Culinary delights
The Sicilian cuisine is interesting because it is characterized by the tastes of all the ancient regions of Italy blended with the foreign influences of the conquerors.
Sicilian cuisine has many delicacies. The simple and rather frugal dish of broad beans, pecorino cheese and bread with a glass of wine is a hearty meal that flatters even the most discerning palate. Meat plays in the traditional Sicilian cuisine a relatively minor role. The emphasis is on bread, pasta, fish, vegetables and fruits. Eaten together with the aromatic oil, these ingredients provide many opportunities for a healthy and delicious eating. The regional oil is used very often having an excellent flavor being known worldwide.
The owner, a connoisseur of olives produces and sells olive oil on the farm.
Among the menus of Sicilian cuisine are the Antipasti with especially sweet dishes. The main course is, unlike in most part of Italy, the macaroni. The second entrée is meat or fish more often rolled, filled and wrapped. For dessert, you get sweets as usually, but throughout the rest of the country a special attention is paid to add just a bit of rich and light bite so you could almost think of Sicily that it sets the largest energy into the dessert. This is often very hefty and rich.
In short the Sicilian cuisine is the combination of sweet and savory dishes. Honey is used very often.
A famous dish is the orange salad, the Insalata di Arance, which is cooked with salty, smoked herring. The chopped oranges are mixed together with the fried herring, walnuts and onions and served with plenty of olive oil, salt and pepper.
Sicily is Italy's oldest wine region, offers excellent soils and a perfect climate for high quality wines. The travelers who come to Sicily can taste different wines in all restaurants. Sicily is known for its dessert wines. Marsala is a sweet dessert wine with an average alcohol content of 20%. Zibibbo is a wine that can be called an international one. Moscato or Carricante are also very popular in Sicily. The latter is made from the same grape that grows on the slopes of Mount Etna. Good wine varieties are also the Anzolia, Grecanico, Gaglioppo and Nero d'Avola.
Warm hospitality, tradition and a healthy cuisine await you at the Sicilian farmhouse with home-grown spices, herbs, olive oil and vegetables.