Food

Talking about local restaurants, carry-out dining, and favorite recipes.

• Recipe: Pork Tenderloin with Coffee-Cocoa Rub May 11, 2012 Liz Barbour, who teaches a variety of cooking tools and techniques classes at RiverBend & Co. in Shaw's Plaza, has shared this delicious pork tenderloin recipe. It'd be equally good cooked over indirect heat on your outdoor grill too.
• 20th Annual Letter Carriers’ Food Drive On Saturday May 12 Benefits Loaves & FIshes May 7, 2012 Groton members of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) will join other members from around the country and the U.S. Postal Service to collect items for the nation’s largest one-day food drive effort to “Stamp Out Hunger” on Saturday, May 12.
• May Cooking Class At RiverBend & Co. Features Liz Barbour's Vege Feast May 4, 2012 "Feasting with Herbs, Spices, and other Flavoring Lessons" is the May cooking demonstration and wine tasting by Liz Barbour at RiverBend & Company in Shaw's Plaza at Rt. 119 and 225. The class is scheduled for May 11 from 6-9 p.m.
• Deb Jefferson's Best-In-Groton Pizza May 4, 2012 I’ve never met a pizza that I didn’t like… A lot of us recognize really good pizza when we see it, but not many seem to want to make their own.
• Elegant Chef Wins Best Entree At Taste of Nashoba May 2, 2012 The Nashoba Valley Chamber of Commerce recently presented The Elegant Chef, the in-school restaurant at Nashoba Valley Technical High School in Westford, with a plaque for winning the Best Entrée Award in the Chamber’s recent Taste of Nashoba Valley competition.
• Eat at Bamboo; Turn A Page For Peace April 26, 2012 Diners enjoying the excellent Asian cuisine at Bamboo between Sunday, April 29 and Saturday, May 5, just need to mention the “Big Book” or “Pages for Peace” to their server and Bamboo will donate a portion of the bill directly to Pages for Peace.
• Nashoba Tech Students Use Their Noodles to Send G-D Chorus to London March 29, 2012 *29/03/12* Student members of the Groton-Dunstable Chamber Chorus are busy these days; so busy that they are “going in a hundred different directions” on their way to London, according to one parent. They are preparing for the performance of a lifetime; an opportunity to sing at several events at the 2012 London Olympics. The group has been invited to perform at eight or more venues before thousands of international attendees at Olympic Village and other venues around London. The excitement and the anticipation is palpable.
• Sandie Hersh's Ricotta Pie March 29, 2012 We love cheesecake, but this is lighter in texture and weight, so you somehow feel less guilty eating the ricotta pie. Made this for our Superbowl party and it was a big hit. I've had a lot of personal requests this morning for this recipe. I basically put this recipe together from a few that I found on-line and in my cookbooks. I love lemon... a lot, so I used that flavor in the pie itself. But I had a few extra in the refrigerator that I had to do something with, and decided to find a recipe to "candy" them. The candied lemons are good enough to eat alone or to top on ice cream!
• Irish Brown Bread and Bodhrans On St. Patrick's Day March 17, 2012 Forget corned beef and "Danny Boy." For me it's brown bread and bodhrans. The first time I heard a bodhran (pronounced bow, like cow, run), I was a young teenager.  My Aunt Mary had brought me to a Chieftans' concert. I went expecting traditional Irish music. With tin whistle and flute and these fabulous drums, the Chieftans filled the hall with a sound I'd never experienced. I've been a fan of the Chieftans and bodhrans ever since.
• 11th Taste of Nashoba Valley Benefits Local Non-Profits March 9, 2012 Area chefs and food fanciers are perpating for the area's premier eating and drinking event, the The Nashoba Valley Chamber of Commerce’s 11th Annual “Taste of Nashoba Valley,” scheduled for Tuesday, March 20, 2012 from 5:30-8:00 p.m. at the Lawrence Academy Stone Athletic Center in Groton. Groton food vendors participating in the area-wide event include the Bliss Bakery & Market, Gibbet Hill Grill, Main Street Café, The Bistro at Groton Wellness, and Rivercourt Residences.