Cioppino is not a Ciociaria dish. It is really from the Genoa area of Italy. You know home of Christopher Columbus before he sailed for Spain and Isabella! It is a hardy soup which originally used the catch of the day. I did some research on the soup because my card buddies at the Richmond Hill Italian Social Club were wanting a lunch one day so this dish seemed like a worthy adversary! If you like fish it is made with a variety of seafood items- shrimp, scallops, mussels, white fish( maybe cod or halibut or your favourite white fish) and clams. If you like crab and squid it can be used too. There are many recipes online and I actually used one for our lunch. So I must stay honest on this blog and only post my own recipes not others. Some more interesting tidbits- ciuppin in the Ligurian dialect from the Genoa area means to chop or chopped. So the seafood must be "chopped" as well as the vegetables that are cooked in the dish. One of the ladies from the Club actually made lunch for us. Barb was at work so there are no pictures to illustrate the dish. Since we do love seafood, I may make my own batch someday to share with you.
Talking about soup- The National Post paper has a section entitled Gastropost. Barb entered my Minestra soup and it was one of the soup dishes featured November 10, 2012. For those of you who love to cook check out their weekly missions and as long as you get your item with a picture sent to the address mentioned on their page by 10:00 a.m. Wednesday mornings you may get a spot. So come on fellow cooks and bakers like Roy, Edna, Kathryn- try your hand on one of their missions that might contain an item you make- so I can see your name there too!
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It needs a good picture. Maybe next time!
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