Well, all my cookie recipes (and the tradition of making them) come from the German side of my family. We grew up here in Virginia and we had all girls and one boy in the family. 2 doors down the street was this wonderful big Italian family with all boys. We kind of 'adopted' each other. Our parents became best friends and we all grew up feeling just as 'at home' at each other's houses as at our own.
SO - every Christmas we go to their house for a huge traditional Italian Christmas dinner. The Italians celebrate Christmas eve with a feast of 7 fishes. This family makes a big seafood stoop (a made-up word for something that's halfway between soup and stew) out of 7 different varieties of seafood. It changes but it almost always has cod, clams, lobster, crab, scallops, and whatever else you can find. It's really delicious!
(note - we can only do this because of where we live. We're so close to the Atlantic ocean and we have the Chesapeake bay right here. Fresh seafood is abundant and it's always easy to find whatever you want!)
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mamie4 5/14/03
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