Almond brittle: a Christmas recipe Italian style
After Struffoli, we selected another famous and traditional recipe for a perfect Italian Christmas. Our NONNA used to cook a wonderful almond brittle…and yes, here there is a video recipe to show you how to prepare! Almond brittle is famous everywhere in Italy so it’s impossible to say from which region is from: it’s a [...]
An Italian Christmas recipe: struffoli !
It’s Christmas time, at ItalianSide.com we wondered what could be an Italian recipe to start the Christmas Season. And without doubts the answer is STRUFFOLI ! Struffoli (or Pignolata) are a kind of honey balls made for Christmas in almost all regions in Italy. But they are typical from the Southern Italy. Did you ever [...]
Sicily Traditional Recipes – Sicilia Cooking and Food
This section is about traditional recipes from Sicily, our wonderful Sicilia ! First recipes are: Pasta alla Norma Sicilian Octopus Stew (Polpo stufato alla Siciliana) but stay tuned, new recipes will come from Sicily in next weeks! So, don’t forget to come back to check for Sicilian news and…. BUON APPETITO A TUTTI !
Sicilian Octopus Stew (Polpo stufato alla Siciliana)
Another quick recipe from Sicily. I’m sure octopus is fantastic, but I envy this guy cooking on the seaside in a wonderful sicilian town…. So pay attention to the recipe and to the delicious octopus but take a little look at the landscape around. And at the end people congratulate the chef with a classic [...]
Pasta alla Norma from Sicily
This video recipe comes from BBC. The chef here suggest us how to cook “pasta alla Norma” . This pasta takes his name from Bellini’s Opera “Norma”. Bellini was Sicilian so his famous opera named this famous pasta. Video is very short but..it give a good idea of how good can be this Pasta siciliana [...]












