Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Feast of The 7 Fish Italian Christmas

   

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Stuffed Calamari

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  The FEAST of The SEVEN FISHES is one of the most beloved Christmas Eve traditions in most Italian-American households-- as long as family members eating the ocean’s bounty are seafood lovers. While some people heard tales about Nonna killing eels on the side of the bathtub, two things are true for most: The Feast and the Seven Fishes is all about family and food. The feast, also known as "la Festa dei Sette Pesci"  in the old country, is a tradition that is popular in southern Italy. It reportedly started in Naples or Sicily and ever traveled north. The number of fish eaten represents different things for each family. Those who eat seven fishes are representing the seven deadly sins, the creation story, the seven sacraments or the seven virtues of Christian theology: hope, fortitude, charity, faith, temperance, prudence, and justice. While a definite meaning for the number seven is not known, some families eat as many as 13 types of fish. As few as three can be consumed, too. Participants of the seafood bonanza indulge in “frutta di mare,” as it’s called in Italian, because Catholic Italians abstain from meat and dairy until Midnight Mass. Similarly, butter cannot be used for preparing the dish. Instead, oil olive is typically used. Possible menu ideas include baccala (salted cod), scungilli (conch), pupa (octopus), calamari (squid), scallops, shrimp, blue crab, eel, clams, smelt, mussels and Anchovy flavored Pasta . Some families make Cioppino, a seafood stew that can have has many as seven fishes in one bowl. There’s no rule about how the fish can be eaten. While some people might consume the fishes in one fish, others eat them separately, whether it be baked, steamed or fried.  

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CHEF PIETRO MOSCONI in The KITCHEN at MONTE'S TRATTORIA


  Ladies and Gentlemen you may not know it, but it's not often times that you'll find real Italian Chef  IN THE KITCHEN of Italian Restaurants in America. Many chefs and most cooks in Italian kitchens in America are from either Ecuador or Mexico, some are American, and if you are lucky, they might be Italian-American of Italian blood and an Italian upbringing and sense of what is great Italian food. Chef Pietro Mosconi is a real life honest to goodness Italian Chef born in Piacenza Italy in Emilia Romagna. This gives Chef Pietro an advantage as a Chef in an Italian restaurant that no many Italian restaurants in America have. Pietro has the knowledge and instincts that can only come from being born and growing up in Italy, and this is what he brings to the table, along with his legendary gift of a great warm and friendly Italian Personality that not many possess.  So if you go to Pietro's restaurant you'll get the quentissential Italian experince that people dream of, but not often do they get. You'll get it with Chef Pietro Mosconi, a 'Real Italian Chef.'
 
 


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PIETRO MOSCONI in Front of His Restaurant MONTE'S TRATTORIA

Pietro is also CHEF / OWNER of VILLA MOSCONI 

GREENWICH VILLAGE NEW YORK NY

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Dean Martin An EVENING in ROMA and Sunday Sauce

 
 
DEAN MARTIN
 
"YES, FOREVER COOL"
 
Dino Crocetti
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dean Marin
 
AN EVENING in ROMA
 
 
 
 
Making SUNDAY SAUCE with DINO
 
 
Italian-American Cousins Daniel and Anthony Bellino make a Sunday Sauce
in Lodi New Jeresey as they Listen to FRANK SINATRA  and
DEAN MARTIN Records as they make their BELLINO FAMILY SUNDAY SAUCE alla SINATRA
 
 
FRANK and DEAN
 
 
Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Hanging
 
Back in The Day
 
SUNDAY SAUCE
 
alla SINATRA
 
 
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Thursday, November 2, 2017