Tetú are Sicilian chocolate spice cookies. These cookies are outrageously dense with chocolate, spice and orange scented mouthfuls. Depending on what part of Sicily you’re from, they are topped with either a chocolate, lemon, or vanilla glaze. Tetú cookies are incredibly easy to make. This is my mother Maria’s recipe. …
If you’ve never had Romano beans before, I can only say that you’ve been missing out. Romano beans are also known as pole beans, runner beans, or snap beans. Romano beans are similar to green beans, except they are …
This dish reminds me of Sunday dinners at Nonna’s house, when she would have a large pot of tomato sauce simmering on the stove with meatballs and braciole, or brucioli as we say in the Sicilian dialect. Braciole are thin slices of meat that are stuffed, rolled, and cooked in …
Sott’olio is a term that means preserved in olive oil. Eggplant, artichokes, zucchini, cauliflower, and bell peppers can be made this way. There are two methods for making melanzane sott’olio. The traditional Sicilian method is to use raw eggplant. In the alternative method the eggplant is cooked. It’s really a …
Italians love calamari (squid) and there are so many ways to prepare them – in salads, pasta sauces, grilled, fried, or baked and stuffed. As a child I remember its only value was its use as fish bait. Although fried calamari are great, I’m glad to see that other calamari …
Rotolo means roll in Italian. This recipe for filled bread roll (rotolo) has a savory cauliflower and sausage filling. The process is similar to making cinnamon rolls – except you don’t cut it before baking. You can stuff a rotolo with just about any combination of ingredients you desire – …
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