Hello From Sicily – An Italian Cooking Class

Those who benefit from my Sicilian history lesson with a staff Alexander Adorno, the founder and director of the School of Languages of Babylon. He also suggested, in cooking classes by Babilonia, which offers students the opportunity to create a delicious Sicilian Italian first hand participate organized events.
Only a minute and half of the mother tongue in schools and Angela Aurelio Ferrari, a few students that take place regularly, the language of Babylon. Currently live three pairs of students language with them and provide them with comfortable rooms and three meals per day.
Aurelius, now in retirement, his life spent on the sector. He lived and worked in various hotels and resorts in Rome, France and England, were in different positions in the tourism industry, including working conditions in hotels and restaurants of different cuisines of the many operational and management experience. After many years abroad, his international career, he settled in Taormina, that place of birth. He said, like to live here is beautiful, and it is very safe and virtually no crime.

He explained that the love of Sicilian cuisine, and really happy to share his knowledge. Classes are held three times a week and focus on the Sicilian kitchen, the house, all locally grown fresh produce fertile, has the island has to offer.
Today, produce Aurelio and his two charges of food Marjolein Takashi Netherlands and Japan, a variety of specialties from Sicily:
- Pasta Aeolian
- All fish Messina
- Roasted Tomato Crostini
- If the Arab style Caponata Siciliana
- Maritime Aciughe
- Fried cheese
- Mint salad oil bottle
- Bitter Sweet potatoes
As the Sicilian Square Meal can imagine there is always several doses, and together on preparation of students, teachers and their family members to meals. Aurelio, a real character, added that students sing or play guitar in a rule or pianinie the ground floor of a house with four floors. He added that he always takes care with the students ask if they have food preferences or allergies or vegetarians.
Today we celebrate two main dishes: fish, Messina, local specialties and fresh fish and pasta Aeolian Islands Lipari% u2013 style. Require both the basic courses with tomatoes and eggplant with local staples such as onions, garlic, olives, capers, mint, basil and oregano crowned. Aurelius refers to these herbs, "Perfume Sicily"% u2013 smell or taste of Sicily. Fish, a rectangular blanks cook for 10 minutes in the oven side, that there is a good and sensitive. Insert a small taste of the wine "at the end of the red.
Dough starts to snow on the same level, Aurelio and explained that was the noodles to spacciatella added, as "a pasta, and are generally not available in supermarkets. All longitudinal cable noodles should be able to replace many of the pasta.aromatic various garrisons is a meal: grilled tomato (tomatoes in the oven) and Aurelius, is a good way to eat. Cut the baguette into pieces, creating a mixture called "Tasty"% u2013 panel of experienced bread crumbs with parsley, garlic, salt, all combined water using a blender and tomatoes and add seasoned with Parmesan cheese and anchovies, and bread baking in the oven for ten minutes and eleven delicious meal.
multi-cultural heritage of Sicily was shown the following question: "Arab Style Caponata Siciliana" Bitter Sweet% u2013 culinary relic of the Arab countries on the history of Sicily. The ingredients of this dish is raisins, pine nuts, sugar, vinegar, chopped onion and eggplant, fragrant vegetables makes combining the sauce slightly sweet taste, in addition to n, what a meal.
Aurelio and his two students who move to the next cooking class, "navy to PC anchovies anchovy are at least two hours in vinegar, salt and lemon pepper, parsley and olive oil marinated.Cheese lovers among us prepare Aurelio "fried grilled cheese" slices of cheese, fried egg and dough and microwave. Omelette is created remaining eggs, adding that nothing is lost, is a Sicilian kitchen.
Salad with mint, peppermint, plus a "control Tasty" (a mixture of salt, bread), olives, olive oil and vinegar will be the next boss and his two assistants created the dessert "sour apple: Apples and acids. This cup chopped apples lemon juice and sugar served with sweet plum covered, dark, making it a wide range of foods produced by local produce. Sicilian cuisine covers, is very healthy, lots of fish and vegetables and low in animal fats. Aurelio had eight courses a good example that focus is a simple but delicious local raw materials that combine a variety of exciting flavors.
After a meal through the door of the container number two layers is cooked a covered terrace, a long table, at least 10-12 persons may be present. Aurelio, always a smile, make all foods a camera, and we all sat down to enjoy this buffet of Sicilian cuisine.Aurelio and his wife Angela and their families, and to celebrate life in Sicily. Throughout the night and made Italian cooking classes, new possibilities for the impact of language and heat true Italian family in Italy. After a delicious lunch, Marjolein and left the meeting and went to a beautiful, warm night in the moonlight. We spent several minutes on a terrace overlooking the Mediterranean, she said, with special expertise in Taormina, this time in the night before the departure to another day of rest and learn .was

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