I wonder if I could get those guys to make a big enough batch that I could just dive into that hummus and eat my way out. So Goddamn Good! Dog Bar doesn’t get nearly enough publicity for their food. They do a fantastic job.
Category: Eats
Meet Kathleen Erickson New Owner- Savour Wine and Cheese
Kathleen will be reopening Duckworth Beach Gourmet as Savour Wine and Cheese. She will be taking over the former Duckworth Beach Gourmet spot which was the former Ned’s Groceteria which was the former Donut Jim’s at 24 Washington Street Gloucester, MA 01930
Look for our video interview tonight at 5pm
For more info you can check out here site here-
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Common Crow Scone
I could use one of these right about now. With a Large Cup “o Joe
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Farmer Dave’s CSA in Lanesville and Gloucester
Bethany Bellingham Writes-
Good morning, Joey!
I manage Farmer Dave’s CSA, which has a Lanesville and a Gloucester pick-up location. Kurt Ankeny, one of our worktrade staff members at the Lanesville Community Center, suggested we send you this little video we put together =).
Yet another CSA pops up and here’s the video-
Lots of CSA choices this summer!
Here’s the link to their website–
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Lily’s Springtime Shortbread Cookies video from how2heroes!
Here’s the link to Lily’s awesome and easy Springtime shortbread cookies video that she did with how2heros last week. They came to our house and shot her cooking in my Mom’s kitchen and she had a ball. Because I don’t know how to imbed the video unless it is on youtube, all I can provide you with is the link so here goes:
http://web1.how2heroes.com/videos/dessert-and-baked-goods/lily-chocolate-dipped-shortbread-cookies
The recipe is on the same page and it would be a great rainy day project for today! Enjoy and if you watch, please leave a comment and I will be sure to share them with my girl–I am very proud of her!
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Alchemy Tapas Part III Scallops
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Passports Breakfast Photo From Donna Ardizzoni
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RYAN AND WOOD’S FIRST RUN RYE WHISKEY PART III
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Chickity Check It! Fellow North Shore Blogger Consortium Member Jane Ward Publishes “The Mosaic Artist”
Jane writes-
Food and Fiction blog followers already know that my latest novel, THE MOSAIC ARTIST, is published and ready to be read.
For other friends, this may be news. Here is a link to the blog post that describes the journey from idea to manuscript to novel:
http://wp.me/ppXh4-Nv
I’d love for you to pick up a copy, read it, and let me and other readers know what you think. One advance critical review is in and it is positive: http://wp.me/PpXh4-MP
I’d also be eternally grateful for the faith you have in me and my work if you would pass along the word about THE MOSAIC ARTIST. Your word-of-mouth recommendation to networks of family, friends and coworkers is powerful. If you know or belong to a book group, the group might consider reading TMA. I have spoken to book groups in the past, and would love to do so in the future.
The book is available on line through Amazon (print and Kindle formats): http://www.amazon.com/Mosaic-Artist-Jane-Ward/dp/1453860045/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1303222902&sr=1-1
and through Create Space: https://www.createspace.com/3488870
and, for local folks, through Jabberwocky Bookshop (Newburyport) and Bertram and Oliver Books (Amesbury). If you live outside the Merrimack Valley area but still prefer to shop in indie book stores, feel free to ask your favorite shop to stock the book. Ask for it by name, author, and ISBN (9-781453-860045).
I have asked a lot of you, my friends. In return I offer you my sincerest thanks for your friendship and support.
Jane Alessandrini Ward
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Easter Bunny Cookies With Sista Felicia at The Gloucester Daily Times Taste of The Times
From The GDT:
Felicia Mohan grew up waiting for Easter so she could eat these cookies her grandmother made. After her grandmother retired in Florida and was no longer around for Easter, her Aunt assumed the responsibility and now she has herself. The secret is to use this Italian pastry dough recipe, decorate your own Easter eggs with your kids, make a simple frosting using fresh lemon, and top with brightly colored sprinkles.
Get the recipe here
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Some Type of Healthy Desert At Common Crow
With my horrible memory I forgot what the lady said but you could throw all the greenie terms at it and it probably was what she told me-vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free, I’m not really sure if it was all or some of those things. Bottom line is it looked delicious and had I not stuffed my gut at Gloria’s minutes before I would have stuffed this down too.
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Labeling The First Bottles Of Rye Whiskey Produced At Ryan and Wood Distillers
Bob Hastings Tries His Hand At Labeling The Very First Bottles Of Rye Whiskey Produced At Ryan and Wood Distilleries In Gloucester MA
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Whiskey Barrel Aged Fisherman’s Rock-Porter At Cape Ann Brewing Friday Night April 22nd
This coming Friday, April 22nd, Cape Ann Brewing Company along with Ryan & Wood Distillery will be tapping our collaborative project; Whiskey Barrel Aged Fisherman’s Rock-Porter. Oak barrels used by Ryan & Wood to age their rye whiskey for 2 years were re-used by Cape Ann Brewing to age our Fisherman’s Rock-Porter for another 2 months. This event marks the first of many future collaborations between the two companies. Come down to The Pub at Cape Ann Brewing on Friday at Six O’Clock pm and talk with the brewer, Dylan Labbe Lindquist and from Ryan & Wood, the distiller Bob Ryan.
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Secret Shopper Gig At Mark McDonough’s Restaurants- Press Release
Press Release-
Love Food? Know Food? Win this Contest and Eat Well – FREE
Do you love food? Do you think you “KNOW” food? Then you could become a secret shopper and eat for free at local restaurants. Serenitee Restaurant group is running a contest to find 20 new secret shoppers to go out to eat and write about their experience.
Serenitee Restaurant Group employs a small army of secret shoppers to constantly monitor the quality of the food and service at its restaurants. Periodically, new recruits are sought to grow the foodie army and bring fresh new eyes to the focus on service. With summer approaching, new shoppers are needed to polish up service and skills before the tourist volume pours in.
Secret shoppers are given a $50 gift certificate to go out to dinner with friends to act as a secret restaurant critic. Taking mental notes on the flavors and points of service, they fill in a two page questionnaire about their experience and email it to Serenitee owner Mark McDonough. “We are constantly changing our recipes and retraining servers based on feedback from Secret Shopper reports. It is one of the most important management tools we use to make sure we are giving great food and service.”
And there’s a Grand Prize. The participant turning in the quiz with the best, most detailed and most accurate answers will also earn a free seat at The Alchemy Bistro May Foodie Dinner on May 5th at 6pm . This special monthly event is a limited seating extraordinary culinary journey with Chef Jeff Cala. Attended by culinary artists, food writers and amateur aficionados, and anyone who just loves food, Foodie Night is a guided tour of plate and flight in an intimate and convivial atmosphere. Seating is limited to 16 guests.
Here are a few sample questions from the foodie quiz:
- Which popular alcoholic beverage is made from the agave plant?
- What type of wines do you pair with cream sauces?
- What are your pet peeves around bad service?
To get a 20 question Foodie quiz please text “FOODIE” to 72727 or email owner Mark McDonough with the subject line “FOODIE” to NorthshoreRestaurantGroup@gmail.com. For reservations to Foodie Night without taking the quiz, please call Alchemy at 978-281-3997.
Serenitee Restaurant Group includes
Alchemy Bistro in Gloucester, a from-scratch tapas restaurant with musical brunch and art-centric events and atmosphere.
Latitude43, Oceanside in Gloucester, cosmopolitan New England seafood and authentic sushi pit.
Minglewood Tavern, adjacent to Lat43 Gloucester, boasting a wood-fired pizza oven, great live music and access to the Lat sushi menu.
Cala’s in Manchester-by-the-Sea, a great place for exceptional pub food and pizza
15 Walnut Bistro in Hamilton, farm-to-table dining, Boston quality presentation, in a comfortable neighborhood bistro atmosphere
Backstage Bistro at the North Shore Music Theater in Beverly, upscale menu, after theater bar snacks, prop filled room creating the perfect dinner and a show experience
Hale Street Tavern in Beverly Farms, an unpredictably casual and fun place for burgers, oysters, sushi and craft beer in one of New England’s oldest and wealthiest Yankee neighborhoods.
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Gloria’s Fried Pork Ribs and New Menus
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Making Italian Donuts With Sista Felicia and Nephew BJ At The Gloucester Daily Times Website
From the Gloucester Daily Times Taste of The Times-
These are considered a special treat by Felicia Ciaramitaro Mohan’s family, especially her son BJ, who helps make this recipe. Every Sunday, especially on religious holidays such as Easter Sunday, Grandfather Joe would make these special donuts “for us (seven Grandchildren) on Sunday mornings. This is one of many treats he and my grandmother Felicia would make for Sunday coffee time after Sunday Mass.”
The special ingredient in these homemade donuts is ricotta cheese. It is mixed into the batter and makes for a very moist and tasty round donut, which is rolled into powdered sugar right after frying them in oil.
“My Grandfather passed away when I was in high school. When my twins were born many years later, I remember counting the months till they could have table food so I could make them to enjoy on Sunday mornings and Holiday mornings just as I did growing up.”
“My kids enjoy them just as much as my cousins bother & I did. My daughter Amanda knows how to make the batter, BJ is a professional donut powdered and my husband is defiantly the best at eating them! With our busy schedules traveling with our daughter Amanda for tennis, Sunday mornings as a family are tough to fit in. In spite of this, everyone knows, including my nieces Eloise & Madeline, that when TeTe, Uncle Barry, BJ & Amanda are home on a Sunday donuts are being made while the sauce and meatballs are cooking for our family dinner!”
You may want to try them for a special day such as Easter or at any time you want to make a special treat.
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Dominos Pizza Any Topping Large Pizza $8
You can load that sucker up with whatever you want- only $8. I’ll take two for those days down the dock when I just want something to fill me up!
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RYAN AND WOOD RYE WHISKEY FIRST BOTTLES 4/19/11
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The Very First Batch Of Ryan and Wood’s Rye Whiskey Gets Their Labels Today and I Got Bottle #2
Three part video series coming this week with Bob Hastings, Bobby Ryan, Jay Albert whose photo of the Man at The Wheel was used for the label and Kate Glass, Gloucester Times photographer who for the record did not take a sip while on assignment.
There is only 4 barrels of this batch of whiskey so it is very special. Only 1200 bottles will be produced from this first run and they are the only ones that will come from the larger 50 gallon barrels as opposed to the others that have been put away for a future date in 35 gallon barrels. So go get yourself three bottles- one to drink now, one to put away for a special occasion like when a child turns 21 and the third for Fiesta (Bob’s idea).
PROFILE SHEET April, 19, 2000
Ryan & Wood Straight Rye Whiskey
Ryan & Wood Straight Rye Whiskey
Barrel # 11
43% ABV (86 proof) , packed 6 x 750 ml / case
Federal Standard of Identity: Straight Rye Whiskey
Whisky produced at not exceeding 80% alcohol by volume (160 proof), from a fermented mash of not less than 51 percent rye and stored at not more than
62.5% alcohol by volume (125 proof) in charred new oak containers, for not less than 2
years in new barrels
Rye Whiskey was what we first distilled knowing that it would years before we would learn what the aging process here in Gloucester would deliver. We processed only 4 barrels at that time, last July, 2008. Barrel # 11 exemplifies what we want to be for our Rye whiskey. We will follow with #’s 1, 2 & 10 as they are ready. We have since barreled, on average, one smaller 30 gallon barrel a month.
Rye Whiskey: Whiskey of Colonial America.
Barrels: Purchased from Bluegrass Cooperage, Kentucky, 53 gallon Whiskey Barrels, Medium toast, #3 Char
Grains: Rye, Wheat, Malted Barley
Barrel date: Barrel # 11 , July 12, 2008
Bottle date: April 19, 2011 , true “Patriots Day”
Bottles: 336 bottles or 56 x 6 bottle cases
Label credit : MGT design, Maureen Terrill.
Labe Image: courtesy of Jay Albert
Label thought: Gloucester’s Fisherman’s Memorial Cenotaph, aka “The Man at the Wheel” statue, is the icon of Gloucester. While stopped in traffic waiting for the “cut” bridge to be lowered, we all have studied the statue from this view. Our thoughts will drift out towards the Breakwater and beyond to the horizon. The romance of chasing dreams and what could be takes shape. We honor that vista with our label.
Ryan & Wood Distillery, “The Spirit of Cape Ann” is a family run craft distillery located in Gloucester, Mass. Other Spirits produced include “Beauport Vodka”, “Knockabout Gin” and “Folly Cove Rum”.
Visit www.ryanandwood.com for more info.
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Sugar Mag’s Now Serving Beer and Wine
Good Morning Gloucester 