Toasting the Seafarers' Center

If you knit, you can help a sailor.

    Crochet hats are also needed at Port Arthur International Seafarers’ Center. If you can drive people from all over the world around to experience our area, organize a library, donate some time or funding or do some justice to Chef Carly Oubre’s menus, please get in touch with the center.

     The group’s annual cocktail raised funds for this group, and noted that the Sabine-Neches Waterway is the United States' third largest maritime center by tonnage. The Center is challenged to grow its ministry to meet the waterway’s future growth.

     The center’s chapel in downtown Port Arthur features an altar fashioned from a vessel’s parts and a podium of driftwood. How very Port Arthur. Attendees at a recent cocktail fund raiser enjoyed Chic Chef Catering & Events foods. The mountain of toast on the table put visitors in mind to toast the center’s efforts. Imagine this artistic spread of a menu:  

• Whipped Goat Cheese, Dates, Bacon, Honey, Nuts and Pepitas Layered Dip with Crostinis
• Italian Sausage Onion, Tomato and Ricotta Pastry Pinwheels
• Creamy Smoked Salmon & Olive Topped Potato Cakes
• Thai Curried Carrot & Pineapple Soup Shooters
• Crudites, Fruit, Crackers & Cheese
• Bananas Foster Pudding
• Ginger Apple Parfait

Let the Seafarers’ Center know how you can help at: (409) 982-4504 or contact:  paseafarers@sbcglobal.net

     Did John the Baptist have this? – I experienced, grasshopper broth at my desk. Now that’s Culinary Thrill Seeking. Sauterelle found me. The word means grasshopper in French and no, it’s not like that green, minty drink. This brews in a cup like a light, earthy, nutty soup. Very demure. Very Mindful. Why do this? The site will tell you about protein, vitamins and minerals. Go, amino acids, grasshoppers got you.

The short if it, it’s very cool to say you sipped some grasshopper. I think John the Baptist started this trend with locusts and honey. But he did not have a microwave.

     “You Can Cook Anything” – Jorj Morgan wants you to know eggy things can be nutritious, noodly things are not as hard as you think and that cheese should be a food group. The most amazing waffles, pancakes and sausages are broken down with good instructions, Nick Elia’s inspired photography, imaginative ingredients and even QR codes if you need more help. You can do it! And everyone will eat it. Quick tip: Pimento Cheese, a Southern fave, can get creamier with a spoonful of Greek yogurt. We’re talking about “Volume 1 of “You Can Cook Anything: A Guide for Newly Inspired Cooks!”

Darragh Doiron is a Port Arthur Area Foodie who did not see her shadow on Groundhog’s Day. Share your spring thoughts at darraghcastillo@icloud.com