Sometimes recipes just need to be made, just because. I met a saffron producer online, who is also creating some facinating products from his farm in San Miniato. Toni’s site is Croco e Similace. Besides saffron, he grows rhubarb and thyme. He creates some very creative products which I can’t wait to try. Strawberry and…
Rianata- Trapani style “pizza” – Calvino
When I was in Trapani last month, I took my friends to a favorite pizza spot I discovered a couple of trips ago, Calvino. Their pizza’s are different. Instead of sauce, they use tomatoes. My favorite is their classic Rianata pizza which is made with the cherry tomatoes, anchovy, pecorino cheese and oregano (rianata- oreganata)….
Tasting Sicily
I could have stayed here all day long. One of the only regrets I have is I don’t live near the beach, to smell the sea! I hope to fix that soon, to spend a month or so at a time at least, but my Culinary programs to Sicily at least get me here often….
Learning from the Masters- Timballo di Pasta
Each trip back to Sicily, especially back to the Foresteria Planeta in Menfi, is like going back home. We stay at the Foresteria as a base for most of our trip, as they have a fabulous teaching kitchen and Chef Angelo Pumilia shares the secrets of the Planeta family recipes with us. One of the…
Divina Cucina on the Road- Sicily 2012
Each time I go to Sicily it seems more and more like coming home. On my bucket list is to have a home in Sicily and retire there by the sea, so it is with extreme pleasure that I share my Sicily with my fellow lover’s of food and travel on our culinary expeditions. off…
Never too much Sicily
I love Palermo. This Sunday, no attempted mugging! Lovely lunch at Zia Pina with my ladies, quite the antipasto table. Great fried fish again. Then a lovely day in Cefalu’. Nothing better than learning to slow down. We saw this great “500” with a demijohn, suitcase and extra tank for gas on the roof, was…
Sicilian Dreams
I need some time to let all the fabulous food, wine and new friends we made soak in to be able to write about our fabulous week in Sicily. We stayed in Menfi as a homebase and spent a day in Trapani making cous cous and a day in Castelvetrano where we had a cooking…
Sicily – It’s the People
When I offer culinary weeks besides the food, it is the people we meet that really make the trip. When you go home, having made new friends is a gift that never ends, the memories of time spent together, sharing a new place. This week in Sicily we are very lucky, we have made new…