This rustic pie is made with pizza dough and filled with spinach, sausage, and ricotta cheese. It’s similar to a calzone or stromboli. Sicilians also call it a scacciata which means squashed or flattened because of its shape. I …
Most children are finicky eaters and my sister and I were no exception. I remember many nights, of what seemed like torture, where our parents would try to coerce us to eat. This dish is really my mother’s invention that came out of shear desperation because she couldn’t get us …
My mom was a working mother so she didn’t have a lot of time to prepare dinners during the week. These were always a hit whenever she made them, especially at Thanksgiving. I say why eat turkey when the sides are so much tastier– skip the turkey please! These batter dipped cauliflower fritters with …
This dish is the Italian version of tuna noodle casserole. Several years ago while visiting family in Sicily, a cousin invited me to dinner. He was cooking what looked like a simple marinara sauce to me. Then he proceeded to put canned tuna in it. My initial thought (or horror) – …
Anginetti are basic Italian drop cookies made in households throughout southern Italy. I swear that almost every Italian nonna (grandmother) makes these, including mine. These soft, cake-like, vanilla cookies have a sugar glaze on top and are usually decorated with colored nonpareils. This basic cookie can be made in a …
A Sfincione is a thick Sicilian pizza that is essentially a focaccia (in Italian) when not made with a tomato sauce topping. Just like focaccia, the dough is lightly crusty and soft on the inside. This sfincione is made with sundried tomatoes, black olives, cacio cheese, anchovies, and oregano. Sicilians …
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