Cioppino

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 2 teaspoons red paper flakes
• 2 small tins of anchovies drained of oil
• 6 garlic cloves mashed in a mortar & pestle
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 stalks of celery chopped to 1/4? pieces
• 1 medium onion chopped to 1/4? pieces
• 1 cup dry white wine
• 4 ounces chicken or fish stock
• 1 can (32oz) of crushed tomatoes
• leaves from 4 sprigs of thyme (stems removed)
• 1 handful of flat leaf parsley roughly chopped
• 1.5 pounds of flounder or stripped bass filets cut to 2? x 2? pieces
• 8 large peeled and cleaned jumbo shrimp (or do 12-14 medium size shrimp)
• 8 sea scallops
• 16-20 scrubbed and cleaned mussels
• 1/5 pound lump crab meat (preferably dungeoness)
• salt & pepper to taste