Fig Cookie: The cookies are a favorite at Christmas and wedding celebrations of many Sicilian-American and Sicilian families. Native to the Middle East and western Asia, it has been sought out and cultivated since ancient times, and is now widely grown throughout the temperate world, both for its fruit and as an ornamental plant. Fig
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Sesame Cookies: This is a traditional Sicilian cookie. Sesame seed is one of the oldest oilseed crops known, domesticated well over 3000 years ago. Sesame has many species, most are wild and are native to sub-Saharan Africa. Biscotti semi di sesamo Print Recipe Sesame Cookies CuisineItalian Servings Prep Time 8 People 30 Minutes Cook Time
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Cream Puffs: Is a French, Italian dessert choux pastry ball filled with whipped cream, pastry cream, custard. Bigne Print Recipe Cream Puffs CuisineItalian Servings Prep Time 10 People 30 Minutes Cook Time 40 Minutes Servings Prep Time 10 People 30 Minutes Cook Time 40 Minutes Bigne Print Recipe Cream Puffs CuisineItalian Servings Prep Time 10
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Eggplant Rollatini: Is an Italian-style dish (called rollatini di melanzane in faux Italian) that is usually made with thin slices of eggplant, which are dusted in wheat flour or lightly breaded and covered with ricotta and often other cheeses and seasonings, then rolled up and baked. Rollatini melanzana Print Recipe Eggplant Rollatini CuisineItalian Servings Prep
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Sauce with Meatballs, Sausage, and Pork: Italian-American “Sunday sauce or gravy”, the primary difference being the addition of a greater variety of meat in the American version, most famously meatballs (hence spaghetti and meatballs), braciole, sausage, and pork chops. There is great variety in the Sunday meat sauce that is passed down from generation to
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