Christmas 2007 pics...

Well, I'm back from Christmas vacation, and what would Christmas vacation be without goofy pics from the 'rents house?

Italians traditionally have 7 kinds of fish on New Year's Eve. In the past, we've gone to an uncle's house, but he decided not to do it this year, so my parents did an abbrieviated 3-fish version..

One of the traditional foods is Calamari (squid) in homemade tomato sauce:

bubbling on the stove

en plate

Another traditional food is baccala - heavily salted cod. This was bought dried in a board and soaked for two days:

mmmm.. salty

and of course, the Christmas tree:

oh, Christmas tree!