Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Big Lebowski Chrismas Gifts

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BIG LEBOWSKI
The MOVIE


Cowboy Stranger

Get His COWBOY CHILI Recipe in GOT ANY KAHLUA ?
The BIG LEBOWSKI COOKBOOK

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 Way out West there was this fella I wanna tell you about. Fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his Lovin’ parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that’s a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But, then there was a whole lot about the Dude that didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived like-wise. But then again, maybe that’s why I found the place durned interesting.” ….


                                           ….. The Cowboy Stranger  



GET READY For CHRISTMAS


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GET YOUR Favorite BIG LEBOWSKI FAN
a GREAT BIG LEBOWSKI GIFT This CHRISTMAS
 




THE BIG LEBOWSKI COOKBOOK

mrnewyorkny3

GOT ANY KAHLUA ?


It's KEITH RICHARDS Favorite Cookbook


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KEEF Cooking GOOEY CHOP MEAT

Recipe in GOT ANY KAHLUA




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Talking DUDE BOBBLE HEAD





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DUDES Big Lebowski Bowling Shirt







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"Got Any Kahlua" ?









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HAVE a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS

Start Shopping Early

and Always ABIDE




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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever



RECIPE:  WORLDS BEST CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE
  • 1 1/2 cups All-Purpose Flour 
  •  1/2 teaspoon baking soda 
  • 4 ounces (1 Stick Butter)
  • 1/2 cup Sugar
  • 1/2 cup Light Brown Sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • 8 ounces Best Quality Dark Chocolate Chips
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  • PREPARATION:
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  • 1.  Sift together flour and baking soda and set aside. In the bowl of a standing electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter until lemony yellow, about 2 minutes. Scrape down sides of bowl and paddle. Add sugar, brown sugar and salt. Continue creaming mixture on medium speed until it is smooth and lump free, about 1 minute. Stop mixer and scrape down sides of bowl and paddle.
  • 2.  Add egg and vanilla and beat on low speed for 15 seconds, or until they are fully incorporated. Do not over-beat. Scrape down sides of bowl and paddle.
  • 3.  On low speed, add sifted flour mixture. Beat slowly until all of the flour is incorporated. Scrape down sides of bowl. Add chocolate chunks and mix in.
  • 3.  Heat oven to 350 degrees with the rack positioned in the lower third of the oven. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment. Spoon heaping teaspoons of dough 2 inches apart onto baking sheets. If not baking right away, remove small handfuls or spoonfuls of dough from mixer and plop them down on the middle of a sheet of parchment or wax paper, creating a log about 1 1/2 inches wide and 12 inches long. Fold parchment over, creating a sausage. Chill for at least 1 hour, preferably overnight. Using a serrated knife, slice chilled dough into 1/3-inch-thick rounds and place them 2 inches apart, in staggered rows, on parchment-lined sheets and proceed. (Dough will keep nicely, tightly wrapped, in the refrigerator for 1 week, or in the freezer for up to 1 month. Thaw frozen dough at room temperature for 30 minutes before slicing.)
  • 4.  Bake one sheet at a time for 12 to 15 minutes, until lightly browned, rotating the baking sheet front to back halfway through. Remove from heat and slide parchment off baking sheet and onto a work surface. Allow cookies to cool for at least 5 minutes before serving, or for at least 20 minutes before storing in an airtight container. They will keep for up to 3 days at room temperature.

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Sunday, August 9, 2015

Pictures of ELVIS & Stamp

New Elvis Stamp

2015

August 12, 2015 Release








The OLD ELVIS STAMP
ELVIS PRESLEY
THE KING of ROCK N ROLL
ELVIS PRESLY 
Born JAMUARY 8, 1935 TUPELO, MISSISSIPI



DIED at the Age of 42 on August 16, 1977

MEMPHIS TENNESSEE

ELVIS in THE ARMY
1958 to 1960
Achieved The Rank of Sergeant
ELVIS MARRIES PRISICILLA


And Breaks Millions of Female Hearts




ELVIS

HEARTBREAK HOTEL





PROUD PAPA ELVIS

His Only Child

LISA MARIE PRESLEY





Elvis Aaron


"Dam He was a HANDSOME Son of a Bitch" !!!!













GOT ANY KAHLUA ?

The BIG LEBOWSKI COOKBOOK


by Daniel Zwicke


Wednesday, April 22, 2015

It Ain't Sauce It's Gravy Says Steve Martorano on The Jimmy Kimmel Show

The KING of MEATBALLS
And

SUNDAY GRAVY  Too !!!



MAKING GRAVY with JIMMY KIMMEL

STEVE SHOWS JIMMY
HOW to MAKE GRAVY


GUILLERMO JIMMY & STEVE

"MANGIA la GRAVY"




"IT Ain't SAUCE" !!!

IT'S GRAVY" !!!!
STEVE MARTORANO



SUNDAY SAUCE

by Daniel Bellino Z





DANIEL BELLINO MAKING SAUCE
Or IS IT GRAVY !!!!
I saw Steve Martorano on Jimmy Kimmel last night. Steve is great. He's the King of Meatballs, and quite possibly GRAVY. Italian Sunday Gravy that is! Or is it Sunday Sauce ... Steve empahtically says it's GRAVY, "IT AIN'T SAUCE" !!! And Steve is adoment about this ... Steve says, "If it has Meat it's Gravy, and if it doesn't as in the case with Tomato Sauce then it's SAUCE ... Basta!
Yes Steve is right about this, but that doesn't mean others are wrong. And Steve has stated that without a doubt in Brookly, New York and South Philadelphia where Steve is from, they all call it Gravy ... But there's always a debate. Some simply call a Italian sauce made with Italian Pork Sausages, Meatballs, Braciole, Spare Ribs, and other meat items (even chicken), that if its tomatoes braised with meat, it's GRAVY and not Sauce, aka Sunday Gravy .. But there are some who call this Sauce, or Sunday Sauce ... Well, different people call it different things, and really there is no one right or wrong answer. I myself and all my family members in Jersey, we all called it Gravy, as do most in the New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia areas do.
So why do I call my book Sunday Sauce you ask? Well because it can be. It can be called Sunday Sauce, and as a book title it just sounds better. And for those who don't know, there is a whole science and method to naming, producing, selling, and marketing a book, thus for my book, the name Sunday Sauce ... 
And hey, I'm not going to get into a beef with Steve, the guy is awesome and one of the greatest ambassadors of all to what I consider a trully Great and Ligitimate Cusisine of Italian America, that being Italian-American Food (Cusisine).
Anyway, back to the Jimmy Kimmel Show, Steve and the Sunday Gravy ... Steve showed Jimmy how to make it, with a bit of fun and funny ribbing by Steve of Jimmy ... The Gravy was made, and Steve sat down with Guillermo and Jimmy and ate it.
Well Gravy? We have al sorts of Pasta, Zuppa, Pizza, Meatball Parms, Veal & Chicken Parm, Sausage & Peppers and lots more, but there's one Italian-American dish that rains Supreme above all other, and that's our beloved Sunday Sauce on Sunday, or as Steve would say, 
"I Ain't Sauce, It's GRAVY" !!!!
BASTA la PASTA !!!!

Italian Gravy






"Yo CUZ" !!!!



STEVE MARTORANO


SAUSAGE MEATBALLS

CANNOLIS & GRAVY
Meatball & Rib Gravy

Monday, February 16, 2015

Caffe Dante to Close

MY BELOVED CAFFE DANTE to CLOSE





Yes I'm afraid it's most likely true, my beloved Caffe Dante to close this month (February 2015) after 100 years in business in New York's Greenwich Village. It's rumored that Mario Flotta the long time owner of Caffe Dante will be selling the caffe to a Australian Corporation and it was reported on 1010 WINS Radio News this morning that Dante will be shuttering its doors in 10 days time. This is very sad, especially for me and longtime regulars who have been going to Caffe Dante for 10, 20, 30, and even 40 years for New York's most authentic Espresso and cups of Cappuccino. I myself have been going there since the Summer of 1985 when I came back from my first trip wonderful trip of many to my ancestral homeland of Italy .. As i've been going to Caffe Dante almost evry single day siance 85, I've become good friends with the Flotta Family over the years especially Mario Sr. who is almost like a second father to me.
This is such sad news, and all I can say is something I know that most do not, is that Mario bought a building around the corner on Bleecker Street for just such a situation. That being that the landlord would one day raise his rent beyond reason (the Landlord did in 2013), and Mario would just pack up his caffe and move it around the corner. Mario is Caffe Dante, his loves the place like one of his own children, and I know this is the reason he bought the building on Bleedker. Mario told me himself what he would do, and he always wanted the Caffe to continue and for there to be a place for Caffe Dante for his sons, Mario Jr., Anthony, and Peter.
I hope everything all works out, I love Caffe Dante more than I can ever express, it's without question my second home, and a Greenwich Village without this wonderful Caffe would be that much less of the Greenwich Village that we residients, visitors and tourist from around the country and around the World know.



Story & Photos by Daniel Bellino-Zwicke














Thursday, February 12, 2015

Dean Martin The KING of COOL

 
DINO
YES !!!
 
DINO Was The KING of COOL
 
 
 
 
 
Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin
FRANK & DEAN
 
FRIGGIN AWESOME !!!
 
 
 
 
DEAN
 
"HE WAS COOLER THAN COOL"
 
 
 
THE RAT PACK
 
 
 
FRANK SAMMY & DEAN
 
 
 
SUNDAY SAUCE
 
 
WHEN ITALIAN AMERICAN COOK
 
by Daniel Bellino Zwicke
 
RECIPES For SINATRA SUNDAY SAUCE MEATBALLS
 
and More ...
 
In PAPERBACK & KINDLE on AMAZON.com
 
 
 
 
 

Saturday, January 24, 2015

Tennessee Williams Streetcar Named Desire

"HEY STELLA-AAAAAAA" !!!!
 
Marlon Brando
 
in
 
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
 
STREETCAR NAME DESIRE
 
 
 
 
 
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
 
Stanley Kuwalski, Stella, Mitch, Blanche DuBois
and Stanley's Friends
 
A Beautiful Painting
 
by The Great AMerican Artist
 
THOMAS HART BENTON
 
 
 
 
 
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
 
 
 
 
 
THE DUDE
 
GOT ANY KAHLUA?
 
aka 
 
The BIG LEBOWSKI COOKBOOK
 
Abide !!!!
 
 
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