Sicilian Girl

Tweet There’s nothing better than picking your own sweet and juicy fresh fruit from the trees, sampling as you go with juice dripping down your arm, sitting at large picnic tables smack-dab in the middle of the orchard and eating a pancake breakfast topped with more fruit. YUM! That’s what you get when you visit [...]

Tweet In Italy, watermelon is the most prominent fruit of the summer. After spending a day in the hot summer sun, there is nothing quite so refreshing as a cold juicy slice. Because watermelon is such a great thirst quencher, you will find a proliferation of fruit stands selling it by the slice or in [...]

Tweet Give thanks to  Christopher Columbus for bringing lemon seeds to America!  There’s a saying in Sicily that lemons are not real lemons unless they’re Sicilian, which I am quite certain that the folks from the Amalfi Coast would strongly disagree. Sicilian lemons thrive in the sun-drenched Mediterranean climate and are prized for their fragrant [...]

Tweet   Perfect for Colazione or Dolci (breakfast or dessert). This fruit kabob (spiedino) is a colorful addition to the table and of course it’s paired with Cannoli Cream for that extra special yumminess factor.         Ingredients: Cannoli Cream recipe Your favorite fruit Wooden skewers   … or maybe you prefer this [...]

Tweet Gorgonzola is a straw-white soft cheese with greenish streaks. It’s derived from a process called “erborinatura”, in Italian, meaning creation of molds. This is an ancient cheese and was first produced in Milan, Italy in 879. As enabled by tradition and law, only two Italian regions produce Gorgonzola cheese, and the following provinces only: [...]

Tweet The famous French Creole flambeed dessert, Bananas Foster, was my inspiration for this breakfast treat. Chef Paul Blange created the dessert which includes rum and is served over ice-cream, at Brennan’s in the early 1950′s. I have fond memories of sitting with my Aunt Mary (who lived just off of Canal Street) in this [...]

Tweet   During  the 1980′s when I lived in Campbell, California I entered a baking contest. It was for the Campbell Prune Festival held in the streets of our historic downtown. This was a wonderful celebration of community sponsored by the Sunsweet Prune Company, formerly known as The California Prune and Apricot Growers Association. Judged on [...]