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Cranberry Compote

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20121003-213105.jpgMy Canadian friends and neighbors to the west and north are celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend. Blessings to you all!

Servings: 10

Prep time: 0:45
Total time: 0:45
Categories: Sauce & Salsa
Source: JudeTheFoodie.com

Ingredients

• 1 bag fresh Cranberries (rinsed, removing any damaged berries)

• 1 Cup Orange Juice

• 1 Navel Orange (Zest 1-2 tablespoons of peel; cut peel and outer membrane revealing orange pulp; with sharp knife, remove wedges between membrane)

• 1 Cup Yellow Raisins

• 1 Cup Granulated Sugar

Directions

In a heavy medium saucepan add all ingredients. Take the remaining orange membrane and squeeze it into pan. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium low and let simmer until thick, about 20 minutes. Remove from heat, cool and refrigerate until serving.

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20121003-213855.jpgHave a yummy holiday!

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Good Morning Youngstown

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20120905-080608.jpg It’s a beautiful morning in Youngstown. It’s a great day at the Fort Niagara lighthouse.

Have a yummy day.

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Lewiston Jazz Food Crawl: Think Open Container!

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I’m really excited about the Lewiston Jazz Festival for a whole bunch of reasons. First, I’m singing with Accidental Jazz at 1:00 pm at the Orange Cat on Saturday. At 8:00 pm I sing honoring Canada and the United States prior to the headliner on the mainstage. Cool!

But, what I love most is eating my way up and down Center Street. And, better yet, I can hold my glass of wine and walk down the street. Very civilized! To start, I will likely step off the street and walk down those cool steps to Hops N Vines and pick up what ever their glass du jour happens to be.

You can eat everything from sushi from Wegman’s and crepes from Holy Crepe. KAD Vending is making fried dough…fry dough for me and you have a friend forever!

Pigasus Roasters is making sweet corn and sweet potatoes along with something called stout cookies…call me intrigued. If you want a sweet potato pie look no further than Specialty Pies by Shirlene. The Country Popper is serving up kettlecorn, Singer Farm Naturals has dried fruit and you can get nachos, cookies and flavored popcorn from JD Enterprise/The Nut Hut.

20120824-003354.jpgDo you want pizza? No problem. Brio Pizzeria and Pizza Amore will take care of that.

There are sandwiches and sides offered by many of our favorite food vendors. Water Street Landing has sliders on the menu (brisket and crab) and a bread pudding (yum)! Fortuna’s has a marinated grilled chicken breast and Billy’s Beef has a tropical fruit bowl and funnel cakes. The Brickyard Pub & BBQ is serving their famous pulled pork sandwich along with a brisket sandwich. Both the Silo and Melloni’s are serving hamburgers and hot dogs. Each are also serving up sausage and peppers.

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The new kids on the block, Town Hall American Bistro, are serving Chorizo Lollipops and I cannot wait to try them. Casa Antiqua have their famous rice balls and Artichoke French makes a dish that is best eaten with some crusty bread to sop all the juice. Two of my favorites, filet of beef and ahi tuna are on the Wine on Third menu. Corn Fried Chicken Tenders with Black Bean Dirty Rice and Jazz Sour Cream (that’s the spirit!) can be found at Tin Pan Alley’s food stand. Seas the Day Seafood are preparing coconut shrimp and Louisiana Crab Cakes along with some very decadent dessert items. Macri’s Italian Grille has fried mozzarella along with meatball sandwiches, stuffed shells and rolatini. I am going to save some room for Syros Souvlaki and rice pudding.

Sweet Melody’s will tickle your sweet tooth with Gelato, Sorbert, Chocolate Frozen Bananas. DiCamillo Bakery has their famous ice cream sandwiches.

The Lewiston Village Pub is going to keep us guessing!

Are you going just for the music or are you going to partake in the food and drink? Let me know what you are most looking forward to eating.

Have a yummy Jazz Festival!

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Lewiston Getting Jazzy This Weekend!

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20120821-081527.jpgMost people go to the Lewiston Jazz Festival for the music and I’m here to say “Me, too!”

20120821-081430.jpgI am also going for the food. The next few days I will give you my Jude The Foodie take on a way to plan your culinary experience along with your listening pleasure.

20120821-082717.jpgI have the honor of singing to honor Canada and the United States of America before the headliner, Diane Schuur, who sings on the main stage at 8:00 pm. She is a Grammy winner and I hope I get to meet her…how cool! Check out the Historic Lewiston Jazz Festival website for many more details.

20120821-082330.jpgMeanwhile, since this is my own blog, allow me to do some shameless self promotion. I along with my talented singing partner Loretta Frankovitch and fast fingered accompanist Claudia Andres will be performing at the Orange Cat Coffee Company at 1:00 pm on Saturday, August 25, 2012

 

20120821-082539.jpgIf I could sing while I cook and make a fine living I’d quite my delightful day job before you can say Accidental Jazz!

20120821-083938.jpgHave a yummy day!

 

I’ll Level With You…I Love The Youngstown Yacht Club

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It was Memorial Day weekend, 1988. It was only two weeks after the death of my son. In weeks that spanned less than two months my son died, my father sold his business, I became unemployed, I turned 30 and had an emergency appendectomy.

A dear friend invited my husband and me to dinner at the Youngstown Yacht Club. We ordered cocktails and sat outside by the dock sipping and chatting with their friends. I knew a few of them from my Lew-Port days and others were new to me. No one was in a hurry to dine and when we did we gained at least six more people at our original table for four.

It was all so very civilized.

What I did not know then was that it would change the course of my life for years to come. At dinner I sat next to a man named Bob Finn. He and his wife Barbara owned Yachting World, the local yachting supply store. It seemed that he needed a bookkeeper and seeing as I was dazed and unemployed it seemed a good idea to hire me to work in an industry I had absolutely no knowledge of.

I had relative anonymity only one mile from my house because most of the people who I came in contact to on a daily basis knew nothing about me. I didn’t have to wear a name tag that said “Hug me, my son is in heaven!” The people I did meet were kind and the job was relatively easy. Previously I handled a payroll of 150 and now it was only five or six. Mr. Finn was no more demanding than my father and I sincerely enjoyed learning something new.

I learned about cleats and winches, telltales and wind meters. I loved that most of the people were happy largely because they were spending their leisure time spending their leisure money. This was so unlike the car business where you could count on at least one person a day yelling at the cashier because she was personally responsible for the fact they needed a break job.

I met Granny Orr, also known as the Mouth of the River, because she did much of the PA work at the Level Regatta. “Hurry hurry hurry! This nice young man is looking for a bikini clad young lady to crew on his boat.” She was a classic. When my son Anthony was born a few years later she knit the most beautiful Christmas stocking which we still hang every year.

20120726-222931.jpgIf you are near the Youngstown Saturday morning come and hear me sing the American and Canadian national anthems.

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