A special sweet produced to mark the feast day of San Giuseppe (Saint Joseph) in Sicily. It is kind of doughnut stuffed with chocolate and ricotta mixed with cream and candied orange peel and fried.
Yeast dough mixed with a little olive oil in Sicily is formed into a rectangle and covered with cubes of Caciocavallo cheese, anchovy fillets, passata and onions and sprinkled with oregano.
Savoury pastries from Sicily filled with topping, or conza, often topped with tomatoes, anchovies, cheese and oregano or ith minced (US: ground) beef and cheese so that they look rather like pizzas.
A sort of pie made with a round flatbread, usually topped with minced (US: ground) beef, Caciocavallo cheese, onions, garlic and grated pecorino cheese, topped with more of the flatbread and baked.
A bread from Sicily like a thick focaccia, often topped with tomatoes, anchovies, cheese and oregano.
A dessert from Campania of layers of flaky pastry in a fan shape, filled with ricotta and candied fruit.
"Sheets." One use of this word is to describe the leaves of pasta, rather large sheets, from which all the other shapes and strands are formed.
A DOC red wine from Valtellina in Lombardy, Sforzato is is made from Chiavennasca grapes (the local name for Nebbiolo) using the appassimento (drying grapes) method. As Vino Mania Wines say (link below): These 100% Nebbiolo wines are reminiscent of Amarone from the Veneto, but more savoury and spicy. They are also described as like a cross between Barolo and Amarone.
