Tag: pasta making
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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…
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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…
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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…
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From Cannoli to Couscous to Catarratto In Sicily | Stirring Sicily, Day 3
Live from Sicily! Day 3 of Experience Sicily Stirring Sicily tour..A new meaning to the term “full day.” As in, a day filled with out-of-this-world cannoli, a busiate pasta and couscous cooking class, super cool winery visit at Cantina Quattrocieli … And so much food that we are all full! But wow, so satisfying!
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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…
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It Holds the Pasta
This Thursday, Aug. 11, the town of Salemi celebrates the 12th Edition of the Sagra della Busiata; That is, a culinary festival dedicated to the corkscrew-shaped, long pasta particular to Trapani province. In this photo, taken in May by Vincent Titone, I am attempting to make busiate. Our Sicilian hostesses in Castellammare del Golfo made…
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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…