Month: April 2010

Naples Beach Hotel Outdoor Facilities Tour

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

This is the joint I’ve been hanging around during my winter vacations for almost 20 years. It’s old school Naples Florida and still retains that charm of Florida the way it used to be.

The staff is friendly, the facilities perfect and the whole place just works. We pull up, valet the car and set up on the beach. There are eating, drinking and bathroom facilities open to the public. If you spend $15 at the bar or on food there is no charge for the valet.

Click on the video for a tour of the outdoor facilities I shot yesterday-

A Black and White From John Hintlian submitted to the GMG Flickr Group Pool

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Check out John’s blog Hye Tyde here

A127400_020A.jpg, originally uploaded by hye tyde.

 

Fun? You Betcha!

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 Slide Show Click Here

Fun? You Betcha!, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Beautiful Industry- Scupper submitted to The GMG Flickr Group Pool By ciabat

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e39, originally uploaded by ciabat.

 

Halibut Point submitted to the GMG Flickr Group Pool by Bluefish585

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Welcome Bluefish585 to the GMG Flickr Group!

Early a.m. August 09 

Halibut Point, originally uploaded by Bluefish585.

 

Comparing Hand Sizes With The Bean

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

I don’t want her to get any bigger. 

Comparing Hand Sizes With The Bean, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Chickity Check It!- New England Surf Report From New England Surfing

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

From NESurfReport-

nesUrfari.com
sUrfari, The Journal of New England Surfing provides yankee surfers with the latest New England surfing news, photos, stories, reports, video, links and reviews. sUrfari has been New England’s source for hardcore surfing since 1996. After being laid up from an accident in Hawaii during Decemer 1995 Christian del Rosario found an old modem, got online and created his first website, sUrfari in April of 1996. With the help of a few other New England surfers also in the online community who scanned a few surf photos to get the site going, Christian plugged away here and there on other people’s computers when ever he had the chance and got sUrfari up and running. Since then Christian has been the proud owner of a Mac or two and has become a computer junky. sUrfari has taken off from there and now it’s growing bigger and bigger…

 

Chickity Check It!-

http://www.nesurfari.com/blog/about/

Ravenswood- Magnolia Swamp

Posted on by Alicia Pensarosa

I took a nice hike with Coconut this afternoon in Ravenswood Park through the Magnolia Swamp trail.  Very nice day, everything is looking so green, but you have to watch out for ticks!

Re-Run Inside the Blynman Bridge Control House Part II

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Loading the boat pic submitted to the GMG Flickr Group pool by halibut2

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Loading the boat, originally uploaded by halibut2.

 

Colorful Industry pic submitted to The GMG Flickr Group Pool by ciabat

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When HACCP regulations came into the seafood industry it made wood handled shovels not usable for food handling and the industry turned to plastic shovels rather than the old wood handled and aluminum shovels we used growing up.  These plastic shovels suck for chopping ice and you need to put at least two or three shovel fulls of ice in the smaller plastic shovels compared to the deep strong hard aluminum shovels we used to use that would hold much more ice.

e82, originally uploaded by ciabat.

 

New Spring Recipes Coming Soon! But in the meantime, how about a vote for my Gorton’s “Taste of Mexico Tortilla Crusted Tilapia Salad?”

Posted on by laurielufkin

Good Afternoon all!

I am taping another episode of Inspired Cooking tomorrow so will have new recipes to share with you soon.   However, in the meantime, would you please go and vote for my “Taste of Mexico Tortilla Crusted Tilapia Salad?”  I need all of the votes I can get!

Here is a link to the recipe so you can vote:

http://www.gortons.com/grilled-details.php?id=425&page=

and here is a link to the terrific article from last week’s Cape Ann Beacon. Thank you so much Jane Dooley for doing such a great job with the article and to Dave Sokol for the wonderful photographs.  It was a blast doing the article and the photos with them and they left happy with the tilapia salad for lunch and a container full of brownies!

http://www.wickedlocal.com/gloucester/features/x1664778690/Essex-cook-Laurie-Lufkin-passionate-about-recipe-contests

Thank you Cape Ann and everyone all over the country for your continued support!

Cape Ann Fresh Catch 2010 News!

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro


Dear Members and Potential Members,

The Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Association’s Cape Ann Fresh Catch Community Supported Fishery program is ready to start things rolling for the new May 2010 season. For us, we’ve been very busy in the off-season.

We’ve made some major changes to our communication tools and data management systems. We’ve redesigned our website- www.capeannfreshcatch.org -upgraded our email tools, overhauled our database, and soon, we’ll have online registration and payment. And that’s just the electronic stuff…

At the heart of CAFC’s mission–getting fresh, sustainable seafood on to your table–we’ve got three new delivery sites: Mills, Lexington, and Hamilton. Three other sites–Groton, Dracut, and Boston/Fenway– need more support to get the numbers up to make it economically feasible for us. (If you’d care to help, on our new website you can find and download pull-tab flyers. By printing and posting these pull-tab flyers in high visibility places in your community, you can help promote and “sustain” the viability of your delivery site…)

As for our offerings, we’re adding fillets to this season’s line up. Fillets required a whole new level of logistical considerations. You folks asked for them. We now offer them. Also, following up on the popularity of the alternating share, we’ll have another alternating share, one week whole fish, the next week fillets.

This a turbulent time for all of New England’s fishing communities. Your support in this venture gives a clear signal to our local boats and crews that their work is honored, respected, and most importantly, valued!

Here is a link to the May 2010 contract: http://capeannfreshcatch.org/may2010_contract.pdf. For your convenience, the first page is an interactive form you can fill out in a PDF reader and then print. Please retain a copy for your records. We hope to have an online registration and payment system up and running shortly. Check our website regularly for its rollout. If you’d like to mail in the contract with your payment check sooner, that’d be greatly appreciated.

Again, we thank you all for your support of our local fishermen through your participation in the Cape Ann Fresh Catch Community Supported Fishery.

Sincerely,

Angela Sanfilippo (GFWA President) and the CAFC CSF Staff

Georges By Night Featuring The Sweet Sounds of Chelsea Berry

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

From Dean Salah-

Hey all, Georges is hosting our first ever Georges By Night event on Sat. April 17th.
The evening will be highlighted by the sweet sounds of Chelsea Berry. Chelsea is a great up and coming talent and she will be taping a promotional video of herself that evening. We will be serving a traditional Lebanese chicken and garlic meal. Appetizers will begin at 6:30 with dinner to follow. Chelsea will begin her
performance at around 7:30. This is a BYOB event so feel free to bring your favorite spirits.
Coffee and dessert will round out the evening. Tickets are $25 per person and are very limited.
Tickets are on sale at George’s and will be sold on a first come basis. Due to limited space I will
not be able to hold any tickets, so if interested get down to Georges to purchase your tickets.

Thanks,Dean