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Immaculate Heart of Mary School - Monona - Friday Night Fish Fry
This entry was posted on 1/13/2012 1:30 AM and is filed under Church Dinners, Friday Night Fish Fry.
We finally made it up to the church school fish fry in Monona, Wisconsin. The Immaculate Heart of Mary School and their "Fabulous Fish Fry", puts on a dandy Friday night feed. As with many church oriented dinners, they do theirs about once a month throughout the winter. The buffet dinner is served up in the church campus school.
Here's the deal if you have never been to one of these gigs. I knew we hit a home run when I could smell the good ol' fried fish as I hopped out of the car. And by the way, if you have not participated in one of these colloquial gatherings.... you might be missing a cultural experience. I am just thinking. Do not attend one of these local dinners at some point in your life at your own loss. Don't come crying to me when you are in a nursing home and realize, with apple sauce dribbling down your chin, that you have spent the whole of your life eating banal fast food.
Here's the deal on this church dinner. You go through the buffet line the first time and then head to a family style table with your chow. If you need another round of eats, the good people assigned to the table will bring you some more. They also do a hefty carry-out business.
The banquet area is large and the seating being of the family style, 10-chair round table type, we had a nice chat with folks we have never met before and will probably will never see again. But it is fun..., unless I suppose, you are some kind of introvert.
People there were surprised we drove all the way from Janesville, but a quick explanation about how we used to live up on Madison's near West-side and that both Heide and I had once worked for awhile over in the Monona area on the East-side, quelled any concerns we were more eccentric than we appeared in the flesh.
They were trying to get rid of their supply of Super Club beer, that by the way is brewed right in the Madison area. I was more than willing to help out. A pot of fresh coffee also waited patiently at our table.
Of course they served up the good deep-fried, beer-battered Cod I call, "church fish." It reminds me of the fish frys we used to have at my church back in the day - good crispy battered breading on the outside, and tender-on-the-inside fish. The French fries had a homemade timbre. I tried both the fries and a dandy baked potato kept warm in tin foil.
Heide tried the baked fish. When the table attendant came around he was pushing some of their crispy fish, which is best described as looking like a chicken strip. Heide ordered up a couple pieces of that too. Suffice it to say, said wife was pleased with her dinner.
The cole slaw was creamy and also homemade in taste. There was a choice of a white bread and also a dark bread, both again of the homemade nature.
The meal was topped off with an offering of either Sherbet or vanilla ice cream.
Immaculate Heart of Mary School is cool with Cool Dadio. Find them at 4913 Schofield, Street, in Monona, Wisconsin. Call (608) 222-8831 for more information; or, go to their humble fish Web page.
Note: You can find a chronological list at the Cool Dadio Media Fish Fry Page of these fish frys as we have visited them. The list presents the most recently visited fish fry at the top, in lieu of alphabetical order.
Wisconsin Military Service Person Special Mention of the Week
(each week Cooldadiomedia mentions a Wisconsin service person killed in Iraq or Afghanistan)
Army National Guard Sergeant Earl Delmer Werner, 38, Mondovi, Wisconsin, died on Friday, August 28, 2009, in Rashid Iraq. He was one of two soldiers killed when insurgents attacked their vehicle with an explosively formed penetrator, or EFP, an armor-piercing explosive that turns into a projectile when detonated. Sergeant Werner was attached to Company B, 41st Special Troops Battalion, 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, with the Oregon Army National Guard out of the Portland area. Werner was driving a vehicle in a convoy security mission in eastern Baghdad. Private Taylor D. Marks was also killed in the attack.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said Sergeant Werner had ties to Wisconsin. At the time of his death, Werner was living in Amboy, Washington. The military still listed Mondovi, Wisconsin as Werner's home of record. Mondovi is in Buffalo County in western Wisconsin, about 25 miles southwest of Eau Claire. Sergeant Werner was on his third deployment with the Oregon National Guard. His first deployment was part of the 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry in 2004. Later he deployed with the 234th Engineer Company in 2007. On a previous tour of duty in Iraq, Werner was awarded the Bronze Star for his service. And, during his Guard service he received two Army Commendation Medals and the Combat Action Badge.
The Web site militarytimes.com using information from the Associated Press notes that Earl Werner was an animal lover who raised horses and enjoyed fishing. The site indicates Werner was an Idaho native.
An obituary posted on the Web site obits.columbian.com says Earl D. Werner was born on November 9, 1970, in New Plymouth, Idaho. He attended school in New Plymouth and moved to La Center, Washington, and then later to Amboy. He married his wife Casey in May of 2007. He was a truck driver and a heavy equipment operator by trade and worked for Red's Rock in Battleground, Washington, for the two years prior to his death. Werner had two years of prior Army Service before enlisting in the Oregon Army National Guard in September of 2001. The columbian.com Web site went on to note, "Earl had many hobbies: fishing, hunting, horses, riding his Harley as well as four-wheeling, driving his jeep, and, cooking and barbecuing. He loved animals and spending time with his family and friends....He will always be remembered as a gentleman, a family provider and a wonderful, caring person. "
The Web site theoutlookonline.com notes that members of the Oregon National Guard’s 41st Infantry Brigade, known as the Sunset Division, headquartered in Tigard, Oregon (just south of Portland) deployed to Iraq in mid summer 2009 for 10 months to provide convoy security and support services. The 2,700 members of the brigade were part of the largest deployment of Oregon troops since World War II.
At the time of his death he was a resident of Amboy, Washington, and was survived by his wife, Casey; son Justin; sister Barbara Pierce, and, father-in-law Duane Royer. Sergeant Earl Werner was laid to rest at Willamette National Cemetery near Portland, Oregon.
A year after Earl Werner's death, the Web site katu.com published a story regarding the struggles his wife Casey was having on one income, trying to keep the home she and Earl had build several years before his death. At the time of the article, area Oregonian Congressman Brian Baird's office said it was looking into Casey's loan modification problems on her behalf.
Army National Guard Sergeant Earl D. Werner is the 105th military service person that has been identified by Cool Dadio Media as having Wisconsin connections and that died in Iraq since the Spring of 2003.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
104,568 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003 (actually documented).
10,125 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,487 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
1865 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
318 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
992 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
1 American/Coalition casualty in Libyan "Operation Odyssey Dawn" since March, 2011.
32,226 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
592 Wisconsin military service persons have been wounded in Iraq since Spring 2003.
15,183 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
192 Wisconsin military service persons have been wounded in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
107 Wisconsin military service persons have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
36 Wisconsin military service persons have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
3 Wisconsin military service persons have been killed in the U.S. related to "The War on Terror" since September, 2001.
151 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
22 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since September, 2001.
5 journalists (regional and independents) have been killed in Libya since March, 2011.
Wisconsin military service person special mention of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; thehighground.org; Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs; iraqbodycount.org; www.defense.gov/news/casualty.pdf; and, icasualties.org .
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