Thursday, December 25, 2008

DECEMBER 24,2008

Here is a traditional Christmas Eve Italian dish: Baccala
The Pepers were HOT and the sauce was delicious
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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

For those that don't know it.
Baccala is fish.

Where were the smelts?

December 26, 2008 at 3:19 AM
Anonymous said...

When I was little and we went to my Aunt Louise's in Pittston for Christmas Eve dinner, we had the Seven Fishes. If I can remember, clams, shrimp, squid, smelts, whiting, haddock, and of course the baccala. I was too fussy and only ate the spaghetti with shrimp. I've never heard a good explanation of why there are Seven kids of fish.

December 26, 2008 at 11:42 AM
Mary Anne said...

Being from Eastern European peasant stock (despite growing up in our Eye-talian town), I had never heard of the Seven Fishes. That is, until the last few years when it is all I hear about when I explain our family tradition of not eating meat on Christmas Eve. It is then that I am assaulted with the seven fishes question. To which I have no reply. (We eat crab and lobster, thereby only hitting two.) Somebody, please provide the story....

December 26, 2008 at 5:40 PM
paula said...

Here's the best I can do, since I was brought up on with the same tradition. I hestitate to call this a fast just because you can't eat meat. Most people gorge on shrimp, clams & lobster and that isn't the real purpose of the fasting, whatever. Read on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_seven_fishes

December 26, 2008 at 6:40 PM
Anonymous said...

ooooh...there's a BLOG!!

http://www.sevenfishesblog.com/

December 27, 2008 at 12:20 AM
Cindi said...

Anna has always done the seven fishes ...I've tried, but it is just too crazy to accomplish. She DID make shmelts as I liked to call them. This year I made shrimp cocktail, crab in cheese and cream sauce, baked tilapia in white wine, stuffed calamari in red sauce and then I had pasta in red sauce with tuna, shrimp and clams. My version is to throw in as much seafood in the red sauce and if you hit seven after that combo, you are good to go. If you count my shrimp twice, I guess I made it! I just figured the "seven" was sign of good luck and plenty of food for every day of the week throughout the year. Never had baccala though

December 29, 2008 at 2:55 PM

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