Grazie, Mamma!

Hello Foodies!

Last Saturday, I finally arrived in Palermo after having been away for almost 10 months. This time around I am traveling with my family but I am also escorting my newly married friends, Alessandro and Vesna. They asked Tour De Forks to organize their honeymoon in Sicily!

As we were making arrangements for their honeymoon, I thought that it would be nice to spend the first night having dinner in my parents' home, overlooking the Gulf of Mondello in Palermo. So I told my mother to organize a dinner for us, and she said, “Sure, but given you will be jet lagged, I will just prepare a light dinner!” And so she did: Antipasti of mixed vegetables fried in pastella, anelletti al forno, couscous tamboulet with zucchini and tomatoes, scaloppini with mushrooms, and caponata. A very chilled white wine called, Colomba Platino, helped us during dinner, which was very light indeed!

After that, frutta mista (I forgot how delicious the peaches in Sicily are) and watermelon tronchetto gelato (a type of gelato cake).

It felt really nice to be home again. Plus it was also a fantastic start for Alessandro’s and Vesna’s honeymoon (by the way, they are in Marina di Ragusa today, and we will meet them again on Friday at the San Domenico hotel in Taormina.

Stay tuned for more surprises…I almost forgot to say: Thank you, Mamma!!

Enjoy,

Giuseppe