You would have laughed with along with your new “Sicilian family” while having your hands in the dough today as you made fresh cavatelli pasta with tomato sauce and learned the art of cutting prickly pears with our local mamma Annalisa (who is an expert with Fichi d’India cactus!). You would have felt right at…
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Working Man’s Sicilian Summer Recipes
Thank you so much to everyone who joined me for the Cart Driver’s Pasta online event! It’s so wonderful to share Sicilian culture with you all who appreciate it so much. Your messages and photos make my heart sing! I’m so glad that you enjoyed the recipes. I look forward to when we can see…
Our Hostesses Taught Us Well
One of the many memorable moments of last year’s Secret Sicily: Life In A Remote Sicilian Town tour was making a pasta lunch with the ladies of Licodia Eubea (and their husbands too!). It was all hands on in order to make fresh cavatelli with a traditional meat ragù. Maria Concetta, Antonella, and Carmen wasted…
Sharing Sicily At Home
Thank you to all who participated in last evening’s online cannoli making workshop! Working with you all, sharing what I love with you and seeing your joy from it inspired me. When I see families sharing Sicilian culture together, it makes my heart sing. Grazie! Many more online events are to come! Stand by for…
Cannoli Before
This is what cannoli shells look like before they are “initiated” in the fryer. Learn this and more during Let’s Make Cannoli from Scratch, an online cooking class I’ll be hosting on July 1 at 5:30PM Eastern. I will send you my personal recipe and a list of ingredients you should have ready to go,…
Let’s Make Cannoli From Scratch
Do you know what makes the bubbles in cannoli shells? Wine and vinegar! Yup. Learn this and more during Let’s Make Cannoli from Scratch, an online cooking class I’ll be hosting on Wed., July 1 at 5:30PM Eastern. I will send you my personal recipe, a list of ingredients you should have ready to go,…
Making Cannoli In New York City
Thank you to Giusto Priola and Cacio e Vino for a fantastic Cannoli Making Workshop! We all had such a great time yesterday. And wow, were the cannoli delicious! See you on Tuesday, February 25 for Two Chefs from Sicily Carnevale dinner!
Our Stateside Sicilian Cooking Class With Annalisa
We cooked up a storm inside yesterday with the talented and spunky cooking impresario Annalisa Pompeo of GoSicily Sicilian Cooking Experience for our Experience Sicily cooking class! We made arancine (rice balls) and ricottamasu. I loved having everyone at my home to share a memorable, joyful day. And wow, the rice balls we made were…
Cooking in Sicily With Experience Sicily in September 2020
Stirring Sicily, our Experience Sicily hands-on cooking experience has come to a close, but the memories continue! So much joy! Join me and Chef Nino Elia in 2020, from September 17-24. Learn more at https://experiencesicily.com/2020-tours-of-sicily/ and enjoy cooking in Sicily with us!
Live from Sicily! Remote Town, Days 5 & 6 | We are having such a great time!
Live from Sicily! Days 5 & 6 of Life In A Remote Sicilian Town. We made pasta with the local ladies and learned how to make a very special dessert, unique to Licodia Eubea… based on their local grape cultivation. Then, a special birthday celebration with music, which included Rose learning how to play the…