Food Minia

The ultimate comfort food Hot, melty, cheesy and potato-y vegetarian lasagna  Perfect for these cold winter days Happy New Year everyone!I hope your holidays were relaxing, fun-filled, and as delicious as mine. If you follow me on Instagram (DO YOU?!? ... if not, you better click here  now!), you might know I went back home to Venezia, Italy visiting family, eating lots of great food, and

I had the pleasure of joining my cousin in Italy again, this time on a 9 day trip to Sicily.  We started in Palermo and made our way in a counter-clockwise tour of the island.  One of my favorite stops was the geological formation known as Scala dei Turchi just to the west of Agrigento. It looks like a milky-white set of steps rising out of the Mediterranean Sea, and it's completely free to explore.  While I'm really glad I was able to climb it, I do hope that one day soon the government will decide to protect the area since it will likely become quite damaged from all the human activity.  For more pictures of the trip, check out my Instagram feed . One of my other favorite stops was the UNESCO world heritage Baroque town of Ragusa.  Not only is it absolutely lovely, it has some of the best restaurants on the island including the 2 Michelin-starred Ristorante Duomo.  We were able to have a 7 course lunch there for only 45 euros (that's like $50 with the rec...