Cooking Italian: June 2017

Saturday, June 17, 2017

You Say TIMPANO I Say TIMBALLO

BIG NIGHT

TIMPANO

FYI - It's also Called TIMBALLO

Depending on which part of ITALY You're In

BEST TIMPANO Video Ever !!!

Friggin AWESOME !!!

SUNDAY SAUCE

WHEN ITALIAN-AMERICANS COOK

Thursday, June 15, 2017

How to Make PORCHETTA

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ROME'S Last PORCHETTA SHOP

MAKE PORCHETTA at HOME

GREAT RECIPE

HOW ITALY'S Best PORCHETTA is MADE

Slicing The Finished PORCHETTA

to Make The BEST SANDWICH Ever !!!

PANINO Di PORCHETTA

Yummmmmm !!!!

GENNARO CONTALDO Makes PORCHETTA

MANGIA ITALIANO !

COMING SOON !!!

My PORCHETTA RECIPE

by DANIEL BELLINO "Z"

PORCHETTA on I AM a FOOD BLOG

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Leave The Gun Take the CANNOLI

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CANNOLIS

WATCH THE VIDEO

HOW to MAKE CANNOLIS

CLEMENZA Picking Up The CANNOLIS

"Leave the Gun, Take the CANNOLIS"

Short Version

LEAVE THE GUN TAKE THE CANNOLIS

FULL SCENE

RECIPES FROM MY SICILIAN NONNA

by Daniel Bellino "Z"

Italian Stuffed Cabbage

Cavolo Ripieno

aka STUFFED CABBAGE

CAVOLO RIPIENO

also Know As - STUFFED CABBAGE

Watch this ITALIAN LADY'S Great Recipe

If you Want a RECIPE in ENGLISH

WATCH LAURA VITALE Below !!!

STUFFED CABBAGE

Laura Vitale

MANGIA ITALIANO

From DANIEL BELLINO "Z"

Is COMING SOON !!!

AL PACINO

Just Because

"DAM He was a HANDSOME DEVIL" !!!

SUNDAY SAUCE

Saturday, June 10, 2017

Italian Lemon Chicken Recipe

WHOLE ROAST LEMON CHICKEN

CHEF ANTONIO'S MOTHER'S LEMON CHICKEN

RAO'S LEMON CHICKEN

RAO'S

East Harlem , NEW YORK

SUNDAY SAUCE

LEARN HOW to MAKE RAO'S LEMON CHICKEN

How to Cook Octopus

And MAKE OCTOPUS SALAD

HOW to COOK OCTOPUS

VIDEO

OCTOPUS SALAD

COOKING ITALIAN

GREATEST HITS COOKBOOK

CANNELINI BEAN OCTOPUS SALAD

1 (3-4 Pound) Octopus, Cleaned

1 (14 Ounce) Can White Beans
Chopped Fresh Parsley
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Salt & Pepper
Lemon Wedges

In a large pot, place the octopus, and cover with water by 1 inch
Bring to a boil over medium high heat.
Reduce the heat to a simmer, and cook the octopus until it is tender when pierced with a sharp knife. (Anywhere from 45 to 60 minutes.)
Cover the pot and let sit off of the heat for 2 hours.
Remove the octopus, and cool to room temperature.
Cut the tentacles from the head, and cut the head into strips. (You may want to remove the skin from the head first)
Place the octopus pieces in a bowl with a couple of teaspoons of olive oil, and season with salt and pepper.
If grilling or broiling the octopus, do so now, for just a couple of minutes until the octopus meat begins to brown.
Keep Warm.
Drain the beans in a sieve, and rinse under cold water, then shake to dry.
Place the beans in a small pot and warm gently with a teaspoon or two of olive oil.
Season with salt, pepper, and two teaspoons of finely chopped fresh parsley.
Arrange the octopus and beans either on one large platter, or on individual plates.
Drizzle with a little more olive oil, and serve warm with lemon wedges.

SUNDAY SAUCE

by CHEF DANIEL BELLINO "Z"

Friday, June 9, 2017

Ginos Secret Sauce Recipe

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!”