I have made some wonderful fabulous foodie friends this year and am thankful for every one that visits, comments and enjoys reading my blog this is so addicting and the common bond is we all love to eat and cook! The other wonder of cooking online together is the admiration we all have for each other, you can feel the excitement when you have really had a great post in your comments, words and it's just a fabulous gift! Your all a wonderful supportive group of amazing bloggers. Some of the most rewarding friendships come from the universal bond of cooking together! I want to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of my readers in appreciation for all the time you have made to come here in 2010, read, comment. Your support has brought me a great sense of joy to move into the new year with such a wonderful audience of family and foodie friends. I can't thank you all enough for all your lovely awards and thoughtfulness. I hope I have returned that thankfulness in this heartfelt note.
Here's a blessing to share with you and all your families, our troops and those less fortunate this holiday season,"May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! ~
May you all have a healthy, happy and delicious New Year! Hoping for best for all of you in 2011. Here's to all of you to have the best blogging year to come ever, I look forward to all your new creations in 2011 with all my continued foodie love coming your way!
Now off to eat these wonderful Italian Style Christmas Eve dinners, watch the movie Christmas Vacation... and wait for Santa (smile)....
Our Italian 7 Fish Tradition
Now for my menu this Holiday season with recipes below:
( click on all the black links for the recipes)
Christmas Eve:
Starters:
Italian Seafood Fish Chowder Click for recipe
Main Dishes:
Mussels, Shrimp, Calamari Over Linguine Click for recipe
Traditional Seven Fishes For Christmas Eve basic recipe below
Seas Scallops Insalata Caprese
Shrimp Cocktail
Fried Shrimp
Fried Calamari
Coconut Shrimp
Baked Haddock With Buttery Lobster and Wine Sauce
Baccala
Best Ever Fish Fry Recipes
Basic Recipe for Fish Fry:
With any basic coating you can fry any types of Fish or Shrimp here is one we love its so simple:
1 large plastic bag add below
1 cup of flour
1/4 cup corn starch
seasonings 1/2 teaspoon of each parsley, dill, basil, oregano, salt pepper, cayenne, garlic powder
Shake rinsed off fish wet fish into the bag of seasoned flour, fry in hot oil, drain on paper towels.
Buttery Garlic Lobster Click for recipe |
Assorted Coffees and Drinks Click for recipe
Wishing you all a very Merry, Healthy Christmas and hoping Santa brings all of you this year the most important thing, the LOVE and Togetherness of your family~ Many Regards to all from Claudia @ What's Cookin' Italian Cuisine
Alfonzo and Catrina Wish you all a Very Merry Christmas!~ |
What a feast! Merry Christmas Claudia, may your time with family be the best ever!
ReplyDeletemerry christmas,claudia!
ReplyDeleteLOL Two fat cats I love them...two of mine are also round and thick. ;-))
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas!
Angie
I'm coming over! Happy holidays!
ReplyDeleteBuon Natale (Merry Christmas)!! I wrote the same thing on my recent Christmas post how fast time flies lol. I can't believe it's Christmas already.
ReplyDeleteWOW!!!!! What a great meal for Christmas Eve and you do it with great style! Love your cats dressed up and wish ours would settle for that. Here's wishing you and yours a great Merry Christmas and the best in the New Year, Claudia!
ReplyDeleteA true feast! Merry Christmas to you and yours and give a nuzzle to your Chirstmas cats!
ReplyDeleteA lot of nice looking food. It is only two of us so we just do finger foods, simple but probably highly unhealthy food for our holidays once the big annual party is over.
ReplyDeleteAhh! The seven "fish"...what a feast! Everything is so beautiful, and festive. My two kitties wish yours too, a Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteWe are invited tonight to a Sicilian, and a real all American Southern feast, at our dear friends' house.
Claudia-I am so happy that I met you thru foodbuzz, can't thank you enough for your friendship and support, these last few months!
Wishing you and your loved ones, a Very Merry Christmas-Buon Natale!
Yeah, you're so right! Time just flies. Another year to come! Wishing you & your family a very Merry Christmas. Hope you're having a marvellous time and enjoy the night.
ReplyDeleteMay god bless you all.
Best wishes, Kristy ((hugs))
Merry Christmas to you, too, Claudia! What a lovely feast!!!!
ReplyDeleteBuon Natale Claudia!! I love your cats!!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to you and yours Claudia! xoxo
ReplyDeleteThat meal looks like quite the undertaking but well worth it! You cats look too cute all dressed up for christmas! Have a merry christmas!
ReplyDeleteClaudia, I'm with Belinda - have an extra chair at that table! ;) I wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
ReplyDeleteClaudia,
ReplyDeleteA wonderful Christmas feast!
You and your family have a Very Merry Christmas!
Bon appetit!
CCR
=:~)
everything looks so great
ReplyDeleteMay you and your loved ones be blessed with the essence of Christmas — Love, peace, joy and hope — all your lives through. Have a most wonderful Christmas
Merry Christmas
Happiest holidays from my kitchen to yours, Claudia! Each of your seven fishes is a masterpiece, as usual!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Claudia with Joy and Happiness!! Am I invited to this wonderful menu?
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Gera
Claudia
ReplyDeleteWhat an incredible feast for Christmas dinner!!
Buon Natale!
Dennis
Un menu' ricco e goloso. Buon Natale e felice 2011 a te e a tutta la tua famiglia. Un abbraccio Daniela.
ReplyDeleteClaudia, everything looks fantastic as always.Buon Natale!!!!
ReplyDeleteYour incredibly put together holiday feast...good company and such cute kitties...how well surrounded you are Claudia.
ReplyDeleteI'll be coming back later to check out some of your great posts later...I just wanted to pass by and wish you great holiday times and all the best in the New Year ;o)
Buon Natale and flavourful wishes,
Claudia
haha, very cute cats. enjoy your feast! Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful and traditional Christmas! Love the kitties! Merry Christmas
ReplyDeleteWow, what a feast! Merry Christmas to you and your family!
ReplyDeleteYour kitties are so adorable!
hey claudia marry christmas and happy new year to u and your family really nice menu!
ReplyDeletewow really great menu merry christmas to u and your family.........
ReplyDeleteSo, officially, the secret reason I wish I was Italian is the Seven Fishes Christmas Eve dinner that all Italians get to enjoy, and all Armenians (namely me) feel bad about, lol. Maybe I should marry an Italian :)
ReplyDeleteClaudia, I am truly pea green with envy that you have practiced and enjoyed the Italian tradition of the Feast of the Seven Fishes! My family is from the Northern mountains and there may have been a river fish here or there, but nothing else! So when I asked my mother why we never celebrated this feast, she explained the geographic reason and their mountain poverty in Northern Italy. I am sure that it is and was perfectly wonderful! I hope your Christmas was beautiful and that you have a blessed New Year! Amore, Roz
ReplyDeleteHi Claudia,
ReplyDeleteI love this page! I finally got around to adding my families menu for The Seven Fishes to my site. You can check it here:
http://www.spaghettisauceandmeatballs.com/feast_of_the_seven_fishes.html
I will be working on nailing down these recipe hopefully this Christmas!
Peace and Joy! ~ Anthony