Spaghettini with Eggplants – Trapani Style ( Spaghettini alla Trapanese – Pasta a Trapanisi ) This dish is made very quickly and from start to finish should take less than one hour. This sauce has characteristics…
Spaghetti with Eggplants Palermo Style ( Pasta con Melanzane alla Palermitana – Spaghetti Cu’ Pumaroru, Milinciani e Ricotta Salata ) This dish is exclusively “Palermitano” and very popular in Palermo. Spaghetti is mandatory in this…
Fusilli with Eggplants and Peppers ( Fusilli alla Siracusana – Pasta Curta chi Milinjiani, Pipa, Cappareddi e Sardi Salati ) This sauce, made in Syracuse and in the eastern part of Sicily, combines the faint…
Pasta with Raw Sauce ( Pasta alla Carrettiera – Pasta cu Pumaroru Cruru ) This sauce was a specialty that when prepared by my brother-in-law, Giovanni Zenone, it tasted incomparable exquisite. Giovanni was the owner…
Joe’s Heartily Sicilian Style Pasta ( Pasta Gustosa alla Siciliana – Pasta alla Joe ) At Joe’s of Avenue U, the focacceria Palermitana on Avenue U in Brooklyn, NY, we cooked only one type of…
Baked Herbed Chicken with Lemon ( Pollo al Limone – Gadduzzu all’Aspru ) My niece Marzia Greco-Fiorilla who lives in Vittoria in the province of Ragusa sent the following recipe. She prepares Pollo al Limone because “viene molto…
Baked Chicken ( Pollo al Forno – Gadduzzu ‘Nfurnatu) At Joe’s of Avenue U the “specials of the day” were a stimulating episode in our everyday cooking because it challenged me and the team of…
Rolled Meat Palermo Style or Marsala-Orange Sauce ( Involtini alla Palermitana o al Marsala – Bracioli ri Carni ) This dish is prepared in all the regional cuisines, not only in Italy but all over…
Sfincione Saint Vito Style ( Sfincione di San Vito – Sfinciuni i San Vitu ) This stuffed focaccia bread, called Sfincione di San Vito, takes the name from the homonymic convent of Saint Vito where the…
Veal or Chicken Scaloppine Marsala (Scaloppine di Vitello o di Pollo al Marsala) Scaloppina is the diminutive of the word scaloppa, from the English scallop and it describes a thin slice of meat quickly sautéed and sprinkled…