Abby Cahill or how she now goes by Abigail Cahill O’Brien grew up in a bedroom less than 100 yards from mine. We all played tennis on her parent’s courts deep in God’s Country (East Gloucester if you didn’t already know). Her parents threw a fantastic tennis tournament in the summer in which the winners in each division would take home mini sterling silver salt and pepper shakers. I have a pair tucked away in a drawer somewhere from a mixed doubles win.
What is crazy is that I had not seen or been in contact with her or any of her brothers or sisters in about 30 years and just within the past year or so I’ve met up with Jason, Josh, Jonathan, and now through the magic of the intrawebs- Abby.
Apparently Abby is all grown up now and has matured into a lovely woman who has developed an exquisite sense of style. Her beautiful blog should be made into a magazine. It is filled with visual treats and recipes and all sorts of other goodness but the content and layout really is of professional caliber and her writing flows.
Chickity Check her Blog fifth joy by clicking this text
You can check out Abby’s blog which will now also be featured in the very prestigious GMG Blogroll to the right. She also does the twitter thing- 5thjoy
Good Morning Gloucester 
great blog….. it’s goin’ on the top of my daily check in list…thanks, Joey…thanks, Abbey
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I found “Bacon Marmalade” in the archives. That might be my best find on the internet since I got off dial-up.
http://5thjoy.com/2010/05/11/bacon-marmalade-pork-gold/
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great blog….. it’s goin’ on the top of my daily check in list…thanks, Joey…thanks, Abby
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Joey! What a treat to find this post in my in-box. You are way too kind. I’ll do my best to live up to your glowing review. (Btw you should be very proud of your mixed doubles win. Most of us were strictly consolation round material.) Thank you for bringing us GMG every day.
starsquiggle – good to have you over at 5thjoy! Thanks for commenting and I hope the content continues to float your boat.
Paul, definitely get your hands on that bacon marmalade. Think about it: instantaneous BLTs. ‘Nough said.
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Instant BLT. This has been my dream. I’ve already parsed his youtube video. I think I can buy a couple of jars and then we can figure out what is in that “secret powder”.
Pound of Bacon bits done to “overdone”.
One large Onion, same deal, bits and cooked in bacon fat.
Drain all bacon fat then back in pan
One cup brown sugar.
Two cups vinegar. Probably white apple vinegar.
Now the balance of those three is critical but easy. Lot of tasting and adding. Hard work.
One cup of secret powder. This could be a lot of things. Salty, fragrance. Must buy many jars to figure out. But it’s like Thai, balance the salty, sweet, and sour.
Cook down on medium until “sticky”.
20 seconds in the food processor.
Jar.
My tomato plants are leaving the basement this weekend to go into the ground. The lettuce is jumping. Now all I need is some white bread toasted from Virgilio’s and I can make the ultimate BLT. Joey and I can fight about the mayo. I’m Hellman’s, he is Cain’s.
I’m right. 8)
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