC Beer • Fullsteam Brewery
Featured NC Wine • Shelton Vineyards
Featured Foods • The Menu • Smoked Trout Mousse, Roasted Beet & Potato Salad, Roe, Toast. Pan-Fried NC Rainbow Trout, Sweet Potato Casserole, Napa Slaw, Almonds, Smoked Onion Tartar. Whole Roasted Trout, Winter Squash Hash, Fried Collard & Peanut Slaw.
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The Valle Crucis Heritage Pork Weekend
Dates • January 22, 23, 24 & March 11, 12, 13
Featured High Country Non-Profit • The Valle Crucis Community Park
Featured NC Supplier • Heritage Farms Cheshire Pork
Featured NC Spirit • Troy & Sons, Asheville Distilling Company
Featured NC Beer • Mother Earth Brewing
Featured NC Wine • Shelton Vineyards
Featured Foods • The Menu • Pork Belly Skewers, Muscadine BBQ, Hoe Cake, Pickled Cabbage. Pulled Pork Sandwich, Moonshine BBQ, Napa Slaw, Pickles, Pork Chips. Stuffed Pork Tenderloin, Scallion, Mushrooms, Almonds, Bacon, Cheese, Whole Grain Mustard Sauce, Crispy Brussels Sprouts, Roasted Vegetables.
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The Valle Crucis Meat & Potatoes Weekend
Dates • February 5, 6, 7 & March 18, 19, 20
Featured High Country Non-Profit • The Appalachian Theatre
Featured NC Supplier • Apple Brandy Farms
Featured NC Spirit • Defiant Whisky, Blue Ridge Distilling
Featured NC Beer • Highland Brewing Company
Featured NC Wine • Biltmore Wines
Featured Foods • The Menu • North Carolina Strip, Sweet Potato Fries, Gorgonzola Sauce. Pot Roast, Mash & Butterbeans, Red Wine Braise. Wilted Bitter Greens, Fingerling Potatoes Roasted In Duck Fat, Oxtail Marmalade.
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The Valle Crucis Chicken & Dumplings Weekend
Dates • February 19, 20, 21 & March 25, 26, 27
Featured High Country Non-Profit • Blue Ridge Conservancy
Featured NC Supplier • Joyce Farms
Featured NC Spirit • TOPO Organic Spirits
Featured NC Beer • Natty Greene’s Brewing Company
Featured NC Wine • Shelton Vineyards
Featured Foods • The Menu • Chicken Gumbo Stuffed Fried Dumpling. Chicken, Creamy Root Vegetables, Cheddar Biscuit Dumplings. Red Chicken Confit, Andouille & White Beans, Crispy Collards, Grit Dumplings.
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CULINARY NOTE • Over Yonder is a seasonal, local and North Carolina supplier driven restaurant specializing in fresh hand-crafted New Appalachian Cuisine. The menus, ingredients, wines, craft beers, and spirits at the time you are viewing this page are as designed and planned. In all likelihood all will be available on the day you dine with us. Please note however that while all menus will be essentially as presented here, we may make minor changes depending on availability. Some ingredients, wines, craft brewers or spirits for example may be unavailable depending on consumption or inability to get immediate resupply, and may require a minor change in recipes. In cases where that may occur, we will propose numerous alternatives of similar kinds and in the same culinary spirit.

The series will be featured on both The Mast Farm Inn and Over Yonder websites, via mailings and social media. There will be one page on each website which features the overview of the ten weekends, and one page for each of the five in the series which features that specific event. We hope you will attend, and any effort at helping present the event through your social media, and any other means you feel would benefit the events and non-profits are greatly appreciated. And For suppliers: If there are specific products you would like to showcase, please let us know soon so we can update menus and event materials.

We are excited about this lodging & dining series and the opportunity it affords all parties involved. At the very least it will be great food, and friends warming up by the fireplaces, putting to good use the cozy cold and snow of the High Country Winter. If you have any thoughts or questions, please let us know and feel free call anytime at The Mast Farm Inn 828.963.5857 or at Over Yonder 828-963-6301. Thank you so much for your participation, we are looking forward to a successful collaboration! | Reserve Lodging & Dining | Reserve Lodging | Reserve Dining
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Andrew Long
Executive Chef & General Manager of Over Yonder
andrew.long@themastfarminn.com
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Danielle Deschamps Stabler
Innkeeper, Special Events & Hospitality Manager of The Mast Farm Inn
danielle@mastfarminn.com
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Mitchell Cline
General Manager of The Mast Farm Inn
office@mastfarm.net