It's fish week at the Culinary Arts Training School of South Side Mission.
And even though it's been more than 2,000 years since the Lord caused a tax coin to be found in a finny friend's mouth or nets to be filled to overflowing by disbelieving disciples, Jesus is still doing miraculous things with fish.
First, Chef Chris received a donation of a whole lot of crab boil mix recently, which he put aside for just the right opportunity. Well, on Monday, an anonymous donor showed up with three large styrofoam coolers full of live and large Louisiana crawfish. CATS students boiled up the mix of seasoning, potatoes, corn on the cob, onions and finally crawfish in big pots and as they say on the bayou--voila! You can see the result in the photo!
Second, thanks to our generous friends at Dixon's we received a great donation of sashimi-grade yellowfin tuna, which the Culinary Arts Training School turned into sushi, complete with Wasabi vinegar sauce! In the photo you can see how the students rolled the tuna in sesame seeds before lightly searing it.
And like all of our Culinary Arts Training School entrees, these were fed to poor people who come for our gourmet soup kitchen--the Lighthouse Diner.
It may be a far cry and two millenia removed from the two fish that Jesus stretched to feed a multitude, but our Lord still likes to surprise people with blessings from the sea.
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