Xmas time is here again, and while there is no robotic santa claus is coming to gun you down, there is time to adopt culinary ‘traditions’ of others!

One that has long captured my imagination is the italian feast of the seven eight fishes. I don’t know why the Italian’s settled on seven fishes, but i do know that it’s not a particularly nice number in chinese numerology, so I’m going for eight!

The goal of this dinner is to get prep done by 3 to put out the snacks around 4 with a fritto misto supplement around 4:30. We’ll serve the scallops around 5:15, salad 5:30, salmon 5:45, desert 6:00pm. Three off the items are ala minute (fritto misto, scallops, salmon), so enlist some help from your guests.

Menu

Snack Time

Shrimp Cocktail
Tuna poke on diakon
Open faced lobster rolls
Smoked trout pate with crackers (from santa monica seafood yummy)
Fritto Misto di Calamari

Appetizer

Seared Scallop with Asparagus and Bacon

Salad

Dungeness Crab Salad with Frisbee & Arugula

Main Course

Salmon with parsley caper sauce
Roasted Cauliflower

Dessert

Chocolate Pudding

Dec 23rd

Print off all the recipes
Grocery shopping (except for fish. formatted table coming soon!)

Dec 24th