FRANK SINATRA Born in Hoboken, Frank was an only son. His mother came to this country from Genoa and father from Sicily. As a lad, Frank had always been crazy about music, but his parents failed to share his enthusiasm of making a career of it. His first singing spot was with Harry James, then Tommy Dorsey. The turning point in Frank Sinatra's career came in January, 1943, when he signed for a series of personal appearances at New York's Paramount Theater. Then and there, he became "The Voice." Sinatra's slight build is kept in hard trim by his prowess at boxing, golf and bowling.
MRS. FRANK SINATRA'S RECIPE FOR SPAGHETTI AND MEAT BALLS
MEAT BALLS -
1 lb. chopped meat, 1/2 pork, 1/2 beef
1 clove garlic (chopped fine)
1/2 cup grated Italian cheese
1 cup bread crumbs
1 teaspoon finely chopped parsley
Salt and pepper to taste
(Mix all well, form into balls, brown in oil and put aside until sauce is made.)
SAUCE
1 large can Italian style tomatoes
1 can tomato puree
1 small onion
1 clove garlic
1 teaspoon ground parsley
1/2 cup olive oil
Thyme
Salt
Black pepper
DIRECTIONS
Brown chopped up onion and garlic in oil in which you brown meat balls. Strain tomatoes, add puree to the juice. Add the oil in which you have browned onion and garlic, but remove all sauteed ingredients. Season with salt, pepper, thyme and parsley. Cook the sauce (covered) for 1 hour, with meatballs added, over a slow fire.
Boil spaghetti in water, salted to taste. Remove spaghetti, drain. Serve it on a platter over which you have poured sauce and meat balls. Add layer of cheese, and add full covering of sauce, add another layer of cheese and another layer of sauce. Serve piping hot.
Above, you have the SPAGHETTI & MEATBALLS Recipe of Nancy Sinatra. Nancy Barbato Sinatra, Frank's wife, not his daughter Nancy.
In the book "Sinatra Sauce," along with many other recipes is another Spaghetti & Meatballs recipe, but not Frank's wife Nancy, but his mother Dolly's recipe. Both are excellent, we're sure you will agree. If you want to know more of Frank Sinatra, the foods he loved, and grew up with in the Italian Enclave in Hoboken, New Jersey, along with all of Frank's favourite dishes and restaurants around the country and the World. Dishes like Chicken Vesuvius of Chicago, BBQ Ribs from The Anchor Bar in Chicago, Veal Milanese and Clams Posillipo from "Patsy's Restaurant" in New York, and Frank's afternoon Egg Sandwich in Palm Springs, California.
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.
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!
