How can you think of Sicily and not think of bubbles?The bubbles??of course those of the cannoli that we will learn to make together. I am waiting for you here, immersed in silence and among the scents of nature, here in a location with the cheerful colors of Sicily, here in Santa Flavia, a stone's throw from Bagheria, in the province of Palermo.

Let's learn how to make the boiled and crumbly cannoli

Originating in the 1700s, bagherese sfincione has always accompanied the holidays. Now it is possible to enjoy it all year round. How not to try it? So come on, hands in the dough to knead a soft focaccia-like dough, with stewed onions and anchovies, fresh km 0 tuma cheese, and a layer of mollica "cunzata" (breadcrumbs with plenty of Sicilian oregano, pecorino cheese, and filtered oil from the onions with anchovies) and then what? Immediately in the oven and ready to enjoy this typical goodness.I am in the hills of Santa Flavia, a stone's throw from Bagheria.

The sfincione bagherese

At my home in the country, in Santa Flavia, all the ingredients used have natural origins. On this alternative tour we will gather all the products we need directly from my garden, such as eggs from the chicken coop and vegetables, to make our dishes together. We will give free rein to our creativity!

Garden tour in the Sicilian coutryside

Let's enjoy together this traditional Sicilian menu, made with products from my garden and Km 0. Surrounded by nature, in a corner of serenity; a four course meal waits just for you: an authentic local starter, fresh pasta, meat rolls and the most iconic dessert, cannoli. All this strictly homemade!

Traditional sicilian menu straight from my garden

Want to plan an event but don't know where to start? Looking for a menu that speaks of tradition? Are you looking for organic? Want to get together in a family atmosphere? I can help you! Among the hills of Santa Flavia, not far from Bagheria, in an all-Sicilian location you can relax and enjoy good food, prepared as cesarina commands.

Special dining menu to celebrate events in the sicilian way

At my home in the Santa Flavia countryside, I am offering a special cooking class in which we will use the wood-fired oven... to cook pizza! Knead, season and bake your creations together with me, while I reveal tricks and secrets for top-notch preparation. What's next? All that's left is for you to enjoy your pizza as a true "pizzaiolo" .

Special cooking class: pizza passion

Guests of our Sicily, bringing along a bit of tradition for your friends to enjoy is not bad! Let's learn the secrets of these rice balls, with their customizable filling and wrapped in crispy breadcrumbs. Tradition refers to the pointed ones with a filling of béchamel sauce, mozzarella and ham; the round ones are instead made with a filling of Sicilian meat sauce and peas. We can customize them as we like, alla Norma, with mushrooms - in short, according to our tastes. I am waiting for you to try making them together in the open air, here in Santa Flavia, a stone's throw from Bagheria.

Learn how to cook arancine

Fresh pasta=fresh eggsWhat better experience than experiencing, even if for a few hours, nature? We start by gathering eggs from the chicken coop, kneading and creating our own pasta format. Life as a farmer is not bad, we harvest what the garden offers us to bring it to the table and enjoy. It will result in an organic lunch, harvested,prepared, cooked and eaten.

Cooking class harvesting natural products

Santa Flavia

Antonella

Palermo

Velia

Good morning I'm Velia.In this cooking class we will learn how to make traditional recipes of Italian gastronomy using fresh and seasonal products.At the end of the course we will be able to sit at the table and eat what we have prepared.I'm waiting to welcome you to my home in Palermo with the typical warmth of a DOC Sicilian!

Sun & taste of Sicily-  small group hands-on cooking class 

Cook a Sicilian menu of three specialty dishes during a private cooking class in Palermo.Start by choosing the freshest ingredients, then sip Sicilian wines as you cook in your host's home kitchen. The menu varies according to the season to highlight local pastas, fresh vegetables, meats and fish, and desserts, and the class concludes by sharing the meal you've cooked with your host.

Handmade Sicilian Pasta Cooking Class

Rosa Maria

Enjoy a hands-on way to discover the highlights of Sicilian cuisine: this home cooking class has you whipping up a variety of traditional dishes in no time. Make your own fresh pasta, get to work prepping and cooking. At the end of the class, enjoy your delicious meal of authentic Sicilian cuisine, plus wine, coffee, and limoncello to accompany.

Handmade Pasta and Tiramisù cooking class in Palermo

Live an unforgettable culinary experience in Palermo at the home of our Cesarina Rosa Maria!In this cooking class you will learn the secrets to prepare three excellent Sicilian dishes:We will start with traditional panelle to follow with tasty trofie alla Norma.The course will end on a sweet note with a delicious ricotta cheese roll!

Sicilian cooking class in Palermo

We will pay a visit to a typical Sicilian market with street vendors and purchase raw materials , and then we will go home to cook the three recipes of our menu.We will prepare the following menu:-Sfincione palermitano-Eggplant rolls stuffed with fresh pasta: homemade maccaruni covered with fresh sheep ricotta cheese-Lemon cream or ricotta cake as a final dessert

Palermo Cape Market plus cooking class

We will learn how to make Sicilian arancine of three types"Norma" with eggplant (vegetarian)"Accarne" with beef ragout"Abburro" with ham and cheese.We will start with cooking the rice then move on to preparing the toppings and finally assembling the arancine.I will offer an appetizer and dessert in addition to tasting the arancine.

Arancine cooking class

Bagheria

Francesca Maria

We will prepare together the arancine with meat sauce, they are big rice balls stuffed with meat sauce and peas or stuffed with ham and mozzarella and then fried. You will taste the typical flavors of Sicilian street food, accompanied by typical local wine.

Sicilian Street Food...Arancine

This cooking class includes three pasta recipes, a welcome appetizer and is followed by lunch or dinner with the three pasta recipes prepared during the course. You can't miss the ravioli filled with ricotta cheese with Trapanese pesto, a delicacy seasoned with typical Sicilian ingredients. Come and give it a try!

Fresh pasta cooking class, from tradition to the present day

Hands-on cooking class with bruschetta, 3 recipes (starter, pasta and dessert) followed by an Italian aperitivo and a 3-course menu with the recipes prepared during the class.The menu offers: an eggplant Caponata, followed by potato gnocchi with tomato sauce and burrataand lastly either almonds biscuits or sicilian cannoli.

Let's cook my family's traditional sicilian recipes

Cooking class with three recipes (appetizer, fresh pasta dish and dessert) followed by a meal to taste the dishes prepared during the course. The menu starts with eggplant parmigiana and to follow offers a nice fresh pasta dish, spaghetti alla chitarra with cherry tomatoes. Dessert will be an orange or watermelon jelly.

Sicily at the table!

You will discover the authentic tastes, flavors and aromas of Sicilian cuisine, and we will make caponata together.The menu starts with eggplant rolls made in the Bagherese style, followed by spaghetti alla chitarra with cherry tomatoes and meat rolls in the palermitan style. You can't miss the dessert, an orange or watermelon jelly.

Four-course meal to taste true sicilian flavors

This experience offers you a three-course menu (starter, pasta, dessert) with wine included. All the dishes prepared have an important value for me, as they are traditional recipes that have been passed down through my family. From eggplant parmesan to a type of pasta called "guitar" spaghetti cause of their shape, finishing off with a fruity jelly.

Sicily has been a land that has had in past centuries many dominations that have left their flavors in our cuisine..one of them is sweet and sour! I am going to let you taste some dishes where sweet and sour is the protagonist! We will start with eggplant caponata. Then I will prepare pasta alla norma, fried sardines with sweet and sour onion, and to finish a very sweet orange jelly.

The sweet and sour flavors of my kitchen

I will introduce you to the seaside village of Aspra with its characteristic fish market. Then we will go to my house where I will prepare a typical lunch with local fish. Mine is an exclusively local cuisine.

The taste of fish from my sea!!

Rosalia

Cooking class with 3 recipes (appetizer, fresh pasta dish and dessert) followed by 3-course menu with the dishes prepared during the course. The focus of this cooking class goes to traditional Sicilian dishes. We will make together busiate with swordfish, fried eggplant and mint and as dessert the sfince di San Giuseppe.

Course of fresh pasta, traditional Sicilian sweets.

Cooking class with 3 recipes (appetizer, fresh pasta dish and dessert) followed by a 3-course menu with the dishes prepared during the course. You will enjoy traditional Sicilian dishes.On the menu: sardines a Beccafico with sweet and sour onion, bucatini with sardines and to finish watermelon frost

Preparation of the traditional Sicilian menu.

Rosa

3-course menu (starter, pasta, dessert) with wine included.Whether it's lunch or dinner, you will be welcomed in my Atelier in the heart of the Souk el Ballarak (Ballarò market). I will welcome you with a welcome drink accompanied by Palermitan delicacies and homemade bread. As an appetizer you will find the caciocavallo cheese with vinegar, oil and oregano. As a first course a fresh pasta typical of the season with cauliflower, onion, saffron, anchovies all put in the oven to brown. For dessert, a fresh orange frost with organic Sicilian oranges. The smile, the tales and the songs of tradition will accompany you for an experience made of taste and love for your land. The products used to create the dishes you will taste are fresh and at 0 km. The wine you will sip comes from organic Sicilian cellars. Attention to raw materials and organic products are my strong point.

Lunch or Dinner in Souk el Ballarak (BALLARO' market)

Typical 4-course menu consisting of an appetizer, a first course of fresh pasta, a second course with side dish, a dessert and wine included. Welcome drink and cooking demonstration on a dish from the menu.Dishes offered include the typical busiate cooked with pumpkin and sausage and Palermo-style meat rolls, a real treat. Waiting for you!

Typical 4-course Sicilian menu

You will be welcomed in my art atelier immersed in the historic Ballarò market (Souk El Ballarak), we will decide our menu together, we will go and buy the ingredients at the market among the characteristic counters full of colors and scents typical of our land. We will return home and together we will create the menu with imagination, tradition and seasonality. The menu will consist of 3 courses, appetizer, first course of fresh pasta, dessert. The menu varies according to the season and your tastes. I will be careful of your allergies and intolerances. During the cooking class you can enjoy an aperitif with local products and during lunch / dinner, you can drink excellent organic Sicilian wine. All accompanied by my stories and my songs.

Market tour and cooking class in Palermo 

"Pasta al forno" Palermitana is a type of ring-shaped pasta with meat sauce, peas and cheese, baked in the oven. Its preparation requires attention and time. This type of dish is eaten on Sundays or holidays. The particular format of pasta allows, the peas contained in the meat sauce, to finish in the center of the ring, so as to make the meal joyful and super tasty. Every Sicilian family has its own secret recipe and I am ready to reveal mine.You will be welcomed into my Atelier nestled in the Ballarò neighborhood. Together we will prepare this type of pasta and an appetizer the famous "Cacio all'Argentiera," caciocavallo cheese with vinegar, oil and oregano,also baked.You will enjoy your lunch with excellent organic Sicilian wine and we will finish with homemade liqueurs. Water, encores and coffee will not be missed!For those who have a car and wish to, we could meet at my house in the countryside 20 minutes from palermo immersed in the Monreale area.

Cook with me the Traditional "Pasta a forno" of Palermo.

Cooking class with 3 recipes (appetizer, first course of fresh pasta and dessert) followed by a 3-course menu with the dishes prepared during the course. Not only will you learn to cook, but you will enter into a convivial atmosphere, full of stories, songs and smiles typical of Palermo. You will be welcomed in my Atelier located in the Ballarò district, right in the historical center. Organic Sicilian wine will be your drinking companion. Bis, water and coffee will not miss.

Cooking Class with 3 recipes in Palermo

Come cook carnival chatter with me! Carnival in my town is a party for everyone, young and old.Around there is music, colors, masks and lots of laughter. At the table there are traditional foods and sweets such as Chiacchere, thin sheets of dough fried and dusted with powdered sugar: you can't cook them in time that they are already finished!You will be welcomed in my atelier in the heart of the Ballarò market with a rich savory aperitif of km 0 and seasonal products, which you can enjoy during the preparation or right before pampering yourself with the sweet fragrance of the Chiacchiere. All accompanied by organic Sicilian wine, water and coffee.

Chiacchiere in company (typical carnival dessert)

Alice

Sicily is world famous for its sweets, the origins of which are the result of the many dominations that have passed through it. The different dominations in addition to having left traces in the architectural sphere have left a gastronomic legacy that has evolved, giving rise to Sicilian cuisine. Desserts are a fundamental pillar, without which a lunch or dinner cannot be concluded worthily, especially during festive periods. During the cooking class you will learn how to prepare 3 traditional Sicilian desserts as well as discover curious anecdotes about the origin or name of the dish. From almond cookies to cassata, via watermelon gelo and biscotti reginella. The desserts prepared vary according to seasonality and the holidays when it is customary to prepare them.

Sicilian dessert: a long pastry-making tradition

Easter is approaching and with it also the preparation of the typical dishes of this holiday.What a better opportunity to get your hands in the dough and learn while having fun preparing the sweets that are symbolic of Sicilian Easter. An authentic experience that will allow you to learn and taste sweets that you will carry in your heart forever. The cooking class will be dedicated to the preparation of 3 traditional Sicilian Easter sweets. Baked cassata, marzipan lamb and cuddura with egg (Easter biscuit) will be the protagonists. Anecdotes, stories and secrets of these sweets will be told during the preparation.The preparation of the sweets will be followed by a snack where all the prepared sweets will be tasted paired with coffee, tea and homemade liqueurs.

Traditional Easter sweets in Sicily

Pina

I will be waiting for you at my home in Palermo to learn how to cook some traditional local dishes.We will open the experience with an appetizer of crostini with pate and side dishes such as pickles (homemade by me), tomatoes, eggplant and artichokes.We will prepare fresh scialatielli with mussels, squash blossoms and pesto in the traditional way.At the end of the course it will be possible to sit down at the table to enjoy what we have prepared together, concluding with an iconic Palermo dessert such as fresh ricotta cream with decomposed cannoli and caramelized orange.

Flavors of Sicily at Pina's House

Alessandra

Palermitan Sunday is an important moment made of family and friends . In the villa , surrounded by greenery , I welcome my guests .My cooking is made of memories that I relive today through dishes that taste of love . I love to set the table with embroidered tablecloths and create place cards for my guests .I have always cooked on holidays , because I like to open the doors of my home and share with my family , with my friends good food .

Antonella

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