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Farmer’s Market Dinner- Pam’s Black Bean Salsa

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Last week while I was shopping at the Farmer’s Market, I sampled some of Pam’s Black Bean Salsa. I’m not a big salsa fan, but I love black beans and corn. It was delicious!

salsashotI had spent my limit, so put off buying some until this week when I got more stuff from the local farms and picked up a pint of the salsa (after, of course, trying another sample!)

I was starving when I got home and wanted something quick and easy. I threw some gound turkey in to start. I had no idea where I was going with it, but I often do that hoping for inspiration!

I had just gotten a bunch of veggies at the market, so I sliced up zucchini and summer squash and dumped that in with the turkey. Usually I’ll use diced tomatoes for a base for sauce, but this time I used 1/4 cup of the salsa. No other seasoning was needed.

It was excellent! And to add to the meal, I steamed an ear of the best, freshest corn on the cob!

Absolutely yummy! And everything except the ground turkey came from the Farmer’s Market!

If you’ve made a meal primarily from foods bought at the market,  feel free to send them in to us!  Thanks!

WhaZat? Winner! Mike Again!

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This week’s winner is Mike once again. He guessed that our mystery boat was the Nantucket Lightship II on the railways in Rocky Neck in 2005 or 2006. Congratulations, Mike! You can pick up your prizes at Capt. Joe’s!

Full copyClick on the photo for more info on the Nantucket Lightship and here too.

Lightship 612 was completed in 1950 at the Coast Guard Yard and sailed for the West Coast where she served as San Francisco Lightship for 18 years and then for a short period (1969-1971) as Blunts Reef Lightship. The ship then returned to the Atlantic Coast, the only lightship to have transited the Panama Canal both ways. 612 served as Portland Lightship, 1971-1975, and then as Nantucket II. In 1983 the last lightship station, Nantucket, was discontinued and 612 had the unique distinction to become a white cutter, sent to the Caribbean to act as a fueling station for the SES (surface effect) vessels engaged in drug interdiction.. When this assignment ended, the ship returned to Boston and was decommissioned in 1985, concluding 35 years of Coast Guard service.

WhaZat? #1 Another prize!

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We’ll try something new this week. Instead of a location, we’ll be identifying the object, item, thing, etc. This photo was from a few years back, but very identifiable. Have fun, and if gets difficult, I’ll add more clues!

This week’s winner will get a GLOSTA-phobic t-shirt!

The circles are in the correct place on the object. They’re not scrambled up.

Click on the photo for a closer view.

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Bananas!

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DSC_2977 [640x480]Richard Leonard was hamming it up outside Bananas yesterday. His displays are always a work of art. He is, too!

Where Zat? WINNER! MIKE!

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IMG_0181And the winner, Mike, guessed last night at 9:00:

“Upper Banjo at the dam”

It’s off 133 off to the left up Malcolm Rd. across from the Heights.

Hedge has a great map of where it is.

From Hedge–

“This is the view that clued me into it. In my excitement, I forgot the word upper. My bad.

Good one this time!

http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTSN&cp=r31xx19382pp&style=b&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&scene=275283&encType=1

You can almost match the “circular canopy” of the trees centered in your last clue to the ones on the side of this bing image.

I kept trying to find a place that would allow you to hear so many people talking in the background and it wasn’t until I saw this bing map with the house so close.

Keep them coming.

Congrats Mike.”

Well, that was fun! Stay tuned til next week. Monday at 12:00! And as always, thanks for playing!

Sidewalk Days Music Schedule

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Gloucester Sidewalk Days, hosted by the Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce’s retail division, opens today and continues tomorrow and Saturday, with Main Street closed to vehicular traffic from Pleasant to Washington streets — and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. — each day.

The Sidewalk Days festival has a new flavor, and a new name, but it essentially marks the continuation of the traditional Gloucester Sidewalk Bazaar, which marked its golden anniversary in 2008.

musicianWith the help of Blackburn Performing Arts, the Chamber has extended the live music program to two venues, one in the West End and the other near BankGloucester. To read full article, click here.

West End Tent

Today: 11 a.m., Jason Feinman; noon Karen Ristuban; 1 p.m. Second Wind; 2 p.m. Alex Knudsen; 3 p.m. The Boyfriends.

Tomorrow: Noon, Battery Foote; 1 p.m., Jamie Shaler; 2 p.m., Dan King; 3 p.m. The Dynamic Duo; 4 p.m., 4 p.m. James Goodeye.

Saturday: 11 a.m., Not That Blonde with Jim D’Augustine; noon, Gary Shane; 1 p.m., Satch Kerans; 2 p.m. Hum (with Deb Hardy); 3 p.m., Willie Alexander; 4 p.m., The Goddesses with Jack O’Hara.

Uptown Tent

Thursday: noon Ron Schrank; 1 p.m. Will Hunt; 2 p.m. Lost Wilderness Campground; 3 p.m. Pete Lindberg; 4 p.m. Essex Choral Society

Friday: noon Michael O’Leary and friends; 1 p.m. Gary Backstrom; 2 p.m. Bradley Royds; 3 p.m. Annette Dion; 3 p.m. Gary Barbati

Saturday: 11 a.m. Adrian Hunt; Noon — The Terrestrials; 1 p.m. Janice Fullman & Friends; 2 p.m. Joe & Renee; 3 p.m. Inge Berge; 4 p.m. Ric St. Germain.

Beach Traffic on the Weekends

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In today’s Times there was a piece about the messy traffic when out-of-towners come to Good Harbor. We all agree that it’s a pain to get anywhere on the weekends.

Realist responded to the article:

“I’m glad I’ve learned to navigate some of the side streets near Good Harbor beach to avoid the long line of traffic from S&S. Still, it’s horrible during the morning rush on Saturday or Sunday from all these people trying to get to the beach on the weekend. I try to stay off the roads from 9AM till at least 1PM. Then you’re safe for a couple of hours until the beach crowds start leaving…then it’s chaos again. It’s too bad the out-of-towners take over Cape Ann on the weekends for the beaches here, but it’s a fact.”

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Click on photo for more about Holland's switch to bicycles

Well a couple of days ago, I saw Holland’s solution to their traffic issues.  Maybe we should think about it.

Where Zat? – New Clue

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There’s a clue here that will help you identify the location of this week’s Where’s Zat. Someone has gotten very close to where it is. 🙂

Update on the clue: That’s not a rock.

ARRRRRGGH!

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I’m incredibly frustrated! To save money,we switched to Comcast Triple Play  from Verizon for our phone and internet a week ago. We already had cable TV.

 What a huge mistake! The cable guy installed it wrong, so we had to do it over the phone with some guy who knew nothing. Then, of course, the next day it went out again, so another hour was wasted getting it to work. Finally it seemed to be fixed. Five days went by, and each day I felt a little better about the switch.

And THEN…yesterday the service was extremely slow, and it eventually died. So we call again and this ditsy girl kept apologizing. I hung up on her when she put me on hold for the fourth time. Of course when you lose service with Comcast, you also have no house phone. So we’re using up our cell phone minutes trying to resolve this problem.

Well, after several calls, we got it on again. (And got a refund on our installation fee).

Yay, it finally worked late lsat night! Maybe it will stay on this time.

RIGHT! So why am I here at 9 a.m. on my slow-as-molasses laptop on somebody in the neighborhood’s network?!!?

I’m calling Verizon!

Where Zat Answer from LAST WEEK!

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It took a lot of figuring where this actually is. But we think it’s up behind the Lone Gull or the Joke Shop.  Joey took it from the Gloucester Bank parking lot.

I think Capt Wayno got it “Is it when you pull out of Sovereign Bank parking lot???????”

Think so?

Where Zat? Video with Prize!

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Uh…this video is just about the worst I’ve ever seen, but you’ll get the key points. If you know this Where Zat?, it won’t matter that you get motion sickness watching it. Good luck! And next time I’ll use my Flip instead of my iPhone! Or at least I’ll hold the camera horizontal instead of diagonally!

Clue: This is in Gloucester (not downtown), definitely off the beaten path.

You win a great CD of Kitt Cox’s music if you’re the first person to identify this location! Thank you, Kitt!

Whoops! I forgot to anounce last week’s winner! Watch for it at 4:00 this afternoon.