SINATRA: 2024

Monday, December 30, 2024

Frank Cooks for Dinah Shore Sinatra

SINATRA Makes TOMATO SAUCE

For DINAH SHORE

FRANK SINATRA Looks For DINAH

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Spaghetti Meatballs Sinatra Recipe

NANCY BARBATO SINATRA

SPAGHETTI & MEATBALLS

From the WFBL COOK BOOK OF THE STARS

FRANK SINATRA Born in Hoboken, Frank was an only son. His mother came to this country from Genoa and father from Sicily. As a lad, Frank had always been crazy about music, but his parents failed to share his enthusiasm of making a career of it. His first singing spot was with Harry James, then Tommy Dorsey. The turning point in Frank Sinatra's career came in January, 1943, when he signed for a series of personal appearances at New York's Paramount Theater. Then and there, he became "The Voice." Sinatra's slight build is kept in hard trim by his prowess at boxing, golf and bowling.

MRS. FRANK SINATRA'S RECIPE FOR SPAGHETTI AND MEAT BALLS

MEAT BALLS -

1 lb. chopped meat, 1/2 pork, 1/2 beef

1 clove garlic (chopped fine)

1/2 cup grated Italian cheese

1 cup bread crumbs

1 teaspoon finely chopped parsley

Salt and pepper to taste

(Mix all well, form into balls, brown in oil and put aside until sauce is made.)

SAUCE

1 large can Italian style tomatoes

1 can tomato puree

1 small onion

1 clove garlic

1 teaspoon ground parsley

1/2 cup olive oil

Thyme

Salt

Black pepper

DIRECTIONS

Brown chopped up onion and garlic in oil in which you brown meat balls. Strain tomatoes, add puree to the juice. Add the oil in which you have browned onion and garlic, but remove all sauteed ingredients. Season with salt, pepper, thyme and parsley. Cook the sauce (covered) for 1 hour, with meatballs added, over a slow fire.

Boil spaghetti in water, salted to taste. Remove spaghetti, drain. Serve it on a platter over which you have poured sauce and meat balls. Add layer of cheese, and add full covering of sauce, add another layer of cheese and another layer of sauce. Serve piping hot.

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Above, you have the SPAGHETTI & MEATBALLS Recipe of Nancy Sinatra. Nancy Barbato Sinatra, Frank's wife, not his daughter Nancy.

In the book "Sinatra Sauce," along with many other recipes is another Spaghetti & Meatballs recipe, but not Frank's wife Nancy, but his mother Dolly's recipe. Both are excellent, we're sure you will agree. If you want to know more of Frank Sinatra, the foods he loved, and grew up with in the Italian Enclave in Hoboken, New Jersey, along with all of Frank's favourite dishes and restaurants around the country and the World. Dishes like Chicken Vesuvius of Chicago, BBQ Ribs from The Anchor Bar in Chicago, Veal Milanese and Clams Posillipo from "Patsy's Restaurant" in New York, and Frank's afternoon Egg Sandwich in Palm Springs, California.

FRANK SINATRA

At HOME in PALM SPRINGS

EATING his DAILY Afternoon EGG SANDWICH

RECIPE

Thursday, December 12, 2024

Frank and Sammy

SAMMY & FRANK

"GOOD OLD FRIENDS"

Thursday, December 5, 2024

Pictures Frank Sinatra

FRANK SINATRA

And "The RAT PACK"

DEAN MARTIN - SAMMY DAVIS Jr.

The RAT PACK

"FRANK SAMMY & DINO"

The RAT PACK

At The COPA ROOM

The SANDS HOTEL & CASINO

LAS VEGAS

SINATRA SAUCE

"COOK LIKE FRANK"

His FAVORITE ITALIAN RECIPES

STEAK & The EGG SANDWICH

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A LITTLE BIT of DINO

DINO'S LODGE

This is PRETTY AWESOME

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Frank n Jackie Sinatra Gleason

Frank & Jackie

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACKIE" !!!

Jackie Gleason's family background was, according to most accounts, almost Dickensian. It was marked by severe illness and grinding poverty, in any event. His father was a henpecked insurance clerk who took his myriad disappointments in life out in drink. He deserted the family when Jackie was nine. His mother was overprotective of her younger son, who died when Jackie was in his teens. An older brother, Clemence, died, probably of tuberculosis, at the age of 14, when Jackie was three.

In the 1930s, before he ever really made it even in small-time venues, 

Gleason was a bartender at a bar in Newark, NJ, called The Blue Mirror. He wore his apron high on the chest just like he did as his "Joe the Bartender" character 30 years later on his television show, and he entertained the patrons with his antics, just like "Joe the Bartender." Eventually, he got such a following that the owner gave him a chance at the microphone on stage. The rest, as they say, is history. This was also a time when he actually lived and slept in the back room with the empty bottles, etc. Naturally, of course, it was across the street from a pool hall that he patronized in the afternoons after he was finished cleaning up the Blue Mirror.

"Drinking removes warts and pimples. Not from me. But from those I look at."

Jackie Gleason was a mentor and frequent drinking buddy of Frank Sinatra. It was Gleason who first introduced Sinatra to Jack Daniels whiskey, which became Sinatra's signature drink.

Gleason recorded a number of albums featuring instrumental "mood music" (what is now known today as "lounge music"). Gleason served as producer, bandleader, and (on occasion) vibraphone player, despite the fact that he couldn't read sheet music. Several of the albums included original compositions by Gleason. One album, "Lonesome Echo", topped the charts in 1955, and featured an album cover with original art by Salvador Dalí. When asked what inspired him to became a "mood music" legend, Gleason replied, "Every time I ever watched Clark Gable do a love scene in the movies, I'd hear this really pretty music, real romantic, come up behind him and help set the mood. So I'm figuring that if Gable needs that kinda help, then a guy in Canarsie has gotta be dyin' for something like this." 

(IMDb)

Happy Birthday, Jackie Gleason!

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Sinatra at Patsys NYC Restaurant

PATSY'S

Frank Sinatra'S Favorite Restaurant

PATSY'S RESTAURANT

56th STREET

NEW YORK CITY

CLAMS POSILIPO

A SINATRA FAVORITE

At PASTSY'S NEW YORK

SUNDAY SAUCE

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VEAL MILANESE - CLAMS POSILIPO

SUNDAY SAUCE - MEATBALLS & More

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Monday, October 28, 2024

Sinatra Sauce

COMING SOON !!!

SINATRA SAUCE

"MUSIC MEATBALLS & MERRIMENT"

A Book about FRANK SINATRA, His Favorite Foods, Cocktails, and

"Living The Good Life"

FRANK'S FAVORITE ITALIAN FOODS

Stories of Sinatra with His Favorite Italian Food Recipes

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Thursday, August 1, 2024

Eating at Patsys

PATSY'S

Frank Sinatra'S Favorite Restaurant

PATSY'S RESTAURANT

56th STREET

NEW YORK CITY

CLAMS POSILIPO

A SINATRA FAVORITE

At PASTSY'S NEW YORK

SUNDAY SAUCE

RECIPES - SINATRA FAVORIRES

VEAL MILANESE - CLAMS POSILIPO

SUNDAY SAUCE - MEATBALLS & More

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SINATRA'S FAVORITE LA PIZZA

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Sinatra Favorite Italian Cookies Veneiros NYC

VENEIRO'S PASTICCERIA

SINCE 1894

VENIERO'S

A circa mid-1940s photograph of Veniero’s. Pictured from left to right are Peter Veniero, the son of Veniero’s founder, Antonio Veniero; Frank Catinella, a cousin of Robert Zerilli’s father, Frank Zerilli, and a manager at the bakery; an unidentified employee; Frank Zerilli, then also a manager.Credit...Courtesy of Veniero’s

More than two million Italians arrived in New York between the late 1880s and the early 1910s, many coming through Ellis Island and most desperately poor. Large numbers settled in Harlem, the Bronx and Brooklyn; others headed to Lower Manhattan, in particular to Greenwich Village —  along Sullivan and Bleecker Streets — and, most famously, to the area surrounding Mulberry Street that would become the Little Italy of the Lower East Side.

Antonio Veniero, born near Sorrento in 1870, arrived in New York when he was 15 and went to work in a candy factory. He bought the building on East 11th Street in 1894 and began producing his own handmade confectionery there; when customers asked for something to go with it, he began offering espresso and biscotti. It was backbreaking work: There was no electricity; ice came in hundred-pound blocks; deliveries were made on horse-pulled carts. Pastry was baked in a coal oven in the store’s backyard, which is now part of the cafe.

Zerilli’s father, Frank, began working at Veniero’s in the 1930s and bought the business in 1970. Zerilli did weekend shifts at the bakery in the late ’70s and came on full time in 1981. He opened the back-room cafe in 1994, the year of the store’s 100th anniversary. His father died one month later. Both Zerilli and Frankie went to college before returning to work at the store but Zerilli often says to his son, “Remember, Grandpa said, ‘The best college is right here.’” He shows me a favorite photo of his father with the other Frank, Sinatra that is, taken around 1980. Sinatra, looking amiable, his arm around Zerilli’s shoulders, wears a crucifix and is holding a cigarette and a large sesame seed biscuit in the same hand. “It’s called a regina,” says Angelo Santamaria, Veniero’s head pastry chef. “Sinatra liked it crunchy.”

"Frank & Frank"

SINATRA & ZERILLI

A photograph of Frank Sinatra and Frank Zerilli, circa 1979. Sinatra is holding a Regina Pastry that Veniero’s made specially for the singer, who liked them large with a crunchy exterior.Credit...

FRANK SINATRA'S FAVORITE COOKIES