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…
Tag: tomato
Time To Make The Estratto
All over Sicily, right now, they are making the estratto… Tomato paste, in order to bottle it for the year’s supply. Did you annually make tomato sauce and paste with your mother or grandmother?
Happy Tomato Season | Cart Driver’s Pesto Recipe
Happy tomato season! Did you know that you can make pesto with lots of different ingredients? Pesto means pressed. So don’t limit yourself to basil pesto! Another pesto that I love for this time of year, when fresh tomatoes are filling the bins of my farmer’s market, is pesto alla carrettiera, or the Cart Driver’s…
Tomato Season
Drying the tomatoes in Santo Stefano Quisaquina
Wow, Do I Say, Tomato!
When we came upon this, it took my breath away. Earlier this month, when we visited the farm of sculptor Lorenzo Reina in the mountains of Sicily, they were drying their bounty of tomatoes in the sun, preserving them for use for the rest of the year.
The Road Less Traveled
Often the most memorable moments of our Experience Sicily tours are those that we didn’t plan, but we allowed to happen. That’s the beauty of a small-group tour: flexibility! For example, last September, Sebastiano, our local guide and driver, took us through the Nebrodi Mountains. First of all, the scenery was stupendous. Not many people…
No Time to Paste! I mean, Waste!
August is tomato season in Sicily, and as a result, there is no time to waste! Once the tomatoes are ripe, it’s time to make “estratto” or what we call in English, “tomato paste.” Once made, estratto is jarred and preserved to be used in sauces and stock throughout the year. Making estratto is a…