Yes, we still have the Seven Fish Dinner on Christmas Eve. Fortunately for me my son and his wife now carry on with this tradition. It has been modified a bit. We begin with shrimp cocktail, fried calamari, crab cake, baked clams and a fish salad that includes scungilli, shrimp, calamari and other fish as our appetizer. In the past I would make spaghetti with clam sauce as a second dish. My daughter in law now makes Bouillabaisse which includes mussels and a few other types of fish depending on what may be fresh at the market. We then proceed to have fried sole with vegetables. As you can see the Seven Fish dinner sometimes is more than seven but we have always taken that number as a minimum.
This is followed by assorted pastries and Juniors Cheesecake. Thank goodness Christmas comes only once a year.
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