Godzilla Meets Fried Green Tomatoes

Go find a pencil and write this down. If you ever find yourself in New Orleans, you MUST eat at Jacques-Imos. Write it down, etch it to memory. Put it on your bucket list. One of our team members referred to her scallop dish as "orgasmic." Polly also had the scallops, and I have been told that after every bite, she made that Mmmmm--mmm sound and a smile came to her face. So, let me suggest, when you go to Jacques-Imos,try the scallops! They have a great menu that ranges from several different types of fish, shrimp, duck, quail, alligator...and there was a steak dish. I had a local fish called drum. It was encrusted in potato and had an amazing white sauce with capers. The cooks excel in delicate sauces. My favorite appetizer was alligator/shrimp sausage cheesecake. It sounds weird, but was incredibly delicious. The waiters brought desserts for both tables. They have 2 dessert items: bread pudding and creme brulee. Both beyond delicious.

A few people ordered a signature dish called: Godzilla Meets Fried Green Tomatoes." It was a layered dish. Fried soft shell crab, fried green tomatoes, crabmeat stuffing, fried green tomatoes, fried soft shell crab. To keep everything in place, a knife was stabbed through the top. No dainty little toothpicks for this meal!

It was Quo Vadis's birthday, so we invited her and her husband, Raymond. Also, Jyphia and her husband Eric Paul. We all had a grand time.

A word of note: Unless Marco Kaltofen can pull a few strings for you...be prepared to wait in a long line to get into Jacques-Imos.

Wow. It's after 5 and I am still the only one up. That is rare. It was a late night by our crazy work standards.

I think that the humidity is sapping the energy from most of us, but once we hit a stride, the momentum keeps us going.

For those who have done work like this, you know that you get back a lot more than you give. I saw the Vaughn family on Saturday afternoon and they were very apprehensive about who all these strangers were going to be and how we would judge them. Now, she is praising Jesus for bringing her all these angels! She told me that she felt blessed that we came to help. I told her that there were more than the 27 of us who are helping. The members and friends of UUAC and Follen Church are all helping. We are the ones who are blessed.