Monday, August 24, 2020

Sunday Sauce with Sinatra - Recipe




FRANK SINATRA

COME FLY WITH ME



SUNDAY SAUCE and SINATRA





It's an old tradition in my family, that most Sunday the Bellino Family gathers together and we eat Sunday Sauce Italian Gravy. The whole family gets together and Grandma House, or Aunt Helen's, but mostly at Aunt Fran's House in Lodi, New Jersey. It's a wonderful all day affair, starting with a little antipasto, followed by the star of the show, Sunday Sauce. Aunt Fran or Aunt Helen usually make the Sauce (Gravy), which is the most supreme dish of all. It's a long simmered tomato sauce laden with special meat treats, that include: Sausages, Meatballs, and Braciole. We eat it with short maccheroni, usually rigatoni. "It's the Best Thing ever," we all just love it, and who wouldn't, it's so damn tasty, it is.

After the Sunday Sauce, it's on to dessert and coffee, which is a 3 or 4 hour affair, as the grownups sit around the table drinking Espresso (with Anisette) and eating all the tasty desserts that's made of a whole array of sweet treats, like: Aunt Fran's Ricotta Cookies, Cannoli, Sfogliatelle, and whatever sweets that other visitors might bring. And there's a whole lot of talking about this that and every other thing: sports, politics, gossip and what not, all as Frank Sinatra records play softly in the background. Always. Aunt Wanda loves Jerry Vale, and Dino has his turn too. Those were warm and wonderful days spent with loved ones, and sadly all of the older generation is gone, and we miss them dearly. But me, I think of them often, and especially when it comes to Sundays, eating all day long, cahtting and having fun, eating maccheroni, sausage, Meatballs, and Braciole, listening to Sinatra, and loving it all. My cousins Joe, Tony, and I keep it going. We try to organize as many get-together s as we can, always centered around food, whatever it may be: fresh fish, pasta, Steak, and our all-time favorite Sunday Sauce. And don't forget Sinatra, Francis Albert that is. Or just simply Frank. 

Basta !






LEARN HOW to MAKE

SUNDAY SAUCE alla SINATRA









Frank Sinatra

The SUMMER WIND





A Pot of SUNDAY SAUCE

"GRAVY"







FRANK and FRIENDS

At GILLY'S

NEW YORK



.






Monday, August 10, 2020

Chianti Brunello Italian Wine

Screen Shot 2017-02-07 at 6.48.50 PM.png   


TUSCAN COUNTRYSIDE

Just Beautiful




screen-shot-2017-02-07-at-7-07-20-pm


A Scene in TUSCANY



Screen Shot 2017-02-07 at 6.50.10 PM.png

Toscano

Tuscany

Screen Shot 2017-02-07 at 6.49.29 PM.png

Girasole

A FIELD of SUNFLOWERS in TUSCANY


mrnewyorkny_grandma

The RAGU BOLOGNESE COOKBOOK

DANNY BOLOGNESE



Screen Shot 2017-02-07 at 6.50.19 PM.png


A Bridge

Tuscan CountrySide



screen-shot-2017-02-07-at-7-14-32-pm


Vines of Castel Verrazano

Greve in Chianti



Screen Shot 2017-02-07 at 7.18.54 PM.png


A CAT & CHIANTI

Castello Verrazzano

Greve, ITALY



screen-shot-2017-02-07-at-6-55-24-pm


Italian Cookbook Author Daniel Bellino "Z"

with good friend CAVELIERE LUIGI CAPPELLINI

the owner of CASTELLO VERRAZZANO

Greve ITALY



Screen Shot 2017-02-07 at 7.14.48 PM.png


The CELLARS

CASTELLO VERRAZZANO

"There's a lot of Tasty CHIANTI in those BARRELS" !!!


Screen Shot 2017-02-07 at 7.14.10 PM.png

Large Slovenian Oak Cask in the Cellars of CASTELLO VERRAZZANO



Screen Shot 2017-02-07 at 7.28.03 PM.png

My Favorite BRUNELLO of ALL

BRUNELLO Di MONTALCINO FATTORIA Dei BARBI


Screen Shot 2017-02-07 at 7.34.45 PM.png

In the Cellars of FATTERIA Dei BARBI



Screen Shot 2017-02-07 at 7.34.59 PM.png


"Drink some Brunello" !!!





3abb1-screen2bshot2b2016-10-302bat2b2-25-182bpm

SUNDAY SAUCE

When Italian-Americans Cook

Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

AVAILABLE on AMAZON.com






SATRIALE'SPORK STORE

SOPRANOS








"AZZURI"

The ITALIAN NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM










.

.