#26
Posted: 12/18/05 at 4:25pm
Dolly, I was just saying I love Mina, the wonderful singer from Italy. I meant shout out. Is that worded correctly?
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#27
Posted: 12/18/05 at 4:28pm
You're going to shout from here to Italy? Good luck! Even Ethel Merman lacked such lung power!
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#29
Posted: 12/18/05 at 5:15pm
Hey Dollypop, Italians and Jews are very similar in the respect that cooking is a very big deal as is large family gatherings 
. And mmmmmmm lobster fra diavlo. I used to go to an Italian's house for Christmas and it would be a full day event--we would rest in between courses.
. And mmmmmmm lobster fra diavlo. I used to go to an Italian's house for Christmas and it would be a full day event--we would rest in between courses.
#30
Posted: 12/18/05 at 6:22pm
Was Corine2 there? She thinks she's Italian, you know.
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#31
Posted: 12/18/05 at 7:00pm
I'm Italian and I actually eat lasagna on Christmas...my grandma also makes Italian wedding soup. Never had fish on Christmas.
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#32
Posted: 12/18/05 at 7:02pm
I'm Italian, and don't know my way around a kitchen.
In our house, we don't have traditional Italian food for Christmas - we have turkey and trimmings. Where the Italian comes in for us is in the work - the women do all the cooking and cleaning and herding of children, and the men watch football, eat, and nap.
In our house, we don't have traditional Italian food for Christmas - we have turkey and trimmings. Where the Italian comes in for us is in the work - the women do all the cooking and cleaning and herding of children, and the men watch football, eat, and nap.
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Updated On: 12/18/05 at 07:02 PM
#33
Posted: 12/18/05 at 8:50pm
Hmmm..obviously no gay men in Rath's family.
Here I decorate like crazy, bake pignoli cookies 'til they come out of my ears, cook up a storm and then either sing in the choir at mass or serve as lector. On Christmas Day, it starts all over again.
I must say, my son does take care of doing the dishes and cleaning the kitchen. This Christmas he's up north celebrating Christmas with his new little family. I know he'll be doing all the cooking because he's been calling me for recipes. His girlfriend (the Manatee) will surely be on clean-up duty.
Here I decorate like crazy, bake pignoli cookies 'til they come out of my ears, cook up a storm and then either sing in the choir at mass or serve as lector. On Christmas Day, it starts all over again.
I must say, my son does take care of doing the dishes and cleaning the kitchen. This Christmas he's up north celebrating Christmas with his new little family. I know he'll be doing all the cooking because he's been calling me for recipes. His girlfriend (the Manatee) will surely be on clean-up duty.
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#34
Posted: 12/18/05 at 9:03pm
My dad is italian but he wont eat baccala so we don't make it.
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#35
Posted: 12/18/05 at 10:14pm
His loss. I wonder if he's ever tried it with tomato sauce and olives. DELICIOUS!!!!
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#36
Posted: 12/18/05 at 10:22pm
Actually, Rath does have a gay cousin.
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#37
Posted: 12/18/05 at 10:28pm
Thank you Rath!! (yum!) But back to sea food and fish, sadly I am alergic to it all so I'd be the one fasting on Christmas Eve.
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#38
Posted: 12/18/05 at 11:38pm
We have a big Italian family just a couple of doors down the street. Our two families kind of 'adopted' each other over 30 years ago and we always go back and forth over the holidays. German/Dutch with us and Italian with them. Christmas Eve is Cioppino (I think I'm spelling it correctly.) A big seafood stew with mussels, scallops, clams, shrimp, cod, anchovies. Lots of hot homemade bread to scoop it up and salads.
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