- We started off with our Pasta con la Sarsa Lorda.
- I have the very simple and delicious Pasta e Piselli.
- Next up I have a staple pasta dish which can be whipped up very quickly and requires cooking only the pasta, called Pasta cu L’aghia, which means Pasta with Garlic.
- Pasta cu Broccolo, that is Pasta Broccoli next.
- I will also have a Cassatedi how-to featuring a paisan who makes them exactly as my mother did. Cassatedi are half-moon shaped pies which are filled with ricotta, chocolate chips and lemon zest. I helped my mother make them every year during the holidays. My basement looked like a an assembly line of these sweets as we went through the process.
- The same can be said of my mother’s homemade manicotti which we made for Thanksgiving.
- I will be posting my mother’s Eggplant Caponata which actually started this whole thing. After my mom passed away my friend’s were reminiscing about the cooking lessons they got from her. I didn’t know this. I guess it paid off for them that I was late getting ready while they were downstairs waiting in the finished basement where my mother was cooking.
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"The Sicilian Penthouse" also known as my life in a "finished basement" 
I JUST STUMBLED ACROSS YOUR WEBSIGHT, MY FATHER LOVED SARSA LORDA, THAT’S REAL SICILIANU. I WAS BORN IN WILLIAMSBURG HOSPITAL, GREW UPON GRATTON STREET, WENT TO PS 145, HUNG OUT IN KNICKERBOCKER PARK. WOULD LOVE TO GET YOUR PUPETTI RECIPE & ANY OTHERS YOU HAVE. CASIDEDI THE BEST. THANKS JOHN
IF YOU KNOW ANYBODY WHO KNOWS HOW TO MAKE THE FAVA LIKE POLLIZI’S BAR ON WILSON AVE & DEKALB I’VE BEEN TRYING TO DUPLICATE IT FOR YEARS.
Hi John! Thank you so much for commenting. I am so glad that you know about the sarsa lorda, because most don’t realize it’s a legit true Sicilian dish as you said, made with fresh tomatoes. We spent a lot of time in Knickerbocker Park as the locals called it, I think it’s official name was Bushwick Park. Now it is called Maria Hernandez Park. BUT to us it will always be “Knickerbocker Park”! I will post a meatball recipe. I have been taught how to make the cassateddi, my mom made them yearly and I was always there to help her. I made them not to long ago and I have pictures so I will try to get them up. I never heard of Pollizi’s, is that pasta fagioli? My mother made “pasta cu i fave” if that is what your talking about, macaroni with the large beans. I will look into that. HAPPY EATING!!!! PS: I grew up on Stanhope and Knickerbocker. 🙂