AL PACINO and AGLIO OLIO

AL PACINO

 and AGLIO OLIO

  

"SPAGHETTI THAT IS" !!!

SPAGHETTI AGLIO OLIO

alla AL

AL PACINO & AGLIO OLIO

 

Al Pacino and Aglio Olio you ask? What about it? Well it’s just that Spaghetti Aglio Olio always reminds me of that great fellow New Yorker Sicilian American, the one-and-only Al Pacino from da Bronx. It’s not a big deal, just a wonderful little memory for me. When I was the Wine Director at the famed Barbetta Restorante on Restaurant Row in New York’s Theater District (where Al often performs on stage), Al Pacino used to come and eat there every now and then. He never wanted anything to fancy, but something that just about all true blooded Italian-American wants, and that dish is Spaghetti Aglio Olio, plain and simple, yet it’s in our blood. That’s what Al wanted and that’s what we gave him, and Al loved it and you will too.

Recipe Excerpted

from

Grandma Bellino's Cookbook

 

RECIPE

 Spaghetti Aglio Olio

 the Way AL Likes It !!!

 "Al Pacino That Is"

 

 

 

Recipe Excerpted From Daniel Bellino's Grandma Bellino's Italian Cookbook

Note : Note, the recipe for Spaghetti Aglio Olio as Al Pacino likes it and as it's written in Daniel Bellino's Grandma Bellino's Cookbook, encompasses Two-Recipes-In-One .. You have the Recipe for Spaghetti w/ Garlic Oil & Anchovies, and to make Spaghetti Aglio Olio the way AL Likes It, is by making this recipe, but ommitting the ANchovies to end up with Spaghetti Aglio Olio, just the way the Great Al Pacino likes it. Mangia Bene!

INGREDIENTS :

¼ cup best quality Italian Olive Oil

6 cloves of Garlic, peeled and minced

½ teaspoon Red Pepper Flakes

6 Anchovy Filets minced fine

1 pound imported Italian Spaghetti

¼ cup Italian Parsley

Put a large pot with 4 quarts of water on the stove. Add 2 tablespoons salt and bring to the boil.

Place Olive Oil and Anchovies in a large frying pan and cook on medium heat for 2 minutes.

Add garlic and cook on medium heat for 2 minutes. Add red pepper and continue cooking on low heat until the garlic begins to turn slightly brown. Turn heat off and let rest.

Add spaghetti to the boiling salted water. Cook spaghetti according to directions on package. Two minutes before the cooking time on package start testing the doneness of the spaghetti by taking a strand out of the water and biting into it to see how far cooked it. By doing this you’ll be able to determine if it needs to cook a bit longer or if it’s ready.

Once the past is finished cooking, quickly remove it from the heat and drain into a colander, reserving about 4 tablespoons of the pasta cooking water to add to pasta sauce.

Add spaghetti back to the pot it cooked in and drizzle on a little olive oil and mix. Pour the garlic anchovy sauce and the reserved pasta water over the spaghetti with half the chopped Parsley and mix well.

Divide the spaghetti among four pasta plates or bowls. Sprinkle the top of each plate of Spaghetti with some chopped parsley and serve.

The GODFATHER

Micahel Corleone (Al Pacino), Captain McCloskey (Sterling Hayden),

and Sollozzo (Al Lettieri)

"GET THE VEAL. IT'S THE BEST in THE CITY"

  

MICHAEL NEVER ATE HIS SPAGHETTI AGLIO OLIO

BUT SOLLOZZO GOT HIS

MICHAEL GETS HIS REVENGE

  

GET THIS RECIPE AND MUCH MORE

in

GRANDMA BELLINO'S ITALIAN COOKBOOK

RECIPES FROM MY SICILIAN GRANDMOTHER

by Daniel Bellino "Z"

GRANDMA BELLINO'S ITALIAN COOKBOOK

RECIPE FROM MY SICILIAN NONNA

by DANIEL BELLINO "Z" 

ONE LEAST PICTURE of AL

Al Pacino

as 

Bobby Deerfield

1977

DAM he was a HANDSOME DEVIL

ALSO by DANIEL

His # 1 BEST SELLING

SUNDAY SAUCE

WHEN ITALIAN - AMERICANS COOK

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