Anyone having a fish dinner for xmas eve.

[7165red]

If so what are you cooking?

 

[tiggger1]

I think we are having a fish dish? My mil is cooking a polish Christmas eve dinner...;

 

[Brit17]

Soup with cod, Shrimp Scampi, Stuffed Tilapia, Broiled Scallops, Mussels, Clams, either fried Calamari or a Calamari Salad ...

 

[Polyluvr]

we are~ shrimp cocktail, baked stuffed clams, shrimp arogonata, linguine w white clam sauce, crab legs, crab stuffed haddock; and stuffed calamari in a red sauce.

 

[vicb]

One year my in-laws made lobster stew... it was when they were still living in Maine.

 

[IllumFan]

My husband's family is Italian so they have seven types of fish at dinner. There is always a shrimp cocktail, fried calamari, fish soup, scallops, pasta with tuna sauce, usually a baked fish, and pasta with a lobster sauce, I think.

It's a great tradition.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Yes, and I am currently on the look out for some kind of yummy mixture. I am thinking a Paella but since I adore Portuguese cooking I'm hoping to find something with a nice green sauce.... or even one of the yellow ones. I'm not sure they call it the same thing. I don't have much time... better get on that I guess

 

[mousebymarriage]

My husbands family is 100% italian so they do the seven fishes thing on Christmas eve. I absolutely hate fish so I am making chicken parm. and bringing to my mother-in-laws!

 

[4forMe]

Yes, we do a meatless dinner for Christmas Eve.

We have shrimp cocktail as one of the appetizers and baked orange roughy for the fish entree.

 

[TimeforMe]

Yes, we do an italian traditional Christmas Eve. For apps: clam dip, shrimp cocktail, cheese and crackers, cream cheese w/hot peppery jelly, stuffed clams and a few other things. Dinner: fried shrimp, fried calamari, baccala salad, scungilli salad, mussels, pasta w/marinara sauce (for the kids), spaghetti agli e olio (oil, black olives, anchovies) ...I think that's it.

 

[Kimberly]

Mahi mahi, crab cakes, and grilled pineapple.

 

[MushyMushy]

Is there some significance to having fish on Christmas eve?

We're going to a taco party. I don't think there will be any fish.

 

[Kimberly]

Is there some significance to having fish on Christmas eve?

I'd like to know this too.

 

[Polyluvr]

Is there some significance to having fish on Christmas eve?

We're going to a taco party. I don't think there will be any fish.

For Italians the fish represent~ depending on where their families are from ~ are seven fish dishes representing the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church; or the seven deadly sins; or the seven days it took Mary and Joseph to travel to Bethlehem for the birth of the Christ Child; or the fact that seven of the apostles were fishermen. And supposedly the original feast originated a little north of Sicily~ near the seven hills of Rome.

The fish itself is significant in that Southern Italians decided to make Christmas Eve into a day of abstinence~ a sacrifice to be made in light of all Christ sacrificed for us.

There doesn't have to be 7 fishes exactly; there can be more or a couple less~
The important thing is to abstain from meat.

Hope that helps

 

[arminnie]

I'd never heard of the traditional Italian Christmas Eve dinner until I read about it here. And I spend Christmas Eve with a very Italian family for decades! But this is Arkansas so I guess they lost the traditions along the way. Same thing for Louisiana too. I love seafood so that is fine with me.

 

[Polyluvr]

I'd never heard of the traditional Italian Christmas Eve dinner until I read about it here. And I spend Christmas Eve with a very Italian family for decades! But this is Arkansas so I guess they lost the traditions along the way. Same thing for Louisiana too. I love seafood so that is fine with me.

You should ask some of the older relatives if this is a tradition they remember; I'd love to hear the answers