Did You Know? (First Annual GMG Deviled Egg Competition)

That people love deviled eggs?  Having made deviled eggs a bunch of weeks now for Mug Up, I have come to realize that people really love deviled eggs, and it seems everyone has their own special recipe.  So during August 21^st Mug Up, we will be sponsoring the First Annual Good Morning Gloucester Deviled Egg Competition.  We will assemble a panel of distinguished judges, including Ed “I’ve never met a food I didn’t like” Collard and Paul “R. Duck and I love deviled eggs” Morrison.  The judges’ decision will be final and the entrant with the winning deviled eggs recipe will receive a 2012 Gloucester’s Finest Kind calendar or a Good Morning Gloucester T-shirt (if there is one available in your size) and a ribbon.  If you are a deviled egg aficionado and would like to be considered for a position on the judge’s panel, please post a brief description of your deviled egg experience and credentials.  Those who would like to have their special deviled eggs included in the competition and featured on the blog, just bring ‘em on next Sunday.  This is way bigger than Topsfield Fair competition and doesn’t cost anything to enter.  People who don’t like deviled eggs feel free to bring along something non-egg related to share.  Not to sway the judges, but I hear Mark Ring from the fishing vessel Stanley Thomas is a possible shoein for the winning deviled egg recipe.

This week’s Mug Up was great fun and the food was incredible.  Schooner Adventure’s Peter and Joanne Souza came and brought Peter’s special Portuguese chili (hearty, spicy and yummy), Charity and Laine Ciaramitaro came bearing warm bagels and cream cheese and some new artwork to share, ever lovely Brenda Malloy from Imagine Gallery came by with a bowl of healthy, plump, sweet blueberries.  Art Rocks Paul Frontiero and ever helpful Ed Collard were in the house, as was Ed’s daughter, Amy, and neighbor artists Wendie Demuth and Jeff Cluitt came by, as did guest artist Caroline Stella with a nice fruit salad, and Pete and Joyce Chamberlain were also here.  FOB’s Ozie and Mary Beth Osborn stopped in, as did Adam Bolonsky bearing watermelon.  Then Paul Morrison, R. Duck and Sue (Leavitt) came with a batch of the best homemade carrot cake muffins, made from carrots out of their garden, that I’ve ever tasted.  Artist neighbor Stevie Black popped in with a box of awesome scones; Gigi was sleeping in and didn’t make it.  Richard and Brennan Fitzpatrick came in with Eva Marin, exchange student from Barcelona, Spain to get a GMG sticker for Eva to take back to Barcelona to represent.  Thanks to everyone for coming, bringing your delicious contributions and making Mug Up such a wonderful weekly GMG family gathering on beautiful Madfish Wharf in the historic Rocky Neck Art Colony.   Rocky Neck and GMG Rocks!

E.J. Lefavour

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