I took part of your blog post (which you clear were willing to put a few more tokens into) -
"My mother remembers growing up with a sicilian dish that was primarily rice baked in an egg mixture. Roughly a "rice frittata". What are some distinctly Sicilian dishes that this could be referring to?"
Notice there is not much extra context that you've offered any of us, either the LLM or us. You didn't even tell us what the recipe was...
How was the dish served, what did it look like?
What are you expecting of the LLM here? It not a psychic AGI.