The Christmas Eve dinner in Italy is typically based on fish, often having many different types of seafood in one meal. This is a small light meal we had tonight.
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| Smoked salmon and tuna finger sandwiches. |
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| The table being prepared. |
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| Octopus salad. |
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| Risotto with calamari, shrimp, and mussels. |
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| Olga and the fish. The gilt-head (sea) bream Sparus aurata. |
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| Orata and potatoes |
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| Fried calamari and fried baccala (salt cured cod). |
I was going strong. Had two servings of risotto. Was going strong into the fish. Ran into a brick wall when the calamari and baccalà arrived.
For washing down all this, we had cold water, and started out with a fresh white wine, a
Falanghina, before passing quickly to a local red wine,
Gragnano.
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