It’s time for our Seven Fishes Roundup and our Seven Fishes menu for 2021!

As mentioned in my last post, the Seven Fishes feast has become a big deal for me over the years. What started as a formal sit-down dinner with way too many dishes has evolved over the years to a fun seven+ fish buffet (extra fish always permitted!) where friends and family gathered for one or all of the fish.

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It’s that time of the year: artichoke season! Suddenly, artichokes are everywhere in farmers’ markets, and even in supermarkets. Even Stanley Tucci is cooking with them. In a few weeks, just as suddenly as they have appeared, their short season will end. Of course, in supermarkets artichokes are imported from who-knows-where nearly year-round, but in Italy, where cooking is always local and seasonal, this wonderful vegetable comes to markets for only about four weeks and then disappears until the next year. 

Now that artichoke season is just beginning, a wonderful thing to do, artichoke-wise, is to find baby artichokes, as I did this week at the Beverly Hills Farmers Market vendor – Roots Organic Farm.

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The Feast of the Seven Fishes is a big deal in our family. Although the origins of this feast are somewhat mired in controversy, it is a holiday that our Italian-American family celebrated each and every year with absolute gusto. In our childhood, our parents would bundle us against the cold and off we went to celebrate the occasion at my Uncle Nelson’s apartment.  His family lived above the liquor store that he owned and we would run up the steps to his apartment, aroma of wine and spirits floating up the hall, excited to see our cousins, exchange gifts and eat for hours.

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Another summer, another mountain of zucchini, right?? If you are like us, we always plant too many plants and end up with piles of zucchini.  So we have compiled a few of our favorite zucchini recipes from the blog to help use up those piles of zucchini. Enjoy!

p.s. We were just noticing how much our food photography has improved over the years so please marvel at just how bad some of our early photos were 🙂  (And we thought they were good back then!)

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Summer is eggplant season!

Whether you are a novice or an old pro, try one of our favorite summer eggplant recipes below. Farmers Markets, produce stands and everyday grocery stores are bursting with eggplant this time of year. Look for smallish ones as they have less seeds. You can also find lots of interesting shapes of eggplants in markets today-whether the Sicilian, Japanese or standard globe shape.

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