Story behind the recipe: Elisabetta is the daughter of Giuseppina and Luigi D???Annunzio. The third eldest in a group of 10 siblings (6 females, 4 males), who lived in Vasto, Abruzzo, Italia in the first half of the century. Here they grew fruit and vegetables, bought fresh fish daily and learned to be fabulous cooks, always using the home grown produce around them. Elisabetta married Pasquale Del Casale in 1953 and a year later migrated to the great southern land, Australia bringing with them their language, culture and of course recipes. They lived in Griffith, New South Wales for 10 years and then moved to Perth, Western Australia as part of a family reunion plan. Seven of the siblings now live here. My childhood memories are full of large family gatherings (with my two brothers and at least 100 other people including some of my 30 first cousins!) with lots of food, fun and laughter. Thank you to my mother and her mother (my grandmother), who held these recipes close to their heart by continuing to prepare and enhance them.