http://blueheronlocal.wordpress.com Cooking, Eating, and Drinking on the North Shore (and beyond) Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:08:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en True confession: Barbeque chicken bores me to tears. Maybe, as someone who doesn’t eat beef (except for the beef sushi incident), I’ve had too many mediocre chicken sandwiches in bars and restaurants across the greater Boston area. So when no egrets suggested that we have BBQ chicken for the Fourth, ... http://blueheronlocal.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/cold-peanut-noodles/ Up here on the North Shore, we haven’t seen the sun in….a long time. It’s achieved record-setting proportions.   Strawberries are the last sweet shred of life I am clinging to. We picked up some Marini’s strawberries from the Marblehead Farmer’s Market on Saturday. On Sunday, no egrets made strawberry shortcake.   Strawberries Slice up ... http://blueheronlocal.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/strawberries-make-life-worth-living/ See what the Wall Street Journal has to say about Cape Ann Fresh Catch! I believe this is the first CSF near a big city (and which also drops off in a city) in the US. Evidently we are cutting edge, up here on the North Shore (who knew?).  -goldlentil http://blueheronlocal.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/csf-and-the-wsj/ [New York Times, we are way ahead of you.]   It could just be that I’m an obsessive personality. Instead of buying a complete bike, I buy a frame and spend 2 years tinkering to get 10 speeds out of a 28-speed gruppo.  Instead of waiting and saving for a hot tub, ... http://blueheronlocal.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/the-obsessive-canner-and-the-zombie-apocalypse/ Yes please! No Egrets won my eternal devotion for making pork and apple pies, also known also as pork pasties, but if I put that on the blog title, lord knows who would have shown up. This is not a summer dish, but it is very very yummy. (see more below)   First ... http://blueheronlocal.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/pork-and-apple-pies/ Exciting news! This is a little lukewarm off the presses, as I've been distracted by other things, but sign up here for Cape Ann Fresh Catch. A twelve-week assortment of fish is available in whole shares (6-8 lbs. a week for $360) and half shares (3-4 lbs. a week for ... http://blueheronlocal.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/community-supported-fisheries-in-gloucester/ Before you run away screaming, let me explain. Always on the lookout for something with which to culinarily impress his friends, No Egrets began to think about ways to modify the sushi formula. What  he came up with was beef nigiri, a perfect dish to take to our friend's surprise ... http://blueheronlocal.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/beef-sushi/ I went out into the garden for the first time this year. Well, I had passed it while gathering firewood, or bringing something heavy around to the back of the house, but today was the first day I actually put my hands in the dirt. I got in touch with ... http://blueheronlocal.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/five-gallons-of-carroty-goodness/ Yesterday, I saw daffodils while I was walking through the rain, and believed, for the first time, that it was spring. (See, I've become a hard-bitten, cynical New Englander after all.) In preparation for farmers market season, No Egrets and I bought a pressure canner. We decided to practice a little ... http://blueheronlocal.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/canning-beans/ I'm on the road (again), but I saw in today's Boston Globe (thanks internet!) another article about Community Supported Fisheries. Keep the clamor going! -goldlentil http://blueheronlocal.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/the-globe-chimes-in-too/