Thursday, June 12, 2025

The ELVIS BURGER Recipe

 



ELVIS






The ELVIS BURGER



INGREDIENTS :
   

            




2 pounds Ground Beef Chuck                                                                       

  • Tsp Salt
  • 1 Tsp Pepper
  • 2 Bananas
  • 1/2 Tbsp Brown Sugar
  • Peanut Butter
  • 6 Pieces Bacon
  • 4 Hamburger Buns
  • Honey

INSTRUCTIONS
 

  • Begin cooking bacon. You can put it in a pan, in the oven for 15-20 min at 400 degrees.
  • Get a pan warm (medium heat) and drop in brown sugar and bananas. Cook for a couple minutes and flip. Coating with melted brown sugar. Cook until caramelized but not too gooey.
  • Get your grill/pan/etc hot
  • Mix salt and pepper with the meat. Flatten into patties that are about 1/2 inch larger than the buns.
  • Put a thumbprint in the middle of the patty so it doesn’t puff up when cooking.
  • Grill your burgers about 4min on the first side.
  • Flip burgers. Put the buns face down on the grill for a minute or two. Cook until you reach the correct temp (140F for medium), usually about 2 to 4 minutes.
  • Spread peanut butter on bun and add burger. Top with bacon and bananas. 
    Enjoy!





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Thursday, May 8, 2025

Frank Sinatra Favorite Italian Cookies

 



VENIERO'S

ITALIAN PASTRIES

Since 1894



On September 23, 1894, one of the East Village’s longest-running businesses, Veniero’s Pasticceria, opened its doors. This venerable local institution has been serving confections, cakes, and pastries to New Yorkers and visitors ever since from its home at 342 East 11th Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenues, in the heart of what was once the East Village’s own Little Italy, and remains one of the few surviving businesses from that once-thriving community. Located just down the block from our offices, we have a special love for Veniero’s — from which we have been known to indulge in a treat from time to time (or more) — and a special insight into the beloved business’ rich history, thanks to an oral history that Veniero’s current co-owner Robert Zerilli, grand nephew of Veniero’s original founder, conducted with us in 2014. 

Antonio Veniero immigrated to New York from Italy in 1885, in the period following Italian unification when poor Italians, especially southern Italians, began to leave the country en masse, seeking better lives and opportunities. At 15 years old, Antonio began working in a candy factory downtown. By 1894, he bought today’s 342 East 11th Street, a pre-old-law tenement built in 1865-66. Originally the business, then called Antonio Veniero Confections, was founded as a social club, complete with pool tables. Antonio sold homemade candy and espresso, the beans of which were roasted in the backyard. Veniero hired other Italian immigrants also skilled in confectionery. This part of the East Village was well populated with Italian immigrants, mostly Sicilian, although Antonio was from Naples. No. 342, which had residences above the ground floor, housed 13 families, all Italian immigrants or of Italian descent, according to the 1900 Federal census. 






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The same census and 1900-1901 New York City directory show Antonio living with his wife and children across the street at No. 345, a no longer extant building. In his oral history, Robert Zerilliexplains that the business evolved from Antonio’s founding to serve baked goods such as biscotti and cakes, later renaming itself Veniero’s Pasticceri. Following Antonio’s death in 1931, the business would continue to be run by members of the family. In 1970, Frank Zerilli, Robert’s father and a cousin of the Venieros, bought the business. As a teenager, Frank Zerilli had worked in the bakery and learned a great deal working under Antonio.

Zerilli shares great stories of both the family and the neighborhood connected to Veniero’s, including Antonio’s managing to avoid firebombing by the Black Hand, (Mano Nero gang — a mafia extortion racket), neighborhood quarrels with other bakers and pushcart sellers, and a legal fight over the ownership of a coffee-sipping parrot. 

Zerilli was born in 1962 and by that time his family lived in New Jersey. He would sometimes join his father for the workday in the East Village, and in his interview, Zerilli shared the sights, smells, and sounds of the East Village in his early years through the eyes of a child. One of the sounds that dominate his memories was the constant mix of English and Italian throughout the streets and small businesses in the area. As a teenager, he would work at Veniero’s, and lived in one of the apartments in the upper floors at No. 342, rent-free.

The neighborhood has changed quite a bit over the course of Zerilli’s tenure, and he talks about gentrification, as well as changing ethnicities and business and building ownership. On a side note, he mentions the East Village’s punk rock scene, and Joey Ramone coming to Veniero’s to buy a cake. Veniero’s itself has changed over the years too, adding items like red velvet cupcakes, which Zerilli discusses his reluctance to include. One of the many things that hasn’t changed, though, is that Veniero’s is still very much a family-run business, with Robert and his three sisters at the helm as co-owners.





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Thursday, February 6, 2025

Favorite Super Bowl Sunday Recipes 2025



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 BUFFALO WINGS ORIGINAL RECIPE  
 
 
 After Burgers and Pizza, these Buffalo Chicken Wings may very well be America’s 3rd most popular dish. And guess what? They’re not just American, they’re Italian American Teressa Bellissimo one night at her families Anchor Bar in Buffalo New York. Legend has it that Teressa’s son Dom was hanging out at the bar one night with his buddy’s. The guys were hungry so Mamma Bellissimo whipped up a little snack for the boys. Teressa fried up some wings, made a little hot sauce and coated the wings with them. And served them to the boys. They went nuts they loved them. They started serving them as a free at the bar for the bar customers. It was just a matter of weeks before all of Buffalo found out about these tasty wings. They became famous almost over night, whereby the Bellissimo’s stopped serving them for free at the bar and put them on the menu. The Bellissimo’s served Italian Food at their Anchor Bar, and the Italian Food was quite special. However the Bellisimo’s tasty Chicken Wings quickly out sold all the regular Italian Specialty Dishes and the Bellissimo’s Wings became the number 1 best seller on the menu. Not only that, but Teressa’s Italian-American created ChickenWings became uber famous all over America and subsequently all over the World. That’s Italian, “Italian-American.”   





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 RECIPE : 
 
Ingredients: 
 
 36 chicken wing pieces(one wing makes 2 pieces -  the "flat" and drum seperated
 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1/2 teaspoon salt 
1 cup all-purpose flour 
1 1/2 tablespoons white vinegar 
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper 
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder 
1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 
1 teaspoon Tabasco Sauce
6 tablespoons Frank’s Hot Sauce (or other) 
6 tablespoons unsalted Butter or Margarine 
 
Celery Sticks 
 
1 bottle of Blue Cheese Dressing 
 
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. 
Cut whole wings into two pieces at the joint. 
 
In a bowl toss the wings with the oil, and salt. Place chicken wings into a large plastic shopping bag, and add the flour. Shake to coat evenly. 
 
 
Remove wings from the bag, shaking off excess flour, and spread out evenly on oiled foil-lined baking pan(s). Do not crowd. Bake for about 20 minutes, turn the wings over, and cook another 20 minutes, or until the wings are cooked through and browned. 
While the Wings are baking, mix all the ingredients for the sauce in a pan, and cook over low heat for 6 minutes, stirring occasionally. 
 
After the Wings are cooked, remove from oven. 
 
Place wings in a large bowl and pour sauce over wings to coat. Mix thoroughly. 
 
Serve with Blue Cheese Dressing and fresh Celery Spears.
Enjoy your Wings and Enjoy the Game, !  "It's SUPER BOWL SUNDAY" !
 
 
 
 
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Friday, January 10, 2025

Mario Batali Cooks Michael Stipe REM

 



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Monday, January 6, 2025

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Monday, December 30, 2024

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The ELVIS BURGER Recipe

  ELVIS The ELVIS BURGER INGREDIENTS :                  2 pounds Ground Beef Chuck                                                          ...