Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
These caps are straight fire.
Author: Joey Ciaramitaro
The creator of goodmorninggloucester.org Lover of all things Gloucester and Cape Ann. GMG where we bring you the very best our town has to offer because we love to share all the great news and believe that by promoting others in our community everyone wins.
After Alicia DeWolfe Raved About Wally’s Blackburn Bistro Flatbread Pizza I Had To Try It..
Tremendous.
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Wally’s Blackburn Bistro From Alish
Hey Joey,
I HAD to share this!! I frequent Wally’s Blackburn Bistro because they simply have the best Chicken Caesar Salad wrap in the world! (also add avocado)
Looked at their site and now they have a few flatbread pizzas too!
I got the Mediterranean and OMG ITS TO DIE FOR!!!!
Description:
Roma Tomatoes, Baby Spinach, Red Onions, Black Olives, Goat Cheese & Parmesan. Drizzled with Cape Ann Olive Oil Raspberry Balsamic Reduction and Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
Seriously, need i say more!!!
http://www.blackburnbistro.com/menu_items/96772-mediterranean
Alicia Cox-Dewolfe
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Community Photos 11/13/13
Back Shore Sunrise From Michelle Polito
Sunset over Annisquam From Gary Hasselschwert
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Community Stuff 11/13/13
Eastern Point Day School Open House
Monday, November 18th from 9:30 am –11:30 am
Interested parents, guardians and their children are invited to visit Eastern Point Day School on November 18, 2013 from 9:30-11:30 am. Come and meet the dedicated faculty and great students that make Eastern Point Day School a unique and enriching community. Eastern Point Day School is an independent school, Pre-K to 8th grade, focused on thematic teaching with an emphasis on curriculum integration and academic excellence, delivered in a nurturing, creative and dynamic environment.
We offer rolling admission, options to augment homeschool learning, scholarships and financial aid. For more information, please visit www.easternpointdayschool.org or email at info@easternpointdayschool.org.
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Just Wanna Let Y’all Know That There Are Only 11 GMG Mesh Caps Left
If You Want One You’ll Need To Order It Soon.
Here’s The Link To Buy Yours-
GMG Logo Cap Navy With White Mesh Back. Three Color Embroidery
Hi Joey,
I just got my cap and sticker from you hand addressed and in a box I loved. When you said you had a limited amount available I ordered as fast as I could and my wish came true and I got my GMG cap last Saturday. I was surprised since you had so few. I recently had skin cancer surgery on my head and will be wearing hat a lot these days and yours is the one I wanted the most. Thank you. My wife and I are from Connecticut and come to Gloucester every year and I wish I could live there but for family reasons I don’t think that will happen. But I will always love and go back to Gloucester and continue to read your blog every night or morning. Thank you Joey, I will represent down here in CT and everywhere else I go. At some point I will post or send you a picture.
Truly thankful,
Gary Peltzer
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False Advertising 101
When is chicken pot pie not chicken pot pie?
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Am I alone in my thinking that restaurants don’t utilize grated cheese enough?
I mean, who doesn’t love grated cheese? Stuff makes everything taste better.
Not the soft kind. Parmesan. Dry salty hard and ground up. The kind you get at Sclafanis or Virgilios and they’ll grate it for you.
Not that weak ass cheddar or swiss. Parmesan baby. All day every day and twice on Sundays.
You put a bowl of paste zugu in front of me. It could be really good right? But add a bunch of grated cheese and you take it up at least two points on a scale from 1-10.
Total no brainer.
I’d put that stuff on anything if it was put in front of me. Cheeseburger? Pour it on. Pizza? Yes please. Steak and cheese sub? Hells yeah!
Christ, I’d put it on a steak if they put it on the table.
Grated Cheese FTW!
See the picture below this text? Grated Cheddar. Barely any goddamn flavor next to a hard grated parmesan. The kind of hard parmesan that’s gonna sting your tongue and let you know- “You’re damn right you’re eating cheese baby. Dry aged parmesan!~ Not that weak ass cheddar!”
Parmesan>Cheddar
If you were stuck with only one cheese for the rest of your life what would it be?
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Community Photos 11/12/13
Fishermen’s Wives Memorial at Sunset From Elinor Teele
Frenchman’s Pier & Little River – Friday afternoon from Rick Isaacs
Hi Joey,
Too bad all I had was my iPhone at the time, but the other night (well actually September 24th) the three wind turbines were catching the sun’s last red rays and it was pretty neat. Thought you might like it.
Regards,
Rokhaya
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Video- Sawyer Free Library- Stuff Is Happening!
Tons of Great New Stuff Happening At Sawyer Free Library Including New Parton Free Parking, Out Door Book Drop Off and More!
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Rick and Dorthe Noonan Represent! On The Great Wall of China
Hey Joe,
Representing Gloucester and GMG after 1700 steps UP !
At the bottom while enjoying a well earned cold beer we learned thru spotting internet connection that the Red Sox’s had won the World Series, took two days to hit the local Beijing papers
Hey Dorthe- that’s a looong way from Switzerland! 
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Poll- What’s Worse? Bad Pistachio or Bad Oyster
Ever be sitting down in front of the TV eating pistachios just enjoying the shit out of them and then run into that one bad one that ruins you for pistachios for years.
I can’t even begin to describe that bad pistachio rotten taste, that taste that lingers and disgusts you to no end. You try to spit it out immediately but the damage has been done. Once it hits your taste buds there’s no turning back. It’s like seeing things that can’t be unseen. Like walking in on your parents having sex- horrifying.
Now pit that up against a bad oyster, that horrible horrible bad oyster.
Which one is worse? Like if you had to endure one which would it be?
PS- Take that shell away and rotate that oyster picture 90 degrees and what does the meat look like to you?
I see a beautiful tulip.
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One Day At Fenway Game 6 Timelapse
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Community Stuff 11/11/13
Special Dinner at Ohana- November 14, 2013
Make reservations early for this event with a special menu, cocktails featuring Ryan & Wood products and a talk by Bob Ryan on his products – Beauport Vodka, Knockabout Gin, Folly Cove Rum and Ryan & Wood Rye Whiskey.
November 14, 2013, 6pm
Three Course Cocktail Dinner $60
Includes 3 Ryan & Wood Cocktails
By Ryan & Wood Distilleries
1st Course
~choice of~
Lobster Bolognese
fresh spaghetti, lobster brodo & truffle brown butter froth
Herb Salt Crust N.Y. Striploin
burrata cheese, speculoos butter, balsamic onion
2nd Course
~choice of~
Lemon Thyme Salmon
white bean veloute, tomato marmalade, yuzu saffron sabayon, bouillabaisse sauce
Hoisin Five Spiced Whole Roasted Duck
vanilla lime pomme puree, cornbread stuffing, maple brussels sprout, vinjuan demi
3rd Course
Eight Layer Chocolate Cake
peanut butter ice cream
Poached Pear Melba
raspberry vanilla ice cream, chantilly crème, almond tuile
“Outsidah” goes “Unzipped”
Just the Facts:
Who? Columnist Doug Brendel, “The Outsidah,” releases his 3rd annual “Only in Ipswich” book, Ipswich Unzipped
What? Book launch party
Where? MiXtMedia Gallery, 40 Essex Road, Ipswich (Rt. 133 at Bruni’s Marketplace)
When? 5-8 p.m. on “Black Friday,” the day after Thanksgiving, November 29th
Why? Because Doug always releases his “Only in Ipswich” books on Black Friday
How? Free and open to the public
A Little More:
Ipswich hasn’t been quite the same since Doug Brendel arrived.
He’s “The Outsidah,” writing a humorous column each week for the Ipswich Chronicle, commenting on life in small-town New England from the standpoint of a newcomer.
As if this weren’t bad enough, he releases a book each year, compiling the year’s columns and illustrating them with scratchy cartoons.
His third book in the series, Ipswich Unzipped, will debut at a party on the day after Thanksgiving, 5-8 p.m. at MiXtMedia Gallery, 40 Essex Road, in Ipswich.
The author, who is also a veteran actor and popular speaker, will read from his columns. “Hearing them, you avoid the cartoons,” Doug says. “They’re even worse than the columns.”
All three of the Only in Ipswich books will be available for purchase and autographs at the event. And various contests (like “How many clamshells are in this bucket?”) will give attendees the chance to win free books.
For more information about this event, contact MiXtMedia’s Susan Burton via 978-356-0408 or sue@susankburton.com. Or reach Doug Brendel personally via 978-810-1005 or Outsidah@DougBrendel.com. For news of other performances by “The Outsidah,” follow Doug’s blog at Outsidah.com.
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GloucesterCast 11/10/13 With Guests Kim Smith and Toby Pett and Host Joey Ciaramitaro
GloucesterCast Podcast Taped 11/10/13 With Guests Kim Smith Toby Pett and Host Joey Ciaramitaro
Topics Include: Donuts from Brother’s Brew, Gloucester High Only Plays 7 Regular Season Football Games, Passports and Olive Kitteridge Filming, Frances McDormand and Bill Murray in Town, Toby’s Psychotic Dining Expectations, Sista Felicia bringing The Thunder, Mass Office of Travel and Tourism, Betsy Wall and Catherine Ryan
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They Still Dry Cod Old School Style In Southern Ireland
Hi Joey-
I thought this was an interesting sight to share : located in the midst of Southern Iceland’s lava fields, seemingly endless rows of Cod drying on wooden racks.
Best-Janet
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Henry David Thoreau Quote of The Week From Greg Bover
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Sometimes called the first environmentalist, Thoreau, born and raised in Concord, Massachusetts, was mentored by the Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson and Bronson Alcott, his neighbors. His book Walden, about the two years he spent living in a hut he had built himself on Emerson’s woodlot at Walden Pond, has become a classic of American literature for its introspection blended with natural history. His Civil Disobedience, written as an explanation of his non-payment of taxes as a protest against the Mexican-American war, is still influential, and his books on his journeys to Maine, Canada and Cape Cod go much deeper than mere travelogues. Thoreau is also credited with the invention of raisin bread.
Jay DiPrima will read from Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience at seven o’clock next Thursday evening at the Sawyer Free Library as part of the Gloucester Lyceum Series.
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Community Photos 11/10/13
Cape Ann Y swim Team with Dara Torres
Kathy Slifer submits-
Hi Joey ,
Members of our Cape Ann Y Masters swimming group Catherine Mciff, Andi Freedman and Lisa Zraket take a ” racing start and turn” clinic from 5 time Olympian Dara Torres at Harvard last weekend.
Go team !
Kathy Slifer
photo by Lisa Zraket
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Community Stuff 11/10/13
POP GALLERY PRESENTS:
Our SPAlidays Offer!
This month, if you spend $75 at POP, you will receive a coupon for 10% off a 60, 75 or 90 minute massage at Saltwater Massage at 161 Main Street!
Likewise, if you purchase a 60,75 or 90 minute massage at Saltwater Massage, you will receive a coupon for 20% off at POP!
We all get stressed around the start of “holiday shopping season”. Why not kill two birds with one stone as they say? Shop POP’s extensive array of soothing soaps, lotions and aromatic candles! Then, unwind with a nice massage… all on the same street! Shop local, stress less.
TURNER’S SEAFOOD AT LYCEUM HALL SAILS INTO SALEM, PERMANENTLY MOORED AT ICONIC LYCEUM HALL
This November, Turner’s Seafood family, brothers Jim, Joe, John Jr. & Chris, are bringing four generations of experience, expertise and their passion for all things seafood to Salem, opening an authentic New England seafood restaurant and market in storied Lyceum Hall on Monday, November 18th. Turner’s Seafood at Lyceum Hall expands their culinary footprint adding to their Melrose restaurant grill and market, and up to Cape Ann for their seafood plant and market. Diners will experience the restaurant’s signature seafood cuisine, a lively oyster bar and Salem’s first fresh, locally- sourced seafood market.
“Over the past five years we were casually looking for a very special space to offer our seafood dining and fresh-catch market in the heart of the North Shore. The first time I walked through the Hall I imagined a time past, a true seafood eatery with classic fish and chips prepared the way they should be,” recalled, Jim Turner, owner, Turner’s Seafood, “The genuine seafood model and quality standards that define our Melrose restaurant are the experiences our dining guests and market customers will have with us in our new Salem home, and more.”
As stewards of Lyceum Hall, the Turner family’s seafood heritage and appreciation for the region’s history culminates in a seamless fit between restaurant and the Hall’s architectural bones, influencing their thoughtful approach to the design in developing a welcoming environment, partnering with the esteemed Boston architectural firm, Niemitz Design Group. Dining guests will find familiar amenities long-valued along with new spaces to experience.
Executive Chef Yale Woodson, with a rich background in the culinary arts, especially the sea’s bounty, leads a kitchen team whose menu centerpiece will be a creative mix of appetizers and entrees from Turner’s authentic New England seafood classics paired with Chef’s interpretive culinary spirit for blending available foods of the moment.
“Our team selectively sources and prepares food to please the full range of the senses, stimulating, and striving to create a memorable seafood dining experience for our guests … every visit,” explained Yale Woodson, executive chef, Turner’s Seafood.
And, it all begins very early each morning. Jim Turner and his team inspect and pick from dayboats’ fresh-catch in historic Gloucester and Boston Harbors, immediately coming to their Gloucester seafood plant where it’s expertly handled and processed to demanding quality standards. Within hours, Turner’s delivers fresh seafood to market, arriving in Salem & Melrose ready for market customers and dining guests…minutes to Gloucester.
“We are privileged to continue the Hall’s heritage as a public gathering place for engaging conversation and the finest in hospitality,” noted, Jim Turner.
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Manchester Athletic Club Holiday Fair Dec 6th and 7th- GMG Will Be There!!!
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