Experience Sicily

Category: Food/Cuisine

  • Cannoli From Scratch

    It’s time to make cannoli! Join me this Sunday, Feb. 6 online to learn to make cannoli from scratch! Yum. Register at https://experiencesicily.com/cannoli-making-workshop-2/

  • Join Me Online On Sunday: We’ll Make Cannoli From Scratch

    Get sweet with me! Join me this Sunday, Feb. 6 online to learn to make cannoli from scratch! Yum! Register at https://experiencesicily.com/cannoli-making-workshop-2/ (Allison in Taormina, Sicily, delighting in a freshly stuffed cannolo Siciliano)

  • Sunday Online: Let’s Make Cannoli From Scratch

    I’ve lost five pounds since New Year’s Day. So that means, it’s time to make cannoli! Join me this Sunday, Feb. 6 online to learn to make cannoli from scratch! Yum! Register at https://experiencesicily.com/cannoli-making-workshop-2/ 

  • Feel This Moment In Sicily

    There is something so satisfying about making fresh pasta. There is something so beautiful about putting your hands in the soft dough. Kneading it. Rolling it out. Creating cavatelli shapes on a fork or lined board while talking with your travel companions. Perhaps you are reminiscing about recipes from your childhood home or perhaps this…

  • Rice Balls In The Market

    Palermo market and street food tour featuring crispy, gooey arancine (rice balls) … Oh, yeah… Jason approves! You’ll find excellent ones at Arianna’s in Il Capo Market near Porta Carini.

  • The 2021 Brancati Olive Oil From Sicily Is Here

    The 2021 olive oil from Sicily has arrived in the United States! I’m so thrilled to have this outstanding organic oil from Azienda Bio Brancati imported by Gelsomino Imports LLC. Once familiar with the care and love these olives received during cultivation, you realize the difference between mass-produced oil and Brancati’s phenomenal artisanal oil. It’s…

  • Lasagne For New Year’s In Sicily

    While sporting red underwear, enjoying lasagne for New Year’s is traditional in some parts of Sicily (NB there are many, many traditions according to your “church bell” zone, aka campanilismo.). Importantly, however, it isn’t the lasagne that you might think. This Sicilian-style lasagne is more like a broad tagliatelle cut how you like it… And…

  • Let’s Make Sicilian Fig Cookies, aka Cuccidati, together!

    This Friday! Let’s make Sicilian fig cookies for the holidays! ONLINE. Also known as cuccidati, cudduredde, and buccellati, let’s make these together! Friday, Dec. 17, 7PM (Eastern), during an online, hands-on workshop. Register at https://experiencesicily.com/make-sicilian-fig-cookies/

  • Bizzarely-Named Foods: These Sicilian Cookies

    Normally, I avoid posting two food pictures in succession, but I wanted to thank journalist Sharon McDonnell for including me in her latest story for Fodor’s Travel about bizarrely-named foods! (Thank you!) When McDonnell asked for such examples, these biscotti immediately came to mind. Called Lingua di Suocera, or Mother-Law’s Tongue, perhaps this pastry gets…