My View of Life on the Dock
Michelle Tocco does her best Vanna White impression in this tour of the Duckworth Beach Gourmet Van at the Cape Ann Farmer’s Market.
Click the link below to check out the Duckworth Beach Gourmet website-
http://www.duckworthbeachgourmet.com/dbghome1.html
Fresh, Flavorful, and Delicious!
I have such a hard time not eating the food before I take the picture…
Ask for it. Trust Me You’ll like It!
Where you will find fresh Produce, Families and Music.
Click on photos to enlarge, also enjoy the video below.
Just saw this on line. i have no affiliation with the company or know anything about them but it seems like a pretty sweet deal so i’m passing it along.
Click on the picture to check it out for yourself
SUCKERS!
Eye Catching Title and a Half Naked Woman.
Just a cheap way to get people to click on this Post.
Samantha Brown is also my favorite host on the Travel Channel.
ENJOY!
tHIS pOST hAS nOTHING tO dO wITH gLOUCESTER!
A bit pricey for lunch, but then again I have never been sent to heaven with an egg-salad sandwich and homemade potato chips, oh my!
Johnny Arnold let us in on this freebie-
Who says you can’t get something for nothing?
Today seems like a good day for a nice cookie recipe. These are a prize winning recipe of mine entered at the Topsfield Fair and they are easy to make and delicious! Use the best chocolate you can find but don’t go out of your way–what they sell at the grocery store will make a wonderful cookie. You might even have the ingredients in your cabinet already so if you make them, let me know what you think.
Speaking of the Fair, the exhibitor’s handbook is available on line and the cooking contests are all lined up and here’s the link to the pdf of the contest–come on down and join the fun–you might walk away with a ribbon and bragging rights!
http://www.topsfieldfair.org/handbook/2010/FoodsDept.pdf
Triple Darks
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup natural cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon espresso powder
½ teaspoon kosher salt
8 oz 60% cacao chocolate, broken into pieces (you can use chips, Ghirardelli and other make these)
1 cup salted butter
3 cups granulated sugar
4 large eggs at room temperature
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
8 oz semisweet chocolate, chopped
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 4 large baking sheets with parchment and set aside.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, espresso powder and salt and set aside.
In a microwave safe dish, melt butter and 60% cacao chocolate. Stir until smooth and allow to cool slightly.
In the bowl of a stand mixer or with a hand mixer in a large bowl, combine sugar, eggs and vanilla until well blended and lighter in color. Gradually mix in flour mixture and then chocolate mixture and finally chopped semisweet chocolate.
Using a scoop onto prepared baking sheets, 9 to a sheet. Bake 15-17 minutes in preheated oven until cookies are flat and surfaces are cracked. Enjoy!
Lunch today – Tomatoes right from my garden with fresh mozzarella and basil growing on the window sill, EVOO, and summer squash and zucchini from the Farmers Market sprinkled with dill. Yum!
What could be sexier than your lady friend arriving at your house wearing this and carrying a nice mudiga steak sandwich from Virgilios for you? Right?
I believe Cape pond Ice packages their t-shirts in Ice Bags much the same way Virgilio’s packages their t-shirts in bread bags.
Annisquam Herb Farm has been faithfully blogging since August 1, 2005! Holy smokes!
Here is the first post way back on 8/01/05-
In February 2005 I bought what use to be an Herb Farm. The property borders a drainage brook which in turn flows into a saltwater cove. The Conservation Commission gave its approval of a small addition to the existing one bedroom structure which now joins the old house to the greenhouse.
There is a certificate here awarding the owners for growing and protecting the native plants. It is my intent to continue that legacy.
The grounds of the Herb Farm have not been tended for many years. There are many trees so sunny locations are few. There are 3 terraced gardens that were over run with plants, one is complete shade and covered with ivy and euonymus. I have tried to be very careful to not disturb the local flowers and herbs. I am finding wild things popping up in several places: digitalis, lunaria, strawberries and trillium for example. In addition to the desired plantings the knotweed had over run the the yard on the West side. It was so dense the well was hidden in a jungle of stalks. By late spring the jewelweed was 3 feet tall covering much of ground not inhabited by the knotweed.
Chickity Check out The Annisquam Herb Farm Blog Here
Highlighted on a recent romp through G-Town are Sugar Mag’s and Duckworth Beach Gourmet.
click the two links below to check out their findings-
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) means that you invest in the farm by paying at the planting season so the farmer has money for seed and then you get a share of the food they produce.
Our CSA keeps us in touch with reality of the seasons, the food, and gets us outside. (Not to mention it’s a great value and delicious!) It is so much fun every week picking up our produce and cutting flowers and herbs. Almost every week has pick your own such as blueberries and beans the week this was taken.
Here is the haul from our small share a few weeks back plus some focal art from my wee one…
Many local farms offer them and at less than $20 a week it’s a great value for our small share. If you’re interested, find a local CSA here at Local Harvest.
Kate Seidman, Chris (Missy from Sugar Mag’s Brother) and H
The other day at Pleasant Street Tea and Coffee Company on the counter there was a package with a whale popping out of the ocean saying Kelp Krunch.
I took a picture of the item, posted about it and now we have the definitive taste test with our boy Ed Collard who never met a food challenge he didn’t like.
Here is the video review-
There you go
Kat asked me to forward this along-
Our good friend Tinky Weisblat from In Our Grandmother’s Kitchens is planning a celebration of locally grown produce to raise funds for Mass Farmers Markets. See below:
To my fellow bloggers (and would-be bloggers):
You are cordially invited to a pot-luck feast! Please participate in an upcoming farm-fresh blogathon.
Loving Local: Celebrating the Flavors of Massachusettswill take place from Sunday, August 22, through Saturday, August 28—in other words, during Massachusetts Farmers Market Week.
The blogathon will be hosted by In Our Grandmothers’ Kitchens, with a little help from the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources and Mass Farmers Markets.
We hope non-bloggers will participate as well, of course! If you are interested in food (well, who isn’t?), please consider liking our Facebook page. We’ll keep you abreast of upcoming posts in the blogathon so you can read and comment.
And when it begins you’ll have lots of yummy posts to savor!
Funds raised during the blogathon (bloggers who participate will be encouraged to place a donation link in their posts) will go to Mass Farmers Markets, a non-profit charitable organization that helps farmers markets throughout the Commonwealth.
Please think about writing a post that week if you live or work in Massachusetts. Or if you used to live or work in Massachusetts. Or if you once spent a weekend on Cape Cod. Or if you have a particular fondness for New England clam chowder, Hadley asparagus, or Boston baked beans.
Posts should focus to some extent on locally grown food in Massachusetts. You don’t have to be a food writer to participate, however.
Gardeners can write about herb or vegetable growing. Architects can write about the design of barns or farm stands. Watchers of the statehouse or even the federal Capitol can discuss the politics of agriculture and/or local food. And so forth.
Posts can be recipes, critiques, short stories, reminiscences … whatever you feel like writing. Let the flavors of the Bay State inspire you.
Here’s how you can get involved: Sometime during the week of August 22-28, put your post on the internet.
Please make sure your post mentions the blogathon, includes a link to In Our Grandmothers’ Kitchens, and encourages readers to donate to Mass Farmers Markets. The organization’s donation link is http://www.massfarmersmarkets.org/FMFM_Main.aspx.
(If you have another local-food cause you’d like to encourage folks to support, that’s fine by us!)
Of course, we’d love to have bloggers show off our gorgeous logo, designed by the talented Leon Peters. You may also display a PDF poster in 8-1/2-by-11-inch format. 
Good Morning Gloucester 