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Cooking Classes in Taormina – Day 3

For our last class we made three dishes: an eggplant involtini (slices of eggplant  rolled up around pasta), polpette all’agrodolce ( meatballs in a sweet and sour sauce) and zucchini ripieni (zucchini halves filled with a ground meat mixture). We … Continue reading

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Almond Thins – Naturaly Heart Healthy and Gluten Free

Biscotti di Mandorla  This is a lovely little cookie, light and sweet, perfect for afternoon tea or just a little something sweet after dinner. They have the added benefit of being heart healthy in the sense that the only fat … Continue reading

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Green Beans with Toasted Almonds and Pecorino

from “Seafood alla Siciliana” by Toni Lydecker. This is a simple green bean dish with great texture and rich flavor by the same author as the Pesce alla Matalotta. I was pleasantly surprised by how good a light sprinkling of … Continue reading

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