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Brioche with Tuppo
Brioche with tuppo This time I will share my husband’s memories. He had special grandparents. His grandfather was a very popular ice cream maker in Acireale known as “Donn ‘Angilinu.” He went around the alleys of the city with his tricycle, preceded by his unmistakable whistle, with crowds of children flocking to taste his delicious ice creams. My husband’s favorite
Granita
Granita So many summers spent in a fabulous little house in Fornazzo! So many memories in that Etna village where vacationers and locals met every year to experience the most beautiful adventures. My home was a snowshoe and still today it has a whole basement that was used for snow conservation. HISTORY For Sicily, with its long seasons and its
Tomato Sauce for pasta
Tomato sauce for pasta. “I pummadoru,” “a sassa,” “i buttigghi,” “i casci di pumadoru.” So many names for our fresh tomato sauce preserves! In Sicily it is like that! A tradition made of flavors & aromas. Every year in September the time comes when the whole family meets and each one with different techniques works to make the preserves that
A Bread recipe
A bread recipe…I can still smell it under my nose. The smell of freshly baked bread mixed with the smell of wood and yeast mixed with hot and humid, love and tradition, simplicity and magic. “Do pane cù criscenti n’to furnu a ligna dà Nonna ‘Nitta!” (Grandmother’s bread recipe with sourdough, baked in a wood oven). Preparing bread was a
A cuddura cu l’ova!
There are traditions that are handed down and others that are created. Then there are those that exist and you make your own! Like the cuddura cu l’ova was for us! Grandma ‘Nitta prepared it and we ate it willingly. But as a child I was not fascinated by it, I preferred chocolate eggs. My children, on the other hand,
Cotognata candies
In the countryside we had a Quince tree and every year I helped harvest them for Grandma ‘Nitta to prepare the Quince jelly! I was greedy. I liked it soft, spread on bread with butter! It is one of those delicious flavors that you love as a child and then accompanies you throughout your life! Our family tradition was to
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