My View of Life on the Dock
GMG Passports Rogue Burger Challenge, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
This guy does hilarious art with ordinary objects. Check it out!
GMG Passports Rogue Burger Challenge, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Thanks for contributing these pics Paulie. No one was injured or drowned during these drills. Good practice under controlled circumstances. The GHS sailing program we can all be proud of.
High School Sailing Team Capsizing Drill Pic From Paul Frontiero , originally uploaded by captjoe06.
We really did try! Here is the cookie recipe that I gave you a couple of weeks ago but with a filling added to make it a sandwich cookie! They are so good but didn’t bring home a ribbon. Oh well….Like I tell Lily, you win some, you lose more but you will never win if you don’t try! I hope you enjoy these and please let me know what you think.
This was our presentation plate for the judges:
For the filling:
4 tablespoons cinnamon chips
½ teaspoon vegetable shortening
4 oz cream cheese, at room temperature
3 tablespoons dulce de leche*
In a small microwave safe bowl, combine chips and shortening. Microwave on high power for one minute and stir until smooth. In a medium bowl beat together cream cheese and dulce de leche until blended. Beat in melted cinnamon chips until smooth. Refrigerate until ready to use.
For the cookies:
1 cup all purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
¾ teaspoon baking soda
¾ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
7 tablespoons salted butter, at room temperature
7 tablespoons butter flavored shortening (you can use all butter but the cookies will be flatter and that’s 0k)
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ cup sweetened dried cranberries
½ cup dried apples, diced
2/3 cup cinnamon chips**
2 ½ cups old fashioned oats
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 4 baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg and set aside.
In another bowl, beat together butter, shortening and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla extract until well combined. With mixer running on low speed, slowly incorporate flour mixture. Mix in cranberries, apples, cinnamon chips and oats and beat again until just combined.
Scoop by rounded tablespoonfuls (use a tiny ice cream scoop if you have one so they call come out round and the same size and cook at the same time) on to prepared baking sheet, 12 to a sheet. Bake for 9 minutes cookies are slightly browned on the bottom. Remove from oven and allow to cool on parchment.
To assemble, spread two teaspoons prepared filling on the bottom side of one cookie. Top with another cookie, bottom side down. Repeat with remaining cookies and enjoy!
*this can be found in a small can in the international food section with the other milk products, it is made by Nestle and is called “La Lechera.” Look at the photo below. The cans on the left side are sweetened condensed milk, the cans on the right side are what you want. It is a very thick brown caramel in a can about the size of sweetened condensed milk. I found it in the new Market Basket in Gloucester in the section with the Goya foods. This is what it looks like:
**They still don’t have these in at the new Market Basket–ask the manager to get them next time you are there–if we all keep asking, I bet they will stock them. In a pinch, you can use butterscotch chips and add some cinnamon, about a teaspoon, to the dry ingredients
Thanks so much to Leeny and Tamara who sent along a couple of their children Funducational CDs for The Bean and Snoop Maddie Mad.
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Friday-Sunday, October 23-25
HAMMOND CASTLE will host the Castle of the Damned– the most unique Halloween attraction in New England– on October 23, 24, 25, 30, 31 and November 1 (Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays), 7-11pm each night (ticket gate closes at 10:45pm). Admission is $15. Parking is available at Stage Fort Park with a free “Shudder Shuttle” to carry visitors to the castle. BEWARE! “The Castle of the Damned” may be too intense for young audiences! 781-346-1028 www.pastimesentertainment.com/castle.html
Friday-Sunday, October 23-25
Fall Shorts
BLACKBURN PERFORMING ARTS presents the all North Shore production of “Fall Shorts” October 23, 24, 25, Friday-Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 5pm. Seven short plays about everything from TV talk shows with guests you don’t want to meet, to marriage “self help,” to playground Mums sharing Margaritas, to the latest in funeral fashion. Tickets: $15.
Friday-Sunday, October 23-25
ShocktoberFest
Cape Ann movie fans who know not to brave the crowds in Salem for a haunted Halloween have another choice this year – Gloucester. Friday, October 23, through November 1, THE CAPE ANN COMMUNITY CINEMA at 21 Main Street in Gloucester will present “ShocktoberFest,” a variety of scary movies and events for every taste and every age. 978-309-8448
Saturday, October 24
Roast Beef Fundraiser Dinner
THE GLOUCESTER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 436 Washington Street in Gloucester, will hold a Roast Beef dinner and concert by the Docksiders on October 24 to benefit the Docksiders as they play their way to Honolulu, Hawaii in April of 2010, where they will perform aboard the U.S.S. Missouri. Tickets: $15/person, $7/children under 12. There will be two seatings for dinner and a concert. Reservations are now being accepted. 978-281-1040
Saturday, October 24
Recycling Fundraiser
CAPE ANN ANIMAL AID and BIG BROTHER, BIG SISTER will host a recycling fundraiser on Saturday, October 24, 9am-1pm at the Fuller School parking lot. Large televisions and appliances will be collected for $20, air conditioners and monitors for $10-15. Printers, computers, fax machines, vacuums, lawn mowers, CD/DVD players, and scanners etc. will be collected for $5 each. All donations are tax deductible. 978-281-1883 978-283-6055
Saturday, October 24
The Merchant of Venice
THE ROCKPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY will show the film “The Merchant of Venice” on Saturday, October 24, at 2pm. The work will be the focus of the Shakespeare Readers’ discussion on Monday, October 26, at 4pm. 978-546-6934
Sunday, October 25
Essex Clamfest — RESCHEDULED DUE TO WEATHER
The twenty-seventh annual Essex ClamFest has been rescheduled due to weather for Sunday, October 25, 11am-4pm in Memorial Park in Essex. The highlight of the day will be the Clam Chowder Tasting, a competition that pits area restaurants against one another to determine who serves the best chowder on Cape Ann. Ten local restaurants are expected to serve up their favorite chowder recipes, 12noon-2pm.
Sunday, October 25
Celtic Music Session
Join Michael O’Leary and Friends for their Celtic music sessions at ELLIOTT’S AT THE BLACKBURN on Sunday, October 25, 6-9pm. An acoustic session of mostly traditional songs and tunes from the Celtic countries and Cape Breton.
I’m getting used to at least one rainy weekend day. Actually accomplishing all those things that have been ignored for months. Today I’m tackling the computer/ exercise room as well as a list of errands a mile long. But first I’m making Anadama french toast for breakfast. That will hit the spot!
What are your plans for the day? Big food? A room make-over? A lazy day on the couch? Happy Saturday!
Chef Erik Lorden is touting The Rogue Burger as The Largest On Cape Ann. If one of our contestants finishes it this morning they will be the proud owner of this sweet limited edition T-Shirt.
It’s going to be a knock down drag out battle with this burger. 10AM Saturday, Passports- Be There To Cheer On Our Challengers!
I will personally donate a limited edition Captain Joe and Sons T Shirt to any broads that want to come down in a cheerleader outfit to cheer on the contestants and be part of the video taping.
Passports Rogue Burger Challenge T Shirt, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Come to Passports Saturday Morning at 10AM To Witness The Challenge and Be Part Of The Video
“Banana Glam O Rama” Fashion Show Fundraiser to Support the Restoration of Gloucester City Hall
The Gloucester City Hall Restoration Committee is holding a fundraiser to benefit the continuing work on Gloucester’s most important historic building. A “Banana Glam O Rama Fashion Show” will be held Saturday November 14 and Sunday November 15 in City Hall’s Kyrouz Auditorium. Saturday night’s celebration is a creative black tie Gala with a Champagne and Dessert Bar. The festivities begin at 7:30 and tickets cost $50. Sunday offers an afternoon show with non-alcoholic refreshments. The show starts at 4PM and costs $25.
Tickets are available at the following Main Street locations: Bananas, The Bookstore and Alexandra’s Bread or call Kathy Slifer at 978.282.1639 or e-mail erikaa.hansen@gmail.com
Five half pound burgers and a side of your choice. Larry, Kevin, Paul Morrison, Ed Collard. Is there a man in the bunch that can take down the Rogue Burger? We will find out tomorrow morning, Passports at 10AM! Be There!!!!! I took down The Rogue Burger T Shirt hangs in the balance.
It’s Gonna Be a Battle Royale!!!!!, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Around the Cape- Gloucester Daily Times
Gail McCarthy
New England’s most terrifying Halloween event is back for its 11th year. For two “fear-filled” weekends “Castle of the Damned” will take place at Hammond Castle.
The castle once again serves as the “atmospheric backdrop” for a unique Halloween attraction in New England. Guests take a guided tour through the historic castle and its grounds, and bear witness to nightmarish displays inspired by the works of author H.P. Lovecraft, Italian horror maestro Dario Argento, and Pastimes’ own Dean Calusdian, director of the independent horror film “Tortured Hearts.”
David and Paul Stickney of Pastimes Entertainment designed this year’s castle, which eschews typical haunted house fare for bizarre images to haunt those who brave to enter. “There are no people in sheets jumping out and yelling ‘Boo!’ ” Dean said. “We want people to be afraid to go to sleep for the rest of their lives.”
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Culina Cafe Salads- Special- $4.49, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Good Morning Gloucester 