"Dinner's ready!" "Come and get it!" This was the call from the kitchen heard the first time from my crib. Every holiday dinner growing up was almost exactly the same except for the protein; Christmas Eve we had fish, Christmas Day ham, New years day roast beef, Easter ham again and Thanksgiving it was turkey. The traditional accompaniments were mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, carrots or green bean casserole, stuffing, cranberry sauce and of course jello. The inclusion of lasagna or ravioli or manicotti, meatballs, sausage and garlic bread was the first course in our Italian family and decided upon by the host. My mother always made lasagna, my grandma made homemade ravioli and my Aunts made manicotti. Turns were taken rotating holidays. We always knew who was having which holiday and at whose house it would be. I would when I began hosting, make lasagna for my family holiday dinners first course.....