EvainSicily

 Here we have great fresh products:  two symbols which link two different districts in the South East of Sicily: cherry tomato from PACHINO, not far from Siracusa, and the carrot from ISPICA ,close to Ragusa

Palazzo Borgia del Casale -Piazza Duomo

The Duomo, not a common church! behind its elegant Baroque facade the whole Sicilian history!

 Una delle più interessanti rappresentazioni sacre in Sicilia: La Madonna dei Milici a Scicli Rievocazione della battaglia vittoriosa dei Normanni di Ruggero d'Altavilla contro i saraceni di Belcane, aiutati dalla Madonna a cavallo apparsa sul luogo di battaglia nel 1091. Stasera ore 20! ------------------------ One of the most interesting miracle palys in Sicily :The Madonna of Milici in Scicli. Evoking the victory of Roger of d'Hautville against the saracens led by Belcane. helped by the horsed Madonna who appeared on the battlefield in 1091 Tomight at 8.00 pm in Scicli!

History of Sicily in One Hundred Seconds: Video by Turi Scandurra

  put a layer of Savoiardi biscuits in a bowl, after pouring them in a solution of 3/4 water and 1/4 of coffee(espresso). In the meantime, using the BIMBI(great invention!!) prepare a ricotta cheese cream mixing excatly for each kg of ricotta 300gr of sugar and some liquid pure coffe till it become almost like a mousse. Cover the layer of biscuits with that cream Then put another layer of buscuits poured in the coffe like you did above and make another ricotta &coffee cream layer cover with other buscuits  put in the fridge .It would be better to make the cake the day before eating  so keeping it in the fridge for the whole day just before eating UPSIDE DOWN and decorate as you wish here we cover with some ricotta cream and candies.... very simple very good very genuine   recipe courtesly by Mrs Nora Chimirri , a wonderful lady , owner of CASE DAMMA , a wondeful agriturismo b

Scicli: St Bartolomeo Modica -The Castle Catania . u' Liotru - The Elephant Noto - The Cathedral The carpet of flowers in via Nicolaci - Noto Last weekend in Noto!

  no balcony, no dry machine..what else??? yesterday afternoon , not far from St. Bartolomeo's church in Scicli (Rg)

two beautiful voices... good night

 

 é possibile che i miei turisti inglesi non conoscano le nespole!? Già..ed  è possibile che io non sapessi  come tradurre  " nespola"..in inglese? C'è sempre da imparare... MEDLAR..... dopo aver cercato nel dizionario,che gentilemente, un'impiegata del museo ci ha prontamente prestato, ecco  qui! Medlar.......ma  alcuni di loro erano ancora scettici. ---------------- Don't you know this? here we call NESPOLE A few days ago, a group of tourists told me they 've never seen them  before and didn't know how to call them And I didn't know how to translate it,as well!! We looked for in a dictionary together and found that Nespola =Medlar ! There's always something new to learn!

The museum of  Camarina, located in an old rural house of the XVIIIth century, is small but it's one of the most charming to me in this side of Sicily. The section about the collection of the amphoraes is amasing: more than 1000, give us a complete panorama of the intense commercial life of Camarina in the Ancient Mediterranean .

GIARDINI IBLEI - Ragusa Ibla

I've never liked my feet.... but , growing up, I learned how to love them.. and working a lot in these days , walking a lot they really need care so..  a good massage and then strawberry polish!!

A picture of mine.. inspired my sister to write  RICORDI Io... giardino da curare castello da espugnare e mare in tempesta..! Nei vuoti e pieni, nei chiaroscuri dei giorni trascorsi insieme... Ribelle ad un quotidiano... quotidianamente da inventare... Tu ...giardiniere occasionle, cavaliere disarcionato e non gradivi il mare..!   by Carmela Iacono freely translated  by Lucia Iacono : Me... an orchard to care a castle not won and sea in the storm full and empty days  shades and lights  the days we stayed rejecting daily life and inventors  of new time You... gardener from time to time an unhorsed kignt   but the sea you didn't like

Toc toc, push with two fingers and turn it upside down.. the ricotta comes out from the cavagna , the old typical cane container for it I like to see my tourists very curios and amazed when they discover  how to do ! Buon appetito!!

Dal 18 al 21 maggio Primavera Barocca a Noto Questo ritratto di Giovanni Paolo II all'interno della deliziosa Chiesa di S. Chiara ------------------------ From 18th to 21st May  Baroque Spring in Noto This portrait of John Paul II inside the charming Church of St. Chiara

 A pochi metri dalla sabbia dorata del litorale di Punta Secca, non c'è solo la casa di Montalbano! Eccone qui alcune tra quelle che mi sono piaciute! ------ Close to the golden beach in Punta Secca, there's not only Montalbano'house. Here some others I liked!