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GRANDMA BELLINO ITALIAN COOKBOOK is # 1 on AMAZON.com AGAIN andDaniel Bellino Zwicke is # 2 with SUNDAY SAUCE, His latest book The RAGU BOLOGNESE COOKBOOK is # 4  and SEGRETO ITALIANO - Secret Italian Recipes is Number 5 in BEST ITALIAN COOKBOOK AMAZON KINDLE AMAZON.com   That's Quite a Feat, Daniel Bellino Zwicke is without Question The Number 1 BEST SELLING ITALIAN COOKBOOK Author of ITALIAN COOKBOOKS on AMAZON KINDLE Beating out other BIG NAME CELEBRITY CHEFS Like MARIO BATALI,  GIADA De LAURENTIS, and LIDIA BASTIANICH ....

 

 

 

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SINATRA SAUCE “Music Meatballs & Merriment”

Daniel Bellino Zwicke

Sinatra Sauce "Music Metaballs & Merriment" and Living The Good Life. "Like Frank" .. Yes, it's about Frank. That is one Francis Albert Sinatra, the Greatest Singer of The 20th Century, and Icon of American, especially of the Italian-American Enclave in America. Frank Sinatra was many things, first and foremost a Great Italian-American singer, Love & Adored by Millions. Mr. Sinatra was also an actor, citizen, and Entertainer Par Excellence. Yes this book is about those things, Frank Sinatra : the incomparable singer, actor, recording artist, Teen Idol of the 1940s, philanthropist, and Las Vegas & Nightclub Entertainer. He was like no other, Sinatra was one-of-a- kind, and he had a lust for life, “Hanging with Friends,” - sipping cocktails, with good food, and making good times. That's what this book is about, Frank Sinatra, eating (Italian Food), enjoying a cocktail or two, and the company of family and friends. Yes, Frank Sinatra lived life to its fullest. He wouldn't have it any other way, but "His Way." 

This book “Inspires” and gives you the tools to live out your Sinatra Dreams. You can make it reality, with recipes of Frank’s Favorite Italian Foods, Pasta, Meatballs, Posillipo, Eggplant Parm and more. Eating, drinking, and having good times, all the time as Frank did. Meals with friends and family. Meals you can cook, with recipes in this book. The info and recipes are all here in Sinatra Sauce. Read it, put on some Sinatra (music), cook, eat, and create memorable times at the table, just like Frank. That’s what this book is about: Sinatra, Family, Friends, and Good Times. “The Best is Yet to Come”

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Author Daniel Bellino Zwicke is a lifelong Sinatra fan. He is a Best Selling author, who lives and writes in New York’s Greenwich Village. Daniel is currently working on several other projects. He has authored : Sunday Sauce, La Tavola, Mangia Italiano, Grandma Bellino’s Cookbook, Segreto Italiano, and Positano The Amalfi Coast - Travel Guide / Cookbook.

 

 

 

 

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Recipe Minestrone Genovese - Soup

MINESTRONE GENOVESE

alla BELLINO

MINESTRONE GENOVESE

 

 Mixed Vegetable Soup of Genoa 

Minestrone may very well be the most popular of all Italian soups. It was first created as a way of using leftover vegetables from the previous night's dinner, so as not to let those vegetables or anything go to waste. Minestrone can be made from any variety of vegetables, most popular are: onions, potatoes, carrots, zucchini, tomatoes, and peas. Add a little salt, pepper, olive oil, and garlic, cook and right there you have the basic Minestrone Soup. The main thing that makes Minestrone Genovese different from this or other basic Minestrone soups, is the addition when serving the Minestrone, adding a dollop of freshly made Basil Pesto, Genoa’s most famous food item of all, that just about everybody loves. 

 MINESTRONE GENOVESE 

 Ingredients : 

 5 tablespoons best quality Italian Olive Oil 

1 medium Onion, peeled and chopped 

2 Carrots, peeled and cut to medium dice 

2 medium Zucchini, washed and diced ½” dice 

5 plum Tomatoes, fresh or canned, chopped 

2 large Potatoes, peeled and cut to ¾” dice 

2 Bay Leaves 

2 cloves Garlic, peeled and chopped 

7 cups water 

1 cup frozen Peas 

2 cups fresh Spinach, washed and chopped 

¼ pound Stellini Pastina, or Ditalini 

1 teaspoon each of Salt & ground Black Pepper 

1 - 15 ounce can Cannellini Beans 

3 tablespoons Basil Pesto (preceding Recipe) 

Preparation :

Add the Olive Oil and chopped Onions to a large stainless steel pot.  

Turn the heat on to medium and cook for 4 minutes while stirring. Lower heat to low, and add the garlic. Cook on low heat for 3 minutes. 

Add the Tomatoes. Sprinkle a little salt & black pepper over the tomatoes. 

Cook on medium heat for 4 minutes, stirring with a wooden spoon. 

Add the Carrots and Zucchini and stir. Add the Potatoes, the water, and Bay Leaves, Slat, & Black Pepper. Turn heat to high and bring all to the boil. Once the water is boiling, lower heat so the soup is at a low simmer. Let cook for 25-30 minutes. 

While the soup is simmering, cook the pasta in a separate pot in boiling salted water, according to directions on the package. Strain the pasta in a colander and let cool. 

After the soup has been cooking for 25 minutes, add the Cannellini Beans, and cook on medium heat for 4 minutes. 

Add the Spinach and cook for 3 minutes. Add the cooked Pasta and cook over medium heat for 2 minutes.  

The soup is done. 

To serve, fill a soup bowl with the Minestrone. Add a small dollop of Basil Pesto and serve. 

Enjoy! 

This Recipe is complements from author Daniel Bellino It is excerpted from his forthcoming cookbook, which he is currently working on. The working title of the book is “Rome Venice Pizza Pasta and ???” Note : This is what is known as a “working title” and it may or may not be the Title of the Book, once published.

 … “Thanks, Daniel Bellino” …

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Ode to Sunday Sauce

 

"ODE To THE GRAVY"

 

 

The rituals of cooking, serving, and eating Sunday Sauce is a time honored one. It is a quite a beautiful thing, same as making a Mole in Mexico, or Cassoulet in  France. They are all wonderful things of beauty that delight mans every sensory perception; sight, smell, taste, and feel. First, you probably smell the “Sauce’s” heady aroma wafting through the air. The smell is so intoxicating,

it gets your juices flowing immediately.

 Once you smell it, you want it, and can’t wait to sink you teeth into it.

Second you will see it in all its gloriousness. You will then eat, whereupon you taste and feel and experience one of Italian-America’s greatest pleasures, the Sunday Sauce Italian Gravy. A Sunday Sauce (Gravy) takes time and effort to make. It is made and served with Love. All these great dishes bring together friends and family, and for Italian-Americans, Sunday Sauce is King of all dishes.

  If you utter the term Sunday Sauce to any number of millions of Italian-Americans, they will immediately start salivating at the simple mention of its name. The wheels start turning in their heads, with thoughts of how tasty it is, with its various components; the Meatballs,  Sausages, Braciole, maybe Ribs, Beef Neck, or Pig  Skin Braciole, as well as the Pasta, and the Gravy itself. They think aboutsitting at the table with friends, family, people  they love. They’ll ponder the Antipasti, wondering what it might be; mixed Salumi, Baked Clams, Grilled Calamari? And with the meal, there will surely be Wine. Italian Wine, which might be a good Chianti or perhaps Montepulciano d’Abruzzo. With Uncle Frank and Uncle Tony, the wine was usually Carlo Rossi Paisano or Gallo Hearty Burgundy, two solid Italian-American  Winemakers. 

When thinking of a Sunday Sauce, you’ll think about the warmth in the air, of loved ones, Sinatra, Dino, and the Sunday Sauce itself. “It’s a beautiful thing!” If you’ve never done it, “Try it!” If you haven’t cooked one for some time, plan a get-together with friends and family,  soon.  Sunday Sauce, It brings people together, in a most delightful way. And as the Big Boys would say, “It’s a Beautiful Thing.”

 

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Best Dive Bars New York

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PABST BLUE RIBBON BEER

New York & The $3 PBR

"IT STILL EXISTS" !!!! 2022

New York and the $3.00 PBR, Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer has been a God-Send to many New Yorkers. As you all know, the US Economy has been in the Shitter for the past 5  years or so.

Many people are out of work, and many who are working, are taking home Half-as-Much Money or more of what they used to make. People have had to buckle down and give up or curb many things they enjoyed previous to the current state of our economy, which is in almost a Depression Era State.

Yes, everybody says that we are not in a Depression, we're in a recession. Those are the Rich and Well-Off, The 1%-ers  talking. To many, the state of our Union and their feelings are of Depression.

So, because of the Terrible State of our Economy you have given up eating out 3 times a week, you buy less clothes, spend less on Entertainment and any number of things. You haven't had a vacation in the past two years, maybe more. You've given up a lot. We all have.

Now when it comes to socializing, going out for a few Beers or Cocktails with some friends, you've had to cut back on that too. But hey, you gotta draw a line somewhere, and everyone is entitled to a few drinks to unwind every now and then, and to be with friends. Yes times are bad, people are hurting, you need your friends more than ever. And having a few Beers or Drinks is one of the most common adult ways to do so. It's natural and part of everyday life. You should be able to have two or three drinks or beers and not have to spend a small fortune doing so. You should be able to have 2 beers for about $10 including tip, and about $16 for tow drinks including tip. That's reasonable. That's what most people pay around America, and even less. But we don't live in America, we live in the greatest City in The World, New York, and Cocktails and Beers here can be oh-so-dear. "Expensive!" Expensive as Hell, "Ridiculously Expensive." It's absurd and outrageous, with many places thinking it's normal and OK to charge $16.00 or more for a measly little Cocktail made by a friggin so-called "Mixologist." Ha!  It's not OK, what's a person to do? So yes, we live in New York, and having a couple cocktails here can be a costly undertaking.. What is a Poor Working Guy or Working Girl to do??? Well Boys and Girls, let's Thank God for that great thing of wonder and the Bars and establishments who so graciously and kindly serve it, The $3.00 PBR, That's right, a $3.oo Beer in The Land of The Over-Priced $16.00 Cocktail, Manhattan, New York, NY..... It's quite Sad, Greedy too, not to mention "Ridiculous Ludicrous and Insane."

Yes, Thank God and let's thank the Kind-Hearted proprietors who serve $3.00 PBR'S or any Beer for just $3 or $4 in a New York Bar. You are doing your fellow man a public service and we thank you for that. Whoever you are, you are to be commended, and Shame-On-You, all those places that serve $14 PLUS Cocktails. "RIP-OFF" !!! Wish the masses would Boycott these places and patronize places like Blue & Gold Bar, 7B, and anyplace who has a heart. Bars that serve 3 and 4 Dollar Beers.

I just have to say, it's great to go to a place like Blue and Gold Bar on East 7th Street and know that you can have 3 or 4 Beers for just $12 to $16, accounting for a Buck a Pop for the Barkeep. Now that's pretty good. I have had the best times hanging at Blue & Gold with some friends. You sit at the Bar or get into a nice comfy booth, drink your Beers ($3 PBR'S), relax, listen to the Music, Chit Chat, and just enjoy, and it's not going to cost you The Shirt Off Your Back.

Yes, you can have 4 Beers, tip included for the price of 1 Rip-Off Drink at one of those Rip-Off Joints. And if you are Dumb enough to have four drinks in one of those places, guess what it's going to cost you? About $75 my friend.

Well, do the Math, and if you can afford $75 for only 4 drinks, God Bless You. And if you can't, you've got an alternative. Right, your local $3.00 PBR Joint. They're a God-Send.

 Daniel Bellino Zwicke

Daniel Bellino Zwicke

Copyright 2008 

PLACES To GET A $3.00 PBR in NEW YORK

BLUE & GOLD BAR

East 7th STREET, NY NY

The EAST VILLAGE

BLUE & GOLD BAR in the East Village, on East 7th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues. Blue & Gold has long been a favorite of mine ever since I lived in the East Village from 1982 to 1994. It's just a cool ol normal old style bar with a pool table, standard 50's 60's Bar Decor, and Best-of-All $3.oo PBR'S and $6.00 Cocktails. I love it.

FRIENDS GET TOGETHER

GOOD TIMES at BLUE & GOLD

"And You Can AFFORD IT" !!!!

BLUE & GOLD BAR

The PRICES Are POSTED & EASY to SEE

The HORSESHOE BAR

The HORSESHOE BAR

aka 7B

Real Name is "VAZAC'S"

The BAR

Half it ANYWAY ?

VAZAC

7B

Corner of East 7th Street & Avenue B

The EAST VILLAGE NYC

7B   a.k.a. The Horseshoe Bar, also in the East Village, a bastion of cheap and fare prices in Manhattan and Land of The $3.00 PBR (now $4 in 2023) and other $3 and $4 Beers.  7B  is located on the corner of Avenue B at 7th Street .. 

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MILANO'S

MILANO'S

BAR

51 East HOUSTON STREET

NY NY

New York's favourite Dive Bar. Milano's is what you dream of when you think Dive Bars. Cheap Beers ($4), a Great Jukebox, and Potato Chips. "you gotta have Potato Chips" !

For those who Love Dive Bars, and are native New Yorkers, Milano's is their Fave when it comes to Dive Bars.

Opened Since 1880, Milano's is one of New York's oldest bars.

At The BAR

"MILANO'S"

New York, New York

AMERICA'S FAVORITE FOOD

And SECRET RECIPES

BURGERS TACOS BURRITOS

SOUP SNDWICHES BBQ

And MORE ...

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LUCY

"LUCY'S BAR"

135 AVENUE A  NY NY

Lucy’s Bar is the most aptly named bar in New York. For Lucy—the quiet and small and sweetly proper Polish owner with the well-coifed gray hair and floral blouses—is who you’ll see when you go there, and Lucy is the one who will serve you. If there are other employees, they’ve hidden themselves somewhere in the back.

Though Lucy’s is undeniably a dive (and one of the last in the neighborhood), it feels more like your aunt’s aging rec room, a place where you’d never think of disrespecting the house’s hospitality. It’s also one of the last vestiges of the Polish community that was once made up a significant part of the East Village’s character.

Ludwika “Lucy” Mickevicius moved from Poland to New York in the late 1970s and soon got a job at Blanche’s, a bar on St. Mark’s Place run by another Polish woman. She became such a fixture that people began to think of the bar as Lucy’s, and, when Blanche retired, she sold the place—by then located on Avenue A—to her bartender.

Lucy’s life doesn’t range much further than the twin poles of her joint and Poland, which she visits regularly, shutting up the tavern at a moment’s notice and disappearing for weeks at a time. Most nights, she stations herself at the far end of the bar near the ancient cash register. (It’s cash only here.) One recent evening, the Halloween balloons hadn’t yet been taken down. Then again, assorted Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations were already out. Maybe none of the decorations are ever packed up?

Lucy doesn’t budge much behind the bar, but she keeps herself busy for a woman in her mid-70s. She will draw you a pint or a glass of tequila. And, if she likes you, she might pour you a shot of żubrówka, a Polish bison grass vodka, on the house. When the place gets stuffy, she’ll swing open the door to let some fresh Avenue A air in; just as quickly, she’ll close it if it gets chilly.

The clientele ranges from a less-intense sort of downtown hipster, who exchange a few friendly words with Lucy—who, even all these years later, still speaks in broken, accented English—and then retire to their personal conversations, to old Polish regulars. In fact, on another recent night, a young couple came in to show Lucy their young child. All four spoke entirely in Polish and a delighted Lucy let the little scamp climb atop the pool table. As they left, she handed the kid one of the old Halloween balloons. For those few minutes, Lucy’s was a family bar.

2022 and You Can Still GET a $3 PBR

LYS MYYKTA aka  "The SLY FOX

142 2nd Avenue, New York NY - The EAST VILLAGE

LYSMYKTA

"The SLY FOX"

LYSMYKTA aka "THE SLY FOX" is a Ukranian Bar in a Ukranian neighborhood in

New York's East Village. There's a Ukranian Restaurant in the back, serving delicious Ukranian Food and very reasonable prices. Yes this is thee main neighborhood of Ukranian peoples in New York City. The restaurants great, and any bar that serves $3 PBR Beer is great in my book too.

If you can go some place for drinks (beers), to hang and chit-chat  and have 3 Beers, and not have to spend more than $15, that's a place for me. You shouldn't have to pay $40 plus for just 2 drinks (or $60 for 3). People who don't make quite so much money as Lawyers, Wall Street Guys and whoever, should be able to afford to go for 2 or 3 drinks and not spend an "Arm and a Leg" to do it. 

The SLY FOX is a place where you can do that, and thank God we have them, and a few other joints that we can do so.

YES - "LITTLE UKRAINE"

The EAST VILLAGE

$4 BEERS at "SOPHIE'S"

East 5th STREET Between AVENUES A & B

The EAST VILLAGE NYC

I've been going to Sophie's, along with Lucy's, Blue & Gold Bar,

the Holiday Lounge and others since first moving to The East Village in 1982.

Prices have gone up in a lot of places, and now in many places - cocktails cost are

in the high teens, Twenty Dollars, and even up to $29 for a cocktail, as I witnessed when

a friend and I went to The Chelsea Hotel a couple weeks ago. Yes, $25 and $29 for a cocktail. Damn?

We spotted a nice looking bottle of Cote du Rhone for $78 a bottle. Not cheap, but in comparison to $29 a cocktail. Four drinks would have costs us $114, so we got the wine for $36 dollars less than 4 drinks, and put that $36 into a tasty Cheeseburger. The Burger came with Fries, and we had them cut it in half. It was Super Tasty. We loved it. Even Better than Burgers at Minetta Tavern. "Seriously" !!!

I've been at Blue & Gold recently, as well as "MILANO'S" - Sophie's, and 7b Bar. All serve $4 beers. Thank God for these places. I've said it before. I can go into Andy one of these places and have a couple Beers and live a respectable $4 tip, and walk out just spending $12. Not bad. Two cocktails plus tax and tip at The Lounge Bar at The Chelsea Hotel would be at least $50 for the two drinks plus $4.50 tax plus at least $10 for tip for a grand total of about $65, as oppose to $12 at any of New York City's awesome Dive Bars.

Don't get me wrong. Yes, we're comparing Apples & Oranges. When I went to The Chelsea Hotel, I knew it wouldn't be cheap, and I was prepared to pay for the privilege (of being there). My friend and I had a great time. We were there for a couple of hours BS-ing about this and that. We killed that bottle of Cote du Rhone and got another glass of wine each ($22 a glass). The check was about $170, not including tip, which was another $50, for a grand total of $220. Not cheap, but we had a "Great Time" and we were happy. You gotta treat yourself sometimes. But most times will be spent at a good dive bar.

"Thank God" for Good Dive Bars"

New York City

LUCKY'S BAR

168 Avenue "A" New York NY , East Village

Get $3  PBRs at LUCKY'S BAR

168 AVENUE "A" NY NY

EAST VILLAGE

JOHNSON'S BAR  ... 168 RIVINGTON STREET, LES NEW YOIRK NY

Inside JOHNSON'S BAR

$2  PBRs

PABST BLUE RIBBON BEER

PABST BLUE RIBBON BEER

A PBR at "JOHNSON'S"

Only $4 - As of 2025

"STILL a GREAT DEAL" !!!

Johnson's Bar

NY NY

MORE PLACES to GET $3 PBRs

CATS SPORTS BAR -  96 GREENWICH STREET at RECTOR NY NY  $3 PBRs

WALTER'S BAR - 389 8th Avenue Near 32nd Street and MADISON SQUARE GARDEN .. $3PBR

DOC HOLIDAY'S   141 AVENUE "A" East Village NY NY  - $2  PBRs

The SHARK BAR

aka SPRING LOUNGE

48 SPRING STREET

New York NY

The SPRING LOUNGE

aka SHARK BAR

48 SPRING STREET NEW YORK NY

The SHARK BAR

SPRING STREET at MOTT

Back in the day, when it was an ITALIAN NEIGHBORHOOD here.

Where it GOt its NICKNAME "SHARK BAR"

Nobody "In The Know" calls it Spring Lounge, only Green Newcomers to Downtown New York would ever call it SPRING LOUNGE. For years it was a neighborhood "Shot & Beer" Joint. It became trendy about 20 years ago (1999)

Those "In The Know" like me, only ever call it "The Shark Bar" ... It got this name from

the fake SHARK hanging over the bar, and that's that!

You can't get $3 Beers here, but we incuded it anyway. And although it's a Trendy so-called Hipster Bar, those of us Old Timers who still call it The Shark Bar, it still has a special place in our hearts.

Basta !

   

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169 BAR

Lower East Side

If Clockwork’s happy hour special seems too good to be true, you’ve got a little good old fashioned neighborhood competition to thank. Located right around the corner, 169 has been in operation since 1916. And its 11:30am-7:30pm HH is among the best in the city. $3 will get you an “Old Man Can/Bottle” of beer (PBR, Carling Black Label, Schaefer, Genesee Cream, High Life/Miller Lite) and any well shot. Subtly New Orleanian environs (window shutters look like they’re fresh off a Creole cottage; beads are strung here and there; there’s crawfish on the menu) evoke genuine good times.

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