Ingredient Wiki: Squash

Squashes are considered a fruit and fall into two groups, summer and winter squash, depending on whether they are picked as immature fruit, making them summer squash or mature fruit which become winter squash. Both Summer and Winter squash can be f (read full article)

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Sicilian Panelle

Panelle Panelle stands are as popular in Sicily as, hot dog stands, in the US. You can quickly grab a Panini and Panelle as you are walking down the street and hunger pain attacks. But sometimes you will grab a sandwich with panelle just because tha (read full article)

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Sicilian Stuffed Butternut Squash

RIpienu di Cucuzza X X This story below was taken from a blog I found on the web, while looking for information on squash. Of course the site had nothing to do with the vegetable except that it is used in the contest of the proverb. “Falla comu v (read full article)

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Sicilian Vegetable Mille Foglie

X Mille Foglie is Italian for thousand leaves, generally referring to a puff pastry layered with a cream filling. Today many other versions have appeared including vegetable versions, and sometimes referred to lasagna. The other name used for Mille (read full article)

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Sicilian Pizza with Mushrooms

Pizza di Fungi X X More Pizza? X Hey I think we’re on to something! Pizza Sauces and Toppings, was probably my most popular post. So I need to deduce that lots of people love pizza. X Flavorful, versatile, inexpensive, fast, universal, kid frien (read full article)

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Sicilian Eggplant, Artichoke and Mushroom Cake

Purpetti di Milanciana, Carcocciuli e Fungi X X I love eggplant, artichokes and mushrooms. My husband hates eggplant and artichokes, but likes mushrooms…Thank goodness! I think I have mentioned this before in one of my posts (read full article)

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Sicilian Ricotta and Morels Stuffed Ravioli

Ravioli di fungi My mom and I have been making homemade food goodies together since she moved to the US almost 20 years ago. We have canned tomatoes, canned caponata, preserved jams and marmalades, crushed green olives and jarred eggplants (read full article)

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Bruschetta di Pipa e Gorgonzola Yesterday I made a grilled dinner. Chicken, peppers, potatoes and onions. Before we started eating our mouths were drooling from the welcomed barbecue smoke. Just recently I converted my gas grill to a (read full article)

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Sicilian Bruschetta of Peppers and Gorgonzola

Bruschetta di Pipa e Gorgonzola Miami, Spring 2010 Yesterday I made a grilled dinner. Chicken, peppers, Potatoes and onions. Before we started eating our mouths were drooling from the welcomed barbecue smoke. Just recently (read full article)

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Sicilian Grilled Vegetable Salad

‘Nzalata di Verdura Arrustuta This is a great summer salad. Of course, I eat it all year round here in Miami, and you can do the same if you serve it hot in the colder months. My recipe below is made by using a grill, but if, by any chance (read full article)

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Pizza Sauces and Toppings

Cunzamu a Pizza Stop the pizza delivery man, for ever! Unless… it’s being delivered directly from Sicily. I am sure that if you try this homemade pizza you will never buy into any impersonator again. Although most of us think of pizza a (read full article)

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Delicious and Easy to Make Soup

Brodettu di Verdura cu Patati e Ovu Unbeknownst to me, until later in my life, my dad played a very important factor in the shaping of who I am today. He always encouraged the creative side in me. No matter what I created he would praise me an (read full article)

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Tomato Vegetable Soup

Minestra di Pummadoru e Verdura For a 5 year old a mystery is magic! That is how it was for me that beautiful sunny morning when my parents woke me from my sleep and announced that something was waiting for me and all I had to do was to find what (read full article)

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Fried Zucchini

Cucuzzi fritti Sicilians eat very little dark meat. Sicily is an arid  island, we don’t have much in the way of pastures. Cows are raised primarily for lactation, and production of cheese. Most meat is imported, except for chicken, goat, rab (read full article)

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Potato Croquettes

Purpetti di Patati A bad day turns out to be good! I could not go out and play. That late morning, I had run up the stairs of our building, stopped on the second floor and got the bright idea of ringing the door bell of our elderly neighbors (read full article)

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Stuffed Breads

Schiacciata How many elephants can you fit in a Volkswagen? That is the old joke every child loves to tells by the time he/she is 5 years old. But by the age of 8 I had learned how many young Italians can fit into a Lancia Appia. If I recall well, 8 (read full article)

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