Farmer’s Market Dinner- Pam’s Black Bean Salsa

Last week while I was shopping at the Farmer’s Market, I sampled some of Pam’s Black Bean Salsa. I’m not a big salsa fan, but I love black beans and corn. It was delicious!

salsashotI had spent my limit, so put off buying some until this week when I got more stuff from the local farms and picked up a pint of the salsa (after, of course, trying another sample!)

I was starving when I got home and wanted something quick and easy. I threw some gound turkey in to start. I had no idea where I was going with it, but I often do that hoping for inspiration!

I had just gotten a bunch of veggies at the market, so I sliced up zucchini and summer squash and dumped that in with the turkey. Usually I’ll use diced tomatoes for a base for sauce, but this time I used 1/4 cup of the salsa. No other seasoning was needed.

It was excellent! And to add to the meal, I steamed an ear of the best, freshest corn on the cob!

Absolutely yummy! And everything except the ground turkey came from the Farmer’s Market!

If you’ve made a meal primarily from foods bought at the market,  feel free to send them in to us!  Thanks!

Bill Burnett Race Director For The Gloucester Triatlon Sets Up

This morning I had a conversation with Bill Burnett, the Race Director for The Gloucester Triathlon.   We spoke at Gloucester High School where they are setting up to distribute the race packets to the entrants. Video this afternoon at 3PM

Bill Burnett Race Director For The Gloucester Triatlon Sets Up, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

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Voting Begins for The GIMMESOUND.COM GiveBack Live Music Series

From Vickie Van Ness-

Time to Vote!

For Fans Choice
For the GIMMESOUND.COM GiveBack Live Music Series

You can vote for your favorite artist NOW!
Save these dates: September 30, 2009 at T.T. the Bear’s Place in Cambridge, MA and October 7, 2009 at Public Assembly in Brooklyn. Details & sample tracks from our featured performers here.
Just to bring anyone up to speed- on GIMMESOUND.COM you can download any of these artists songs which are hosted at the site for free and they will get paid through advertisements.  It’s a win for the artist, a win for the consumer(you) and their music gets heard by a wider audience.  Good Stuff!

Gloucester bandstand concert pays tribute to Herb Pomeroy on Aug. 9

From the Beacon

HP3The 2009 Summer Concert Series at the Antonio Gentile Bandstand in Stage Fort Park in Gloucester continues Sunday, Aug. 9 at 7 p.m. with The Herb Pomeroy Tribute Concert, featuring Donna Byrne and the Herb Pomeroy Band with Greg Hopkins. The concert includes tunes from the songbook they used for many years.

This is the first time the band has played together since the bandstand concert at Stage Fort Park in August 2007, the weekend after Pomeroy’s death.

“Longtime Herb Pomeroy collaborator Donna Byrne was greatly affected by Herb’s death and she decided to retire soon after his passing,” said concert organizer David Benjamin. “Aug. 9 will be Byrne’s first public performance in quite a while and the first that Herb’s band has played together since 2007.”

The musicians are donating their fees to the Herb Pomeroy Scholarship Fund at Berklee College of Music.

For more info, click here.

Oh No! Another Sidewalk Bazaar Slide Show From David Cox!

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Please Help And Fill Out Downtown Gloucester Survey

Friends and fellow Block Party Committee members Erika Hansen and Linn Parisi asked me to help get feedback for this on-line survey to help downtown-

Hey Joey,

A quick survey to help downtown: on-line survey link below

http://capeannonline.yuku.com/topic/10196/t/A-quick-survey-to-help-support-downtown-Gloucester.html

Do you shop downtown Gloucester? If you do, why do you? If you don’t, why don’t you?

B.U. MBA candidate, Ben Hildreth, has teamed up with Cape Ann Business Incubator to create a survey designed to find out the answer to these questions (and more) with a view to helping existing and potential downtown business owners learn what the locals want – and need.

Surveys are very user-friendly (they take approximately 2 ½ minutes to complete) and will help downtown merchants meet the community’s needs.

Click the link at the top of this e-mail to complete the survey on-line.

For more information, contact Erika Hansen at 978.282.7779 or info@businc.org.

Note: FYI, there is also a Visitors’ Survey, which Ben Hildreth developed in association with Seaport Gloucester Destination Marketing Organization, designed to help tourism-related businesses understand the needs of their market.

http://www.goodmorninggloucester.com

Gloucester At Dawn- From Captain Joe and Sons Dock 4:50AM 8/6/09

Cooking Demonstration At Cape Ann Farmer’s Market Video

Cooking demonstration using ingredients which can be purchased at the Cape Ann Farmer’s Market-

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Magnolia Lions to hold bass tourney tomorrow

Stripers Forever

By Jeff Pope
Staff Writer – Beacon

The Magnolia Lions Club will hold its Fishing for Sight Striped Bass Tournament on Saturday.

The club is offering a first prize of $250 for the largest fish catch and $100 for second place.

The stripers must be caught on Saturday, between 5 a.m. and 5 p.m. There will be an official weigh-in at the Magnolia Town Landing from 5 to 6 p.m.

Anyone wishing to enter the tournament, should contact James Fiahlo at 978-525-3753. The entry fee is $20.

Virgilio’s Take Out Menu Click and select “all sizes” for full size copy

Hemoglobin Long Boards At The Sidewalk Bazaar

Survival tips for Triathlon Weekend

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Canal closure, road travel, best places to park and watch

By Jonathan L’Ecuyer
Staff Writer– Gloucester Daily Times

After more than a year of planning, thousands of spectators are expected to descend upon downtown Gloucester this weekend to cheer on the nearly 900 athletes participating in the city’s inaugural triathlon.

Formulating the most effective parking and spectator viewing plans was no small task for triathlon organizers, but with help from Gloucester Police, the Public Works Department, numerous volunteers and even the Coast Guard, the city believes it is fully prepared to safely handle the onslaught of humanity.

The Gloucester Triathlon, the brainchild of Gloucester native and professional triathlete Janda Ricci-Munn and Bill Burnett of Cohasset, has engaged the community in a special way, said Gloucester Fishermen Athletic Association (GFAA) co-President Dick Wilson.

“The cooperation we’ve received from everybody in the community has been phenomenal,” Wilson said yesterday.

According to Burnett, the inaugural race field has closed; it boasts 26 relays teams of two or three people and 797 individual competitors.

For Boating, Parking, and all info Triathlon related, click here.

Crew Of The f/v Orin C- Tom and Johnny


Tom and Johnny Head To Tie er Up
Tom and Johnny Head To Tie 'er Up

Seafood Throwdown Primer With Sandy Farrell Interview

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Gloucester At Dawn- The North Channel 4:40AM 5/8/09

Local Newspapers In The Digital Age

Had a conversation with Jack Morris, the editor of North Shore Magazine yesterday about blogging and the newspaper business.  Jack worked for Fox as their web manager for a while and now is the man at North Shore Magazine.  Look for one of my photos in the next edition.

We spoke for a while about newspapers and what way it seems they are evolving in the digital age- agreeing that the newspapers that ignore or do  not embrace social online networking to it’s fullest extent are doomed to fail.

People in conversations weekly tell me that they love GMG and that I should start an alternative to the Times.  Firstly I am flattered by the suggestion but in reality what we do on GMG is nothing like what goes into putting out a daily newspaper and the local newspapers are crucial to keep going and support.

See, we get to choose  fun stuff and things that matter to us to put into GMG.  We don’t have to report on the puss.  We don’t have to attend tax classification hearings or talk about the police or fire department negotiations with the city.  We don’t have to do the obituaries or stories about Marshalls coming to town.  We do stuff because we love it or we think you our readers will love it.  It’s similar but a different animal what we do and what the newspaper does.

My grammar sucks and if it weren’t for spellcheck my spelling really sucks.  I make mistakes and sometimes don’t bother to correct them because I know my point got across.  If the local paper makes spelling or grammar mistakes people get all up in their shit.

I guess if you are a paid journalist you should be able to use proper punctuation but I never claimed to be a journalist.  I’m a blogger and my job as a blogger is to keep you entertained and to fill my creative needs. I think for the most part we accomplish that here at GMG but please don’t confuse us for a newspaper or take our local newspapers for granted.  They keep honest politicians honest and report on the stuff that would slip between the cracks because bloggers would never bother with the little stories and the police notes and all the comprehensive stuff that makes up our newspapers.

Andy Hillstrand From The Time Bandit Represents!