Sicilian recipes :

Sicilian Rice Cakes

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Purpetti di Riso Somehow I?m stuck with leftover white rice every time I make  it. I hate to throw it out, but I?m not one to save food in the refrigerator hoping to use it the next day. Especially  a meat dish, I never store[...]

Sicilian Fig Cookies

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Purciddati These are my husband?s favorite cookies that my mother learned to make when days were less complicated, and people had more time to smell the flowers. My husband rants and raves about them to everyone. The crust[...]

Sicilian Fried Shrimp

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Gammari Fritti What are the heads doing on the shrimp? You may ask this question thinking that the heads are superfluous, they are not going to be eaten, they?re ugly looking even gross to[...]

Sicilian Lemon Granita

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Granita di Limuna X X X Before living in the US, air conditioning was a foreign word. I had lived without air conditioning and survived, just like every other Sicilian. My first 13 years of life in  Sicily were[...]

Sicilian Fried Mushrooms

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Fungi ‘npadedda I have talked in the past about the way Sicilians in my generation got a hold of mushrooms. You really had to trust the person you bought them from, or the person who gave them to you as a gift.  Forty years ago in[...]

Sicilian Stuffed Sardines

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SARDI A BECCAFICU recipe @ bottom, but you may enjoy my story first X My uncle Michele a musician, a painter and a Sicilian prose writer was one of my favorite uncles. He lived in a high rise on the top of a hill[...]

Italian Sicilian spaghetti

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Italian Sicilian spaghetti Ingredients for mince filling Mince 250 gm Brinjal 2 Tomatoes finely chopped 3 Onion chopped 1 cup Boiled spaghetti 2 cups Oil ¼ cup Peas boiled ½ cup Cheddar cheese[...]

Sicilian Stuffed Artichoke

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Cacocciuli  Chini x Agrigento 1963 x x Most people may doubt this, but I assure you this is one of my favorite comfort foods and it can be yours too. I have had it prepared in different ways, and some have[...]

Sicilian Swordfish Skewers

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I'm continuing my trek around Italy even if it's only in my mind. One area we haven't visited is Southern Italy and Sicily. I can't even say we've come close. The farthest was a town called Termoli on the Mediterranean. We sensed a definite[...]

Sicilian Veal Rib Soup

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Brodu di Costu di Viteddu From 1970 to 1972 I lived in Palermo, Sicily. I attended an all girl boarding school, Educandato Maria Adelaide, where I lived with other fellow students and a group of women administrators[...]