‘Jersey Shore’s Mike Sorrentino eats this seven-course feast on Christmas morning
nypost.comMike “The Situation” Sorrentino upholds the Italian-American tradition of the Feast of the Seven Fishes on Christmas Eve — and his seafood dinner is so nice, he eats it twice, including the next morning.“On Christmas Day for breakfast I have Christmas Eve’s dinner, which is usually crab [in] linguine sauce, also with shrimp oreganata, also calamari oreganata,” he told The Post. “So it’s pretty much everything oreganata, and I just eat it for breakfast with a Diet Coke.
And I just love it. It’s like a little tradition that I do.” This year the “Jersey Shore” star and his wife, Lauren Pesce, whose last name happens to mean “fish” in Italian, are hosting the holiday at their Holmdel, N.J.
mansion with a catered meal from Osteria, an Italian restaurant in Marlboro.Their mouth-watering menu reads like a laundry list of Italian culinary classics, with dishes of calamari, shrimp, clams and lobster — all prepared oreganata style, which means topped with breadcrumbs and oregano.“A fried shrimp tray, clams linguine red [sauce], a frutti di mare tray, which is a seafood salad,” Sorrentino, 41, continued.
The extravagant feast will also consist of non-fish dishes — an antipasto board filled with meat and cheese, penne in vodka sauce, linguine in garlic and oil, Caesar salad, broccoli rabe and chicken cutlets. “To be honest with you, I could not go on one of my favorite holidays of the year and not have a chicken cutlet,” he said. “We also have a tray of chicken fingers and French fries for the kids.”Sorrentino, whose memoir “Reality Check: Making the Best of The Situation” — How I Overcame Addiction, Loss, and Prison” was released on Dec.
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