Grandma’s Sicilian Stuffed Mini Artichokes
My beautiful Sicilian grandmother cooked the most delicious, simple and rustic foods. Her kitchen always smelled of sautéing garlic and olive oil and she had a gift for elevating every leftover in her refrigerator into something new and delicious. Some of her specialties were lentil soup, "polpette," or seasoned, flattened meatballs, homemade manicotti and if we were lucky, she would make her famous stuffed artichokes. Her breadcrumb filling...
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I have known for a long time that food has the power to transport someone back to another time in their life. When I begin a recipe by sautéing garlic in olive oil, I am eight years old again, sitting in my grandmother’s cozy kitchen…
Grandma’s Sicilian Stuffed Mini Artichokes
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Preserving Food Memories
We all have them, right?
Recipes handwritten by loved ones on index cards and the backs of tea stained, disintegrating envelopes. It’s hard to even read them, never mind recreate them. And the joyful memories that these special recipes helped nourish in their day bear no resemblance to the fragile relics that remain.
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