Traditions

One of the things that stands out for me about our first year of marriage has been our traditions. Because of traveling at the holidays, we really had no chance to start our own traditions - definitely a bummer. So this week we decided to work on some traditions, not as big as holidays, but things we make priorities in our lives that last over time. I came up with one and the husband came up with one. And they were both based on things we've done before that slowly fell away because of work, commuting, etc. Mine was a game night with no tv. This is one of the things that I take both from my family and from early in our relationship. The husband's was cooking dinner together, sitting at the table to eat it (you know how good that couch looks after working all day), and no tv. (See a theme? I do so get tired of tv).

Cooking dinner together once a week, eating, and talking away the night at the kitchen table or the patio table was one of those things that we did a lot before I started working and before it got colder. And I do love it. So we started this past Friday night by making a cioppino. It was fun because it allowed us to customize the ingredients based on what we like. It was definitely yummy and fun to make together. We used a combination of three recipes from Epicurious: Lobster and Shrimp Cioppino, Grandfather's Cioppino, and Cioppino.

Cioppino with some of our parsley that has managed to stay alive all winter!