EvainSicily

Autumn sea Autumn sea in the evening...it's so relaxing! When it's quiet , just watching the horizon and don 't think anything.. just breathe and take power...

I found this piece of paper on the door of an old house in Modica alta (Modica uphill- Rg)... Today, everybody has a mobile phone..with some  rare exceptions. like the person who wrote it If I forget my phone at home, I immediatedly come back if It's possible, and if it's  not..hmmm I always think to what I need to call or who needs to call me. It's a disaster....and since I lived alone I don't swicht it off. at night.I'm just learning now, how to relax and not depend on it...I  often swicht  it off at night and I don't watch  the screen for  some sms..but it's not easy and I don't like I still do that.  I'll learn .. So, when I saw and read this piece of paper..I smiled...first of all for some funny grammar mistakes, a mixture  of Italian and Sicilian ..but then...I went on smiling and thinking how wonderful time we had when mobile phones were not existing , or at least, when they were not  so essential!

 malva  variegata  The first kitchen garden in Sicily is going to open next months near Scicli. In a wonderful location , between Cava D'Aliga and Scicli (Rg) the first kitchen garden is opening now! Enrico , is one of the owners toghether with his family. He welcomes visitors at his house, or better say greenhouse,  and shows and explains innumerable kind of plants and herbs . lavanda pinnata   I spent a lovely Sunday morning with some friends totally immersed in wonderful flavours of officinal plants and aromatic herbs , with a magnificent seaview. I confess, I'm not good in botanic and memorizing the names of flowers and plants...but I really liked the place I visited.  gersanium with the fragrance of citronella(lemon-like)  A beautiful idea.......this is also Sicily...........the real flavours of Sicily!!    Enrico, very proud of his project!!  visit Enrico's company webite:   ...

 Today....is a lovely sunny day.  The temperature is quite mild and the laundry .has already dried!!!!

It's still time for artichokes! There are innumerable recepies to cook artichokes , here in Sicily. Mammy today has called me and told me she has prepared artichokes as usual. As usual? Yes, my Mom's favourite recipy is cooking artichokes in a pan after having stuffed each with: toasted minced bread, piece of garlic, local cheese, presley, black pepper and olive oil and salt. Please don't forget on the fire as I did once!!!!Mamma mia..........overburnt!!!!!!! a disaster!

cannolo siciliano Hmmmm! Bellissimo (beautiful)..which in Sicilian stands for Buonissimo  in Italian, or better in English "very good" In any language the cannolo with ricotta cheese cream  is really delicious. It's one of the (many) things you have to taste when you come here!! Remember ! when you enter in a pastry shop and you don't see any on the window, ask about cannoli! They will stuff them at the moment , so that the crust has a best taste!!

Are we really free? Free to live as we like, always in the respect of the others, anyway?? I was convinced , that , more or less, it was possible to do it. No, it's not true. This is my thought , today.. I was convinced I was free to love , to work , to do what I like most, to write my thoughts.......I'm so sad.... It's terrible to defend your rights and simply your way of living...it's terrible to have to prove you are right in what you're doing....to explain what I have done in my last four years... sorry, but these are my thoughts.....I have to defend myself...just because I live. Is not a right foreverybody?