Anybody serving seafood for xmas, Im doing up my great grandfathers Portugese, snail salad its the best !!! Thanks VEW

Yup, the whole nine yards...My Mother does all the fish, plus all the pasta, plus ham you name it its out! ..Xmas Eve at my moms house is bigger than Xmas day! I cant wait ! I am glad that side is Italian, eat good:humpty: !

Clams are good this time of year.....

Scungeeli.. (sp?) (italian snail salad) :drool:

Linguinni with white clam sauce, and red clam sauce, (yeah, she does two).. the there is the antipasto with the everything in it including the anchovies.. then it is on to the homemade raviolis, bruggole, meatballs sausages.... oh man.. :drool:

I do up a large jar of sill.. (swedish pickled herring & onions).. keep some of the swedish blood going.. great snacking.

i SEE FOOD, AND i WANNA EAT IT :drool:

That sounds good strike king:gu: :p

Eels ???:yak6:

same deal here, the big christmas eve celebration at my Aunt's house.
I think's she doing a Cioppino this year!
other than that, it's usually some mussles, lobster and clam chowder!

We mix it up each year. Sometimes lobsters for Christmas some times various kinds of land food. We always have oysters, herring and smoked fish etc, around as snacks but we eat so much seafood the rest of the year that having it for Chrismas is not that special. I think we are having a Christmas Goose this year.Goose is one of my favorite christmas dinners. There is something about the taste of goose fat that I love, I think I could take a bath in that stuff.

i SEE FOOD, AND i WANNA EAT IT :drool:

I see cheezy poofs right now.:jester: :cheers:

Just adopted 300 BI Beauties, living down in the harbor waiting to be eaten. Fresh horseradish, tabasco, beer, wine, ale, more beer. Ho, ho, ho... :buds:

Always.That and a nice chunk of Terrestial rib roast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gonna try to find the time for my stuffed quahogs..Need to pick up a bushel down at Joe's:)

Hey Bro, some of the stuffers better make it to my house.:bgi:

Baked Stuffed Calamari and Linguini here. Simmer a Lobster in a pot of Red Sauce. What a taste!

Yup, the whole nine yards...My Mother does all the fish, plus all the pasta, plus ham you name it its out! ..Xmas Eve at my moms house is bigger than Xmas day! I cant wait ! I am glad that side is Italian, eat good:humpty: !

#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&, that's exactly how it is at my mom's house. It is great. All the seafood you can eat.

Scungeeli.. (sp?) (italian snail salad) :drool:

Linguinni with white clam sauce, and red clam sauce, (yeah, she does two).. the there is the antipasto with the everything in it including the anchovies.. then it is on to the homemade raviolis, bruggole, meatballs sausages.... oh man.. :drool:

I do up a large jar of sill.. (swedish pickled herring & onions).. keep some of the swedish blood going.. great snacking.

That's what I remember. Linguini with clam sauce. WHITE.
Home made.
5 pounds of lobster tails in butter.:drool:(No claws,no shells, just the tails.) There may have been other food too.
My grandmother passed away in 2000, and from that point on the family doesn't do X-mas Eve anymore. It was always in this house.
I'm in her house now(it will always be her house) and I still make a feeble attempt at linguini w/clams every year.
Just not the same. Never will be.

Of course they will:laugha:

We are having Striped Bass and pork roast, roasted potato's and green bean casserole, plus tons of other stuff.

Man O man - I forgot what I am missing. My parents passed years ago and when they were alive, we had all the above but Polish style. I remember waiting til 12 AM to slice into that roasted ham. No meat til after midnight. Somehow the old traditions slipped away.:blush:

Maybe I will just visit all the members on this site.:cool:

Yup, the whole nine yards...My Mother does all the fish, plus all the pasta, plus ham you name it its out! ..Xmas Eve at my moms house is bigger than Xmas day! I cant wait ! I am glad that side is Italian, eat good:humpty: !

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easy brother......pull back on them thar reins a bit...whoa horsey!

a little reminder.... |...nudge/wink...|

The best part of my family's long passed Christmas Eve traditions was the "breaking of the bread".

We got blessed wafers from Poland and broke them with everyone at the table, wishing them a good year and promising to try to get along for another year, as well. My sister was always the best at snapping off the wafers so I would get a giant piece from her and end up with a mouthful of cardboard. Too bad I learned her secret the last year we did it.

But I am going to stay with my sister's family in the New Orleans area this year for Christmas, so yay! I don't know what kind of food will be served, but from what I hear, there won't be a shortage of booze. If I remember Christmas, I'll tell you what it was like. :buds:

We do xmas at my mom's every year. Tats the Italian side of things and there is always seafood with a lot of pasta!!

I will be digging the Oysters and Little Necks Friday for Sunday, Nothing like fresh dug clams!!

For Christmas Eve I'm picking up a couple 3 1/2 -4# lobsters down the street from one of my favorite fishing spots. Man, that's gonna take alot of butter :drool:

No fish for me,
But if anybody wants to head to Waltham on Christmas, we have one hell of an open-invitation party.
Any takers?
Later,
Rick

We do the fish on christmas eve on my fathers side (italian)

antipasto (with anchovies)
fried smelts
fried calamari
striper cakes!
fried shrimp
linguini with littlenecks in a white sauce

My family will be eating Ms. Virginia's crab cakes from Rock Hall, MD. They are without a doubt as good as a crab cake could be.

New Years we will have some oyster pie as well

in my family we dont eat at christmas time we give our time and money to the food kitchen and feed the needy . I feel hurt when I eat knowing there are those at christmas that dont have a choice of which dumpster has the best food . Im feeling guilty now and I just ate pizza at pepe's .

Feast of the Seven Fishes- good article. Nice to be Italian...


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