Sunday, December 29, 2013

KEITH McNALLY Closing PAULINO


KEITH McNALLY 
CLOSING PULINO'S


PULINO'S CLOSING December 29, 2013

CHERCHE MIDI To Open
In Its Place

Shane McBride
of
BALTHAZAR
To HEAD KITCHEN




KEITH McNALLY
At HIS
MINETTA TAVERN
GREENWICH VILLAGE,  NEW YORK






Saturday, December 21, 2013

BALLANTINE ALE NEW YORK


YOGI BERRA
NEW YORK YANKEES
HALL of FAMER
And
A
BALLENTINE BLAST




Ballatine Ale
Art






JASPER JOHNS
BALLENTINE ALE CANS
SCULPTOR






ERNEST HEMINGWAY
BALLENTINE ALE
In WORDS







BALLENTINE ALE BREWERY
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
On The PASSAIC RIVER












DUDE With BEER In CAR







READ ABout The DUDE
BEER & FOOD
The DUDE COOKS
With
GOT ANY KAHLUA?
The BIG LEBOWSKI COOKBOOK






Wednesday, December 18, 2013

25 DISHES EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW



25 DISHES YOU SHOULD KNOW
Click Links For Dishes





3.  ROAST POTATOES





7.  CHILI



10.  GUACAMOLE

11.  RAMEN

12.  CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES 


14.  MEATLOAF

15.  FRITTATA







22. PANCAKES

23.  PORK CHOPS


25.  CHEESECAKE





LEARN How to COOK
The Perfect STEAK
The PERFECT BURGER
BUFFALO WINGS
CHILI
GUACAMOLE 
And Other GREAT RECIPES
In
GOT ANY KAHLUA ?
The DUDES
BIG LEBOWSKI COOKBOOK






Sunday, December 15, 2013

NEW YORK 'S BEST BURGER


WHITE MANNA
Hackensack, NJ
One of The NEW YORK Area's
BEST BURGERS
And Coolest All-Around Burger Experience
In The NEW YORK METRO AREA



NEW YORK'S BEST BURGER
SHAKE SHACK



SHACK BURGER
NEW YORK'S TOP BURGER





KEITH RICHARDS COOKS
THE ROLLING STONE




KEITH RICHARDS FAVORITE COOKBOOK
GOT ANY KAHLUA?
THE COLLECTED RECIPES of THE DUDE

"IT'S The BIG LEBOWSKI COOKBOOK"





CLEMENZA 'S MOB WAR SUNDAY SAUCE RECIPE



CLEMENZA'S MEATBALL SUNDAY SAUCE by Daniel Bellino ..
Clemenza makes da "SAUCE" From the unforgettable scene in Mario Puzo
Francis Ford Coppola's THE GODFATHER, Caporegime Pete Clemenza shows 
Michael Corleone (AL PACINO) how to make his SUNDAY SAUCE "GRAVY"
alla CLEMENZA ... The scene is quite famous and much loved by Italian-Americans, movie buffs and just about everyone .. You can now learn the secrets Clemenza taught Michael Corleone, now with 
Clemenza's Meatball Sunday Sauce by renowned food writer Daniel Bellino Zwicke ...


NOTE: There was previous a glitch on the table of contents in this book . It has been fixed and working perfectly .. We Highly recommend this book to any who follow; The Godfather, Pacino, and or Italian Food and Sunday Sauce.. Mangia Bene!!!


CLEMENZA MEATBALL SUNDAY SAUCE AVAILABLE ON KINDLE FOR KINDLE, KINDLE For iPad, Kindle for iPhone, Kindle For ANDROID  $2.99

SUNDAY SAUCE "When Italian-Americans Cook" A larger book with more Recipes is Available in PAPERBACK on AMAZON.com


Tuesday, December 10, 2013

NO GARLIC For SINATRA


FRANK SINATRA




IF YOU COOK For FRANK SINATRA
"HOLD The GARLIC"
So says Sal Scognamillo Chef/Owner of PATSY'S
Frank Sinatra's Favorite Restaurant
Frank couldn't eat garlic. You could flavor a dish with garlic by cooking whole garlic cloves 
in olive oil to flavor the dish. Then you had to pull out each and every piece of garlic. Frank couldn't take it ..
His favorite dishes were; Clams Posillipo, Spaghetti Pomodoro, Veal Milanese, 
Sausage & Peppers, and Spaghetti & Meatballs of which PATSY'S makes "The Best In Town"

If you want to Eat Like SINATRA, check out Daniel Bellino-Zwicke's latest book
SUNDAY SAUCE "When Italian-American's Eat"  Along with all sorts of great Italian dishes, there's recipes for Dolly Sinatra Marinara, Spaghetti & Meatballs recipe from Franks Mom, and SUNDAY SAUCE alla SINATRA ..



Friday, November 29, 2013

Keith Richards & Jack Daniels



THEY GO TOGETHER



KEITH RICHARDS
and
A Bottle of "JACK"

JACK DANIELS
They Go Together !!!


Rolling Stones Keith Richards Guitarist Keith Richards loves his Jack Daniels, and Jack loves him ...  The other Big Jack Daniels Fan "FRANK SINATRA" just has been honored by The Jack Daniels Company with a bottle of some special Limited Edition Sinatra Jack Daniels .. Could Keith be next ?





SINATRA  SELECT
JACK DANIELS
LIMITED EDITION







PJ CLARKE'S

New York

photo Daniel Zwicke





KEITH RICHARDS FAVORITE COOKBOOK

GOT ANY KAHLUA ?

It's "THE BIG LEBOWSKI COOKBOOK"








Wednesday, November 27, 2013

SINATRA 'S FAVORITE RESTAURANT "PATSY'S" New York

FRANK'S ALL-TIME FAVORITE
PATSY'S West 56th STREET NEW YORK, NY
 
 
 
 
GINO'S LEXINGTON AVENUE
CLOSED 2010
SECRET SAUCE RECIPE
Is In 
Daniel Bellino Zwicke 's
New Book
SUNDAY SAUCE
 
 
 
PJ CLARKE'S
3 rd AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY
THE SETTING Of The SONG
"ONE FOR MY BABY"
 
"IT's a Quarter to 3"
"No One in The ROOM"
"Except You and Me" "So Set Em Up JOE"
"I Got a Little Story"
"I Think You Should Know"
 
 
 
 
21 CLUB
NEW YORK
 
21 BURGER
 
 
 
 
 
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
NEW YORK NY
 
 
 
FRANK'S FAVORITE Recipes For "SUNDAY SAUCE" MEATBALLS and "BOLOGNESE" Are in Daniel Bellino Zwicke's  "La TAVOLA"
And The ITALIAN CHRISTMAS "FEAST of The 7 FISH"
 
 
 
SUNDAY SAUCE Has Arrived ! Learn How To MAKE Dolly Sinatra's Famed "SINATRA MARINARA SAUCE" and SUNDAY SAUCE alla SINATRA ..  "It's In The BOOK
.
.
41545-sunday-saucesmall1  

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

SUNDAY SAUCE Is COMING "IT's HERE NOW"




First it was The "McRib" then TWINKIES, Now SUNDAY SAUCE ... All Great Food Things we all love .. New York writer Daniel Bellino Zwicke; authjor of "La TAVOLA" The Big Lebowski Cookbook GOT ANY KAHLUA ? The COLLECTED RECIPES of The DUDE and this Christmas Seasons Hot Book of The Moment "The FEAST of The 7 FISH" is about to Pulish another .. His long awaited book SUNDAY SAUCE on just that subject, Sunday Sauce aka "Gravy" will be out soon .. It's rumored the Kindle Edition of Sunday Sauce will be out November 30, 2013 and the paperback edition of SUNDAY SAUCE will be published Decmber 5 th and will be available on AMAZON on that date, just in time for Christmas. And a great present SUNDAY SAUCE will make .. It's filled as usual with Daniel with wonderful heart-warming stories of New York Italian-America, its characters, the Food, the Kitchen, restaurants, caffes, Pizzerias, Italian Pastry Shops, Pork Stores and everything that is wonderful about Italians and specifically as related to the food of Italy, as well as Italian-American Cuisine which Mr. Bellino points out is legitimate and deserves and demands respect .. This book SUNDAY SAUCE is sure to please and a "Must Have" for Italian-Americans everywhere as well as there American brethren of other persuasions, no matter, just about everyone loves Italian .. Filled with Meatballs, Sausage, Espresso, Maccheroni, and all the tasty Italian Favorites .. The book is filled with the favorite Italian-American dishes, but is centered and themed around the most Supreme Italian-American Dish of All "SUNDAY SAUCE" aka "GRAVY" or as some just call it "SAUCE"  ....
You been waiting, it's almost Thanksgiving, the wait is almost over, Sunday Sauce, Get It"



Fans of Daniel Bellino-Zwicke and His renowned books of Sunday Sauce, The Feast of The 7 Fish, Italians, New York Italian, and The ITALIAN-AMERICAN Lifestyle can pick up any other titles by Mr. Bellino that they might not already have, like" "La TAVOLA"
THE FEAST of The 7 FISH "Italian Christmas"
CLEMENZA'S MEATBALL SUNDAY SAUCE COOKBOOK
or THE BIG LEBOWSKI COOKBOOK  "GOT ANY KAHLUA" ? 
The COLLECTED RECIPES of THE DUDE

ALL TITLES Are AVAILABLE on AMAZON.com


Sunday, November 24, 2013

HOT SAUCE


TABASCO 



The KING 
of
HOT SAUCE




TABASCO PEPPER MASH
AGING
in JACK DANIESL
OAK BARRLES
On AVERY ISLAND, LOUISIANA



DID YOU KNOW?

1.  That TABASCO Bottle Is an Old Cologne Bottle from the New Orleans Glassworks.

2.  Invented in 1868 by Edmond McIlhenny, originally from Maryland.

3.  About 720,000 bottles are bottled a day and sold in 165 countries around the World.

4.  Tabasco is aged in used Jack Daniels Bourbon Whiskey Barrels ..

5.  1/8 Ounce Bottles of Tabasco  with Presidential Seal are served on Air Force 1









VALENTINA
HOT SAUCE
From
GUADALAJARA, MEXICO



Valentina has become my favorite Hot Sauce of the past 3 years or so .. I picked it up at a .99 Cent Store one day, a 12 oz. bottle is just $1.29, average price of Tabasco is about $3.99 for a 5 oz. bottle .. It would cost me about $9 for the same amount of Tabasco or more than 7 times more expensive .. Don't get me wrong, I do love Tabasco and like its taste once and a while, it's definately destinctive and a good deal hotter, but now by most preferred Hot Sauce by far is VALENTINA from Mexico .. It's not too hot, which for my personal taste I like ..  And the spices they use has a reall nice flavor. And yes, Tabasco and some of the other brands are too dam expensive.






Before I started up with VALENEtINA I was using CRYSTAL HOT SAUCE from Louisiana for a while .. I like Hot Sauce from Louisiana and as we all know Tabasco can be a bit expensive as compare to Crystal and Valentina and some others, Crytal is way cheaper than Tabasco, but it is also a lot less hot and not as florvorful.  I did notice that in New Orleans Crytal is pretty popular and I saw it on many a restaurant table sometimes along with Tabasco and other bottles. I don't use Crystal that much any more since I discovered my fave, Valentina ... Sometimes I will have in the house; Tabasco, Valentina, and Crystal, and will mostley use Valentina, and Tabasco and Crystal here-and-there ...  
My favorite is on Scramble Eggs with buttered Peas on the side for Breakfast or a lite lunch .. Sometimes when I make FRied Eggs I like to douse on a bit of "Maggi Seasoning" with Valentina as well. These make for some super tasty fried eggs. Try em!


Crystal Claims To Be Louisiana's # 1 Hot Sauce











Saturday, November 23, 2013

WAVERLY DINER GREENWICH VILLAGE


WAVERLY DINER With EMPIRE STATE BUILDING"

Greenwich Village, New York

photo: Daniel Bellino Zwicke

SUNDAY SAUCE FINISHED DANIEL BELLINO








Daniel Bellino Zwicke has just announced he's finished his latest, Sunday Sauce "When Italian-Americans Eat" Daniel is the author of such titles as La Tavola, Got Any Kahlua? and popular Christmas Time book The FEAST of The 7 FISH Italian Christmas .. The book is in final preparation for publication and will be available on Amazon on December 7, 2013 ..... Daniel Bellino Zwicke is a renowned author of the food, wine, and travel genres. We llok forward to Sunday Sauce this his latest.


Friday, November 22, 2013

Saturday, November 16, 2013

The FEAST of The 7 FISH ITALIAN CHRISTMAS DINNER





Christmas Eve Fish Dinner is, without question, the most important, the most festive, the most familial, the warmest and most memorable family gathering. For me, Christmas Eve Dinner surpasses every other holiday, As important and delightful as Thanksgiving of Easter or even Fourth of July might be, nothing approaches the ineffable depth and richness of Christmas Eve Fish Dinner offered a table unlike that of any other holiday.
But before I go further, let's consider the name of this dinner. Among some Italians that I have questioned it is called "Feast of the Seven Fishes," for other families, including my own, it was simply Christmas Eve Fish Dinner. There was no specific number of fish involved. Carol Field' Celebrating Italy, a most thorough study of Italian holidays, notes that Christmas Eve dinner calls for fish but makes no mention of the number of fish dishes. Moving my investigation of the Christmas Eve dinner to Google Italy, I found that it is generally called "Il Cenone della Vigilia" (The great dinner of the Eve.) No Italian site I found made mention of the number of fish. I have the sense that the notion of seven fish may be Italian American and even here only among certain families.
The next question I considered was the type of fish. Almost every reference I found and all the people I interviewed had numerous variations. Among most Italians sites two fish appeared most often, baccalà and eel. Among traditional Italian Americans the two most common dishes were baccalà (usually in a cold salad recipe) and fried smelts. In many younger and less traditionally bound Italian Americans all the old time fish were gone. The new fish platters now included shrimp and fried fish and even fish sticks. Italian Americans are not alone in modernization. It seems that even in Italy the younger generations recoil at the notion of such fish as eel.
While what this dinner is rightly called and which fish are those to be presented seems to vary from region to region and family to family a few things about Christmas Eve fish dinner, go unquestioned. Christmas Eve fish dinner was the one dinner no one missed. Christmas Eve fish dinner was at the home of the patriarch or matriarch. Every child and grandchild was present. The power of the Italian American Christmas Eve dinner overwhelmed all other cultural influences. While the fish dinner may have been rooted in Italy it spread its branches to include and embrace not only those non-Italians who had married into the family but all those of other ethnic backgrounds who were friends beyond the family. Everyone with any association to the family was invited to the Christmas Eve fish dinner.
While all other holiday dinners gathered the family while there was still light in the sky, Christmas Eve Fish Dinner began sometime after sunset. It was and is, the only festive dinner in the Italian American tradition that is shared in darkness. All other holidays in the Italian American tradition are celebrated at the table sometime shortly after noon. Christmas Eve Fish Dinner always began sometime after six in the evening.
Christmas Eve Fish Dinner differs from all other dinners by its lack of structure. Other dinners, whether Sunday Gravy or Easter Sunday follow a certain formality. For other dinners there is always a soup course, an antipasto, the pasta, the main course and then the dessert. The Christmas Eve Fish Dinner was quite different. The Christmas Eve Fish Dinner had courses, but the courses were not single dishes. For the Christmas Eve fish dinner each course was composed of several offerings. And the whole dinner was preceded by a cold table of finger foods that allowed mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews to chatter for an hour or so before dinner began. The finger foods were set on small tables in the living room. The platters included olives, slices of celery and broccoli, and a dish of crackers. There were also plates of cooked shrimp with sides of shrimp cocktail sauce. The olives were from cans and the children liked to slide the pit wholes over their fingers as they chomped on the olives. I would guess that the shrimp and the horseradish based cocktail sauce was an influence from the fashionable restaurants of the time.
After at least an hour of nibbling on the side platters the dinner bell called us to the tables. Yes, tables. In our family there were three. In our center hall style house, the dining room table was turned towards the center hall. A second and third table were butted up to the main table. The three tables continued through the center hall into the living room. Seating was determined by age. The oldest sat in the dining room section; the younger the child the closer to the living room.
There was no soup on Christmas Eve. When we sat at the table we first saw a small bowl of whiting salad with lemon and a serving of "scungilli," conch. When I was small there was a cold baccalà salad with tomato. These cold fish salads were followed by the pasta. Of course, we never heard or used the word "pasta." For us the "pasta" dish was one of three possibilities. It changed from year to year. It could be either "Clams and Spaghetti," "Mussels and Spaghetti," or "Squid and Spaghetti." The spaghetti were always the very thin "angel hair" ("capellini.")
The next course is always a serving of several varieties of fried fish. My Irish background mother prepared several fish offerings in different ways. There are three central dishes. First, she made a tray of plain American fish sticks for the children and for those at the table of a less than Italian heritage. Then, as a middle ground, my mother makes the most exquisite crab cakes that would appeal to Italian traditionalists as much as to the non- Italian in-laws. For the old timers there is always the most wonderful finger food, fried smelts with lemon. There are also fried scallops, fried shrimp, fried calamari and fried oysters.
Following the fried dishes, the table is covered with several trays of broiled scallop, shrimp and clams. Then comes the main fish platter. This platter has no Italian precedent that I know of. My mother introduced this dish about thirty years ago: stuffed orange roughy papillote. The orange roughy papillote is made by splitting the fish into two pieces and filling with a layer of spinach with tomato, garlic and olive oil. The fish is wrapped in parchment and baked.
After a rest and an interlude of conversation the Christmas Eve Fish dinner is crowned by the dish everyone waits for, my mother's tray of Christmas cookies. We began at five in the evening. After the cookies it is after 11. The culmination of the Christmas Eve Fish Dinner is Midnight Mass. Following Christmas Midnight Mass the family came home to a wonderful breakfast of eggs and bacon and, in Philadelphia, of scrapple. The special delight of the breakfast was the Christmas Bread, a wonderful brioche-like pastry shaped in a ring and decorated with multi-colored sprinkles. But Christmas bread is another page.

by TONY D MORINELLI
http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Tony_D_Morinelli

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/7394063


Friday, November 15, 2013

WORLD'S GREATEST HOT DOGS at RUTT'S HUT Where "BABE RUTH" ATE






A Couple RIPPERS
DEEP-FRIED HOT DOGS
at RUTT'S HUT





RUTT'S HUT
FAMOUS
HOUSE-MADE RELISH









The COUNTER




The BAMBINO !!!
BABE RUTH
ATE DOGS
at RUTT'S HUT