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Saturday, April 11, 2015

AL PACINO SPAGHETTI GARLIC & OIL



AL PACINO
and AGLIO OLIO

"SPAGHETTI THAT IS" !!!





SPAGHETTI AGLIO OLIO alla PACINO 

AL PACINO & AGLIO OLIO


Al Pacino and Aglio Olio you ask? What about it? Well it’s just that Spaghetti Aglio Olio always reminds me of that great fellow New Yorker Sicilian American, the one-and-only Al Pacino from da Bronx. It’s not a big deal, just a wonderful little memory for me. When I was the Wine Director at the famed Barbetta Restorante on Restaurant Row in New York’s Theater District (where Al often performs on stage), Al Pacino used to come and eat there every now and then. He never wanted anything to fancy, but something that just about all true blooded Italian-American wants, and that dish is Spaghetti Aglio Olio, plain and simple, yet it’s in our blood. That’s what Al wanted and that’s what we gave him, and Al loved it and you will too.






Recipe Excerpted

from  Grandma Bellino's Cookbook


 
RECIPE :

Spaghetti Aglio Olio
the Way AL Likes It !!!

"Al Pacino That Is"


Recipe Excerpted From Daniel Bellino's Grandma Bellino's Italian Cookbook

Note : Note, the recipe for Spaghetti Aglio Olio as Al Pacino likes it and as it's written in Daniel Bellino's Grandma Bellino's Cookbook, encompasses Two-Recipes-In-One .. You have the Recipe for Spaghetti w/ Garlic Oil & Anchovies, and to make Spaghetti Aglio Olio the way AL Likes It, is by making this recipe, but omitting the ANchovies to end up with Spaghetti Aglio Olio, just the way the Great Al Pacino likes it. Mangia Bene!


INGREDIENTS :

¼ cup best quality Italian Olive Oil
6 cloves of Garlic, peeled and minced
½ teaspoon Red Pepper Flakes
6 Anchovy Filets minced fine
1 pound imported Italian Spaghetti
¼ cup Italian Parsley


Put a large pot with 4 quarts of water on the stove. Add 2 tablespoons salt and bring to the boil.
Place Olive Oil and Anchovies in a large frying pan and cook on medium heat for 2 minutes.

Add garlic and cook on medium heat for 2 minutes. Add red pepper and continue cooking on low heat until the garlic begins to turn slightly brown. Turn heat off and let rest.

Add spaghetti to the boiling salted water. Cook spaghetti according to directions on package. Two minutes before the cooking time on package start testing the doneness of the spaghetti by taking a strand out of the water and biting into it to see how far cooked it. By doing this you’ll be able to determine if it needs to cook a bit longer or if it’s ready.

Once the past is finished cooking, quickly remove it from the heat and drain into a colander, reserving about 4 tablespoons of the pasta cooking water to add to pasta sauce.

Add spaghetti back to the pot it cooked in and drizzle on a little olive oil and mix. Pour the garlic anchovy sauce and the reserved pasta water over the spaghetti with half the chopped Parsley and mix well.

Divide the spaghetti among four pasta plates or bowls. Sprinkle the top of each plate of Spaghetti with some chopped parsley and serve.




The GODFATHER


Micahel Corleone (Al Pacino), Captain McCloskey (Sterling Hayden),
and Sollozzo (Al Lettieri)

"GET THE VEAL. IT'S THE BEST in THE CITY"
MICHAEL NEVER ATE HIS SPAGHETTI AGLIO OLIO
BUT SOLLOZZO GOT HIS






MICHAEL GETS HIS REVENGE

GET THIS RECIPE AND MUCH MORE

in

GRANDMA BELLINO'S ITALIAN COOKBOOK

RECIPES FROM MY SICILIAN GRANDMOTHER

by Daniel Bellino "Z"











ONE LAST PICTURE of AL



Al Pacino
as 
Bobby Deerfield

1977

HE'S a HANDSOME FRIGGIN DEVIL

ISN'T HE ???




ALSO by DANIEL

His # BEST SELLING

SUNDAY SAUCE

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GNOCHHI POMODORO
 
Notice AL PACINO on COVER
 
of Daniel Bellino Z's SUNDAY SAUCE
 
WHEN ITALIAN-AMERICANS COOK



 
 


Author Daniel Bellino "Z"
 
MAKING SAUCE
  
aka GRAVY