all right it is a great morning to be
outside here in the Publix kitchen at
the local station studios oh we are
cooking up some southern charm with chef
art Jeanette from southern charm here on
the south side good morning to you sir
we also have our friend Pete Ison here
he is the president of the retired
employees Association of Jacksonville
we're going to talk to him about what
that means in just a little bit but chef
art we have had you on many times here
on the morning show you have quite the
let's just say cult following well your
southern cooking thank you very much and
today we're doing our old-fashioned fish
fry for the retiree City of Jacksonville
they're going to have it we do about
three of these a year one is a prime rib
dinner and it's given to the members at
such an inexpensive cost today we have
the fried whiting with a cornmeal batter
that's what we do and our vine-ripe
tomatoes and coleslaw and how about some
fried green tomatoes my mother's recipe
that's what about when I go to your
place we just put some Georgia peaches
and blueberries as local as we could get
them and then of course some cheese grit
gotta have that cheese grits those
cheese grits are our famous recipe of
mine they actually started with a lady
named mrs. Cerveny when I was catered to
her house she would say a lot of butter
a lot of cheese and ever since then my
cheese grits have had a lot of butter a
lot of cheese we do know that you use a
lot of butter
this is your cornmeal that is my
cornmeal hoecakes and it's wonderful
wonderful with those cheese grits fried
green tomatoes there's so much flavor
you know it's my own it's my own mix
it's not out of a box it's not out of a
a chemical container let's say just but
it's all made with scratch and that's
what the retiree see the employees like
using me so much as because it is fresh
products it's not a bunch of things out
of a can we look to do the best for them
the fried green tomatoes really sets so
many people back home from you know what
we're in a fast-paced world sometimes
it's good to slow things down and relax
heat want to bring you in so let's talk
about this association because it is the
City of Jacksonville employees former
police officers firefighters their
spouses but well we wrote a retirement
law association with David Jago so Jason
Jeff Hardy JEA and gentlemen Floyd's any
member of this retired internship
membership I can afford and we also is
it all about it's about getting together
it's a socialize group we get you know
you create a family when you work for
the city you become a family the police
officers in the firemen all of us will
become a big group in a big family
and once we retire we lose it a lot of
that contact and that's what we're about
we're trying to keep that contact with
the retirees we won't have a bite sued
your old friends even if your spouse is
there and he passes the way or she
passes away the wife can stay as an
associate member and can continue to
come to our events we have three annual
meetings our quarterly meetings at the
singleton Center we're having with
general meeting everybody's invited to
come to that we meet with that board
meets once a month and we plan these
events we get art to do our cooking for
us
and we have a barbecue Lockhart said and
we have a fish fry and we have the
Christmas party in December and we we
have it on which a firemen's hall which
is part of the JSDF Rd and there are
many times great well I appreciate it
and if you have any retired city
employees they can reach out to you
right retired an appointee Association
they can reach us at attacks not oh four
three five three twenty four hundred
okay and art your address thirty five
sixty six st. Augustine Road three two
two zero seven that's right here's st.
Augustine and Emerson better you know
all this looks so good I got to give me
a fried tomato and we're gonna send it
back to Nikki in the studio