What Are Some Good Picnik Quotes

Monday, December 13, 2010

What Are Some Good Picnik Quotes

Còcciu, Cucciari, kennels. The East meets Sicily.

I 'am Lucy, let me take this man who is sleeping, so the speed him on his way.

It is said that in 1646, Syracuse, during English rule, was hit by a severe famine and despair of the moment a ship arrived, December 13, loaded with wheat.

Legend has it that the wondrous miracle has occurred through the intercession of St. Lucia, patron and protector of the Sicilian city.

From that moment on, the devotion to this saint is reflected in a tribute, December 13, which requires that abstaining from eating pasta and bread and eat the cooked grain, the

coccìu

Formerly the consummation of the grain involved only the use of oil or vegetable, is now basically a flat cake.

Queen of the dish is the cheese, and how could not?!

followed by the chocolate cream, cream and milk and then give the inventiveness or personal tastes.

Theoretically the abstention from bread or pasta was seen as a kind of fasting, in honor and respect of the period of serious drought which had affected the whole of Sicily and Syracuse.

Today we can say that it is the day of 'greed.

From timbales rice to arancine, the fritters, the baked potatoes, the kennel

there is no possibility of escape:

for Saint Lucia will take three kilos and will not put more on. .

Today's recipe, I dreamed last night, so I think I understood, accepted and processed, the idea of \u200b\u200bbeing entered into a frenzied circle of madness from which culinary uscrine will be impossible.

So I tell you that from today, Saint Lucia, but my cook is not just madness.

This dish requires the meeting of two traditions, the Arab and Sicilian, which in truth we could call it unique because it is easier to find similarities in the Arab Sicilian and Italian dishes (in the broadest sense).

The dream

recipe includes these ingredients :

(serves 4)

200 grams of cooked wheat;

a tablespoon of raisins;

two tablespoons of pine nuts;

thinly sliced \u200b\u200bdried figs 4-5;

three tablespoons of honey or citrus orange or lemon;

200 cc of mulled wine (or alternatively sweet Malvasia di Pantelleria);

cinnamon;

orange peel powder (instead of fresh orange peels, private white part);

dark chocolate;

toasted almonds.

ingredients

cinnamon powder - a powder of orange

mulled wine - honey citrus

figs - pine nuts - raisins

Proceedings

Tradition has it that the grain should be placed in water 24-48 hours before that water should be changed often and that the firing, strictly a slow fire, last a couple of hours, so the fragments lose their excessive "crunchiness".

the morning of December 13, So Cook wheat.

Drain thoroughly, it has to cool.

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