When it rains, it pours as the saying goes- actually records all over New England are being broken including the Portland Maine rainfall record from 1953 which was broken Tuesday night. And here in Rockland the weather has been no different wet, wet, windy and wet - this means it’s time to work in the barn. How oakum comes [...]
Posted in Maine Vacations, Rockland Maine, Schooner Crew, Windjammer Vacations, Wooden Boat Maintenance
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Tagged Wooden Boat Maintenance, Schooner Crew, Scott Pavageaux, Maine weather, rain records, outfitting, Oakum, Toni Ridout, Bo Willoughby, Capt Jon Finger, 1927 schooner, Oyster Dredger
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This month Annie is focused on spring and digging in the garden. Recipe include: Spring- Harvested Parsnip Soup Leg of Lamb with a Provencal Crust Potato and Tomato Tian Email this • Share on Facebook • Twitter • Digg This! • Save to del.icio.us • Stumble It!
Posted in Culinary Travel, Maine Vacations, Recipes from Maine, Windjammer Vacations
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Tagged Chef Annie Mahle, Lamb recipe, potato recipes, gardening, parsnips, Maine garden, spring harvest, root vegetables, Parsnip Soup, Leg of Lamb recipe, Potato Tian
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March 29, 2010 – 12:49 pm
A few folks have been asking how the planning for the rebuild next winter is going so we thought we’d give you a quick update. We have made the decision to haul the schooner out at North End Shipyard for this project, keeping jobs local and supporting our local economy. It will be nice to have [...]
Posted in On the Homefront, Rockland Maine, Schooner Crew, Wooden Boat Maintenance
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Tagged Anne Mahle, J&E Riggin, Maine windjammer, Maine's tall ships, Captain Jon Finger, Andy Seestedt, Taylor Gentry, Historic Wooden Vessel, age of sail, windjammerfilm.com, Windjammer - a documentary film
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Annie is planning now for when you arrive this summer. Just a few weeks ago she got out the greenhouses and started winter sowing seeds. In the garden she has been planting peas, carrots, and mesclun.” It’s only March!” “Are you crazy?” Are just a few of the comments we’ve heard, but in Maine the [...]
Turns out 36% of you watch both new and repeat episodes and 25% of you watch it every time it airs on every channel it airs on! Love it! Only 3 of the poll takers do not watch NCIS….it’s okay, we like you anyway. It wasn’t a surprise to see that it was a tie for [...]
There’s always a reason to pick up knitting needles and delicious yarn, and now we have a very good reason to do just that. From now until March 26th, as a fundraiser for the Ashwood Waldorf School, we will be knitting as many 8” squares as we can and gathering pledges & sponsors per square [...]
The boys are back in town and we couldn’t be more excited. It’s early March and the first of our 2010 crew has arrived. Scott (you may remember him as Scooter or Scoot) is back for his second season! He left Texas a little while back and drove his way across country visiting people and places along [...]
One of the many projects we’ve been working on this winter has been with a talented Maine-based film crew, putting together a television show focused on Annie’s food, the Riggin and local produce abundantly found in Maine. We’re now at a point where a major network could snatch it up. Though we don’t know where [...]
This month Annie is thinking about going slower in the kitchen with certain dishes is well worth the time. Recipes include: Beef Bourguignon with Leeks and Porcini Mushrooms Polenta with Fresh Thyme Mixed Berry and Apple Gallette Email this • Share on Facebook • Twitter • Digg This! • Save to del.icio.us • Stumble It!
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Tagged apple gallette, Beef Bourguignon recipe, berry gallette, Chef Annie Mahle, Cooking, gallette recipe, J&E Riggin, polenta recipe, porcini mushrooms, Windjammer Recipes
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While brainstorming for this months newsletter we thought we’d do something fun. How many of you are NCIS fans? We know, completely random and having nothing to do with the boat, but all of us here in the Riggin office are huge fans. So just for fun we’ve set up this poll to see how [...]
