Tuesday evening Eric Lorden owner of Passports Restaurant and Alicia Cox owner of Mamie’s Kitchen took over my kitchen for a few hours, during the St. Joseph Trolley celebration at my home! Eric and Alicia teamed up and whipped up a few crab meat dishes for our guest using 5 lb. of fresh crab meat Cousin Joey Marcantonio dropped off earlier that afternoon while I was on the St. Joseph Trolley ride with the Godmother of Gloucester “Sefatia. Alicia prepared dozens of delicious crab cakes, while Eric prepared a yummy crab meat scampi. Thank you Eric, Alicia and cousin Joey that was an awesome treat!
Are you wondering what to do with your St. Joseph Bread rolls?….This is a MUST TRY recipe! Joe Pace sells fresh Ricotta Cheese brought in from New York twice per week…Trust me it’s worth the trip to their store in Saugus Ma. to purchase this amazing cheese!
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Ingredients
1 St. Joseph Italian Bead Roll or 1 whole Italian Bread cut into 3 inch wide wedge
1/4 cup Fresh Ricotta Cheese
1-2 tablespoons Pesto (recipe featured in Gifts of Gold In A Sicilian Kitchen With Sista Felicia;Harvest on page #37)
2-3 Red Roasted Pepper strips
1/2 teaspoon Olive Oil
1/8 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
Step-by-Step
1 slice bread in half
2 spread Fresh Ricotta Cheese over bottom half
3 spread Pesto over ricotta and top with Red Roasted Peppers
4 drizzle olive oil and season with freshly ground pepper; fix top bread half; serve
Joe Pace and Sons is located @ 190 Main Street Saugus Ma 01906 #781-231-9599…don’t forget to tell them Sista Felicia from GMG sent you!
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HUGE Thank You to Steve Noble from Noble Electric. Today is Bread making day for the St. Joseph Trolley event tomorrow night. We successful maixed 50 lbs. of dough and then the mixer stopped working!!!!! YIKES!!!!!! I immediately reached for my phone to call our good friend Steve Noble. Within 5 minutes of my emergency phone call Steve was behind the door, to fix the technical problem with the electric mixer. We are back up and running Thanks to Steve!
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Producer manager Tom and his coworker Andrew at Stop & Shop has a beautiful display of Cauliflower and Anise Bulbs ready and waiting for St. Joseph Feast customers
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Scalafani Bakery # 978-283-6622 & Virgilio’s Bakery # 978-283-5295. Both are currently taking orders for St. Joseph bread rolls, nd both have amble supplies of semolina flour, and dried fava beans
Café Sicilia is located on 40 Main Street # 978-283-7345. Café Sicilia has announced that they will be selling St. Joseph Pasta on Wednesday March 19, and they are also currently taking orders for St. Joseph Zeppole. Call Nino & Maria and reserve your orders…They sell out quickly!
Cape Ann Fruit Company 978-281-5176 ~ Scott and his crew have been busy all week supplying host families around town with cases of lemons Oranges, Anise, and Cauliflower all week. They provide fresh produce and are great to do business.
…I hope this directory is helpful…and please don’t forget to tell them Sista Sent you !
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This past weekend The Cannavo Family were one of many who began preparing for this weeks St. Joseph Feast Day March 19th. Nino & Maria Cannavo, were joined by family and friends Sefatia “The Godmother of Gloucester, Pietro Locontro, Maria Margiotta Rossi, Mimma Cusenza, and many more yesterday to prepare over 50 lbs. of homemade pasta. Preparing for The Feast Of St. Joseph, is a celebratory tradition that family and friends look forward to each year. It’s gathering like these that make memories that last a lifetime
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This morning my new comare Maria Cannavo came over to help me make the St. Joseph bread for tomorrow feast. In less then 3 hours we sampled our first batch of hot Italian bread… Heavenly….. OMG …..Delicious! Monday we plan to meet again to make the bread for Next Tuesday nights S.t Joseph Trolley Festivities! Thank you Maria I’t always fun baking with you! XO Muah
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Teaching Ananda how to make the Zeppole filling …This year we are planning to make 125 Zeppole for our St. Joseph Feast! ….Sent from Xfinity Mobile App
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Who can pull together a Joseph Mary and Child Costumes by Friday night novena? It would mean the world to ” The Godmother” Sefatia Giambanco Romeo Theken and I … She has a special Treat planned for our Feast on Saturday…. Sent from Xfinity Mobile App
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Every Sicilian family makes their homemade St. Joseph Pasta slightly different. Some use eggs, some use white flour, some use semolina , and others use a combination of both. The combination of ingredients and the pasta’s thickness really determines both the taste, and texture of the final traditional pasta dish. The St. Joseph “Goranza” is traditionally made with Cauliflower fava beans, chic peas, and fennel frauns. Some Sicilian families add several kinds of beans and some add the stalks and bulb of the anise. Like all Italian and Sicilian recipes ….each family has their own twist. Many make this pasta extremely thick and heavy, I do not. Over the years I have developed this pasta recipe and mastered the technique of making it. If your looking for a pasta recipe that’s tender and delicious this is the recipe to follow….Even The Godmother of Gloucester “Sefatia” gave it the 2 thumbs up. She loved it so much she took 5 lbs. home after last years feast celebration.
This year we made 130 lbs. of Pasta, for our St. Joseph Feast, which we will be celebrating this Saturday. 130 lbs. of pasta may sound like a lot but, part of the tradition for me to keep alive is the tradition of send family and friends home with a container of St. Joseph Pasta. I can vividly remember a long line of people waiting with containers in hand during my Uncle Mike and Aunt Vincie’s St. Joseph Feast Day. A line from her stove in the kitchen, went through the house, out the front door and down the street 2 city blocks. People waited hours to get a potion of blessed pasta. For the past few years I decided to take that tradition one step further, and send my family and guest home with a bag of dried pasta, and small container of St. Joseph Goranza, so they can prepare and enjoy it one more time at home. It has become the grand finally of our feast day. Everyone waits in line for their opportunity to digs into the giant containers of stored pasta. Each fills a plastic bag up with homemade dried pasta, and heads to the kitchen to pick up their container of Goranza by the stove top. This new tradition is another Gift Of Gold that I hope to pass on to the next generation!
Good Morning Gloucester 