Fresh Produce At Cape Ann Farmer’s Market

Ok, I admit it.  I thought the Farmers Market was just a handful of hippies selling fruits and veggies.

Boy was I wrong.  It’s just another thing that makes Gloucester an incredible place to be.  There was a good amount of people milling about and it was a very diverse group of people, not just hippies.  What a positive place to be with the Seafood Throwdown and vendors selling their organic goods, coffee from Pleasant Street Tea and Coffee Co, entertainment and so much more.

Its every Thursday from 3:30-6:30PM.  Chickity Check It Out!

For More info check out their website by clicking this text

Passports Farmer’s Market Pancetta

Passports Farmer’s Market Salad

Dogbar -Seafood Throwdown Winning Meal

Dogbar Seafood Throwdown Meal, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Seafood Throwdown At Cape Ann Farmer’s Market

Click the picture to view the video.

Watch Erik Lorden and Zack from Passport’s take on Joe Schultz and Christian from Dogbar at The Cape Ann Farmer’s Market Seafood Throwdown

Whiting Up Close and Personal

Whiting looks almost prehistoric, straight out of Jurassic Park.

It happens to be my very favorite fish to eat. Headed and scaled and fried up.  The flaky white meat falls right off its bone and you eat it like smelt, as if you were eating corn on the cob.

Whiting Up Close and Personal, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

This fish was a big part of our family’s business where many local people were employed.  With the big increases in water and sewer rates, it just didn’t make financial sense to process fish in Gloucester so we started shipping the whiting to New York back in the eighties and nineties.

Plum Cove Grind Blueberry Scones

Erik and Zack Call Out The Dogbar Chefs For a Seafood Throwdown

Check out The Seafood Throwdown this afternoon down at Harbor Loop. Press play below the picture to view the video.

Things To Do- Cape Ann Farmers’ Market

Thursday, September 11th

Cape Ann Farmers’ Market

3:30 – 6:30 pm Harbor Loop (rain or shine)

Children’s activity at the Community Tent, 4pm: Fun craft activity with Kathy Middleton-recycling.

Education Tables: Sustainable Cape Ann, Kathy Middleton-recycling, Green Roundtable-Green Building.

Crafts: Helen Parker Textiles, Camilla MacFadyen (block print t-shirts), Twin Lights-pottery

Produce: Brox Farm (produce and fruit), Backyard Growers (produce, eggs and seedlings), Three Sisters Farm (produce and seedlings), Cider Hill Farm (produce, fruit and baked goods), and The Food Project (produce and fruit)

Other Foods: Steve Connolly’s (fish), Swiss Bakers (baked goods & Swiss treats), AJ King (artisan baked breads & sweets), In Good Taste (salsa), Sassy River Sauces (pestos, chutneys & tapenades), Common Crow (ready-to-eat foods, regional beef, cheese & eggs), Pleasant Street Tea Company (ready-to-eat foods, iced tea & coffee), and Couttes Specialty Foods

Music: Trisha deCaprio – fiddler and vocalist

Seafood Throwdown: Two restaurant chefs will compete in this week’s Seafood Throwdown. Chefs from Passports and Dogbar, both Main Street restaurants, will find out what secret seafood they will be cooking with at 4:30pm. Once they discover the secret seafood, they will each be given $25 and 15 minutes to use the Farmers’ Market as their pantry and then an hour to prepare, cook, and plate samples for three judges and Farmers’ Market customers chosen randomly by volunteers and given a green “time to eat seafood” ticket. Our judges will be Boston based celebrity chef Didi Emmons and Michael Wheeler of http://www.dancingspoon.com.

Chickity Check It! Plum Cove Grind’s Delicious Sandwiches

The sandwich I got was the second one down on the right.  It was freaking fantastic and my mouth is drooling right now just thinking about it as I type.

Plum Cove Grind

I stopped by “the Grind” last weekend while in Lanesville.  What a find this little joint is!

Plum Cove Grind is to Lanesville what Last Stop Variety is to East Gloucester.  I had one of the most delicious sandwiches I’ve ever eaten from here.  It was a tuna sandwich but it also had (I think) candied walnuts and cranberries)  not sure what else was in the sandwich but it was excellent!  I mean EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT!

You just gotta try it.  It’s worth the ride.

Plum Cove Grind, originally uploaded by captjoe06.