Category: Eats
HOMIES EATIN’- SUPERMARKET VS GRASS FED VS BRANDT BEEF
Eric Lorden Owner of Passports Restaurant In Downtown Gloucester Talks About The Differences Between Supermarket, Grass Fed and Brandt Beef in this installment of Homie’s Eatin.
Also featuring Toby Pett, Ed Collard and Lylacakes.
Special thanks to Cambridge Meat Packing salesman George Valentine who provided the Brandt Beef.
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Part I
Fraulein Rubber Duck (hey, did someone draw nipples on my duck?) figured that art would rule the day if the contest was held on Rocky Neck. It is the oldest art colony in the Americas.
So Fraulein went with a conceptual art installation of “Rubber Duck in an Ice Cream Kayak in a Sea of Whipped Cream”
Judges were also propositioned with a shot of nitrous from the whipped cream. The composition was stiff and the limp and a quite ordinary round cookie won. It seems the judges were looking for “taste” and were reticent to eat the art.
Part II will name the winners as the Rubber Duck stomped out before the votes were counted. Brenda beheading the rubber duck cookies will also wait for another post. (EJ told her to! Oh the humanity!)
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Sclafani’s does it again
Having just gotten back from vacation, I don’t have much food in my fridge, so today I went across the street to grab a sandwich from Sclafani’s (49 Washington St.) for lunch. It’s only the second time since I moved here (I don’t eat out often when I’m alone).
I got a small turkey sandwich with provolone and all the toppings except hots (lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, mayo, oil with spices…). As you can see from the photo, “small” isn’t exactly tiny – more than enough for someone like me. The meat and cheese were freshly cut, and the veggies tasted fresh and were not at all wilted or soggy. Of course, the bread was also fresh and delicious! And it only came to $4.28, which is a great price for a sandwich that filled me up! Granted, I usually have a small appetite, so a small sandwich might not be enough for everyone, but the “large” is only a little more expensive, and the quality is great. It seems to have been a while since Sclafani’s got any significant GMG love, but from my experience, they sure deserve it!
They are open Mon – Sat: 8:00 am – 2:00 pm.
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FUNDED!
#BOOM!
Sista Felicia Update!!!!
Well it’s official- The Kickstarter Campaign was a success! Tipped the Goal yesterday afternoon thanks to all of Felicia’s supporters, family and friends. Can’t say enough how proud I am of her and her team who worked unbelievably hard to make this a reality.
What a crew!
Excited to report that my Kickstarter project is currently 94% funded with 9 days remaining to reach my goal and see my dream become a reality! Please continue to help me spread the word and share my Kickstarter link with your family friends and coworkers.
You can pre-order your copy of Gifts of Gold: In a Sicilian Kitchen with Sista Felicia: Harvest at
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/95596299/sista-felicias-sicilian-cookbook
Although Gifts of Gold is completed and at the printer, my Creative Director James Eves III, owner and Master in his field at Cape Ann Giclee, and I have been busy planning The Red Carpet Cookbook Launch Gala Event to be held on August 28, 2013 from 7:30 to 11:00 pm at Cruiseport Gloucester. James has been designing the beautiful Sista Felicia logo-embellished tote bag that is included in some of the Kickstarter Pledge Packages. He has an unparalleled eye for detail in everything he creates. The invitations to the Red Carpet Gala are just as amazing as the evening we have planned.
The Cruiseport Gloucester staff has been wonderful to work with and very helpful in accommodating all the necessary details for this special evening. I am excited to announce Cruiseport will be preparing recipes straight from the pages of Gifts of Gold that evening and will be shaking up my favorite Lemon Drop Cocktail at the bar. Join me, along with my family, friends, Sista Felicia Team, and supporters, for a night of celebratory dancing, food, and fun!
Individual tickets can be purchased through pledging my Sista Felicia Kickstarter Project at this link-
Sista Felicia’s Sicilian Cookbook
$35.00 Kickstarter Pledge~Individual ticket to Red Carpet Cookbook Launch Gala
$95.00 Kickstarter Pledge~Receive 1 personally autographed hardcover first edition copy of Sista Felicia’s Cookbook, 1 laminated 13X14X3 designer tote bag beautifully embellished with Sista Felicia’s logo, 1 Red Carpet Cookbook Launch Gala Invitation, and a public thank you
$125.00 Kickstarter Pledge~Receive 1 personally autographed hardcover first edition copy of Sista Felicia’s Cookbook, 1 laminated 13X14X3 designer tote bag beautifully embellished with Sista Felicia’s logo, 2 Red Carpet Cookbook Launch Gala Invitations, and a public thank you
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR HELPING MAKE MY DREAM A REALITY- I COULDN’T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOUR HELP
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Check out North Shore 104.9 This Morning at 9AM To Hear About “Da Cookbook”
9:00 am Curtain Up! with Aurelia Nelson
Aurelia will be talking about Sista’s cookbook at 9AM
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Madfish Wharf Cookie MugUp Sunday 9:30AM
This Sunday, August 11th at 9:30AM, there will be a joint Madfish Wharf Mug Up on the patio behind Alma’s Arts & Antiques and Carol McKenna’s Gallery.
OK, Rubber Duck is going to crush the competition with a stiff and crunchy (not soft and limp) self likeness of the one and only.
Test Kitchen Run 1:
Just trying to work out all the variables. Quiet down in the peanut gallery. Yes I know this is not the right dough to make into animals. But there’s a will, there’s a way.
Oh, I think I nailed it. Not only did I make two ducks but I made a seal and a walrus too! Testing is over and the baking begins at 8AM tomorrow so these succulent crunchy Rubber Ducks will be ready to accept the blue ribbons.
It is obvious that if I go with no feet, I make them smaller (sheesh the big ones go nuclear) and I make a small head with an exaggerated beak I will end up with a flock of perfect rubber duck facsimiles.
ROCKPORT FIREWORKS: they are warming up. The start 9:30PM The Granite Pier.
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VIDEO- MARKOUK BREAD AT CAPE ANN FARMER’S MARKET
Grilled Breads and Sandwiches Made On Traditional Lebanese Saj
From The Website- www.markoukbread.com
Markouk Bread
Markouk Bread started its flatbread business at the Cape Ann Farmers
Market in Gloucester, Ma in August 2011. Since then, we have sold our
food at many local events including St. Peter’ Fiesta, Gloucester Block
Party, and Grand Prix of Gloucester, and the Gloucester Sidewalk
Bazaar. We also provide catering services on Cape Ann as well.
We prepare and sell a variety of foods typically found in Lebanese
meals. These particular recipes are from a small village in the Bekaa
Valley. We also sell some new items that fuse local taste with our
traditional meals.
All the breads and pastries are either prepared and sold fresh at the
point of sale or prepared at our business on the day they are sold at any
of the local events. We use the highest quality ingredients to prepare
our foods to ensure they consistently inspire those that eat them.
The Saj
The saj is a traditional cooking stove used in Lebanon and other places
throughout the Middle East. Most people there use a propane heated saj.
At one time, all breads were made with a saj over a charcoal fire. The
use of the saj brings out the characteristic flavor of the flatbreads
that we produce, unlike modern baking and processing equipment. You
will taste the difference.
What is Markouk?
Markouk is one of several local Lebanese names of the flatbread that is
cooked on the saj. Other local names include saj or hubs tabouni.
Markouk is typically eaten with some combination of olives, labneh or
other cheeses, mint, or zharta. It is also used to make a variety of
rollup sandwiches or wraps. Markouk Bread can prepare a variety of
sandwiches to your taste.
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INQUIRING MINDS WANNA KNOW… "Whatever Happened to Smokin’ Jim’s Bar-B-Q?"
Due to my (Joey Ciaramitaro) ineptness I completely messed up the fantastic press release that Judy Howard forwarded to me regarding the next step in the progression of Smokin Jim’s. With my sincere apology for messing it up so badly here is a revised copy offered so graciously by Judy for re-submission–
Well, here’s the scoop……………….. The property which housed Smokin’ Jim’s BBQ on E. Main St. for the past 12 years has been sold, AND, in looking for a new location to re-establish the business -I have been offered a FANTASTIC YEAR-ROUND SPOT IN GLOUCESTER.
We have expansion plans ready to include Authentic Southern Fried Chicken, Lamb, Brisket, Smoked and Grilled Seafood,- AND- Special Holiday Orders including Hams and Turkeys. We’re introducing Hormone-Free Meats and adding New Southern Sides (i.e. Homemade Sweet Potato Pie) to our already popular menu.
IMAGINE! 362 Days Per Year! It can happen this Fall in time for Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, Basketball, Football, Super Sunday, Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day,Your Birthday and EVERYDAY!
We need $$ to make this happen- so- if you love BBQ, want to go into the Business and have money to invest, or know somebody, this just may be what you’re looking for. We’ve outgrown summertime. This business has a great year ’round future. I’d love to talk with you.
CALL ME, JIM YANCEY- 978-283-3379 Cell 978-380-2553 EMAIL- bbqsmokinjim@comcast.net
MEANWHILE…
Our Catered Events business is flourishing and we are taking orders for full-service backyard parties, business functions, weddings, etc. as well as drop-off orders. Call us.
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Cape Ann Farmer’s Market August 8, 2013
Lots of smiling faces 🙂
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Kelly’s Roast Beef Rap Is Outstanding But We Up Here On The North Shore Know It’s Nicks All Day Long and Everybody Else Is a Distant Second
I’ve had roast beef sandwiches late night since back in my days at Bishop Fenwick in 83. Had em all over the place.
Listen to me right now- Kelly’s Roast Beef isn’t even in the same stratosphere as Nick’s Roast Beef. I could rattle off two or three other roast beef joints that decimate Kelly’s Roast Beef in the roast beef game. 9 times out of 10 Kelly’s comes with gray dried out meat. Nothing like the succulent rare beef you’re gonna get at Nicks.
Supreme’s, Rockport House easily better than Kelly’s. Not to mention you go to Kelly’s and their prices are freakin outrageous.
I’ll give Kelly’s props all day long for the video though. Outstanding.
A rap video don’t make the beef taste better though bro.
When you want the best its Nick’s FTW.
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Poll- Do You Know What Froyo Means?
When speaking to my boy Craig Kimberley night before last I told him that I was on my way to Cafe Bishco with Beasley and Amandacakes for some Froyo.
His response?
“What are you speaking, Hobbit?”
Then again in the comment section someone asked what “Froyo” meant.
In this day and age are here people that still don’t know the meaning of Froyo?
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Nicole Duckworth Rolls with Baby Jude
Beautiful working mother of three Nicole Duckworth knows how to rock and roll and get the job done with her adorable seven-month old, Jude.
Just look at that happy face!
Jude and Nicole Duckworth
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Some Saturday Night Sailor Stan’s Chowder House Action
Featuring Sunny Fishcakes revue and Some Fantastic Glosta Cookin!
Chowder House At Sailor Stans With The FAM https://t.co/RuG6SFHtk5
— Joey_C (@Joey_C) August 4, 2013
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Nice To Be Treated By Beasley and Amandacakes for Some Café Bishco Froyo
Addicted- Uhm hell yeah we are!
After Work On A Hot Night- It’s Bishco Time Baby!
Froyo with this goon @Joey_C pic.twitter.com/gW9GVVnUWn
— Amanda Mohan (@_amanda_pleaze) August 2, 2013
#BishcoLife Froyo with @BJMohan @_Amanda_Pleaze #Boom! #GloucesterMA https://t.co/WS7pa9CH7x
— Joey_C (@Joey_C) August 3, 2013
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Sista Felicia’s Cookbook- Here is the Cover and Where To Pre-Order Yours
James Eves ~ Creative Director
Cape Ann Giclée
20 Maplewood Ave | Gloucester | MA 01966
TEL: (978) 546-7070 | CEL: (508) 284-2621
james@capeanngiclee.com | http://capeanngiclee.com
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Potluck Family Reunion
80 people all related to me. Scary to think about but I’ll keep them all on the other Cape. So my dish started with these girls swimming in Joey’s tank at noon and now they are red:
My strategy: claws and tails removed and chilled in the fridge overnight. (The knuckles and tamale the cook eats.) Then tomorrow morning take the meat out of the claws an tails, chop to the size that would fit on a crostini, mix with Mayo (just to barely coat) a touch of salt and bagged on ice in the cooler.
Crostinis will be fresh baggettes cut less than half inch slices and toasted in oven. A piece of fresh garlic gets rubbed onto the toasted piece and bagged.
Assembly at party the lobster meat into a chilled bowl and crostini around the edge on a larger platter. Am I missing something? (Besides Rubber Duck. She is not in the photo since she needs some tubby time.)
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Did You Get Your Sista Felicia Iced Tea At The Sidewalk Bazaar or Farmers Market Yesterday? Don’t be The Dope That Misses Out! Right In Front Of Sugar Mags Today- Get Some!
From what I understand the blue mason jars were all the rage, people just throwing haymakers trying to get to the front of the line to make sure they got theirs.
And who could blame them? When the sun is blazin there’s nothing you want more than to drink some ice cold special recipe Sista Felicia’s iced tea out of a aqua blue mason jar dripping with condensation from the icy cold goodness inside.
No brainer city right there.
All the cool kids are rockin the blue mason jars. Question is, are you?
Sista Felicia frazzled after sterilizing and prepping all night long for today’s Sidewalk bazaar with help from Beasley, Amandacakes, Mammaw and Uncle Barry.
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Captain Hooks Real Chicken Chicken Fingers- Tony Gross Proclaims “The Best Anywhere”
Thanks Kim Smith for picking up lunch 
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Let’s see how our neighbor throws a Block Party
Last month Beverly tried their hand at throwing a block party and it was very well attended. So they’re doing it again this Saturday from 5:30-9:30pm. And they’ve got BARRENCE WHITFIELD leading off the music at 5:30. Now that’ll be a rockin’ block party. Just in case you’re not sure what I’m talking about check this out:
Here’s a video of the first Beverly Block Party. It’s nice to see our neighbor picking up on our success!
Good Morning Gloucester 
