Category: Eats

First-Ever Blue Shutters Beachside Inn Chili Cook-Off Set for February 12.

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All guests need to do is bring a pot of chili for everyone to enjoy, and they get 25% off their weekend stay. Our judges – including Jeremy Goldberg from Cape Ann Brewing and Doug Silva from the Topside Grill and Pub — will choose a winner that Saturday evening, and the chili champion gets a gift certificate for a free return visit.

If folks would like to come and stay a night or two and just taste the chili, that’s OK too.

This could be a great way to spice up Valentines Day (just a few days later) — while we’ll be enjoying chili on Saturday night, there will be time for a romantic dinner downtown, a glass of champagne by the fire, a walk on the beach and much more.

Anyone who’s interested should call or email us to make a reservation and get in on the fun!

Ph: 978-283-1198

Email: info@blueshuttersbeachside.com

www.blueshuttersbeachside.com

Palermos Brick Oven Pizzeria First Look Video

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63 Washington Street Gloucester MAIn the former space of Trupianos ,The Causeway second location, Andiamos, Culina Café and now Palermos Brick Oven Pizzeria.  63 Washington Street Gloucester MA

Look for menu pictures and food pictures over the next few days.

Pigeon Cove Circle to Host Fried Dough Breakfast

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Party smileFried Dough BreakfastRolling on the floor laughing

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Saturday, February 5, 2011 
9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

(Snow date Feb. 12)
at Pigeon Cove Circle, Six Breakwater Avenue,
Rockport

(take right after former Tool Company).
Admission $4. for adults; $2. for children.

Heather Atwood and Joanne Avallon Prepare Winter Sausage Giambotta Video at The Taste of the Times

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Heather Atwood of Food For Thought invited an old friend to her kitchen to cook one of the old favorites from her Italian family’s recipes. It is quick, easy and proves again that there seems to be no limit to the various ways that Italian peasant food can be made to taste delicious. A giambotta is an Italian stew, particularly hearty and good for the winter months. It can be vegetarian or with meat, but Joanne Avalaon prepares one of her family recipes the way they made it growing up in an Italian household, made with sweet Italian sausage seasoned with fennel.

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Cape Ann Brewing New Menu

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You can check out the Cape Ann Brewing new website here and also print out coupons hereimage

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Black Bean Veggie Burger With Wasabi Sauce At Cape Ann Brewing

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I don’t normally go for vegetarian crap, but when the lady mentioned the wasabi sauce she piqued my interest.

Schwwwwing!!!!!!!  Instant wood guaranteed with just one bite!  This sucker is loaded with flavor!  You need to ask for the wasabi sauce though and I had her put on raw onions for a little extra punch.

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The Diva Chips didn’t suck either.

Valerie Fay (Williams) Does A Bang Up Job Frosting Tricia’s Famous Carrot Cake At Stone’s Pub

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Anybody who’s anybody knows that Tricia’s Carrot Cake is the best in town.  Get your sexy ass down to Stone’s and try it, won’t you?

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Stones Pub is located at 242 Main Street (across from the Liquor Locker)

Legal Sea Foods serves up protest dinner of ‘blacklisted’ species article from Steve Urbon

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By Steve Urbon

surbon@s-t.com January 25, 2011 12:00 AM

BOSTON — As America goes green with sustainability, Legal Sea Foods restaurant president and CEO Roger Berkowitz is seeing red about published guides that he says have it wrong about avoiding some species of fish.

On Monday night, he did something about it.

At his Park Square flagship location, he teamed up with the Culinary Guild of New England, a nonprofit institution, to offer a complete menu of so-called "blacklisted" species, such as hook-caught hake and Gulf of Maine cod caught by day boats out of Gloucester, along with tiger shrimp.

Berkowitz’ point is that institutions such as the Monterey Bay Aquarium are often using outdated or faulty science when they issue their popular "watch lists" to consumers.

A generation ago, Berkowitz said in a broadcast interview that environmental groups such as Pew did much good work a generation ago but are now overreaching. "They’re in existence just to keep themselves in existence," he said. "They keep pushing limits. It’s just unfair."

For the rest of the article click here

$25 for $50 Worth of Seafood and Drinks at Latitude 43 in Gloucester

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Thanks for the heads up SunshineWalks-

This is listed at Groupon and I’m forwarding it along to you. It seems to be an outstanding deal.

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http://www.groupon.com/deals/latitude-43-boston

Gloria’s Breakfast, Lunch and Coming Wednesday Spanish Food Menu

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Click Menus To View Full Size and Be Amazed At The Great Prices

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DSC02313DSC02314Gloria’s is closed Sunday’s and will be closed Monday as well but then will resume the regular posted schedule on the picture of the sign above.

Gloria’s Breakfast and Lunch Now Open Inside Brown’s Mall

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Today they have pork that went into the oven last night.  Oh yeah, I’m gonna be a regular. The Spanish Food Menu will be available Wednesday.

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Brown Rice Chicken Red Peppers and Cukes At Common Crow To Go

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As Part Of My Healthy Eating Initiative The Great Peeps At Common Crow to Go Have Been Making Me Some Healthy Inexpensive Lunches.  Lovin it!

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Asher Peltz Sends In Abducted Rabbit Flyer

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Asher Peltz writes-

Joey, I was introduced to Gloucester a few years back and married in a couple years ago. My mother-in-law introduced me to GMG and I’ve become a daily reader.

My wife and I were walking to dinner tonight in Brooklyn where we live. I saw the attached flyer and figured somebody must have had it for dinner.  In any case, I thought of GMG.

Best regards, Asher

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Asher, this is just a sign of the times.  I fully expect that you will see more and more of these rabbit abductions by the eco-foodies who in constant search for eating anything other than hugely abundant codfish have resorted to stealing poor helpless pet bunnies from hard working American families so they can skin them and eat them and make bunny fur hats out of their pelts.

Poor Bunny!

I can just see the eco foodie nazi now at the top of a huge hole staring down at the poor defenseless bunny “It puts the lotion in the basket”

For more Rabbit Tales check out the latest from Edible Boston Magazine-

Edible Boston- Rabbit Makes a Comeback on New England Tables

Here’s a link to the article at Edible Boston Magazine- Rabbit Redux- Rabbit Makes a Comeback On New England Tables

Sista Felicia’s Pasta Gagoot’s Video At The Gloucester Daily Times Taste Of The Times website

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Click here to view recipe at The Gloucester Daily Time website

Referred to as "Pasta Gagoots" by many Italians from Sicily, including the family of Felicia (Ciaramitaro) Mohan, this is a layered pasta dish most often served when the cook has extra large zucchini or cuccuzza squash from the garden or elsewhere.

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Duckworth Beach Gourmet Reopens Jan 25th With Some Changes

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Greetings!

While we’re in the middle of our January "vacation", we want to let you know that for us this is a working vacation. During the time between now and our re-opening on January

25th, we’re going to be making a few changes in the store. We can see from our sales receipts that wine sales are up, so we are going to increase the inventory of wines, starting with wines that pair well with hearty winter foods.

And speaking of "hearty winter foods", we are rethinking our approach to prepared foods in order to make the offerings more appealing and accessible. Every day we will have a specially priced dinner combination that includes an entrée and two side dishes. We’ll even suggest a wine that we think will complement the meal. Of course, we will continue to be your "Invisible Caterer". We’re happy to provide some or all of the dishes for your dinner parties. Give us a little lead time, and we can work out a menu together.

Now that cardboard boxes and Christmas trees are stashed at the curbs, we’re eager to get back to our tasting events. They are so much fun, and we love the convivial atmosphere they create, so keep an eye out for dates and times.

Even though we listen to your feedback and track our sales, we want to be sure that we’re providing the items you want us to, so in the next week or so we’re going to send you a survey to see what other goods and services you’d like us to provide.

Our planned winter hours are going to be Tuesday through Saturday from

10:00 AM  – 6:00 PM. We look forward to see you.

Cheers!

John Lamirande

Laurie Lufkin $10,000 Pumpkin Cake Video At The Gloucester Daily Times

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According to Laurie Lufkin the secret to this prize winning recipe is the caramel sauce. The official name of the recipe is New England Buttermilk Pumpkin Cakes with Sour Cream Apple Caramel and Dried Cranberries. She created this dessert for a recipe contest that involved using a Hood dairy product, and in a moment of inspiration she used sour cream as one of the creaming agents for the caramel sauce topping. The result helped her to win a $10,000 prize and another step in her climb up the recipe contest ladder.

Click here for the video and recipe printable at the Gloucester Daily Time taste Of The Times Website

Attention All Local Bars- Send Me Your Info

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I’ve been in contact with the developer of BarBird– an iPhone twitter and desktop app which will stream all tweets from you or about you into one iPhone app.  free publicity to get you the much deserved attention you deserve.

if you don’t have a twitter account, firstly, shame on you and secondly get a free twitter account in your bar’s name even if you only link your Bar’s Facebook stream to it you will be listed.  I’ve been assured by the developer.

I already have @minglewoodtav , @alchemybistro and @farmbargrille listed on their site, the more local joints we get listed the more our area will gain exposure.

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You don’t need to have an iPhone to use this, check out the site on your desktop or laptop computer here- http://bos.barbird.com/map_view

The Farm Bar and Grill Reps the North Shore In State Dart Championship Match

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A few months ago The Farm Bar & Grille began competing in the Minuteman Dart league, one of the most prestigious dart leagues in all of the United States.  After a long regular season the Farm team beat out 12 other teams from around the Northshore and was crowned "Regular Season League Champions".  They entered the State tournament as a huge underdog due to their first year status.  The State tournament started well with a quick win, but since then the pressure has been mounting. The next three matches came down to the last dart but the FARM team always seemed to find the cork.  Just this past week The Farm beat another bar/restaurant from western mass in the State semi-finals to push them on to the State Championship.  This week, Tuesday and Thursday, The Farm will be competing in the State Championships as they represent the North Shore.  Their first game is this Tuesday 1/18/11 @ The Farm Bar & Grille at 7:30pm as they will be competing against the champions from the Boston division.  The Farm will be offering food specials to all the fans that show up to cheer on the team.

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