It's Christmas, Outer Banks Seafood Style
It’s Christmas, Outer Banks Seafood Style
By Rosie Hawthorne
Posted November 30, 2016
I’m throwing caution to the wind this Christmas. I’m not going with a turkey, and there will be no ham or congealed cranberry blob with the can’s ribs embossed in the jellied mass. That was always on Mama Hawthorne’s table, never on mine, thank you very much. This season the Hawthornes will be celebrating the best of what the Outer Banks has to offer – our seafood.
I’m not going all the way with the Italian Festa dei sette pesci (Feast of the Seven Fishes). Instead, the Hawthornes’ Christmas meal will consist of a triumvirate of fruita di mare (fruit of the sea). I’ll have an appetizer (Oysters Hawthorne), a soup (shrimp bisque), and an entrée (marinated tuna and oshitashi).
Continue reading full article including links to Rosie's three amazing seafood recipes.
