Tag: Family

Ladyfish at The Naples Pier

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As soon as we walked down the Naples pier for the first time, one of the guys yanked up a few ladyfish.  They look like small smelt but only larger and with a few extra fins.

I figured he was going to toss them into his cooler but he instead threw one back and rebaited his other rod with it to use as bait to catch a larger fish.

My Favorite Fish- Whiting

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Fried- It comes right off the bone and you eat it like corn on the cob. here’s some pictures of some whiting Sista Felicia fried up for the family.

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Five Gloucester Kids Inducted To St Mary’s National Honor Society

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Here’s the video-

Decorating Cupcakes (Or Something Like That)

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The Bean and Snoop Maddie Mad went to Sista Felicia’s to decorate eat red velvet cupcakes.  Trust me  not a whole lot of cupcake decorating went on.  I swear they pounded down a half dozen each.

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Sista Felicia Kicks Some Panini Ass

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She tells me that ever since she got this panini press that she uses it at least once a day and is thinking of having a panini cooking demo/party.  I’ll let y’all know when we iron out the details.  Hers is a Delonghi and looked to be constructed pretty solidly.

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The BrainCandy Family FilmFest @ the CACC

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The BrainCandy Family FilmFest @ the CACC
Gloucester, MA  (February, 2011)

The Cape Ann Community Cinema and The Brain Candy Project have teamed up to present a special on-going film festival that explores the foundations of American Family Cinema. Proceeds will benefit the The Brain Candy Project, a Cape Ann charity that supports parents who are living in hospitals with their critically ill children.

February is Animation Month at the BrainCandy Family FilmFest! (Click link for synopses of films)

February 12: The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird (1953)
February 19: The Hobbit (animated 1978)
February 26: Gulliver’s Travels (1939)
All shows are Saturdays at 11:00am, with one showing per film. Kid’s tickets are just $5.

My Dad’s Navy Uniform 50 Years Later Shipped From Detroit

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

About three months ago I got a phone call from my dad’s first cousin Joe from Detroit (yet another Joe Ciaramitaro).  Joe follows the blog daily and tells me he knows more about what is going on in Gloucester due to GMG than he does in his own town in Michigan.  This is something that I hear from Friends of the Blog all over the country.  Joe tells me he feels as if he could walk down the street and know everyone in town.

Anyway, cousin Joe’s mom, my dad’s aunt had his Navy uniform hanging in her closet for almost 50 years. I’m not sure how the uniform found it’s way to Michigan, perhap[s cousin Joe will write in the comment section and explain the story better than I can. 

My dad was stationed in Key West- tough gig, huh?  He was aboard the USS Saufley and from what he tells me part of his tour included circling Cuba during The bay of Pigs aboard the Saufley.

Well Joe shipped a box with his Navy uniform and sailors cap directly to my house where we stashed it away so we could wrap it and have my dad open it for Christmas. 

The uniform wouldn’t have even fit me but nephew BJ tried it on while everyone sat around stunned. 

It was a great surprise and made this Christmas super special. 

Thanks Cousin Joe.

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Here is the web page where there are many more photos of the Saufley and stories about it’s tenure in The US Navy.

Here is the page on the USS Saufley Website Where My Dad’s Listed on the Roster in 1960.  It says his rank was SA but I have no idea what that means.

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Sista Felicia Keeps Grandma’s Recipes Alive Through The Gloucester Daily Times Taste of The Times Series

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Every Christmas this dish was prepared by grandmother Felicia. It is an assortment of raw vegetables specially marinated in oil and vinegar and placed around the living room and kitchen in serving dishes. The main ingredients are carrots, celery, onions and extra large Sicilian green olives. Everyone who grew up with this dish ended up having their favorite vegetable that they would choose, hoping that they could get them before someone else did.

The celery and carrots are cut julienne style to allow more of the marinade flavor to penetrate and the olives were prepared by Felicia’s grandfather using a special cooking implement, his hammer. Rather than try and pit them, just smash the olive and place in the salad along with all of the other vegetables. The pit will come out easily once someone goes to eat one.

Click The Picture For The Video at The Gloucester Daily Times Taste of The Times Site

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At the site there are options to print the recipe and share it.  This is one of my favorites from our Grandmother Felicia

Sista Felicia’s Pinulata Recipe On the Gloucester Daily Times Website

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If you grew up in a Sicilian or Italian household or ever went to one at this time of year you may remember having Pinulata.

This is an Italian holiday treat that you can make ahead and leave in serving dishes around your house. Felicia (Ciaramitaro) Mohan of Gloucester makes them, based on her grandmother Felicia’s recipe, as little bites of fried dough slathered in a honey-corn syrup mixture topped with bits of chocolate, toasted nuts and fresh cinnamon.

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Click Here For The Downloadable Recipe and Entire Story

Our Elf On The Shelf Ziggy

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Every Morning When He Comes Back From The North Pole After Reporting On The Girls Behavior He Turns Up In A New Location.  This Morning He Was Riding Some Decorative Fish Dishes.

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Sista Felicia’s Saint Lucia Holiday Pudding Recipe

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Click Here To Go To The Gloucester Daily Times Taste Of The Times For The Written Out Recipe That You Can Print Out

Santa Lucia Day, a traditional Sicilian holiday that many celebrate, is December 13th. To Felicia (Ciaramitaro) Mohan and many other Sicilians it is remembered as a day when her grandmother invited all of the kids to her house to eat the large pan of pudding simultaneously in an “eating race.”

Catholic traditions tell the legend of how there was a great hunger in Syracuse, Sicily, and the town’s people had gathered in the cathedral on her feast day, December 13th, to pray, and two ships loaded with wheat arrived, with her at the helm of one, dressed in white, with a halo of candles on her head. This is the explanation given for the cucci, or cooked wheat which is an ingredient in all her festival ‘s foods. Cuccia, a kind of sweet porridge is made with wheat berries, chocolate, sugar and milk. Each family has their own versions of this dish.

For Felicia’s grandmother’s version, additional ingredients of cornstarch, vanilla, salt and fresh ground cinnamon are added. Felicia strongly recommends that it is worthwhile to go to a specialty spice store and find the Italian cinnamon sticks and grind them yourself.

http://food.gloucestertimes.com/?video_key=kbDzyfRY