Spread the nuts on a baking sheet and toast them in the middle of a pre-heated 350 degree oven until they are lightly golden and aromatic, 5 - 10 minutes. Set aside & cool. Plump the raisins in some ...

Advocate staff photo by Ian McNulty - Pignoli cookies and biscotti Regina are traditional cookies with roots in Sicily. Advocate staff photo by Ian McNulty - The traditional Italian fig cookie ...

The Sons & Daughters of Italy and C. Colombo Lodge 1315 will host its annual Cuccidati Contest and Italian cookie sale and festival on Nov. 12 at a new venue, the Pittsburg Youth Development Center.

There are two "fig cakes" in south Louisiana food. One is the Sicilian fig cookie, or fig cake. The other is a cake-cake, made with fig preserves. Like this one. Makes about 10 servings 2 cups sugar 3 ...

Diane Alessandra grew up baking with a Sicilian grandmother who, as part of her weekly labors, made sure her husband never ate store-bought bread. "Grandpa never ate bought bread," because her ...

Expressions of Italian heritage this time of year are usually not subtle. It’s the heaping helping of pasta and sauce, the zooma-zooma music of Louis Prima, the St. Joseph’s Day parade filling the ...