Category: Food/Cuisine
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Full Of Fresh Pasta And Love
I am full with fresh pasta and love! Thank you to the wonderful group who learned to make pistachio pesto with me this evening! Buon appetito! More Experience Sicily online events to come.
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Learn To Make Sicilian Pistachio Pesto And More
The glory of Sicilian cuisine is its simplicity and use of fresh, seasonal ingredients. Pistachio pesto offers you that and more! Your taste buds will dance. You’ll impress your friends. Join me this Saturday for Learn to Make Pistachio Pesto, Cavatelli Pasta, and Sicilian Orange Salad! Register at https://experiencesicily.com/events/online-sicily-events/pistachio-pesto-pasta/
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Sicily’s Inspired Pistachio Pesto
Etna erupted last night! (NB This is an old photo.) Here she is from Bronte on the western slope with glorious pistachio trees in the foreground. Pistachios love the mineral and saline rich volcanic soil of Mamma Etna. It makes them taste so good! That’s why Sicilians invented pistachio pesto to go on pasta! Learn…
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Let’s Make Pistachio Pesto Together Online
Next Saturday, Learn to Make Pistachio Pesto, Cavatelli Pasta, and Sicilian Orange Salad online! Pistachio nuts (which are actually seeds) come from a tree that was brought to Italy from Syria during ancient Roman times. The trees, which have the peak production of their fruit at about 20 years of age, like dry climates with…
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Treasures In Plain Sight in Bagheria
Meanwhile, while walking down the Corso Umberto I in Bagheria…. (Yes, this butcher shop is probably owned by a relation to Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore, who grew up in Bagheria. NB Bagheria has a lot of treasures hidden in plain sight!) Photo Credit: Filippo Buttitta
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Recognizing Sicily
It’s hard to get something about Sicily past me without me recognizing it right away, so when watching CNN the past couple of days (for obvious reasons/I usually avoid TV news), when I saw the promotional spot for Stanley Tucci’s Searching for Italy show that premiers in February, I said, “Wait, that’s the Mother Church…
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A Peek In Palermo
Inside a Palermo pastry shop (from 2019)
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That Goat With Spiral Horns In Sicily
Distinguished by their spiral, tall horns and long hair, this rare breed of goat, called capra girgentana, is valuable for its milk that possesses an equal amount of fat to protein. The name girgentana recalls the old Sicilian name of the city of Agrigento, Girgenti. During the mid-twentieth century, throughout southwestern Sicily, girgentana goats numbered…
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Little Suns Hang On Sicily’s Trees
This time of the year, oranges and lemons hang on the trees in Sicily like little suns. It’s still early in the citrus season, but with patience the results will be sweet.