Sicily

Early morning view of the countryside from the deck.

We journey into the Sicilian countryside to experience  A Day In the Life of a Sicilian Farm. Road to the farm house.

his was our greeting committee.. not really, but fun.

This was our Host  Family that we were visiting. Each of us introduced ourselves and told a little about where we come from.

Here Concetta showed us how to make dough from a small piece left from the previous days dough.

Margarita and Graciela show us how to need the bread  the Sicilian way.

Next we all get a chance to learn how we make bread. We have to earn our meal.

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Everyone gets into the act.

Concetta takes branches  from the  farm&#039;s  hills and puts it into the over and starts a fire to bake the bread.

Margarita giving us the &quot;good job&quot; sign.

You can see the roaring fire in the oven in the home ready for baking the bread we made.

Now we are getting the water hot to make cheese next.

Stir the milk to get the thicker parts out.

Straining the heavier parts out

The cheese is now beginning to form.

We are squeezing the liquid out. Next put the loose solid into containers to squeeze more liquids out.

We squeeze and squeeze the product into the strainer container to make the product eventually  easy to remove.