Sicilian gastronomie

We thought the food in Greece was terrific, but here in Sicily we are eating like kings! Each meal has several servings (all large) with lots of white wine. We have already stopped on tour for wine tastings, liquer tastings, honey tastings, oil tastings and cake tastings (yum).

Here's a summary of traditional Sicilian yums:

Liquers - Pistacchio, Almond, Cinammon (recommended), Prickly Pear, Lava (not recommended)

Sicilian sweets - Cassatelle (pastries filled with sweet ricotta) and frutta martorana (marzipan shaped like fruits, fish, anything really!)

Gelati - Cinammon, Cassata (ie. the ricotta pastries), Chocnut, Zuppa Inglese (supposed to taste like a lemon liquer cake), Pistacchio, Mandarin, Nutella, Amaretto, Green apple etc etc. Also popular are sorbetto (sorbets) and granita (flavoured ice, like sorbets)

Seltz - a yummy fizzy drink they make in little booths on the streets. Syrup with soda and fresh mandarin juice.

We also tried some Sicilian specialties - scacciata (spinach pastry), arancino (fried rice ball), coppa (dried meat), frittata (egg thing) and blood oranges.

Mike has a pot belly again.