Last Christmas, our family decided to do an authentic "Feast of the Seven Fishes" Christmas Eve dinner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_seven_fishes). The Feast of the Seven Fishes is a big deal in parts of the Pittsburgh area where I grew up, and people spend weeks preparing for it. My family is not the least bit Italian, which is where this tradition started, but a seven course seafood dinner sure sounded good to us!! Besides, it was a lot of fun planning the recipes and spending the day in the kitchen making different courses with my sisters and my Mom. One of my sisters brought a block of frozen baby squid. They were too small to stuff the tubes, but if you slice them open and pan fry them briefly, they curl up into little cups which you can fill with stuffing and bake. They were a real hit as one of many courses of appetizers. If you use adult squid, you can omit frying them, and just stuff them and bake them. The little squid scoops were fun though.

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