Today our neighbors, who are also volunteers here at the Care Center, asked if we’d like to go out for lunch with them. We said “sure”… we had hoped to get out at least once again to have some fresh seafood. We wound up in Onalaska, after going near Lake Livingston to see where Leroy’s brother has a piece of property. Leroy remembered that there was a small café where they had stopped when they came through this way and that they served really good food. We set out to look for this place. We told him that we had eaten at a place called Jerry’s, at the recommendation of a local person we asked when looking for some place to eat. As it turned out, we were both talking about the same place and Jerry’s is the place to go if near Onalaska (or within any driving distance) if you want fresh, home cooked food.
Bonnie and Leroy chose the daily special. It was a choice of Baked Chicken or Roast Beef with a choice of three vegetables from the following: Green Beans w/new potatoes, squash, purple hull beans (Leroy said these are like black eyed beans except gasier), dressing, baby carrots or mashed potatoes. Linda chose fresh catfish filets w/fries and I picked fried shrimp and fries. The food was awesome ! The roast beef and chicken was super tender. Everything was home-made, including the rolls and cornbread muffins. The daily special was $6.95 and included a peach cobbler for dessert ! Our catfish and shrimp were likewise as delicious…I’ve never had seafood that was this good. Gulf shrimp are so huge and with the cornbread type coating they put on them, it makes them so light and not loaded with breading like they are back east. Linda’s catfish was coated in the same type breading and was so tender it just fell apart in your mouth. We finished off the whole meal with a home-made piece of Coconut Cream pie. Yum ! Jerry’s gets two thumbs up so if you’re ever coming down route 190, through Onalaska, be sure to stop for the best meal around !
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