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My View of Life on the Dock
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From The Gloucester Daily Times-
Food for Thought Heather Atwood
No one can deny how fast the world has changed in this century, or the velocity with which we’ve discarded cultural traditions. Many ethnic foods are seen in the rear-view mirror as the bus pulls out of town, leaving behind raw sea urchins eaten at a picnic table, scooped with a hunk of crusty Italian bread, and speeds toward a horizon at which everyone eats basically the same 12 dishes.
Communities forever defined themselves by the foods they made, but now most children in this country choose macaroni and cheese over just about anything. Women choose Caesar salads, and men Buffalo wings. This is not about “local” or “sustainable” foods; it’s about the fact that some dishes — recipes that absolutely described who a person was and what community they lived in — for whatever reason are not so slowly fading into the past. Fortunately, in some cases, they are simply evolving into something different.
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Click the picture to view Felicia’s Video At the Gloucester Times “Taste of The Times” and learn how to make these traditional Easter Bunny Cookies. The same way that Grandma used to make em!

Click here to view a printable Easter Egg Bunny Cookie recipe
2 Cups Ricotta Cheese
4 Eggs
1 Tablespoon. Vanilla
1 1/2 Cups Flour
1/2 Cup Sugar
2 Tablespoon. Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon. Salt
Whisk Eggs & Vanilla
Sift dry ingredients together: Flour Sugar Salt & Baking Powder
Combine ,egg mixture, sifted dry ingredients and 2 cups of Ricotta Cheese together
Let batter rest 20 min.
In a large pot heat 2 inches of La Spagnola oil “vegetable/olive oil blend excellent for frying”
Drop teaspoon sizes of batter in very hot oil fry till deep golden on all sides
Cool donuts on cookie rack
Roll warm donuts in powder sugar
Enjoy!

At 2:00 today Saturday if you go to the Home and Garden Show my sister will be making her killer Homemade Italian Donuts at The Home and Garden Show.
I believe our very own Laurie Lufkin will be there tomorrow at 2:00PM on Sunday (Laurie correct me if I’m wrong) doing a cooking demo as well.
For more info including the schedule-
Sister Felicia’s Zeppelli, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Sammi, Bj and Amanda all plant Easter basket grass at sister Felicia’s this weekend. Today Joe Langhan and Gianni Gallo will be shooting another round of cooking shows at Felicia’s house. That place is a whirlwind of activity I tell ya.
The Bean and Snoop Maddie Mad’s Easter Grass Project At Tee Tee’s House, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Joe Langhan and Gianni Gallo produced the cooking show for the Gloucester Times Taste of The Times series. It also includes the Homebrew show and many other recipe on demand episodes.
http://food.gloucestertimes.com/?v=x84v7o82&catid=15004
Once you go to the video click that second button from the right which looks like a compass with north south east and west arrows on it to see the video full screen.
Last night we went over sister Felicia’s house for a dinner of native shrimp, pasta with teh shrimp and fried haddock. While there we shot a video which you won’t want to miss.
Felicia shows you how to cook the shrimp and make the perfect sauce. Look for it tomorrow night at 6PM
Gloucester Native Shrimp, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
If you grew up in a Sicilian house in Gloucester you know what this is-
Christmas Eve at Sister Felicia’s House, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
When I was at the Cormorant Shop during men’s night a couple bought one of my sister Felicia’s festive holiday bows. Sweet!
Holiday Gift Ideas -Felicia’s Holiday Bows At The Cormorant Shop, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
The Bean and Snoop Maddie Mad alays have a bow in their hair. After searching local stores over and over the Mrs couldn’t find any. So my sister Felicia is making these beautiful bows and Janice at The Cormorant shop is selloing them.
Holiday Gift Ideas -Felicia’s Holiday Bows At The Cormorant Shop, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
People comment how they love how The Bean and Snoop Maddie Mad always have a bow in their hair. Well it’s difficult to find bows around here.
We usually buy a ton of them down in Naples because there are a couple of shops that have them. Well my sister Felicia being the ridiculously creative person that she is can produce just about anything in the kitchen or anything to do with sewing. She doesn’t use recipes and she doesn’t follow paterns- she just is gifted that way. I know she got it from our grandmother Felicia and partly from my mother..
Well Janice Lufkin Shea will be carrying Felicia’s bows at The Cormorant Shop. So stop on down and pick some up for the little girls in your life. they make perfect stocking stuffers.
Cormorant Shop Carrying Felicia’s Holiday Bows, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

The first time I stepped foot on this pier I was 9 years old. My parents sent my sister Felicia (age 8 at the time) and me on the plane to visit our grandfather Captain Joe and grandmother Felicia. I remember back then my grandfather would get me up at 5AM to walk down to the pier to go fishing. It was 33 years ago and I can remember the sounds smells and scene just like it was today. My memory isn’t all that good but I can remember walking down to the pier from my grandparents apartment just like it was yesterday.
My grandmother Felicia would sit and knit under a palm tree at the foot of the pier on the beach with her girlfriends while Captain Joe would fish for snook, jack and spanish mackerel.
Now every time we go to Naples we walk the pier with my little girls- Captain Joe and Felicia’s great grandchildren and I remember all over again and we always take that walk right down to the end.
Naples Pier 33 Years Later, originally uploaded by captjoe06.
Madeline, fresh off polishing off a sundae continues to pound down food.