Happy Holiday! I was waiting for loooong time(?) for this break since Greece.... Here in England, it's been grey and COLD. We all now want the sun to come out and warm spring... It hasn't happened here yet (We had a few days sunny and warm days, but didn't last). So, we decided to head out to Sicily. We'd never been there, it was the ONE of many places I wanted to visit. All I could think was Sicilian lemon and cakes... I'll tell you more later about our trip there on my other blog. Now, food!
Sicily was wonderful, and foods we bought there were very reasonable. A box of oyster mushroom was €1.50. And they were packed in the punnet, very fresh and chewy. I cooked with lentils and made fantastic sauce!
We found lovely little supermarket in small town, Revera(South west Sicily, near Agrigento). We stayed in Piana Grande, by the peaceful beach, not far from shops. This supermarket was called "Todis". It had wholefoods section including gluten/wheat free products, sugar free products, lovely selection of lentils, of course, they were stocked up with lovely organic fresh vegetables and fruits. People there were friendly and helpful. The lady there spoke good fluent English, Marcus reckoned she was an Italian-English. Anyway, this was what we bought (part of):
We even found organic tamari, and tasted fine. The chocolate spread was organic and sugar-free, but later we found out it had milk-powder in it. Shame, it tasted just like Nutera, or even better. Hazelnut and chocolate spread on rice cakes. Yum Yum, it didn't last long, I think only lasted a few days. We didn't buy anymore after that. Too nice!
Avena was oat powder, we made oat milk( this packet of oat powder was made to make milk at home!) smoothie.
The products I absolutely adored were: Sicilian pesto and lentils. This cute lentils was ever so nice, we had them with corn pasta. Tell you more later. This Sicilian Pesto was very suitable for vegans. It had no cheese. Also no nuts, no gluten, instead, lots of herbs and chili.
This is the ingredients:
Pesto Siciliano
25% Flat parsley
20% Basil
20% Oregano
5% garlic(thinly sliced)
5% chili (seeded, cut into 1/4 or even whole)
80% Extra Virgin Olive Oil
20% Sunflower oil
This is how, I think, was made.....
Chop all ingredients roughly, not blitz to paste. Gently heat sunflower oil in a pan. Remove from the stove or on the very low heat. Add herbs, garlic and chili. Let slowly cook till nice and crispy. When it cools down completely, add olive oil. Put into sterilised jars... That's it!
Nothing naughty in it, it did tasted, and looked home made. Just little bit of that gave food lovely flavour.
I must not forget to mention, we loved eating this "crisps" for our snacks almost every day. We were gutted we never seen them in England. They were small corn cakes with olive oil flavour/ sea salt and rosemary. Same as Greece and Spain, where olive oil countries make such a delicious "crisps", why can't we have them here? So, decided I'm going to do it myself. Watch the space.....
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