Tag: Seafood

Boston Globe focus on farm & sea to table | Gloucester’s Cape Ann Fresh Catch

Posted on by Catherine

Today’s Boston Globe: Meat and Seafood Supporters Tap Into Community Support by Johanna Seltz

features Gloucester CSA CAPE ANN FRESH CATCH: http://www.capeannfreshcatch.org/

“which started in conjunction with the Gloucester Fisherman’s Wives Association in 2008 and has about 400 people signed up for the current season…Recent species include…”

“Marshall gets her fish from about a dozen Gloucester fishing boats, and every CSA package includes a note with the name of the boat that caught the contents…” 

Boston Globe Cape Ann Fresh Catch Sept 17

Do You Love a Fisherman? Fresh fish Friday

Posted on by Catherine

Where were we? Beautiful family on that flyer

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If you haven’t guessed by this photo, we were here:

Gloucester Market- Turner’s Seafood, 4 Smith Street downtown Gloucester

My friend tipped me off to the amazing oyster rockefellas they make and we’ve bought salmon and swordfish for special events. We’re lucky to have several places to buy fresh fish and we shop at all of them– though not nearly as much as we should. What is your favorite fish to grill?

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT! HELP RAISE MONEY FOR SCHOLARSHIPS, ALL WHILE HAVING AN AMAZING MEAL!

Posted on by Craig Kimberley

 

PASSPORTS_DINNER NIGHT_PS!

Do you have a local community based group that want’s help with a fund raising dinner night? Please contact Passports!!

For The Oyster Lover-Topside Grill Now Having Oyster Night Every Tuesday Night

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Like Oysters? Love Oysters? Tuesdays are now Oyster night at the Topside Grill! $1.50 oysters on the halfshell, oysters Rockefeller, fried oysters, oyster stew, and scalloped oysters. Every Tuesday night, starts at 4:00, goes until 9:00.

Gloucester Seafood Display Auction- Grey Sole

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Here’s some grey sole at the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction.

Gloucester Seafood Display Auction- Grey Sole, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Within the first couple of years with my wife we were sitting at her parents house and somehow the topic of fish came up.  My mother in law told me she didn’t like flounder, but she loved sole.  I told her that sole is a flounder.  There’s a lot of people who don’t really know their fish.  I must admit as much fish as I’ve eaten in my lifetime if someone fried a fresh haddock or a cod fillet I’d have a hard time distinguishing the difference (and I’ve eaten tons).
My personal favorite types of fish in order of preference- fried whiting, baked haddock with the breadcrumbs, raw tuna, fried grey sole or yellowtail flounder, sockeye salmon.
Favorite shellfish- The Mrs’ Lobsterolls, steamed lobster with bernaise dipping sauce, baked stuffed littlenecks with my mothers’ stuffing recipe, Mexican Campeche brand shrimp with cocktail sauce, fried clams, mussels fra diavolo (extra spicy).
Look for part two of the video from the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction at 8AM

Passports Seafood Mariscos

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

I’m not one to mix up my seafood in one dish.  If I’m gonna have shrimp in my pasta, I don’t want lobster in there too.  If I’m gonna have lobster newburg I only want lobster, not scallops too.

I’m crazy like that though.  I know plenty of friends of mine that when we go to Passports  have to get this dish every time.

Passports Seafood Mariscos, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Monkfish At The New England Aquarium

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Before The Gloucester Seafood Display Auction came along and we were handling fish we would handle tons of monkfish.  The boats would sometimes sell them whole and sometimes cut the tails.  When cutting off the heads they lose over half the weight of the fish but the price would go up a ton.  Some people say that monkfish tastes like lobster.  I think that’s a bunch of bull but hey they gotta sell this ugly sucker somehow.  they have it listed as goosefish on the tag at the aquarium but as long as I’ve been in the fish business I’ve never hearda single person in the industry ever refer to it as a goosefish, even the government reports we had to fill out listed them as monkfish.  Here’s the wikipedia page for monkfish

Monkfish At The New England Aquarium, originally uploaded by captjoe06.