Welcome to Sicilian Cooking Plus
Welcome and thanks for visiting Sicilian Cooking Plus. We are pleased to offer you this collection of Sicilian recipes and to give you some information about the Island’s cooking, along with Sicilian traditions, history and legends. We will present aspects of our Sicilian way of life so that the Sicilians and the Sicilian-American heritage can be better understood and assessed. My name is Vincent Ciaramitaro, formally the operator along with my brother Paul of Joe’s of Avenue U, the Focacceria Palermitana in Brooklyn, our family business. I retired in 2003, and a few years ago, encouraged by my wife, Terry, and my nephews and nieces, I assembled this collection of Sicilian recipes mostly practiced in my almost fifty years working and running the focacceria. My nephew and webmaster Dimitrij Greco suggested publishing my notes on the internet and www.siciliancookingplus.com was successfully lunched.
Here you will find an overview of each category and the respective recipes, including a section dedicated to the other Italian regions’ culinary traditions, containing some recipes.
Each category has an interesting introduction and the recipes; however, also you can go to RECIPES TYPES to have a quick access to the recipe you are concerned with.
The recipes are grouped in the following categories:
| Number | Recipe Category |
|---|---|
| 1 | Appetizers |
| 2 | Baked Delicacies |
| 3 | Sicilian Delicacies |
| 4 | Pasta: Introduction |
| 5 | Traditional Sicilian Pasta |
| 6 | Seafood Pasta Recipes |
| 7 | Meatless Pasta |
| 8 | Legumes and Vegetables Pastas |
| 9 | Rice |
| 10 | Sauces & Condiments |
| 11 | Eggs Introduction & Recipes |
| 12 | Meats |
| 13 | Seafood |
| 14 | Salads |
| 15 | Vegetables |
| 16 | Sicilian Desserts |
| 17 | Wines & Drinks |
| 18 | Italian Regions: Preface |
| 19 | The Northern Regions |
| 20 | The Etruscans & Central Regions |
| 21 | The Samnites Regions |
| 22 | The Greeks & The South |
| 23 | Sardinia |
| 24 | Festino – The St. Rosalie Feast |
| 25 | Christmas – Natale |
| 26 | Easter – Pasqua |
| 27 | Saint Joseph’s Table |