Antonella Cooking Classes
Sicilian sugar brioche At the beginning of September I went to Sicily for two days. My childhood home. Just two plentiful days, too few to do everything I wanted, enough to understand how the passing of time increases the distances inexorably. I live with a conflicted feeling, right there in my stomach. Something that pulls
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This famous liqueur is easy to make, you need just three ingredients. In my family home, in Sicily, there are a couple of lemons tree; they are small, but able to produce a good amount of fruits, scented and juicy. Lemons are among the “basic ingredients” of sicilian food, we boil the zest together with
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Every time I see coloured sugar sprinkles on the grocery shelves, my mind comes back to these traditional Easter cookies. The name “coddure”, crowns, comes from the Greek “Kollura” and indicades an Easter cookies with orthodox origins. These cookies were produced by shepherds, brought with them during their travels through the countryside and the crown
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I grew up in the kitchen. The kitchen was the house’s room where I spent most of my childhood, doing my homework, reading or watching my favourite tv series, while my mothers was cooking our supper, a “crostata” or a cake. When I started cooking, first as a simple passionate, my family recipes, my family
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A soft spongy biscuits, rich in chocolate with a persistent scent of cloves, cinnamon and orange. All the smells that can bring to your mind that Christmas is near are closed in these delicious cookies. Here we are, Halloween is arrived and the girls are super excited. Alice will wear a black dress decorated with
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Several years ago I was watching a Nigella’s TV series and, as usually happen, I was completely kidnapped by her words, her relaxed and confidential approach to food and cooking skill. I saw her making a clementine cake. With her personal way to look straight into the camera, like to tell you “ Yes, it’s
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The “scacciata” is a sort of flattened pizza, typical of Catania, my city. Omnipresent on the Christmas Eve dinner table, during my childhood this dish was a Saturday family dinner classic. The dough is crunchy outside and soft inside, with a rich and tasty filling… soo good. A proper scacciata catanese needs the “tuma”. The
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It has been a strange summer, long, warm, dry; on the professional front, a busy summer, plenty of new projects, cooking classes, private dinners, shopping for food made twice in a day, recipes writing , mails. A crazy period, sometimes caothic and stressful, interrupted just for 10 days, the time for a long drive home.
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I met Chris during a class last July. We shook hands, we seated around the table and we started talking. Meat sauce recipe has been our first topic. Chris has Italian roots, from Southern Italy, and he still uses to cook the meat sauce each Sunday for all his family following his grandmother recipe. He
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