My View of Life on the Dock
Hey Joey
May 23rd at 6pm Cape Ann Olive Oil Company will be hosting Mamie’s Kitchen for their cooking seminar!
Mamie’s Kitchen will be using the authentic olive oils and balsamic vinegars from Cape Ann Olive Oil Company!
Come in for marinara sauce and meatballs, salad, focaccia and tiramisu!
Did I mention this is a FREE event!
RSVP now! Limited space available!
Contact Lauren or Eric: 978.281.1061
or email: capeannoliveoil@gmail.com
Breaking UPDATE 6:50AM:
ALICIA COX, OUR BUDDY FROM MAIME’S KITCHEN IS MAKING A PAN OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST COFFEE ROLLS FOR MUG UP- GET THERE EARLY OR YOU JUST KNOW ED IS GONNA DEVOUR THE WHOLE BATCH!
We’re starting off the season tomorrow morning with a BANG! and if you’re one of our FOB’s we expect you to come on down and revel in the positivity and fun that will be sure to ensue. Meet your favorite GMG Contributors and other FOB’s, Bring a dish (not mandatory) and just plain come hang out.
DO NOT THINK THIS IS SOME TYPE OF INCLUSIVE PARTY! WE WANT YOU TO COME ON DOWN EVEN IF YOU ARE SIMPLY A CASUAL READER OF GMG AND EVEN IF YOU"VE NEVER LEFT A COMMENT OR BEEN TO ANY OF OUR OTHER EVENTS!!!
COME ONE COME ALL!!!!!!
THERE WILL BE FOOD, THERE WILL BE COFFEE, THERE WILL BE STICKAS, THERE WILL BE OTHER GMG PEEPS, THE ONLY THING THAT WOULD BE MISSING IS YOU IF YOU DON"T COME!!!!!!
Barry Marshall visiting from Pacific Grove, CA, represents at Khan Studio and the Good Morning Gloucester Gallery. You might remember seeing Barry’s paintbox on Paul Frontiero’s post https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2012/05/07/barry-marshall-shows-his/. Barry is originally from Gloucester, was on Rocky Neck years ago, and back visiting until May 26th. Aside from the fact that Paul and Ed were jonesing for deviled eggs and didn’t want to wait until Memorial Day weekend, tomorow morning’s Mug Up is also so Barry can meet some GMG peeps before he heads back home to the Central Coast of California.
If you didn’t check out Barry’s artwork, you can see it at http://www.barrymarshallpaintings.com/ and come by for Mug Up tomorrow morning from 9:00-11:00 am at Khan Studio & the GMG Gallery, 77 Rocky Neck Ave., G3 and say hi to Barry before he leaves.
P.S. In case no one can tell, Joey wrote the top part of this post. Hope to see as many of you as can come tomorrow. And remember, anyone who comes as a stranger always leaves as a friend.
E.J. Lefavour
www.khanstudiointernational.com
Send in your pics, bonus points if you include the recipe.
I’ll rate them based on three criteria: Taste, Easy To Prepare (if you can make it in an office without a stove or microwave you get bonus points), Nutrition Value.
Who wants to join me in my quest to get fit?
For The First Four Weeks I will award one prize per week from our GMG Swag Bag to the highest rated pic/recipe.
Contest winner will have to pick up their award and if not claimed within two weeks it gets awarded to the next person.
So you know when you have that brief moment of weakness and you’re hungry and you know you just gotta eat something but it’s not breakfast, lunch or dinner time?
You face decisions all day every day about what you’re gonna eat.
I’m not trying to preach here, just offer what has been working for me to keep my diet clean.
Pickles.
Loaded with flavor. When refrigerated have a nice snap to them. Zero Calories. So instead of grabbing the bag of chips, or the candy bar- pickles.
Disclaimer: I may turn green eating so many pickles as my cravings tend to perk up every second I sit down. Now I know how EJ feels about carrots.
I got the industrial sized jar at Costco. There might be a hundred spears in there.
Dining al fresco at le Gamin
We had a very successful move and my daughter Liv is loving her new apartment. See her blog Boston to Brooklyn for several photos. For a lovely belated Mother’s Day treat, she took me to one of her favorite restaurants in Brooklyn, a sweet and authentic French cafe, Le Gamin. The charming patio was open, despite the soft evening mist, and we dined in the garden under the arbor. On Monday nights they serve exquisitely fresh and sweet, all-you-can-eat mussels, poached in Chardonnay and fresh herbs, along with a glass of wine, along with absolutely the most perfect fries; crisp outer skin, tender and hot inside–and all for only $20.00!! Liv and I shared the mussels and salade Niçoise and it was ablsoltuely perfect. She had her favorite mousse au chocolat and I had the most divine crème brûlée ever tasted. I am so taken with Robert Ardor’s recipes, I’ve just this moment ordered his cookbook, in its third printing, Joie de Vivre: Simple French Style for Everyday Living.
Brooklyn balcony above Le Gamin garden, with fresh herbs. Cleverly, the dweller of this flat has draped a bag of soil over the balcony’s edge, reinforced the slashes with industrial tape, and planted four different herbs; with what looks like oregano, thyme, parsley and dill. I am reminded of the beautiful story A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
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No, I didn’t eat all of it but I gave it my best. Here are the food photos I took along the way.
I think the fork diving into my breakfast this morning says it all! Happy Mom’s Day to all the GMG moms out there!
Fresh and delish and I didn’t feel like ass after I ate it.
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This Webcam and more can be found at www.gloucesterwebcam.com
This www.gloucesterwebcam.com local webcam portal project was an idea I had last year to have as many webcams streaming from local businesses or organizations as possible which highlight the incredible vistas that we as people that live and work here get to enjoy each and every day.
The idea was to have the organization install the webcam, have them embed the webcam feed on their own websites as well and have a link to each business website on the Gloucester webcam portal website to showcase their business as well.
Tim Blakeley from Gloucester Bytes provided the initial installation at ridiculously cheap cost because he believed in the project.
I hope. My seasonal opening notes say that The Cupboard opens the first Thursday in May. So has anyone had the Fish Sandwich with cheese in 2012?
The season is opening. The tulips have gone by. Soon we’ll be hunting down that friend with the boat and go catch a striper. Best time of year. The beginning of the beginning.
So as a local who cares that a Bed and Breakfast is opening up? Because you can make it up to mom for forgetting to get something for Mother’s Day and take her to Mother’s Day Brunch at the Seaward Inn on May 13th. Patti DeRosa will be the artist performing 11AM to 2PM, call 978-546-3471 for reservations.
44 Marmion Way, Rockport.
Click for the menu: MothersDayBrunch-2012
No way they could eat it all….I got to have a taste and it was so good.
I had the spinach and cheddar omelet…..light on the cheese…….Delicious!
Fort Square Cafe is my favorite place to have breakfast. You can tell when a cook cares about what they send out to you and Heidi is the best!
| 29 Commercial Street Gloucester, MA 01930 (978) 281-3100 |
Doesn’t this quiche look good? You see why I had to take a bite before I got out my phone. It tastes as good as it looks and is one reason why I’m very happy that Atlantis opened their Cafe today!
Peter had the Fish Cakes Benedict.
Wow! Some of the best fish cakes we’ve ever had. Too bad they don’t serve dinner. These would make a super appetizer. Jessica the chef uses a secret ingredient. She wouldn’t let me say what it is, but you could always try to guess. The Atlantis Oceanfront Cafe is now open to the public (you don’t have to be a guest at the hotel) 7 days a week from 7:30-11:00am. I’d recommend going before the season gets crazy busy.
You can work up a good breakfast appetite by dancing tonight and there are plenty of opportunities for that. Peter and I will be at Minglewood to see our friend Brad Byrd with his “A” Band (but we’ll do our best to stay out of the video shoot). Now if you’d prefer to be on camera (see the folks from last time), put on something you want to be photographed in and come on down. Music starts at 9.
But if you’d rather not take the chance on ending up in a video directed by Hollywood’s Brandon Rose, check out the other more anonymous opportunities for dancing in the full music lineup here.
Tomorrow we’ve got a major announcement and a very special Artist of the week (actually 2 in 1). Stay tuned . . .
Isn’t that just one of the prettiest things you’ve ever seen?
A couple of weeks ago, I stopped to read the menu at La Trattoria as I walked down Main Street in Gloucester. A customer who was on her way in, took the time to stop and tell me how good the food is! So when a friend of mine came to visit the other day, I took him to La Trattoria for lunch to check it out. We had bruschetta and shrimp scampi for our appetizers, and chicken soup for the main course. We chased that down with tiramisu and gelato with limoncello. My friend also had a cappuccino, pictured above.
To conclude: The food was delicious, the servings were generous but not overwhelming, and the service was friendly and attentive. The restaurant’s design and ambience was classy and comfortable. So, I am glad that that customer I met on the sidewalk sang this place’s praises! She spoke truly. If you like good Italian food, give La Trattoria a try! It’s at 64 Main Street in Gloucester. I am looking forward to trying their pizza…
Great Call Laurie!
No matter how good the ingredients for a sub, the one constant in the making a sub a sub is the sub ROLL.
When you start out with the absolute greatest sub roll in the known universe which is what Virgilio’s makes you already have a huge advantage over everybody else. I’m not sure how you can compete. The move? Get there at 9:30 when the rolls come out fresh. Close your eyes and throw a dart at the sandwich board. No matter what it lands on, it’s likely to be one of the best subs you’ve ever eaten and it’s a bargain.
#Boom!
Good Morning Gloucester 