quick and easy meals for 1 or 2

Zuppa de pesce

This is great! I always liked it in Italian restaurants back home in Jersey. Then we started to make it at home and as usual it got better than eating out.

Start water for pasta ½ - 2/3 lb. and cook it while you do the fish.

About 8-10 mussels. You can go with fresh (clean them)or get the frozen precooked in a bag in the frozen section of the fish dept. at the super market.
About 8-10 fresh clams, cleaned
A small snapper fillet cleaned and skinned, about a half a lb. cut in to a little bigger than bite size
6 large shrimp. Peeled and deveined


½ med onion chopped
1 celery stalk chopped
2 garli cloves peeled and chopped
olive oil
about a cup of chopped tomatoes or a small (8 oz.) can of diced
1 tbsp. red pepper flakes
½ cup white wine
salt and pepper

In a sauce pan, put about 2 swirls of olive oil add the veggies without the tomatoes. Cook until translucent. Add the tomatoes, the white wine and the spices. Cook for a couple of minutes. Add the fish stuff and cook ‘til the clams open remove any clams or mussels that don’t open all the way. Drain the pasta serve the zuppa de pesce over the pasta with some good Italian bread, some salad and the rest of that white wine!