Monday, August 28, 2023

Sinatra Eats New York





SINATRA EATS NEW YORK

At JILLY'S

NEW YORK CITY



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Frank Sinatra & Ava Gardner  .... "Mangia Bene"


Wanna Eat like the late great Frank Sinatra? Who wouldn't? Frank was Sicilian-American and ate Sicilian food, but even more so he loved classic Italian-American Neapolitan Cusisine, with dishes like Clams Posillipo, Spaghetti Marinara, Eggplant Parmigiano, and Veal Milanese were Frank's favvorite dishes, and his favorite restauarnt to eat these dishes at was the great Old-School Italian Red-Sauce Joint on West 56th Street in New York called Patsy's .. Yes it was Frank's favorite, and when in New York Frank also like to go to The 21 Club, PJ Clarke's, Gilly's, and Gino's on Lexington Avenue ...



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Patsy's  ... 56th Street

FRANK SINATRA'S Favorite Restaurant



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One of FRANK'S Favorites

CLAMS POSILLPO



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FRANK Loved VEAL MILANESE

Pounded Extra Thin


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Two of Frank's Favorites

Together on One Plate

EGGPLANT PARMIGIANO & Spaghetti Marinara



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GNOCCHI POMODORO



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Charle's "Lucky" Lucciano

Was From Lercara Friddi Sicily

The Same Town as Sinatra's Father Anthony Martino

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FRANK Pours DEAN

a Shot of JACK DANIELS

Another of FRANK'S Favorites !!!

Sammy Davis Jr. Looks On


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Another of Frank's Favorites

PJ Clarke's  .. 3rd Avenue .. NEW YORK, NY

Where Frank Downed Many a JACK DANIELS



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FRANK Eating a Scrambled Egg & Bacon Sandwich




Yes Another Favorite

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In Daniel Bellino's SUNDAY SAUCE

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Recipe in SUNDAY SAUCE

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SINATRA at JILLY'S


For COFFEE - WHISKEY - "WHATEVER" ?

FRANK With DAUGHTERS TINA & NANCY SINATRA & FRIENDS

At JILLY'S NEW YORK

Whenever FRANK SINATRA was in NEW YORK CITY

FRANK WOULD GO to JILLY'S - His FAVORITE NEW YORK CITY HAUNT

PEOPLE WOULD BE SUPRISED to KNOW That JILLY'S Didn't Serve ITALIAN FOOD

The FOOD was CHINESE, and That's WHAT FRANK & His FRIENDS ATE

Along with COCKTAILS, BEER & WINE

FRANK'S FAVORITE DRINK as Many of You KNOW was JACK DANIELS WHISKEY





The RAT PACK 



FRANK SINATRA

And The RAT PACK


FRANK SAMMY & DEAN







RECIPES

FROM MY SICILIAN NONNA

From LERCARA FRIDDI - SICILY

The Same TOWN as The SINATRA FAMILY

NEW YORK & LODI  NJ






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A Young Frank Sinatra  ....  Hoboken, New Jersey

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Frank Sinatra

"Come Fly with Me" !!!



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PATSY'S  "Franks Favorite Restaurant"

 

Frank's Favorite Restaurant in The World, was Patsy's on West 56th Street in New York, in The Theater District near Times Square .. Frank's Favorites were; Calms Posillipo, Spaghetti Pomodoro,  Veal Milanes (extra Thin & Crispy) and Spaghetti & Meatballs of which patsy's makes The Best in The City ..

PATSY'S is by far the restaurant most associated with SINATRA -- on its website, the restaurant notes that it "has been known for years as the restaurant Frank Sinatra made famous." You can still order up old-school Italian there, but you might not have the exact same experience as Sinatra, who was said to have entered through a special door to sit at a reserved table on the second floor. Sinatra became especially loyal to the restaurant after making a solo Thanksgiving reservation one year, not realizing the restaurant was slated to be closed that day. Patsy Scognamillo didn't want to turn Sinatra away, so he allowed the reservation. He also didn't want Sinatra to know the restaurant was opened just for him -- so he had the entire staff bring their families to fill the place up, something Sinatra didn't learn until years later, according to Patsy's lore. The restaurant still celebrates its connection to Sinatra: At right, in 2002, Joe Scognamillo served actor Bill Boggs, who had dressed up as Sinatra . (236 West 56th St.)

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FRANK & AVA GARDNER Mangia Bene !!! 

FRAN
K & AVA GARDNER


FRANK & DINO 

FRANK & DINO



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PJ CLARKE'S

3rd AVENUE, Midtown MANHATTAN

SINATRA 'S ALL-TIME FAVORITE BAR / SALOON




FRANK'S FAVORITE ITALIAN BREAD ... PARISI on MOTT STREET, LITTLE ITALY, New York, NY 


FRANK'S FAVORITE ITALIAN BREAD 

 PARISI on MOTT STREET, LITTLE ITALY, New York

FRANK'S FAVORITE ITALIAN BREAD

PARISI BAKERY MOTT STREET

LITTLE ITALY, NY NY

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FRANK'S FAVORITE PIZZA 

FRANK'S FAVORITE PIZZA "PATYSY'S"

East Harlem



FRANKS FAVORITE PIZZA

PATSY'S in EAST HARLEM

No Relation to PATSY'S on 56th STREET


PASTY'S PIZZERIA 


PATSY'S PIZZERIA

EAT HARLEM, NEW YORK



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SINATRA at JILLY'S New York with Friends and Daughters NANCY and TINA

Frank loved going to his close Pal JILLY RIZZO'S New York Restaurant JILLY'S where Frank would eat Chinese Food, tell stories, and drink JACK DANIEL'S to the Wee Hours of the morning ...






FRANK at JILLY'S 




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SUNDAY SAUCE

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FRANK SINATRA 

with Cigarette & JACK DANIELS



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GRANDMA BELLINO'S COOKBOOK

aka The SINATRA  COOKBOOK

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"RECIPES FROM MY SICILIAN NONNA"

by Daniel Bellino "Z"



Author Daniel Bellino "Z" has the same ancestral Sicilian Roots as Frank Sinatra and one Charles "Lucky" Luciano who was born in LERCARA FRIDDI SICILY , as was Frank SInatra 's father Martino Severino Sinatra and Bellino 's maternal grandparents Giussepina Salemi and Fillipo Bellino who both immigrated from Lercara Friddi to New York through Ellis Island in 1904 . In 1906 Luciano 's parents immigrated and settled on the Lower East Side of New York when young Charlie (Salvatore ) was 9 years old.



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Charles "Lucky" Luciano

Born in Lercara Friddi





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SINATRA'S Favorite PIZZA !!!

PATSY'S in Eats Harlem , New York NY

2287 1st Avenue neat 117th Street

Opened in 1933 by Patsy Lancieri




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The 21 CLUB

A Favorite SINATRA Haunt For Years



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SINATRA arrives at The 21 CLUB with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Good Friend and Bodyguard JILLY RIZZO and a U.S. SECRET SERVICE AGENT



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The 21 BURGER

LEARN HOW to MAKE IT !!!

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FRANK SINATRA

"COME FLY WITH ME"



Friday, August 11, 2023

New York s Best Burger ? Its Not Minetta






MINETTA TAVERN

MINETTA TAVERN MAKES Good Burgers, but Far From The Best

So WHO MAKES NEW YORK'S TOP BURGER ???

Answer : BELLINO


New York's Best Burger? Who makes it? Or who makes, plural, New York's Best Burgers. Well first off, Minetta Tavern does not make the Best Burger in New York. Far from it. And of the Burgers at Minetta Tavern, forget the highly overrated Black Label Burger, the Minetta Burger has it beat, though there are better Burgers in New York. For, one, the Burger I make at my house in Greenwich Village, just two blocks away from Minetta Tavern is far superior, a buch tastier burger than you'll get at Minetta Tavern., but there's one thing we have in common when making New York's best burger. And the Burger I make in my house is way Better than the Burgers at Minetta Tavern.

So what's the difference you ask? And you want to know what it is I have in common with the Burgers at Minetta Tavern? The thing I have in common with Minetta Tavern when making my Burger that is without question one of the Best in New York, and for a whole lot less money (about $3.10). Yes, thing that Minetta Tavern has in common with me, in our Burger making, is that we both buy our meat from pat LaFrieda, it's just that I use the better blend than Minetta Tavern. The Black Label Burger Blend by Pat LaFrieda is made with Dry Aged Beef, which though people would want you to think otherwise, dry aged beef is one of the worst things you can use to make a burger. Dry Aged Beef is old meat, and is actually meat that is deteriorating. It's much better to use fresh beef when making a burger, and that's all their is to it, and Minetta Tavern uses Dry Aged Beef for its Black Label Burger. Not good.

I have in the past year used numerous sources to buy ground beef for my burgers. I buy meat from one of the best Butcher Shops in New York, which is Florence Prime Meat Market on Jones Street in Greenwich Village. I've been buying Sausages, and Steaks from this great old Italian Butcher, which to me is the best butcher shop in all of New York. I mostly bought steaks here, and it's relatively recently that I started buying ground beef to make burgers with. I was there buying myself a Newport Steak (Specialty of The House) one day, when I watched an elderly neighborhood lady getting individual Hamburger Patties made for her. I started chatting with here about the burgers, and she said she loved them, so I said I'd get some of them, my next time at the butcher shop, and so I did a couple weeks later. I've tried both the chuck and the sirloin ground beef from the market. They both made fine burgers.

Trader Joe's recently opened in my neighborhood, and I've tried a couple different types of their ground beef (80/20 and 85/15 ratios), and they both made pretty good burgers.

Today, I wanted to get a couple burger patties from Florence Prime Meats, but they were closed when I got there, so I made my way over to Grestide's. I went to the meat counter and spotted Pat LaFrieda's Burger Blend made with Beef Brisket, Chuck, and Beef Short Ribs. There were 4 Patties in the package, for $8.99, at $2.25 a Burger, it's more than I normally spend, but if I can get a better burger it will be well worth it. I'm still trying to get a Burger to taste as good as the ones I made from the meat that my cousin Joe gave me, that was a package of 4 Black Angus Burger Patties from Wayside Market in Southhold, New York, on the North Fork of Long Island. The Burgers I made with that meat, may very well be the Best Burgers I've ever had in my life. "I kid you not," and I have witnesses to back me up on this. Anyway, I wanted to see if this Burger Blend from pat LaFrieda could come close, or dear I say, be better than those Burgers made with the Black Angus Patties from Wayside Market.

So I bought the burger blend and headed on home. I got my stuff ready. I sliced some New York Cheddar Cheese, and sliced some onions. I toasted and buttered an English Muffin, heat my pan, poured in a bit of oil, and threw my burgers in to cook. As the burgers were cooking, I put a little dijon Mustard on one side of the Muffin. I seasoned the burger with salt, and flipped it over to the other side. Then I seasoned the top side with salt and black pepper. The Burgers cooked another 4 minutes, and then I turned the heat off and let the burger rest for 3 minutes before putting it on top of cheese on on side of the muffin. A put a little nob of butter on top of the burger, then a little Ketchup before topping the Burger with the other half of the bun. I put it on the plate and brought it to the table. I grabbed the burger, bit into it, and from the very first bite, I htought "Wow," it was a dam good burger, and better than any of the meat I'd bought in the past year, including Florence Prime Meat. Wow, this was impressive, and the Pat LaFrieda meat was well worth the bit more than I paid for it, and a real bargain when you consider that a McDonald's McDouble cost about $2.69, and a superior burger like this, with more meat, cost just about .35 Cents more than the inferior McDonald's Cheeseburger. Dam!

Yes, I loved the burger. This Burger that I just made at my house was without question better than almost any burger I've had in New York. my Cheeseburger was better than The Black Label Burger at Minetta Tavern, or the Minetta Burger, it's better than the Shake Shack Burger which I normally love but wasn't that happy with their burgers the last two times I was at Shake Shack (Mine is Better). My Burger tasted better than the JG Melon Cheeseburger (I Love), but not better than the Burger I had at Charle's Prime, which was the only Burger I've had in New York City that was better than the Burger I made at home.: But as good as this burger I made at home with the Pat LaFrieda Burger Blend, "it was Dam Good, but not as Good as the Burger that I made at home with the burrgers from that box of 4 Black Angus Patties from Wayside Market of Southhold, NY.





The BEST BURGERS I'VE HAD in NEW YORK

Cooked at My House in GREENWICH VILLAGE

with BLACK ANGUS BEEF PATTIES from WAYSIDE MARKET


SOUTHOLD NEW YORK

NORTH FORK of LONG ISLAND




"MY BURGERS Are The BEST" !!!



DBZ BURGER

CRAFTED by DANIEL BELLINO ZWICKE


Classic, "It's all about the Meat ? Properly seasoned with Salt & Black Pepper. nicely browned,
place on a toasted Bunm with CHEESE, Pickles, a bit of Ketchup, and Mustard if you like, and that's it"

No Muss, No Fuss. The ground beef must be of the highest quality, and with a fair amount of fat for flavor.

These two points are key. You should buy Prime Ground Beef if you can, it's worth the extra money. 
"Trust Me"





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Sunday, July 16, 2023

Read about Meatball Parm Mondays in SUNDAY SAUCE by Bellino

 



PASQUALE MAKES MEATBALLS

For SPAGHETTI & MEATBALLS

SUNDAY SAUCE or MEATBALL PARM SANDWICHES

"Yumm" !!!







HOW to MAKE MEATBALLS

bt PASQUALE






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PASQUALE ENJOYS HIS SANDWICH

MEATBALL PARM


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Sunday, July 9, 2023

ITALY BEST SANDWICH ? Not Antica Vinaio

 



Andrea Boderi

This MAN MAKES ITALY'S BEST SANDWICH

"NOT ANTICA VINAIO" in Florence

BUT at CASEFICIO BODERI - ORTIGIA, SICILY

At the MERCATO ORTIGIA

SIRACUSA, SICILY





Andrea Borderi

MAKING ITALY'S BEST SANDWICHES

CASEFICIO BODERI - ORTIGIA






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ITALIAN COOKBOOK

RECIPES

From MY SICILIAN NONNA





WHAT to DO in SICILY !!!



PALERMO SIRACUSA ORTIGIA RAGUSA TAORMINA







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Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Worlds Best Pasta w Ragu - Recipe




NONNA LUIGINA Makes MACCHERONI

"With RAGU"





LUIGINA MALES MACCHERONI






The RAGU BOLOGNESE COOKBOOK

"SECRET RECUPE" !!!



The WORLDS BEST RAGU BOLOGNESE

SECTRET RECIPE by DANNY

"DANNY BOLOGNESE"







PASTA with The WORLDS TASTIEST SAUCE

"RAGU" !!!!


DANNY BOLOGNESE !!!