Tag: Eats

Ohana Pre Opening Premiere Photos Uhmm, Yeah You Better Get Your Reservations Now.

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Hello Ohana!!!!!

Here’s the number-

978-283-3200

Before you do another thing just take my word for it and dial it.  Like now.  Because if you don’t get your reservation in soon, within two weeks time when word gets out you’re not going to be able to get into this place. Don’t forget to let them know Joey C from Good Morning Gloucester sent ya!

Here’s the address- 151 Main Street Gloucester (across from the Lone Gull)

Here’s the Facebook Page

#Boom! 

Gloucester Game Changer- Shit Just Got Real In The Asian Fusion Dining Scene In Our Beloved Gloucester Massachusetts.

I could go on and on but let me just shut my yap and post some pictures and let them do the talking  (video at 8PM)

Chef Enx studied under Roy Yamaguchi and if any of you know a little something about Roy Yamaguchi you know the guy basically brought Asian fusion to where it is today.  Based on what I ate and saw last night it looks like Chef Enx took what he learned at Roy’s and brought it to a whole ‘nother level.

Chef Enx and wife Alyssa

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Click below for the slide show with more food pics and the who’s who of Local celebs making the scene-

Sarah Jane Submits Her Indonesian Barbecue Recipe For The GMG Easy to Prepare Loaded With Flavor and Healthy Recipe Contest

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The GMG Easy to Prepare Loaded With Flavor and Healthy Recipe Contest:

I’ll rate your recipe based on three criteria: Taste, Easy To Prepare (if you can make it in an office without a stove you get bonus points, without a microwave even higher), Nutritional Value. Minus 5 points for lack of photo.

I should also add that for nutritional value I’m going for something that will reduce fat, give energy but provide enough as to not lose muscle.  A fruit salad I understand is nice and all but it isn’t gonna get me through a work day.

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.

Here is Sarah’s recipe for Indonesian Barbecue:

Indonesian barbecue is my go-to, low-cal preference–modified to be lower-cal!
1 lb ground turkey
1/2 tsp ground cumin
2 tsp ground coriander
1/4 tsp black pepper
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 tbs bell pepper, diced (I use more)
1 tbs chopped onion (I use more)
1 egg, beaten (or Egg Beater, or 1/3 cup low-fat yogurt)
Preheat broiler (or barbecue grill). Mix all ingredients together well. Shape mixture into 2.5″-long, football-shaped balls. Broil for about 10 minutes, turning once halfway through. Done.

Okay lets get to the ratings, and of course I’m not tasting it but I’ll give the taste grade based on if a lack of perceived blandness getting highest scores.

1-10 in each category with the cumulative score being the final and minus 5 for a lack of photo.

Taste: All those spices you gotta go with a 9 on taste with the only ding being that I might like some type of dipping sauce to go over them so they wouldn’t be dry.

Easy To Prepare: Well it looks relatively easy.   Not a crazy amount of ingredients or hard to find ingredients, you mix everything together, shape them into balls and broil them.  Pretty easy but not simple enough to do in an office, I’m going 6 on easy to prepare.

Nutrition Value: Looks like a 10 to me.  Here’s a question and I reserve the right to change this score based on my lack of fundamental cooking knowledge- when you broil this, do you use oil?

So the cumulative score based on the three criteria is a 25 minus 5 for lack of photo gives it a total of 20.  If Sarah makes the dish and submits a picture within the next couple of days I’ll add in the extra 5 points.

Week 1 in the contest ends next Sunday night for submissions.

Check out Sarah’s Blog Here- http://seagardensandglass.blogspot.com/

mamma agata cooking class, ravello italy

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A few short clips from our cooking class in Ravello Italy with Mamma Agata and daughter Chiara

and here are some pictures from their amazing home-

May 23rd at 6pm Cape Ann Olive Oil Company will be hosting Mamie’s Kitchen for their cooking seminar!

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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

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MANDATORY FOB ATTENDANCE FOR THE FIRST GMG MUG UP OF THE SEASON SUNDAY MORNING!!!!! and Barry Marshall Represents

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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!!!

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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.

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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

Salmon and Spinach- Power Up Baby! Send In Your Healthy Easy To Prepare Meals- I’ll Post ‘Em and Rate ‘Em

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

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.

Poll: Joey’s Lunch vs Ed’s Lunch- Who Ya Got For The Win?

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Joey’s Lunch

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Ed’s Lunch

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The outcome of our completely scientific poll will speak volumes about our readership.

Eating In Italy- The Slide Show

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Click here to view the slide show

No, I didn’t eat all of it but I gave it my best.  Here are the food photos I took along the way.

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Passports Breakfast Can You Guess Which Plate Is Mine and Which Belongs To Ed?

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Passports serves breakfast on Sunday mornings

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Passports Cajun Breakfast-

Before

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AFTER

Plate A:

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Plate B

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Sunday Dinner At Sista Felicia’s 4/29/12

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Crab Tostada,Meatballs, Homemade Pane with the olive oil dipping, Chicken with the peanut sauce, and a fresh salad.

 

It’s Bad Enough I Didn’t Get To Eat Any But Then My Boy Craig Kimberley Rubs Salt In The Wounds In The Video- Ain’t Right I Tell You!

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Sunday Dinner At Sista Felicia’s

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Barbeque Ribs, Mudiga Steaks, Italian Wedding Soup, Pumpkin Pizzelle. Greek Salad.  The Mrs also made a molten lava chocolate cake which ended up being the knock out punch and an exclamation mark to the final day before my diet starts in earnest.

The woman is a beast in the kitchen.

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Sista Felicia Makes Pumpkin Pizzelle and a Sneak Peak at Her Highly Coveted Insano Cookbook

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She has every recipe typed out with step by step pictures and directions. Pictured is just a binder with all of them printed out from her digital files and in a ginormous 3 ring binder.  Some brilliant publisher is going to make her an offer.  With her already built in audience from these pages and The Gloucester Times Taste of The Times it’s sure to be a hit.

Are you planning to buy one when it gets published?

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aaaand The 2012 GMG Gloucester Earth Day Live Blog Starts…NOW!

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Just In- Alicia Cox from Mamie’s Kitchen just informed me that she will be supplying the peeps that come down the dock with a sheetpan full of the WORLD’S GREATEST COFFEE ROLLS!

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Boom!  That just happened.  I suggest if you plan on coming down and volunteering with us that you get here right at 8 or Ed Collard is liable to pound down half the sheetpan and you might go without Winking smile

95 East Main St Captain Joe and Sons

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We will be having coffee and donuts, giving away GMG Stickas and drawing names from our Earth Day Volunteers for some long sleeve GMG embroidered T Shirts and an embroidered GMG cap (donated by Paulie Walnuts) www.art-rocks.org. There will be an Art Rock hidden.  For our waterfront dockside cleanup.

Send in your volunteer pictures from around the city togoodmorninggloucester@yahoo.com I’ll be live blogging it all day long and we want to give recognition to all those folks that are making a difference today!

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Melissa Cox is picking up the goodies and yellow bags along with the ones that Rose LoPiccolo dropped off.  Melissa is also bringing disposable gloves in case you don’t have any.

7:10AM Melissa and Bill Cox show up with first round of goodies for our volunteers-

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7:20 Art Rock Is Hidden

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Alice Gardner Shows Up

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Alicia’s Cox’ Coffee rolls-

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Karen Ristuben writes-

Hi Joey,
Here’s evidence that every day should be Earth Day.
Karen

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We got 30 Bags, Pictured left to right Joey C, Melissa Cox, Bill Cox,Ed Collard, Alice Gardner and Kim Smith.

Alice Gardner did a fantastic job and picked up Cripple Cove Landing

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Pictured- Bill Cox Who Found His First Art Rock

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We are bringing the leftover coffee rolls, donuts and coffee to the Visitor’s Center at Stage Fort.  Great work team!  Thanks to Donna Ardizzoni and The One Hour at a Time Gang and Donna for dropping off water for the volunteers.  Thanks to our volunteers, thanks to Paulie Walnuts for donating the swag, thanks to Alicia Cox at Mamie’s Kitchen for the discounted coffee rolls, thanks to Rose LoPiccolo for her coordinating and Patti Amaral and the rest of the people all over the city and world who are pitching in to make this place we live a better place.

Alice Gardner’s Earth Day Photos from The Dock

Alice writes-

Joey,

What a fun time we had! Thank you and Happy Anniversary!  Love that limited edition sticker.  The last pictures are of my Earth Day Flag.

Rose LoPiccolo and Patti Amaral With their Earth Day Clean Up Crew At Stage Fort Park

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Earth Day Educational Material at Stage Fort Park

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Earth Day Volunteer List

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Fruits and Veggies Collected for The Open Door Food Pantry

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Rose LoPiccolo Reports-

Hi Joey!

Glad to hear it was a success down on the dock!  I don’t have as many photos of different locations as I would like to have had.  I checked in at Stage Fort Park – and there was a group hard at work spreading mulch, not sure but i think it was the Rotary Club – I’ll double check that for you.  Then I got a call  from Laurel Tarantino asking if anyone was looking for a spot to clean – she was at the lower end of Essex Avenue  – the marsh stretch to Dunkin Donuts… so I decided to head down there to give her a had for a bit before I bounced around to check in with everyone,  I ended up staying there all morning and never went anywhere else!  While we were cleaning – A Hiltz truck stopped and took about 8 bags for us – we ended up picking up about 20 bags just from that little stretch!!!!

Thank you so much for all your help and I really love my cool GMG metalic sticker!!!!

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A couple of late additions from Rose LoPiccolo

This just in from Bob Scola – he raked all of Pavilion Beach!!!

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Atwood and Scones In The GDT Food For Thought Column

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Let me first state that the first couple of times I’d eaten a scone they left me wholly unimpressed.  Dry, hard and crumbly and far inferior to your everyday muffin.

But then one day it happened.  I popped into Alexandra’s Bread Co for my usual 4 cobbles. Two for me and one each for Snoop Maddie Mad and The Bean.  They were all out of cobbles but John suggested I try a scone.  I explained my disdain for scones and he told me a story that I’ll never forget and have relayed to my children.

When you try something new that you wouldn’t ordinarily try and then you discover you like it, it’s like you’ve made a new friend for life.  I’m all about making new friends, it’s what I live for.  I know some people are happy having only one or two good friends but in my life I feel like if 1 is good 100 is way better.

So I try the scones at Alexandra’s bread Co and let me tell you, I was blown away.  These goddamn scones were moister than ones I had eaten in the past, they were scrumptious.

So try out Atwood’s recipe which you can find by clicking this link at The Gloucester Daily Times website-

Food For Thought: Exalting of scones is no food fiction

Food For ThoughtHeather Atwood

But if you’re a no-cooking fool like me and won’t get around to trying Atwood’s recipe head on down to Alexandra’s bread Company for the tastiest damn scones I’ve ever eaten, they’re one of my friends for life I’ve discovered thanks to John.

For Tons Of GMG Pictures and Videos from Alexandra’s Bread Company Click Here

Sailor Stan’s Now Open Friday-Saturday-Sunday

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The Rocky Neck breakfast institution seen here getting a little sprucing up!

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