A Reminder to My Italian Friends- Page 2

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?

[Dollypop]

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!

Posted: 12/18/05 at 4:53pm

vete pal carajo, pendejo.

[Ebonic_Singer]

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.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 6:22pm

Was Corine2 there? She thinks she's Italian, you know.

[millie_dillmount]

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.

[Rathnait62]

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.

Updated On: 12/18/05 at 07:02 PM

[Dollypop]

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.

[xrent_headx]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 9:03pm

My dad is italian but he wont eat baccala so we don't make it.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 10:14pm

His loss. I wonder if he's ever tried it with tomato sauce and olives. DELICIOUS!!!!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/18/05 at 10:22pm

Actually, Rath does have a gay cousin.

[mominator]

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.

[Mamie]

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.