Happy Monday, everyone! I can't help but remember Garfield whenever anyone celebrates the beginning of a new week. (photo imgur.com) The hate face is not exactly relevant to me, as I work, in some capacity, every day of the week. Also since I am self-employed, there is no one to blame for my schedule except myself. That is why I will be taking next week off! My sweetheart has several days off in a row next week, and I promised myself and my son that I would take time off as w

We are on Facebook! Each week's menu, along with the original recipe links, is posted up on the Govinda's Catering Facebook page. I was very pleasantly surprised to discover one day that Govinda's Catering is very Google searchable - meaning that if you search for "Govinda's Catering jackfruit," our Facebook post for an entree with jackfruit in it will come up in the first several search results. In a world where there are literally dozens of Govinda's restaurants and caterin

Several people this week have asked me if I was going to make sure to put details about my upcoming events in the newsletter. Before any distractions happened and any more time passed, I wanted to give you a "Save the Date" listing of events for July and the beginning of August (more August fun TBA later). Some of them are music-related, while some are events that feature Govinda's, and some are both. All, I hope, will be fun for you. Please mark your calendars and let me kno

I am bursting with excitement to tell you all about an event that I, as Govinda's Catering, attended yesterday. First let me give you the disclaimer that this is going to be a linkalicious email because I met so many cool people that I just have to share what they are doing! (For a complete list of cool vendor folk, click here.) I know how I get when I am excited about something - my already busy brain starts going light speed on me and I have an even harder time remaining or

This Saturday my band, Samadhi, had a beautiful kirtan at Triangle Yoga in Chapel Hill. I realized that I had been sadly negligent in promoting the event. In fact, if it hadn't been for Facebook, I, myself might have forgotten to attend... Uh, that's when you know that you might have too many things on your mind. Nearly forgetting your own performance is right up there with forgetting your child somewhere (which has happened, but fortunately only twice in 11 years). That bein

I want to make sure and get this newsletter out to you all before the last minutes of before-work time pass, so I will be unusually brief. Mark your calendars! Govinda's Catering will be at the Carrboro Farmers' Market this Saturday, May 20th. We will be offering: 9-Vegetable Soup Yellow Coconut Rice Citrus Chipotle Sweet Potato Soup Medu Vada Banh Cam Fried Vietnamese Sesame Sweets

When I went back to find this menu, I was surprised to see that it was also the week when I reviewed the Lebanese restaurant in downtown Raleigh, Sitti. (If you missed that, you can read it here) Re-reading the review reminded me that I owe you all a review for Margaret's Cantina in Chapel Hill. I had heard about the Cantina over my many years of living in the area, yet had not made an effort to go there until about a month ago. Boy, have I been missing out! Margaret's Can

I don't know if April 15th has any significance to you all other than it happened to be Easter Sunday this year. After spending several years in the tax and bookkeeping business, April 15th is a kind of bold type day for me in that it is generally Tax Day. This year the tax deadline is tomorrow, April 18th, yet that doesn't really mean that my world has been any less crazy than it would have been if the deadline were still the 15th. Suffice it to say that between a few tax cl

We are back in action with a "Save the Date kind of email. For those of you who did not place an order last week, let me fill you in. I had the opportunity last week to experience that old saying that "First you tell God your plans, and then He laughs." After I diligently put together last week's newsletter and sent it off, my son was diagnosed with a good, strong case of the flu. Despite my valiant attempts to stave it off, I was delirious with fever by that night. There was

This is a "Save the Date" kind of email. There are many events coming up in the next few months that I would love to invite you all to. Some of them are music-related, while some are events that feature Govinda's, and some are both. All, I hope, will be fun for you. Please mark your calendars and let me know if you plan to come so that I can make sure to be on the look-out. I had originally intended to make this a compilation issue of resources for combating political insanit