Saturday, November 30, 2019

Frank Sinatra and JD







FRANK SINATRA

And His Favorite Beverage


JACK DANIELS

TENNESSEE SOUR MASH WHISKEY



RECIPE  SUNDAY SAUCE alla SINATRA

Also : SPAGHETTI & MEATBALLS




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Friday, November 29, 2019

Tribute to James Gandolfini






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Tribute to James Gandolfini


The SOPRANOS

Making Sunday Sauce on Black Friday






CLEMENZA with His SAUSAGE & MEATBALLS

"He's gonna Shove them in The SAUCE"

He Shows Michael (AL Pacino) how to make SAUCE for 20 GUYS (Mobsters)


From Francis Ford Coppola's "The GODFATHER"

Based on the Novel by Mario Puzo





FAICCO'S PORK STORE

Greenwich Village, New York

We're making Clemenza's Mob War #Godfather Sunday Sauce (Gravy) on Black Friday. We're not gonna waste our time waiting on lines, getting all "Bent Out of Shaped," and stressed out like those people who shop on Thanksgiving and Black Friday. No, our day is going to be a whole lot better and more fulfilling than fight traffic and crowds. We go down early in the morning to our local Italian pork Store Faicco's on Bleecker Street to get all our stuff for our tasty Sunday Sauce. 

I pick up all the meats I need to make the my Sunday Sauce alla Clemenza. I need Italian Sweet Sausages, Braciole, San Marzano Tomatoes, and Maccheroni.

We go home, to get the Sauce started. 


RECIPE alla CLEMENZA







Making the MEATBALLS

Ready to COOK








Here's our Ingredients

Sausages, Pork Neck, Braciole

Tomatoes and Ground Meat for our Meatballs

Notice our fine nottle of Italian Wine. Barbi Brunello di Montalcino

A special wine for some special sauce.





RECIPES in The BOOK

GODFATHER SUNDAY SAUCE alla CLEMENZA

CHARLIE SCORSESE'S GOODFELLAS SAUCE alla PRIGIONE

SUNDAY SAUCE alla BELLINO

JOE DiMAGGIO'S MOTHER'S SUNDAY GRAVY

And More ...









The BELLINO'S Make SUNDAY SAUCE ITALIAN GRAVY

In LODI, NEW JERSEY

SUNDAY SAUCE on FRIDAY


Cousins Daniel and Anthony Bellino make their family's famed Sunday Sauce Gravy  at Anthony's fathers house in Lodi, NJ .. They are keeping up a family tradition that they've been partaking in since they were young boys in the early 1960's America. Daniel even wrote a couple books that are themed around this most important subject of SUNDAY SAUCE  Italian Gravy. Daniel likes to put Pork Spare Ribs in his sauce, which he says, "Oh my God, the Ribs in the Sauce? When you cook Spare Ribs in the Gravy, you just can't believe how tasty they are. The are so succulent and juice. They taste so Dam Good. Even better than BBQ Ribs, which I love as well. But the Ribs in the Sunday Sauce taste even better, believe it or not? I kid you not." 






Our Thanksgiving Turkey

"We had this yesterday. It came out Dam Good."

Like all Good Italians, we started our Thanksgiving Dinner with a little Antipasto Misti of Salami, Provolone, Olives, Celery and Roast Peppers. The we sat down for a portion of Rigatoni Bolognese, made with my Famous ragu Bolognese Sauce. The we take an hour break, before sitting down for the Turkey with all the trimmings. Our Turkey came out so good.

We take another hour break before sitting down for all our desserts, which included; Pumpkin Pie, Coconut Custard Pie, Pecan Pie, "Wow, that's a lot of Pies?"

We have Espresso, Cannolis, and Italian Cookies, and a couple shots of Amaro to finish it all off, and another Thanksgiving has come and gone.

Yes, many families will go shopping on Black Friday, and Cyber Monday, but not us. We'll be eating Sunday Sauce on Friday and having Meatball Parmigiano Sandwiches on Meatball Parm Mondays. Now that's Italian! What would you rather do? Fight Traffic and crowds and lines at the shopping malls, or eat Sunday Sauce and Meatballs? I know what I'll be doing. Me, my family and friends. We Mangia Bene Tutto!

Basta!

Author Daniel Bellino Zwicke on Italian Thanksgiving and eating Sunday Sauce 
on Black Friday  ....








Vecchio Amaro del Capo

Amaro from Calabria

A favorite Amaro for those "In the Know"

We drank this and Montenegro on Thanksgiving






RECIPE for The WORLDS BEST RAGU BOLOGNESE





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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Uncle Frank Bellino Enjoys Lobster Dinner







Frank Bellino of Lodi, New Jersey

United Stated Marines

Pacific Theater

World War II




Uncle Frank Enjoys a Lobster

New Jersey





The BELLINO FAMILY
LODI , NEW JERSEY

1939

Frank's Father Filipo, sister Lucy (my Mother)

Brother Tony and Mother Giuseppina

Frank is not in this family picture, nor is his sister Lilly





Fillipo Bellino

Born in Lercara Friddi 





FRANK SINATRA

Father was from Lercara Friddi

SICILY


And So was LUCKY LUCIANO




CHARLES "LUCKY" LUCIANO

Also from Lercara Friddi

SICILY





NONNA BELLINO'S COOKBOOK

RECIPES From MY SICILIAN  GRANDMA






The BELLINO BOYS

All VETERANS of WW II

TONY, JAMES & FRANK

At JAME'S 91st BIRTHDAY PARTY

HACKENSACK, NJ



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Sunday, November 17, 2019

How to Make Godfather SundaySauce Italian Gravy recipe






The Cast of The GODFATHER

AL PACINO - MARLON BRANDO

JAMES CAAN - JOHN CAZALE





Watch and Listen to this Radio TV Commercial

For SUNDAY SAUCE alla CLEMENZA

all BELLINO from the motion picture, The GODFATHER

by FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

Starring : AL PACINO , MARLON BRANDO, JAMES CANN,

JOHN CAZALE, ROBERT DUVALL

and RICHARD CASTELLANO as CLEMENZA

The RECIPE for this beloved ITALIAN-AMERICAN Favorite

SUNDAY SAUCE, which some call "GRAVY" and which Corleone Capo

Peter Clemenza show Michale Corleon (AL Pacino) how to make SAUCE

The RECIPE is in SUNDAY SAUCE

by BEST SELLING Cookbook Author Daniel Bellino "Z"

Available on AMAZON





SUNDAY SAUCE

LEARN HOW to MAKE
SUNDAY SAUCE alla CLEMENZA

MEATBALLS alla SINATRA

PASTA FAGIOLI

and More ..




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Watch The BELLINO'S Make SUNDAY SAUCE

In LODI, NEW JERSEY

Saturday, November 9, 2019