Showing posts with label meatballs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label meatballs. Show all posts

Friday, February 21, 2025

Making Clemenza Godfather Sunday Sauce - Recipe



LEARN HOW TO MAKE SUNDAY SAUCE

alla CLEMENZA - ITALIAN GRAVY



1. GET A COPY of SUNDAY SAUCE
WHEN ITALIAN AMERICANS COOK

by DANIEL BELLINO ZWICKE

CLEMENZA'S SUNDAY SAUCE RECIPE
Is In THERE .. IT'S AVAILABLE
on AMAZON.com .. Just CLICK LINK ABOVE ..

"THAT'S STEP 1 .. FINITO !!!"




2. GO To YOUR LOCAL PORK STORE and or GROCERY STORE
For SAUSAGES, Gorund Beef, Veal, Pork, etc., BRACIOLE,
OOLIVE OIL, TOMATOES, PASTA, etc..






3. ASSEMBLE INGREDIENTS, POTS and EVERYTHING
YOU NEED To MAKE The "SAUCE"





4.  SAUTE GARLIC & MINCED ONIONS in OLIVE In 
A LARGE POT.  ADD TOMATOES.




5.  BROWN BRACIOLE, THEN ADD To POT With TOMATOES ..





6.  IF USING PORK RIBS or PORK NECK, BROWN COMEPLETELY
THEN ADD TO POT With TOMATOES .. 

If NOT using PORK RIBS, SKIP THIS STEP.






7.  LET SAUCE With THE MEATS (Except MEATBALLS)
SIMMER At VERY LOW HEAT For 1 HOUR.






8.  BROWN SAUSAGES THEN ADD To SAUCE.
CONTINUE SIMMERING.




9.  AFTER YOU ADD The SAUSAGES TO SAUCE, MAKE THE MEATBALLS
by MIXING GROUND BEEF, PORK & VEAL with SALT, PEPPER, GARLIC,
FRESH PARSLEY, and GRATED CHEESE. FORM INTO MEATBALLS.

10.  PLACE MEATBALLS in a LIGHTLY OIL PAN and SLOWLY COOK in A
350  DEGREE OVEN For 12 MINUTES.






11.  REMOVE MEATBALLS FROM OVEN and PLACE in POT 
With SAUCE. The SAUCE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SLOWLY COOKING 
With THE BRACIOLE and OTHER MEATS For 2 1/2 HOURS by Now.

YOU Will JUST COOK The MEATBALLS in THE SAUCE For 15 
MINUTES on VERY LOW HEAT. 

BE CAREFUL WHEN STIRRING NOT To BREAK MEATBALLS.

WHEN THE MEATBALLS HAVE COOKED In THE SAUCE
FOR 15 MINUTES, The "SAUCE" IS DONE.






12.  COOK RIGATONI or WHICHEVER 
MACCHERONI YOU LIKE and SERVE
WITH THe "GRAVY"

PASS GRATED CHEESE
and
BUON APPETITO !!!



SUNDAY SAUCE 

Is AVAILABLE in PAPERBACK

And KINDLE on AMAZON.com





SUNDAY SAUCE

alla CLEMENZA all BELLINO alla PACINO










SUNDAY SAUCE alla BELLINO

alla PACINO



AUTHOR DANIEL BELLINO ZWICKE

MANGIA BENE !!!



Thursday, October 24, 2024

Johns of East 12th Street - Red Sauce Joint

 "JOHN'S" - Since 1908




JOHN'S of 12th STREET

EAST VILLAGE

NEW YORK NY





JOHN'S of 12th STREET

OLD SCHOOL ITALIAN RED SAUCE JOINT

Since 1908






DeROBERTI'S ITALIAN PASTRIES






DeRoberti's

The Turn of The CENTURY

About 1906






Casatiti

A SICILIAN PASTRY

Translation - Women's Breast







NONNA BELLINO'S COOKBOOK

RECIPES From MY SICILIAN NONNA










SUNDAY SAUCE

aka The GODFATHER COOKBOOK








CAFFE REGGIO

GREENWICH VILLAGE

NEW YORK















Friday, April 14, 2023

Are You Making SUNDAY SAUCE this Week

 




CLEMENZA SHOWS MICHAEL HOW to MAKE SAUCE










WATCH The VIDEO

"MAKE The SAUCE" !!!

CLEMENZA (Richard Castellano ) 

Show MICHAEL ( AL Pacino ) HOW to MAKE SUNDAY SAUCE

In Francis FOrd Coppola's The GODFATHER







SUNDAY SAUCE

alla CLEMENZA

all BELLINO alla PACINO

aka The GODFATHER COOKBOOK






SUNDAY SAUCE 


•   "Are You Making SUNDAY SAUCE This Sunday ?

•     What do you put in your Sauce ?

•     Do you call it Suace or Gravy ?

•     Do You Know How to Make it ? ( The Recipe is in The SUNDAY SAUCE COOKBOOK )

•      Do you make enough Meatballs to make MEABALL SANDWICHES on Monday ?








Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Old School Italian New York

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FRANK SINATRA
 
Gone
 
CELEBRATING The 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY of HIS BIRTH in 2015
 
Frank Sinatra Born 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey
 
Frank Spent a Lot of Time in New York
 
 
 
PATSY'S
 
Sinatra's Favorite Italian Restaurant
 
STILL HERE !  West 56th Street, New York, NY
 
ROCCO'S
 
THOMPSON STREET GREENWICH VILLAGE
 
GONE
 
Now It's CARBONE
Inside the former Rocco's
 
Now The Most Expensive Red Sauce Joint Around
 
It's CARBONE
JOHN'S of 12th STREET
 
Since 1908
 
STILL HERE !!!
 
 
 
 
GINO'S
 
Above and Below
 
GONE !!!
 
 
 
A Waiter and the Famous Zebra Wallpaper at GINO'S
 
No Longer With Us
 
 
 
 
Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner Dine at Patsy's
 
 
 
 
 
Rafetto's Past Shop, Greenwich Village New York
SINCE 1906
STILL GOING STRONG
 CAFFE REGGIO  
 
SINCE 1927
 
STILL GOING STRONG on MACDOUGAL STREET
 
GREENWICH VILLAGE NEW YORK
 
 
 
 
FERDINANDO'S SICILIAN SPECIALTIES
 
SINCE 1904
 
STILL With US on Union Street, Carroll gardens, Brooklyn, New York
 
"The Only Place left to get a good Vasteddi (Beef Spleen Sandwich) in NY
 
 
 
 
JOHN'S PIZZERIA
 
Bleecker Street greenwich Village, NEW YORK
 
SINCE 1927
 
STILL with US !!!!
 
 
 
 
 
Ferdinando's Brooklyn
 
Get The VASTEDDI SANDWICH
 
 
 
 
PIEMONTE RAVIOLI
 
SINCE 1920
 
Grand Street LITTLE IATALY,  NY NY
 
STILL with US !!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
Read About Italian-American New York
in Daniel Bellino's Best Selling SUNDAY SAUCE
Recipes and Stories of Italian-American New York
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SOPHIA
 
"JUST BECAUSE"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Can You Get Table at RAOS ? Frankie No Says "NO" !!!!!!


FRANKIE NO Says "NO" !!!

FRANK PELLIGRINO Sr.

RAO'S OWNER


RAO'S the historic Spanish Harlem restaurant is as elusive and alluring as ever. It's still nearly impossible to secure a seat without serious connections — but Grub tracked down thirteen people who revealed their strategies for getting in and dished on their best nights (though a few of them were so concerned about revealing their secrets that they didn't want us to use their names).
Strategy 1: Don't Take No for an Answer
"I had a business partner who was this fastidious attorney who would never take no for an answer. In 1995, someone who works for us wanted to go there for dinner. My business partner called [co-owner] Frank [Pellegrino] 500 times. Finally he said, 'Oh my God, come in. I can't take it anymore.' My partner wore him down. That first time, we became friends with everyone there. Frankie Jr. bonded with me, for some reason, and we became good friends. I was very active in the restaurant business for a long time, and I think that helped as well.
I don't have a standing table. I think in the seventeen years I've been going, I've only had legit reservations three or four times. Every other time, I just go on a Monday night, sit at the bar, and hope to get seated. I text one of the main guys to let them know and ask them to seat me. I brought my wife there on our first date fourteen years ago. She was definitely impressed.
I once had a great encounter with Johnny 'Roastbeef' [a character actor best known for his small role in Goodfellas]. We were at the bar, and, all of a sudden, the theme from Cats comes on. Johnny put his glass down hard, and he said, 'Every time I hear this song, all I want to do is eat pussy.' Without missing a beat, the woman next to him, who was in her sixties, asked, 'Does anyone know where I can get the CD really quickly?' I started laughing, and the bartender said that I couldn't laugh. We didn't know if it was a joke. I've seen amazing things there. A guy who had just gotten out of the slammer after twenty years showed up to celebrate, wearing clothes from twenty years ago: a skintight black sleeveless shirt and tight jeans." —Anonymous
Strategy 2: Be Eddie Huang
"I went the first time with Zach Chodorow with his girl and some other girl. Zach has friends that have a standing table. In the winter, they go away, and I hit him up. It was cool. We had a good time. They definitely have the best meatballs in the city. You go for the environment. You walk in, you walk out, and there's no better entrance to a restaurant. I take a Town Car, whatever. You walk into a movie. 
The second time, it was my girl's birthday, and it was right after Hurricane Sandy. She's an Italian girl who lived in Harlem and had never gone, so I said, 'I gotta take you.' We went on November 4. I talked to Nicky the Vest at the bar, and he said he recognized me. I was like, 'You don't get many Chinese people in here?' He said, 'Why don't I get you a table?' Then Frank comes over and said, 'Welcome back. If I have a table available, do you want to sit down and have dinner?' Absolutely! We had dinner. It was the best birthday she ever had. You wish more people with that passion and that character were opening restaurants in New York.
But if you just want to just try the food, go to Vegas. That's where my first Rao's experience was, and I actually like Uncle Vincent's chicken and the on-the-bone veal Parmesan better there. You can just walk into the Vegas location: It's a twenty-minute wait, tops. You know how people say things just based on what sounds good? The fact of the matter is that the food is better in Vegas. But the Rao's in Harlem is a New York institution. The moment you see it, you know why. It's got that swag." —Eddie Huang, Baohaus chef and soon-to-be television star
Strategy 3: Shower the Pellegrino Family With Gifts
"I used to work for an Academy Award–winning actor. It opened up a lot of doors in New York, but it never got me a table at Rao's ... until the actor's executive assistant tracked down a member of the Pellegrino family and showered her with gifts: flowers, spa gift cards, and movie-premiere invitations. That's how I scored my first reservation. I took my best friend, who'd also been trying (and failing) to get a table for many years. We feasted like kings. After dessert, the bartender asked us if we wanted a final drink 'with Frank.' Of course we said yes to this. The drink was served, but we didn't touch it. We wanted to wait for Frank to join us, but an hour later, he still hadn't come by our table. Eventually, the other tables emptied out. Rao's was closing, and we realized that the drink wason Frank, not with him. Embarrassed, we quickly paid and departed.
More recently, I was able to get another reservation. A woman I knew was friends with Johnny 'Roastbeef.' Turns out knowing Mr. Roastbeef is a much better connection than any award-winning movie star because we landed the best table and had multiple drinks with Frank." —Anonymous

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Recipe GINOS SECRET SAUCE






Is He Giving Away The SECRET ?

NOT !!!


SECRET SAUCE 


“SEGRETO”

    Tagliolini with Salsa Segreto. Secret Sauce? Shhhh!!! We lost our beloved Old-School Italian Red-Sauce Joint Gino’s of Lexington Avenue a couple years back. Gino’s opened in 1945 by Neapolitan Immigrant Gino Circicello, was a Gem of a Restaurant loved by its many loyal customers who kept the place packed and vibrant night-after-night, year-after-year. The place was perfect; Great Food and good wine at reasonable prices coupled with excellent service by friendly attentive waiters inside a homey comfy dining-room that everyone loved, from its cozy little Bar at the front of the restaurant, its Phone Booth (one of the last surviving in New York), and the famed Scalamandre Zebra Wallpaper that is as much a part of Gino’s as the tenured old waiters, the Phone Booth, and the popular Chicken Parmigiano.
    Among all the tasty pasta dishes, the Pasta with Salsa Segreta, (Segreto) “The Secret Sauce,” was a perennial favorite at Gino’s. All of Gino’s legendary clientele loved it. Some of the clients just happened to be, people like; Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Joe DiMaggio, to name a few of a large string of luminaries to grace Gino’s over the years. Gino’s had many wonderful dishes that were soul satisfy, unpretentious, and tasty as heck. They were all the usual suspects of Italian Red-Sauce Joints everywhere; from Baked Clams Oreganata, to Shrimp Cocktail, to Spaghetti With Clam Sauce, Lasagna, the famed Veal Pamigiano, “the entire menu.”     I used to go to Gino’s with my cousin Joe quite a bit. My sister Barbara came a couple times, as did my brother Michael. But it was usually me and Cousin Joe, and if anyone else was tagging along as well. Now I love my pasta as all good Italian-Americans do, but my cousin Joe? He had me beat. The guy loves his pasta, and wanted it practically every day. I believe we tried the Salsa Segreta (Secret Sauce) on our first trip there. I think with Tagliolini, but you can have it with Spaghetti, Rigatoni or whichever pasta you like. Well we loved it from the very first, and would get it every time we went. Often we’d get Baked Clams and Shrimp Cocktail to start, followed by a Half Portion each of Tagliolini with Salsa Segreto, and as our main we might split a Veal Milanese with a “Nice Bottle of Chianti.” We’d finish the meal with Espresso and a couple of Desserts, maybe a Tiramisu and a Chocolate Tartufo.

    So the Secret Sauce, what’s in it, you want to know? Yes I identified the Secret ingredients one day, I made it, and it tastes exactly the same, and that’s as tasty as can possibly be, a 10 out of 10, you can’t get any better. It’s quite simple and you’d be amazed, but that’s the essence of all Italian Cooking, simply tasty. The Secret of The Secret Sauce is, “I shouldn’t tell you but I will.” I should be charging you $100 just for this one recipe but I won’t. “I hope you know what a bargain you people are all getting; my Sunday Sauce, Clemenza’s Sunday Sauce, my Lentil Soup recipe, Marinara Sauce, my famed Bolognese and more. I’m getting robbed here!” But here you go, The Secret-Ingredients in the Secret Sauce from the former Gino’s Restaurant on Lexington Avenue across from Bloomingdales are  _ _ _ _ _ _ _  and  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  added to a simple tomato sauce. That’s it! Basta ! The Cat is out of the Bag. Enjoy! Are you Happy? “You better be!”


Excerpted from SUNDAY SAUCE by Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

The RECIPE and "SECRET INGREDIENTS" 

For SALSA SEGRETA "GINO'S SECRET SAUCE are in SEGREO ITALIANO

by Daniel Bellino-Zwicke








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SEGRETO ITALIANO !

The FORMER GINO'S

On Lexington Avenue, New York, NY



NOW SADLY CLOSED









GINO'S Was A FAVORITE 
of
FRANK SINATRA 







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SUNDAY SAUCE

alla SINATRA
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