The Table Was Set With Great Care

Neighbor, friend, and sometime Blipper G (GenuineBlip) is visible in the doorway, surveying her kingdom. Every Christmas Eve she makes the Sicilian Feast of the Seven Fishes and invites us to this wonderful family meal. Christmas Eve is early this year because of work schedules, but we were happy to celebrate ahead of time. Shrimp, oysters, black cod, crab, a hint of anchovy, oops I can’t remember the other two. No one is quite sure what this tradition symbolizes, but to me it means a lovely evening with good friends and neighbors. Mr S baked a loaf of sourdough bread to go with the seafood chowder, and I made a batch of biscotti.