NONNA NINA
MAKING RAVIOLI
"LIFE is a COMBINATION of MAGIC & PASTA"
Federico Fellini
NONNA NINA Makes RAVIOLI
HOMEMADE !!!
Monday, July 22, 2024
Monday, July 15, 2024
GRAVY Red Sauce SUNDAY SAUCE
"GRAVY" !!!
Or is it SUNDAY SAUCE ???
Whatever You Call It ???
Do You call it "REDSAUCE" ?
It's The Most SUPREME DISH of ITALIAN-AMERICA
And The ITALIAN-AMERICAN Peoples
SUNDAY SAUCE
The DEFINING BOOK on The SUBJECT
The SUBJECT of SUNDAY SAUCE
"SOME CALL IT GRAVY"
SAUCE, GRAVY, SUNDAY SAUCE, "RED SAUCE" or SUGO ? What is it. It can be a couple different things. It depends on who you are talking to, if they are Italian-American or not, where their family comes from in Italy, and what Italian Enclave in America they grew up in : New York City, Boston, New Jersey, Baltimore, Cleveland, Chicago, or wherever?
Some, when they say Sauce, Sugo, or Gravy, they can be talking about a Tomato Sauce that was cooked with or without meat in it. They can be talking about a Tomato Sauce that was cooked with Meat in it, and the Sauce is served, dressing Maccheroni, but with the Sauce removed, for the Meat ( or Meats) to be served later in the meal, or put aside, refrigerated and served at another time.
Usually, when someone says "Gravy" they are referring to a sauce made with Tomatoes that meats, such as Italian Sausages, Braciola, Pork Ribs, Meatballs, and or Pork or Beef Neck, maybe chicken parts, Beef Chuck, or veal, in which the sauce is cooked with any combination of some of these meats mentioned, and possibly other meats, such as Lamb or Beef Short Ribs, whatever?
There is no one right answer to what is Italian-American Gravy, "Sauce" Sunday Gravy, Sugo, or Sunday Sauce. Again, it just depends on who is talking and their family background and history. There is now one standard answer, "No Right or Wrong." The main and most important thing is that the dish taste good.
CLEMENZA SHOWS MICHAEL
HOW to MAKE SAUCE for a BUNCH of GUYS
RICHARD CASTELLANO as PETER CLEMENZA
And AL PACINO as MICHAEL CORLEONE
In FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA'S The GODFATHER
An ITALIAN- AMERICAN CLASSIC
LEARN HOW to MAKE SUNDAY SAUCE - GRAVY
by Daniel Bellino "Z"
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Frank Sinatra Favorite Cookie Veneiros NYC Regina Cookies
VENEIRO'S PASTICCERIA
SINCE 1894
VENIERO'S
A circa mid-1940s photograph of Veniero’s. Pictured from left to right are Peter Veniero, the son of Veniero’s founder, Antonio Veniero; Frank Catinella, a cousin of Robert Zerilli’s father, Frank Zerilli, and a manager at the bakery; an unidentified employee; Frank Zerilli, then also a manager.Courtesy of Veniero’s
More than two million Italians arrived in New York between the late 1880s and the early 1910s, many coming through Ellis Island and most desperately poor. Large numbers settled in Harlem, the Bronx and Brooklyn; others headed to Lower Manhattan, in particular to Greenwich Village — along Sullivan and Bleecker Streets — and, most famously, to the area surrounding Mulberry Street that would become the Little Italy of the Lower East Side.
Antonio Veniero, born near Sorrento in 1870, arrived in New York when he was 15 and went to work in a candy factory. He bought the building on East 11th Street in 1894 and began producing his own handmade confectionery there; when customers asked for something to go with it, he began offering espresso and biscotti. It was backbreaking work: There was no electricity; ice came in hundred-pound blocks; deliveries were made on horse-pulled carts. Pastry was baked in a coal oven in the store’s backyard, which is now part of the cafe.
Zerilli’s father, Frank, began working at Veniero’s in the 1930s and bought the business in 1970. Zerilli did weekend shifts at the bakery in the late ’70s and came on full time in 1981. He opened the back-room cafe in 1994, the year of the store’s 100th anniversary. His father died one month later. Both Zerilli and Frankie went to college before returning to work at the store but Zerilli often says to his son, “Remember, Grandpa said, ‘The best college is right here.’” He shows me a favorite photo of his father with the other Frank, Sinatra that is, taken around 1980. Sinatra, looking amiable, his arm around Zerilli’s shoulders, wears a crucifix and is holding a cigarette and a large sesame seed biscuit in the same hand. “It’s called a regina,” says Angelo Santamaria, Veniero’s head pastry chef. “Sinatra liked it crunchy.”
"Frank & Frank"
SINATRA & ZERILLI
A photograph of Frank Sinatra and Frank Zerilli, circa 1979. Sinatra is holding a Regina Pastry that Veniero’s made specially for the singer, who liked them large with a crunchy exterior.
FRANK SINATRA'S FAVORITE COOKIES
BISCOTTI REGINELLE
aka REGINA COOKIES
The QUEEN'S COOKIES
Frank Sinatra had a standing order for these tasty Sicilian Cookies, that were
whipped from Veneer's to Frank's home in Palm Springs for years.
SUNDAY SAUCE
SINATRA RECIPES
SUNDAY SAUCE - MEATBALLS
And MORE ...
VENEIRO'S PASTICCERIA
East 11th Street - EAST VILLAGE
NEW YORK CITY
Since 1894
Monday, July 8, 2024
The French ? Give Me a Break ? - Frank Prisansano
FRANK PRISANSANO
"The POLPETTONE KINGPIN"
"You gotta give it to The ITALIANS. A lot of people talk about the French"
"The French ? Give Me a Break" ???
"It all started with ITALY . The French learned everything from the Italians" !!!
Spaghetti Meatballs Italy America Recipes
SPAGHETTI POPETTINE
ABUZZESE
SPAGHETTI con POLPETTE ABRUZZESE
alla PATRIZIA
SPAGHETTI MEATBALLS
SUNDAY GRAVY
FRITATTA - ZUPPE
And MORE
ITALIAN AMERICAN MEATBALLS
MEATBALLS
ITALIAN-AMERICAN Style
SPAGHETTI MEATBALLS
AMERICANI
SPAGHETTI CHITTARA e POLPETTE
ABRUZZESE
SPAGHETTI con POLPETTINE
SPAGHETTI CHITTARA con POLPETTINI
The MEATS for The SUGO
SUGO - INGREDIENTS
The SPAGHETTI
CHITTARA
POLPETTINE
The MEATBALLS
ABRUZZESE
Saturday, July 6, 2024
Meatballs
MEATBALLS
NONNA MAKES MEATBALLS
NONNA GINA Makes MEATBALLS
Video Recipe
BROOKLYN BROTHERS Make MEATBALLS
BROOKLYN STYLE
ITALIAN-AMERICAN
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
MEATBALLS alla SINATRA
alla BELLINO alla PACINO
CLEMENZA'S MEATBALLS
GODFATHER SUNDAY SAUCE
ITALIAN GRAVY
GIANNI Makes GRAVY
With SAUSAGE MEATBALLS & BRACIOLE
MEATBALL RECIPE
The JUICIEST MEATBALLS
So He SAYS ???
EVA Makes MEATBALLS
Video Recipe
Friday, July 5, 2024
Uncle Frank Picks Olives Italy ItalianAmerican
UNCLE FRANK
And his Olive Picking days in SOUTHERN ITALY
Near SALERNO
FRANK BELLINO talks about picking Olives
Montinella , ITALY
SUNDAY SAUCE
READ ABOUT UNCLE FRANK
COOKING - SHARING MEALS
And ITALIAN-AMERICAN RITUALS
In NEW YORK and LODI, NEW JERSEY
SUNDAY SAUCE With MEATBALLS
SAUSAGES and BRACIOLE
RAVELLO
The AMALFI COAST
Bestselling Italian Cookbook Author
Daniel Bellino Zwicke
Ravello
Filipo Bellino
Father of Frank Bellino
Grandfather of Daniel Bellino "Z"
Frank Bellino
United States Marines
World War II
The Bellino Family
Minus Frank , Lilly, and Jimmy
Pictured here : Filipo Bellino, Lucia Bellino (my mother)
Tony Bellino and Nonna Giuseppina Salemi Bellino
Lodi, New Jersey
Some time in the late 1930s ?
Uncle Frank
Mangia Bene
BOOKS by Daniel Bellino Zwicke
SUNDAY SAUCE
GRANDMA BELLINO'S ITALIAN COOKBOOK
DANIEL'S AUTHOR PAGE AMAZON.com
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Wednesday, June 26, 2024
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SUNDAY SAUCE
AMERICA'S FAVORITE
ITALIAN COOKBOOK
Friday, June 21, 2024
Pasta with Rib Sauce Recipe
RIB SAUCE
PASTA with RIB SAUCE
alla GIANNI
"EVER MAKE IT" ?
FAVORITE ITALIAN RECIPES
PASTA with RIB SAUCE
And More ...
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