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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm curious about the Feast of the Seven Fishes.  I'm not Italian, but would love to try it some time (or at least be invited to it), for the big family meal experience.

Is it a set menu, i.e., does everyone everywhere eat the same 7 fish dishes in the same order?  Or does it vary by family tradition?  Is there a free form -- can you pick your 7 favorite seafoods?

Fill me in.  For someone who is making it, what are the 7 dishes you're doing?  [/quote]

There are no rules that I am aware of.

Each person is in charge of something. My aunt (who is younger than me ... that is a Catholic thing) sends out a list and everybody signs up for something that they are in charge of.

We have a frier on the deck and the men man the frier (we bring them drinks)

Around 2pm

We fry shrimp (1), oysters (2) and calamari (3).
Then we have oysters on the 1/2 shell
We also have a tradition of making fried dough. We get pizza dough, the kids put cheese in it, close it up and take it to the fry guys. YUMMMY!

Around 5pm

Then we have red sauce with seafood shrimp/squid/scallops(4) over pasta
We have scungilli (aka conch(5)) - It is usually in a sauce or some sort over pasta.
We have crab (6) stuffed rockfish (7) and a white fish with butter (8)
On a good year we have lobster (9)
Pickled Octopus (10)

Some fishes repeat  and there are more than 7 because not everybody like conch, for example.

We have sides like brussel sprouts and salad. We also have desserts ... if you can even imagine.

There are about 10 people that contribute to the food and everybody is in charge of something. It is near impossible for 1 family to do it all. I am in charge of the fried dough.

You could simplify which we have had to do the years we could not be with the family (for example, I gave birth Christmas week).  We made a red sauce with 5 different fishes in it. (shrimp, squid, scallops, whitefish, mussles) we had oyster stew and crab cakes. That is 7 fishes. Be creative, the 7 fishes we do it a huge amount of work, but it does not have to be.  
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