Recipe

We met Teresa in Messina who invited us into her beautiful Italian home & showed us how to make some of her favorite family recipes.  This Linguine recipe is one that she started making just to get creative in the kitchen.  The combination of the ...

Pesce Stocco is an ancient Sicilian recipe that dates back to Norman times when Northern Europeans conquered Sicily and influenced their culture, landscape and cuisine.  Pesce Stocco uses stockfish which is fish typical from Scandinavia. Vitina...

A quick & healthy fruit salad from Italy made with Sicilian blood oranges & lemons. It's refreshing, tangy & soooo delicious.  It's so easy, you can make it in less than 10 minutes!   Read more

Sicilians like to eat fennel at the end of a meal to aid digestion and when paired with tangy orange, it makes a light & refreshing salad, half fruit, half vegetable!   We have our own version of this salad but we met Genni in Messina and s...

This recipe is a perfect combination of sweet and spicy.   Apples play the star role, providing lots of vitamin C and natural fiber, they are paired with arugula which is packed full ...

This is a versatile creamy white sauce that is used in a variety of different Italian dishes or can be used as a base for other sauces.  One of our Sicilian chefs, Gienni showed us how to make it because she used it in the Eggplant Doublets dish...

This is a typical dish from Messina which incorporates so many of the fresh ingredients of Sicilian cuisine.  Recipes in Sicily vary so much by cities and regions and Vitina told me that despite visiting her family in Sicily so many times, this ...

We met Samuele in Messina, Sicily,  a beautiful city where fishermen pull up every day with an abundance of freshly caught fish.  You can eat it in a variety of different ways and Samuele decided to make 'Pesce alla ghiotta' for us, which...

Pasta fagioli, or a soup made with pasta and beans, is a staple for most Italian families. The beauty of this soup is how each family and often, each family member, has their own versions. Variations include using pork, sau...

This is a recipe that chef Filippa made for us at her restaurant in Messina.  Her daughter came up with the idea to wrap the king prawns in spaghetti, they loved how it tasted and have been making it ever since.  Of course she lives right on the coast...