This year’s line-up, at my house. I prepped a little each day, over 3 days, so that I could enjoy my family and friends on the big day. Boned (I keep wanting to say de-boned) my first turkey — and subsequently added a boning knife to my Christmas wishlist, would have made the process quicker, [...]
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My Holiday Cooking Strategy
Christmas Eve Dinner We always have fish on Christmas Eve and I typically order Royal Reds from Joe Patti’s, but I’d like to add more variety this year, and I’ve settled on Cioppino. As the girls have gotten older our Christmas Eve generally begins with an early, simple fish dinner, followed by Mass, and then [...]
Holiday Supplies
Before my readership mistakes Modest Bounty for an Italian food blog, I’d like to set the record straight. I’m not Italian by birth or heritage, my husband is. I certainly enjoy cooking Italian cuisine and spent time with his grandmother learning the family recipes, however I am half Irish and half French by birth and my father, Pierre, instilled in me a curiosity about my heritage as he spent his last years tracing his family history through French Canada, la Prairie. So, as I turn my attention toward Christmas, you’ll see a change in the “menu” of posts.
An Italian Thanksgiving
This year we are celebrating Thanksgiving with my husband’s side of the family and they do not celebrate a traditional American Thanksgiving. The story goes that my father-in-law could not, or should I say, would not eat fowl of any kind because he used to watch his mother kill chickens in the backyard and it scarred him for life. Needless to say, my first Thanksgiving with his family was culture shock, but a delicious culture shock, I must say.