Photos - Cooking & Adventure on the Islands of Sicily

Photos - Cooking & Adventure on the Islands of Sicily

Following is a collection of random photos from this itinerary. To see more full-size photos, visit our photo galleries.

Not all Italian cooking happens indoors. In Sicily, a lot of great cooking happens outside on the grill. One of our boat captain, Michele's, wonderful and delicious fresh-catch sauté on the boat in Favignana, Sici Such great friends in Favignana that we make pizza and fresh ricotta cheese with in their private country home. Our guests get to help make the ricotta and pecorino cheese by stirring the pot of fresh milk that will become cheese&#x Another Culture Discovery exclusive event where we harvest honey, fresh from the hives and then take home our own jars&a Sicilian busiate pasta is an amazing dish. Rich and complex in flavor, yet very accessible recipe to make yourself! Our friend's farm has lots of surprises as they even raise their own goats to get milk and also make cheese from. Our guests at the marina in Favignana, Sicily getting ready for their next adventure out on the high seas! Our guests have an incredible time learning to cook authentic Sicilian dishes, like Arancini. Homemade, Sicilia During the salt harvest season in Trapani, Sicily - The workers build these salt mounds completely by hand. Two of our favorite people sharing a little aperitivi down by the cliffs near the hotel. A truly immersive experience. Our fishing boat appears to be floating on air, but is really in the crystal clear waters of Favignana, Sicily Our guests are treated to some local seafood delicacies, seaside near the hotel. Truly an immersive experience! While out on our island cruise in Favignana, Sicily, we drop anchor and enjoy the cool seas to take a nice plunge! Busiate pasta, a spring-like pasta is a Sicilian version of the more commonly known fusilli pasta. Arancini - Rice balls are a staple of Sicilian cuisine. We learn how to make them fresh on our cooking and wine tours Historic tuna cannery in Favignana harbor where the Florio family ran one of the largest fishing operations in Italy. We have lots of fresh made pizza going in the wood-burning oven at the country villa with family and friends. Our tour leaders, class instructors are our family in Favignana that will soon be your family once you meet them! Our guests have an amazing experience learning to cook authentic Sicilian and other Italian recipes. Our guests often take the trail up to the Castle of Santa Caterina when they have some time off. Making fresh cannoli from scratch on our Sicily cooking vacation classes in Italy We never know what we're going to reel-in from the sea. This time it was lobster! So, lets make pasta! Francesco shows our guests the fun art of making fresh sausages right out of the grinder. The shop is in Valderice. Jokes are flying during our super-fun sausage-making class at Campo Butcher Shop near Erice, Sicily An incredible Culture Discovery exclusive experience where guests get to squeeze honeycombs and harvest their own honey& Glynn enjoying some fresh cannoli in Favignana, Sicily on our cooking and adventure on the islands of Sicily vacation Micheal and Gibarosso in this great photo from Gibarosso's country home in Favignana, Sicily. He was an original. Sometimes the fish are biting early, so we head out with the crew and set the lines for our fishing trip in Favignana. We make fresh ricotta cheese at a private country villa in Favignana Another exclusive Culture Discovery event. We explore coves and grottos on our Favignana, Sicily cooking and wine Vacations in Italy. One of our first photos featuring the floating-on-air fishing boat on the sea in Favignana, Sicily. Incredible. During our boating excursions in Favignana, we relax, get in the water and cool off with some refreshing fun! On all our Italian cooking vacations we make fresh pasta in one form or another. Pastas are typically regional recipes. We make Pasticcini di Mandarle- Sicilian Almond Cookies at one of our cooking classes in Favignana, Sicily We explore the pre-historic cave drawings in Levanso, Sicily. These hieroglyphics date back over 10,000 years! Fresh Sicilian tomatoes! We use exclusively in this delicious Busiate pasta dish made from scratch in cooking class Guests love the fresh bruschetta we make in Favignana, Sicily on our cooking and wine adventure vacations Maita thinks she made a great catch while out on our fishing boats in Favignana. Sadly, she had to return it to the sea A local Sicilian Shepherd on the Island of Favignana, Sicily on our cooking and wine vacations. Before we get our boots to harvest the salt, we tour the museum and learn the history of the amazing "saline" Our boats take us to the beautiful Cala Rossa bay in Isola di Favignana, Sicily during our cooking and wine vacations.