A Little Expansion

Well, sort of. Bella is expanding her table linen selection. In response to your comments, we have a growing selection of tablecloths, napkins, placemats and runners. From affordable to extravagant. Come see what's new in these lines.

Bodrum Linens
Complements
now designs and Danica

"Dinner from Tuscany" Gift Baskets

Beautifully Wrapped in a Lovely Bread Basket

Lined with Two Complementary Tea Towels

Imported Rustic Pasta w/Marinara or Garlic Basil Sauce

Chocolate Nut Popcorn

$52.50

Add ons:

Parmesan/Romano Cheese $7.50

Microplane Cheese Grater $13.25

Wood Pasta Server $5.75

Kit's Recommendation

Villa Antinori 2003 Toscana $21.95

Or Favorite Wine of Your Choice

A Specialty Gift Created for Any Occasion

Call or Email Lisa 634-4730 or lisa@bellakitchen.com

CUCINA CLOSEOUT

All Fruits and Passion "CUCINA" home care products at closeout prices until gone. All hand soap, hand cream and dishwashing liquid at 40% discount. Choose Coriander and Olive Tree or Ginger and Sicilian Lemon. This excellent line of home care products is rarely offered at sale prices. So stock up now. These sink sets make a perfect housewarming, hostess and/or bridal gift. See you soon!

Spring Break in Thailand - or, at least an Asian themed Cooking Class!

Celebrate the change of seasons with a cooking class for you and your friends! Join Bella Kitchen and The Lake Fork Design Center as they team up to bring you an Asian flavored April Cooking Class! We will be meeting at Kyle’s beautiful design center to create some delicious favorites like Panang, Beef with Basil, Pot Stickers, and explore the Asian Pantry.

Exploring The Asian Pantry
A Cooking Class from
Bella Kitchen & THE LAKEFORK DESIGN CENTER
Saturday, April 14th 6pm – 9pm
$25/person
This class will be taught by John Wood, and will include some hands-on instruction, tips technique and lots of tasting! Seats are limited to the first 26.

Cost will be $25/person for Food & Beverages, camaraderie, friendship, and an evening out.
Call or come in to register at Bella today! 634-4730. Hurry, this class will fill fast!
Kyle—kmckeever@buildpros.com Lisa—lisa@bellakitchen.com

BELLA BAGS

Is a new adventure specializing in connecting new homeowners with local businesses and merchants.

We wanted to get our product, Bella Kitchen, to every new homeowner. Now we want you to join us. It’s a smart, simple, direct marketing idea that is affordable for everyone. Each new homeowner will receive a lovely Bella Bag welcoming them to the McCall Area.

Bella Welcome Bags will be distributed to every new homeowner in the McCall. In 2006, there were 154 sales of existing homes in the McCall area. We will start with 40 bags. When 40 bags have been distributed, we will contact interested businesses and start again. Bags will available to renters as well. We will promote their availability through the property managers in the area.

It’s easy to participate and it’s a huge bang for your advertising buck! We will assemble beautiful gift bags and handle all the distribution. Just mail or drop your business promotion to Bella Kitchen along with a check for $80 ($2 X 40 bags). Bella will do the rest. Initial deadline is March 30, 2007.

New Kitchen Aid Cookware

Bella has it all! In addition to our long-standing lines of Kitchen Aid 5ply Stainless Clad and Anolon Titanium, we now have two new outstanding and afffordable lines of KitchenAid Cookware.

GOURMET DISTINCTIONS

10 pc set $200.00

A distinctive way to cook. It begins with a set this perfect. Featuring a unique construction with a double full-cap base that's bonded to the pan. It starts off with an aluminum base layer, followed by copper, additional aluminum and is finished off with a stunning stainless steel. The result is superior performance that reduces hot spots, so you get great cooking results. With a larger top space and tapered side walls to facilitate stirring and whisking, while speeding up reduction of flavorful sauces. And polished, riveted handles provide a safe, confident grip. Plus, tempered glass lids that allow you to monitor foods, while locking in flavors and nutrients at the same time.

GOURMET ESSENTIALS

10 pc set $150.00
KitchenAid Gourmet Essentials Hard-Base Aluminum Includes: 1 Qt and 2 Qt Covered Saucepan, 8 Qt Cov ered Stockpot, 8'' and 10'' Open Skillets, 11''/4.25 Qt. Covered Sauté with Helper Handle

This cookware set is an exceptional value, including all of the pans needed to equip your kitchen with the most used cooking pieces.

Features

Cool grip handles - 18/10 stainless steel shaft encased in soft silicone rubber provide a soft cool, confident grip. Three-coat nonstick surface includes patented "Hard-Base" ceramic primer that hardens the inside of the pan providing exceptional food release and durability. Heavy gauge aluminum core guarantees fast and even heating. Tough porcelain enamel exterior is durable and easy to clean. Lifetime Limited Warranty

Ripped from the Headlines: The True Value of Shopping Locally

In this morning’s Idaho Statesman, Rhonda Abrams posted an article focusing on the value of shopping locally. This article rings especially true with us at Bella Kitchen and our neighbors. The article titled, “Local Businesses Build Local Communities” focuses on several benefits of shopping locally.

Small companies have gotten smarter. In order to compete with the gazillion dollar operating/advertising budgets of national chains, we as small businesses have to compete with better services, products, competitive prices, and a real focus on customer service. Local businesses build local communities by creating local jobs and building the tax base, which pays for the future by providing more monies for schools, library, our firehouse EMTs, and countless other services.

Trying to practice what I preach, I took our typical Boise grocery list and kept it in the city limits. Not only did I find bulk almonds, wonderful coffee, Sriracha, loose-leaf green tea, skinny cat food for our 24lb. kitty and Murray's favorite non-allergenic dog food, but I also enjoyed the opportunity to be part of the moment and visit with our merchants who are also friends and neighbors. Compared with the five hours of drive time, the $40 in gas, and the challenges of traffic, I found many additional benefits in the way that I was spending my time including a chance to visit the library. A welcome interlude which would not have been possible with the Boise trip.

Please consider the following example: when I buy a new sauté pan at Bella instead of Boise, not only do I have the opportunity to save a tank of gas, those five hours of drive time, lessen my impact on the environment and free up time to enjoy friends, but I have a direct impact on the health of a local business. The $72 spent at Bella is a large percentage of Bella’s sales target for the day whereas that same $72 spent at Williams-Sonoma doesn’t have the same impact by a mile – or 111 miles for that matter. And, consider when Bella has a busy successful day, that success often translates into dinner out. An exponential local economic impact.

I realize that our community doesn’t have everything that we need to purchase. I encourage each of us to look locally first before jumping to any conclusions. McCall does have some fabulous merchants that work very hard to be competitive. We don’t have an automatic 5000ft tax, and quite often the price of buying locally is the same or less than Internet shopping + shipping. Our grocery stores have really expanded the specialty food items and have been very good about responding to consumer’s needs.

We have one of the very best wine shops in all of Idaho right here. Our outdoor sports stores are owned and run by actual enthusiasts and athletes that use the equipment, know the reps, and can help fit you to the boot. Or the ski, the bike, snow machine, the boat, and the jacket. They know which fly is hitting at what lake, and where the best sack lunch can be found.

Every purchase in McCall is an investment in McCall. Since we have made the decision to live here, we need to shop here whenever we can. Take a look around to become educated about the products and services that we have to offer. Explore your town. Whether you need a new drill press, a ski jacket, a remodel, or kitchen staging for one of our new condominium projects, all of the money that we spend here ends up circulating through the community from one end of our valley to the other, benefiting both sides of the equation.