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…
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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…
Our Busiate Partè
Grazie mille Giuseppe Sciurca, Valeria Signorino, and Chef Nino Elia with assistance from Bill DiGilio for making today’s Make Busiate Pasta with Giuseppe Sciurca and Biancomangiare with Nino Elia a success! I was too busy cooking, managing, and then eating to take photos (oops!). So, these inspired reports below have been provided by RoseAnn Pusateri-Rowe…
52 Reasons to Love Sicily | #17. Pasta
So, don’t believe that legend about Marco Polo—the Arabs brought pasta to Sicily way before, and the rest is … your happy stomach! Pasta takes on many forms across the island—both fresh and dried and made with different grains as well. I invite you to join me this Sunday, May 2 for an online busiate…
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.
Make Fresh Cavatelli Pasta With Us Online
Join me, Allison Scola of Experience Sicily, for a fresh cavatelli pasta making meetup on Zoom. Cavatelli is a typical shape from Sicily. I’ll do a tutorial, and then we’ll make pasta together and chit-chat in my kitchen and yours! Experience Sicily Online Pasta Making Gathering THURSDAY, MAY 28 AT 5:30 PM EDT Register for…
You Can Too
These are the able hands of my husband, Joe, making the typical fresh pasta, busiate, from Trapani. Joe, along with our traveling companion, Fred, made a big beautiful bowl of busiate during our hands-on cooking class in Trapani’s historic center. (I contributed too, but my ringlets weren’t as well-formed around those darn reeds!). You too…
Pasta Fresca at a Trattoria
Pasta is glorious when its freshly made and served hot at a local, unassuming trattoria. Sure, there are fancy, chef-run restaurants in Sicily, and I do take our guests to those too, but I’ve learned that they prefer family-run local, casual spots, like this one, La Ruota, that I always look forward to patronizing in…
Savor Sicily, Relish Cavatelli
Savor Sicily on our small-group tour this September 22 to October 4! We have 4 spots left on this multi-sensory, locally seasoned experience that is just a month away. Yes, you could relish this cavatelli pasta and learn how to make it with your own hands too! Discover Sicily at our special, limited-time price of…
Pasta from Scratch
Here’s a way you can really impress your friends: Invite them over for dinner and in front of their eyes, make pasta from scratch! Furthermore, you can say, “I learned how to do this from a local mamma in Sicily.” Oh, yeeeaaah. That’s right, we’ll spend the evening of Day 4 of Experience Sicily’s September…