I never understood that cheesy saying “If life gives you lemons make lemonade”. What is so bad about lemons in the first place?! If life gives me lemons Im a happy camper. We have a lemon tree that we planted in our backyard here in Sicily and the thing has been struggling since day 1. We […]
I think I was inspired by March Madness. College basketball at this time of year is impossible to ignore, especially because my Alma mater ( Michigan State) is a regular contender. Except this year!!! I was thinking to myself there are so many wines from just Etna alone how can we figure out our favorites? […]
How many tomato sauces have you tried? I don’t even want to know how many different things I have tried over the years. Its pretty crazy how there just isn’t a standard recipe for tomato sauce after centuries of practice. When talking food with my Italian friends, I like to bring up the fact that […]
Pronounced car-cho-fee, artichokes are one of my favorite vegetables. I may call them Carciofi the rest of my life because its a lot more fun to say than ‘artichokes’. During artichoke season in Sicily you will see big plumes of smoke wafting on the roadsides in Sicily. Local vendors set up a huge trays of […]
Had a really bad experience with a few wines that I bought and wanted to share and warn. Also it has been a while since I have pretended to be a wine expert, but for these wines no expertise was needed. We ended up dumping most of the 6 bottles that we got. The winery […]
I think that I have written about the blood oranges of Sicily (Arancia Rossa di Sicilia). They are one of my favorite foods in Sicily. During the orange season we keep a regular supply and I eat at least one per day. All of the fruit and veggie markets have huge containers full of them. […]
Went to our local farmers market yesterday and couldn’t resist picking up one of these massive Sicilian cauliflowers. They are in season right now and I have been too intimidated by them over the past few years because they are quite the commitment with their size. What on earth can I do with this thing?? […]
Hockey and Sicily don’t seem like two words that should find themselves in the same sentence. It’s hard enough to find ice for drinks let alone a whole sheet of ice to play a sport on. Luckily ice isn’t absolutely necessary and luckily I didn’t leave my hockey equipment in the States when we moved […]
If I had to choose a vegetable to represent Sicily it would be the Eggplant. They love this strange vegetable here. They have multiple varieties and for this recipe I prefer the “viola” which is a short and stout light purple eggplant. You can see a picture of it below. Im not sure if they […]
