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Field Trip Fridays

Field Trip Friday – Nokomis Beach

September 4, 2020 by Nicole Coudal

(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you.) Today marks 30 consecutive mornings of beach swims at Nokomis Beach!  My hubby and I started this effort to shake up our daily routine, and found ourselves swimming in all sorts of conditions, having tons of fun, and thankful…

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Field Trip Friday – Westport to Westport (Part 1)

July 11, 2019 by Nicole Coudal

(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) I’ve heard that road trips are good for the soul, and I believe that’s true. My hubby and I recently packed up the car, the dog, and (what seemed like) everything we own, to do what Julia Cameron calls ‘filling…

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Field Trip Friday – Sunshine Community Compost

April 18, 2019 by Nicole Coudal

Field Trip Friday Sunshine Compost

(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) Garbage.  Refuse.  Debris.  Rubbish.  Scraps.  Lots of words for stuff we don’t want anymore. . . But the one I’m focusing on today is scraps.  Kitchen scraps, to be exact – the magical stuff used for compost, also known as…

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Field Trip Friday – Kumquat Festival

January 30, 2019 by Nicole Coudal

Kumquat Festival Cover

(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) Taste of Chicago, Aspen Food and Wine Classic, South Beach Food & Wine Festival, and the New York City Wine and Food Festival — just a few of the many, well-known, high-end food festivals out there. But the ones…

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Field Trip Friday – “One Seed” Program

October 19, 2018 by Nicole Coudal

Field Trip Friday Sarasota's One Seed Program

(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) 2015 was the first time I heard about Sarasota County’s selection of Orphan Train for its “One Book, One Community” effort, sponsored by the Library system and the Historical Resources department (you might have a similar program in…

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Field Trip Friday – Suncoast BBQ (and Chili) Bash

April 27, 2018 by Nicole Coudal

FTF BBQ Bash Nicole

  (Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) I love chili, so when my friend Bill called and asked if I’d like to be a judge for the chili contest at the 2018 Suncoast BBQ & Bluegrass Bash in Venice, I said ‘YES!’ This fun event…

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Field Trip Friday – 4 Bees Herb Farm

September 1, 2017 by Nicole Coudal

Field Trip Friday: 4 Bees Farm

(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!). It’s a treat to get away from the “busy-ness” of our everyday lives, isn’t it? That’s exactly what I was thinking as I drove with my friend Robin on Fruitville Road, heading east from Sarasota, Florida. As we…

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Field Trip Friday – Mustang Flea Market

February 24, 2017 by Nicole Coudal

(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!). UPDATE: Sadly, effective June 30, 2020, Mustang Flea Market and Wagon Wheel Flea Market are closed, after 55 years. . .) ___ After 27 years in Florida, I still find interesting places. This time it was the Wagon…

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Field Trip Friday – Smoked Mullet Festival

November 11, 2016 by Nicole Coudal

Smoked Mullet Festival

(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!).   Florida offers so many big attractions, as well as, small backroads events that sometimes it’s hard to keep up. Figuring out what we’ll do each weekend is a fun project in our house because my husband and…

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Field Trip Friday – Geraldson Community Farm

October 28, 2016 by Nicole Coudal

Field Trip Geraldson Farm

(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) Ever have a moment when you pinch yourself because you simply can’t believe what you’re doing? Maybe it’s something you always dreamed of (like meeting Bono), or you just nabbed the perfect job, or you found an amazing…

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Field Trip Friday – Culinary Bookstore

September 2, 2016 by Nicole Coudal

field trip friday bookstore

(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) I adore reading food memoirs and old cookbooks — the older the better, for me. Spending time in dusty bookstores is one of my favorite things to do because you never know what you’ll find. Vintage cookbooks not…

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Field Trip Friday – Lionfish Derby

July 22, 2016 by Nicole Coudal

field trip friday_lionfish

(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) Be honest, the first time you saw this fish you probably thought it was just something for your exotic saltwater fish tank, right? I really didn’t know what to think when I saw Lionfish for the first time….

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