Ciao Everyone! I am so excited to announce my new eBook filled with authentic Sicilian recipes! When I mean authentic, I mean authentic! Being married to a Sicilian and living in Sicily, it’s no wonder I decided to create a cookbook filled with delicious recipes for you to try. If you happen to be of[…]
Hi all =) Well, today I wanted to share with you an incredibly easy lemon tea that helps you digest all you’ve eaten. How did I discover this? Well, picture it, Sicily 2013. It was Christmas eve and we were with my husband’s entire family. Needless to say, the combination of being pregnant and having[…]
Hi all! Well first off, sorry about the long absence in posting….my parents were visiting us from California for 6 weeks and we were touring Malta and Northern Italy with them =) We had a wonderful time together and travelling is always so much fun, even if you are 5 months pregnant =) I think[…]
One of things I love most about summer is ice cream. Not that I eat a lot of it, but yummy, creamy, gooey, tasty, ice cream is just heaven when it’s hot! =) Here in Italy, gelato (ice cream) from a gelateria (ice cream parlor) is so good that I can’t even bring myself to[…]
Whew!…..All I can say is that I’m exhausted! Remember my last post on the “Best Homemade Canned Tomato Sauce” ? The one where I mentioned that we bought about 100 pounds of tomatoes to bottle\can? Well, I finished them…and not only them, but my sun dried tomatoes as well. I tell you, I don’t want[…]
I’ll confess, we never ate pork meat growing up because we never really liked its flavor. However, after I moved to Italy, I became keenly aware that Italian sausage and other types of pork meat was my destiny, there was no escaping =) …..and now I actually love Italian sausage! So what was I to[…]
My husband, as every Italian I know, loves tomatoes. I mean he LOVES tomatoes. He even wanted me to cook fresh tomatoes over his eggs once! And I love garlic, I mean LOVE garlic….My parents used to say I would crawl to the garlic basket when I was a baby and would reach for the[…]
I love roasted nuts, but do NOT want to pay extra for them roasted. My mom first taught me how to roast pine nuts a long time ago, and it’s the same for almonds, or any other nut you would like roasted. So here’s a simple and easy method using a frying pan. No roaster,[…]