Sicily Scene

Nespole abound so I made a small batch of this, using the miracle machine I bought last year.

This is an article of mine which was published in Italy Magazine yesterday.  It's an upsetting story and I cannot stop thinking about i...

I'd bought some thin pork chops and wasn't sure what to do with them.  I'd also found some agretti - a type of cress, which I...

Enjoy: Vasco Rossi - Sto pensando a te

Every now and then you come across a cookery book with recipes that you just know will work.  Some instinct seems to tell you that this boo...

.... me as a blogger and my little blog, that is. It seems a long time since I sat down and tentatively wrote my first post and so much ha...

I love buying fruit of different sizes and shapes, so lemons that look like apples and little lemons are a delight to me: Now the fruit ...

Hi, folks.  It's Simi here! I just want to let all my fans know I'm better and it was nice of everyone to ask about me.  If you lo...

My Dad died 37 years ago today and I miss him.

This is an article of mine which was published in Italy Magazine on Monday: Photo from fOTOGLIF Well, who’d have thought it? Admitted...

'Tis the season to be melancholy and that's how I felt when I saw a man for whom I have feelings - he doesn't know about this -...

An April evening and it is warm enough to sit on the terrace of the Altro Posto and have a colour-coordinated coppa di frutta :

Here's what I did with the small green tomatoes I found the other day:  First I sliced them thinly, then put them in a bowl with some cu...

The film Basilicata Coast to Coast has been released in Italy.  Here is the trailer and the song, Mentre dormi , which Max Gazzè dedicated ...

All the better to see the wrinkles with. The photo was taken at Raffaele's which, on Saturdays, is a place full of temptation:

.... these small, green tomatoes:

.... from my old friends at the Altro Posto bar when I popped in for some water today: What's inside? The Altro Posto was the...

These are in bloom all over Modica.  Such an inauspicious name for such a lovely tree.