Sunday, November 28, 2021

Best Lasagna EVer - Recipe

 





LASAGNA CARNEVALE





LASAGNA CARENEVALE




BEST LASAGNA EVER !!!













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Saturday, November 27, 2021

Sunday Sauce Sneaker by Bellino

 






SUNDAY SAUCE  The SNEAKER

by Bellino

With AL PACINO

"GET YOURS TODAY" !!!









The SUNDAY SAUCE SNEAKER by Bellino


Sunday Sauce The Sneaker by Bellino. This cool Limited Edition Sneaker was created bt Best Selling Italian Cookbook Writer - Daniel Bellino Z, created from his book cover design of his best selling Italian Cookbook SUNDAY SAUCE. Check out Michael Corleone (AL PACINO) and Clemenza making Sunday Sauce Italian Gravy with Sasuage, Meatballs and Braciole. If you Love The Godafather, Pacino, Coppola, Sunday Sauce, Pasta and Italian Food, you are sure to Love these awesome Sneakers created by Bellino. "Get yours today" !

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"The SNEAKER"

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SUNDAY SAUCE

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Monday, November 22, 2021

Minetta Tavern Geenwich Village NYC

Yes "The Coolest Restaurant In Town" It's The Minetta Tavern, "nothing can touch it" in The Cool Department .. This Gem of a Restaurant has  "Thank God" been preserved by Restaurant Master Genius Keith McNally who acquired the space which luckily no-one had foolishly messed with any of the marvelous 1930s Greenwich Village Decor. McNally just spruced the Tavern up and inserted renowned Chefs Riad Nasr and Lee Hanson as Co-Executive Chefs. Keith added his special touch "He's a Master" and the rest is New York Restaurant History .  As with most of McNally's establishments Minetta Tavern quickly became the Hottest Restaurant and Hardest Table in Town, filled with: A-List Celebs and all the right people needed to make any place "Thee In-Spot" in town, the place every wants to be. Everyone in the know. In doing so, Keith McNally and his Minetta Tavern quickly became the # 1 Hottest Restaurant in town and dethroned Graydon Carter's "Waverly Inn" as the Top Celebrity Central Restaurant in New York, and a few years down the road, Minetta Tavern still is "The Place to Be."






Photo Daniel Bellino-Zwicke
 
 
 
    The place has the most wonderful ambiance imaginable, with tons of energy (from the Crowd), and Very Good Solid Bistro-Steak House Fare, along with two of the top Burgers in Town.     And speaking of the Burgers, take it from an expert "Me" The Minetta Burger is Superior to The Black label Burger which all the "Followers" think is the better of the two "Not." !!! Hey they're followers.    Yes Minetta Tavern is The Coolest Restaurant in town, with wonderful Cool, warm and exciting ambiance, excellent service, and dam good Eats. Check it! 


  Daniel Bellino Zwicke









MINETTA TAVERN

GREENWICH VILLAGE NYC

Photo Daniel Zwicke








SUNDAY SAUCE

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GOT ANY KAHLUA ?


 
 
 
 
 
 


 

Pope Greenwich Village New York T-Shirt

 




The POPE of GREENIWCH VILLAGE

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In GREENWICH VILLAGE

NEW YORK CITY

Starring  : MICKEY ROURKE

And ERIC ROBERTS







MICKEY ROURKE

In The POPE of GREENWICH VILLAGE

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SUNDAY SAUCE 

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BEDBUG EDDIES CALAMRI

PAULIE'S MOM'S MANICOTTI RECIPE

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Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Barolo The King of Wines tshirt

 




BAROLO 

"The KING of WINES"








BAROLO

The KING of WINES





BAROLO

The KING of WINES



Stanley Tucci Negroni is All Wrong

 

 



STANLEY TUCCI Does Not Know How to Make a Proper NEGRONI


Yes it's true. The person who has become popular for making Negroni Cocktails, more than anyone else in the history of mankind, does not even know how to make a proper Negroni. This is scariligous, and shows once again, how people jump on the Band Wagon, so to speak.

I was horrified when I was looking in Tucci's latest book TASTE "My Life Through Food"and saw his recipe for the Negroni. In his recipe and instruction, Tucci cals for 50 milliliters of Gin, 25 millileters Campari, and 25 milliliters Sweet Vermouth with a slice of Orange. "oh my God, I can't beleive it, totally wrong Stanley. The proportions are totally wrong and would make a "Horrible Negroni, and one I'd never ever want to drink." and I've been drinking these bad boys Since 1985, a good 25 years before the Negroni Craze reached the American Shores.

How can you do it Stanley? Everyone who knows anything about a Negroni knows that you use equal parts of Campari, Gin, and Sweet Vermouth, and not and never ever twice as much Gin as Campari, you complete destroy the taste, by completely throwing the cocktail out of balance, a primary prerequisite to any good cocktail. How can you do it Stanley. Futhermore, it is beyond me that the press and general public have practicallymade Tucci the King of The Negroni, and the man doesn't know how to make one. This is horrifying ! Really Stanley? How can you do it. 

I've written extensively about the Negroni (in La Tavola), a good 10 years before the Negroni Craze even started. And as I've stated, I've been drinking these wonderful cocktails since the Summer of 1985, on my first trip to Italy.  My first Negroni? I remember it well. It was at the Caffe Giacosa (formerly Caffe Cassoni), in FLorence.  I went in and sat down. The waiter brought me a menu. I already knew what I wanted, as I had read of the Negroni in an Italian travel guide. I knew it was invented here, and that's what I was going to get. So when the waiter came back, I said, " Un Negroni pro favore." The waiter nodded and, replied, "Prego." A few minutes later he brought me my Negroni, with a few cocktail treats that they serve with cocktails in Italy. I took a sip. Yum, that's pretty good I thought. That was the first. The first of many hundreds to come. Way back then, very few Americans drank Negroni's. There were a few. The well traveled, but nothing like today. It really doesn't make me that happy that everyone and their grandmother drinks them these days. It sort of takes away from their specialness a bit. But what are you going to do" That's the way it is. They're still tasty and refreshing to me. Tasty and refreshing? Well yes. Just don't have Stanely Tucci make one for me. "Yuuk! Not very good. Not a Negrone (the way Stanely makes them). 

Sorry Stanley, but you got it all wrong.





... Daniel Bellino "Z" ....




HOW to MAKE a PROPER NEGRONI

1 ounce Campari
1 ounce Sweet Vermouth
1 ounce Gin

ICE

1 fresh slice of Orange

Preparation :

Fill a rock glass with ice.

Add the Campari, Sweet Vermouth, and Gin. 

Stir.

Add a slice of Orange, and serve.


NOTE :  You can change the proportions a little. Just don't change them up too much, or you will throw the cocktail out of balance, and it will not taste like a Negroni, defeating the whole purpose of making the drink, as is the case with Mr. Tucci's recipe. "It's all wrong. Way too much Gin."

If you wanted to stick around the prescribe recipe of equal parts of Campari, Sweet Vermouth, and Gin, to make a proper Negroni, you can put in just a little less Gin, but not too much less, or you'll change the make-up too much.

Also, it is very acceptable to add a plash of Club Sod on top. Just not too much. Make sure it is just a small splash.

Bitters : Campari

Sweet Vermouth Brands : Cinzano, Marini & Rossi, Antica Carpano.

GIN :  Any London Dry Gin. Most popular brands include : Beefeater, Bombay, Gordon's, Tanqueray, and Hendrick's.


Final Note : Negroni's can be made straight-up, or on the rocks, however, 95% of the time, they are                         served on the rocks. 







NEGRONI






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