Ways to Add Seafood to Your Christmas Traditions
For added delight this season, City Fish Market has a heartfelt suggestion. Add recipes for delicious seafood to your Christmas traditions! You could surprise the family by placing these new dishes made with healthy, lean proteins next to old favorites. Maybe don’t go so far as to replace Santa’s cookies with shellfish, but this plan could be a huge success. How is that? Because it could inspire a kickoff to a new beginning. For many, shedding stale eating habits could be the best possible gift at Christmas!
Starting out on this seafood adventure, the safest menu changes are menu additions with no subtractions. That’s because every existing tradition is likely someone’s must-have dish. Great recipes and tips for adding seafood to your traditions follow. Be sure to save the recipes for your new Christmas seafood favorites!
Tempting Christmas Seafood Appetizers
Seafood appetizers are ideal at annual Christmas feasts. Everyone is usually hungry and ready for small bites. With seductive seafood appetizers, you set the stage to introduce even more dishes made with treasures from the sea. What’s more irresistible than crab cakes made with a winning recipe? Maryland Crab Cakes with Quick Tartar Sauce made fresh lump crab meat from City Fish Market and just enough filler to bind the crab meat in cake form will be a gift for everyone’s senses! Here’s another recipe for delicious Tartar Sauce (the Best Crab Cake Sauce Recipe.) For another potential fan favorite, serve Smoked Salmon Deviled Eggs to your family and friends.
The following are six suggestions with recipes for must-try seafood appetizers for Christmas:
- Crab Rangoon Dip
- Salmon Dip
- Hot Crab Dip
- Crab Stuffed Mushrooms
- Calamari Fritti
- Bacon-Wrapped Scallops
Seafood Soups for Christmas Eve
The Feast of the Seven Fishes is something to look into as far as Christmas seafood traditions. Recommended with that feast in mind, gorgeous Zuppa di Pesce (translated as “fish soup”) is a rustic stew that looks and tastes like all that is delightful about Christmas. As shown at the link, it is Christmas-red and contains many ingredients to buy fresh at City Fish Market, including calamari, cod, little neck clams, mussels, and extra-large shrimp. Here is another recipe named after the above-mentioned celebration: Feast of 7 Fishes Seafood Soup. Among this soup’s seafood ingredients is squid and rockfish aka Pacific Snapper.
Seafood Main Dishes for Christmas
You can hardly go wrong when you choose to serve shrimp beside your usual dishes for Christmas. A much-loved Italian-American seafood dish perfect for the season is Shrimp Scampi, a garlicky, irresistible pasta dish. For the ideal foil to a nicely browned turkey or beef pot roast, prepare Roasted Branzino, an eye-pleasing whole fish that will amp up the feast and the festivities.
Visit City Fish Market to Add Fresh Seafood to Your Christmas Traditions
When you need fresh lump crab meat, salmon, scallops, lobster tail, calamari, red snapper, clams, squid, or any other seafood to add to your Christmas traditions, what is the best place to go? Seafood lovers in and around Connecticut know that the freshest of the fresh seafood is only found at City Fish Market, 884 Silas Deane Hwy in Wethersfield CT.
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