I couldn’t bring myself to make the time consuming panzarotti but I did want to honor Nonna and my Italian heritage by making fish on Christmas Eve. While my Grandma isn’t cooking anymore, I wanted to make a dinner she might enjoy. My other goal was to accomplish this without spending an inordinate amount of time on the meal – there were still presents to wrap! I did all my grocery shopping on Christmas Eve morning, which ensured that it was all as fresh as possible.
Here was the menu for the small crowd who joined us:
Lobster spread with crudite and crackers
Bacon wrapped scallops
Maryland crabcakes
Baked, stuffed clams
Caesar salad
Lobster ravioli with herbed brown butter sauce
Roasted salmon
A very busy life has made me more than once want to throw in the culinary towel entirely but the truth is that I enjoy the tradition of food and the memories they bring up. So even though I'm not trying to recreate the original meal exactly, I hope to recreate the experience of everyone gathering in the kitchen and enjoying food and conversation that is celebratory, symbolic and delicious.
5 comments:
Deanna,
It sounds so pleasant and inviting as well as tasty. You brought a warmth to my heart with your wholesome program to carry on the family tradition.
I must try this. I hope that the corporate catering services that our company hired for our Christmas party will be serving this one.
I think the catering suffolk also served some Italian cuisine depending on what their customers like and also I think they are also offering some of these foods on special days and events. I remember eating the panzerotti during an event there cause just like what your grandmother told you they also believe that there are holidays they needed to serve specific foods by the way, I really love it.
We’ve included Italian foods in our wedding menu because my husband and I love to eat Italian foods. In fact making Italian foods became our leisure time.
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