Chef Scot Craig of Katies and Francessca
In 2020 the Louisiana Hospitality Foundation and United Way of Southeast Louisiana (UWSELA) joined forces to create the Fish Fry Fridays marketing campaign to learn Hospitality Cares, a disaster grant program providing emergency monetary help to individuals working within the hospitality trade – one among our area’s largest employment sectors.
This system awards emergency grants as much as $2,500 to eligible workers at companies operating energetic United Way workplace campaigns within the hospitality trade in Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa and Washington parishes. The funds provide momentary support throughout occasions of disaster to cowl fundamental monetary wants, together with housing, medical and utility payments. Starting tomorrow we can have upwards of twenty-five decisions for The Fish Fry Friday dinners. Taking part eating places will donate $1 per barbecue entrée offered every w eek by April 15.
The marketing campaign was initially launched to assist hospitality employees who had been laid off in the course of the pandemic. It raised over $12,000 from restaurant gross sales and a sponsorship from Tabasco, which additionally sponsored the marketing campaign in 2021 and is doing so once more this yr. New Orleans Fish Home is providing reductions to collaborating eating places for his or her seafood specials.
Taking part eating places and their Lenten specials will be discovered at FishFryFridays.org.
Tchefuncte’s and The Anchor on the Tchefuncte River
On the Northshore, sister waterfront eateries Tchefuncte’s Restaurant and The Anchor on the attractive Tchefuncte River are each glorious seafood-centric locations for Lenten eating. Each provide recent, native fish that’s butchered and ready in-house in addition to out of doors seating that’s simply the factor for taking on this sensational early Spring climate. Tchefuncte’s seafood highlights contains the Home Cured Ora King Salmon & Osetra Caviar, Asian Spiced Tuna Tartar, Chilean Sea Bass and Pan Seared Gulf Snapper. The Anchor’s seafood menu highlights embody the Smoked Salmon Dip, Peel & Eat Shrimp, Seared Tuna Salad, Grilled Mahi Sandwich and Crispy Shrimp Poboy.
A Dove Has Unfold Her Wings and Asks for Peace by Maria Prymachenko
I’m a member of Meals Gals, a nationwide on-line group for girls who work within the culinary subject both as members of the media, in eating places, or in analysis and growth. One in all our members, Sarah Karnasiewicz, has began a fundraising Folks Artwork & Meals Raffle to assist the resistance in Ukraine. The raffle launched simply days in the past and has already raised over $6,500. Sarah’s household has been in America for greater than 100 years. However earlier than he migrated to New Britain, CT, her paternal great-grandfather was born in a small city southeast of Kraków, about 100 miles from what’s now Poland’s border with Ukraine. A half century later, when her mother and father married, her Polish American grandmother taught her Irish American mom the household recipes for the pierogies she makes for each wigilia and marriage ceremony so Sarah is motivated to boost some cash for the individuals of Ukraine who’re preventing so desperately to protect their households, their historical past, their freedom, and their HOME.
The raffle will run by March 10  with 100% of proceeds going to @razom.for.ukraine. On March 11 she is going to choose two winners at random, each of whom will obtain a bountiful field of ALL KINDS OF GOODIES together with classic Ukrainian linens; painted pysanky eggs; a replica of Mamushka, the attractive Ukrainian cookbook by Olia Hercules ; a stash of outdated world honey;  a flourless chocolate poppyseed cake; a batch of plum liqueur; two dozen do-it-yourself pierogies;  a handwritten recipe card that features her household’s pierogies recipe and another surprises.
To enter: Venmo: @Sarah-Karnasiewicz together with a message noting the variety of tickets you need and your e mail or Instagram deal with so she will be able to contact you later. One ticket is $10, two tickets are $15 however you should purchase as many tickets as you need. Funds will likely be donated to @razom.for.ukraine and you can be given a receipt in your donation.
No matter your religion or lack thereof allow us to all use this penitent season of Lent to be higher neighbors and to assist one another.
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