Recent Posts Tagged With 'nonna'

• BUON COMPLEANO NONNA! Some more Sicilian craziness...

  Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 09:08 in family, funny, sicilian, nonna, family story, london lennies, joe abbracciamento

  Happy 89th Birthday, Nonna! And another one, and another one, and another one...Last year at this time, Nonna was in bad shape, in the hospital and we weren't sure she was going to make it through the holidays. But she has that Sicilian fight in her,...

• Its 10pm (and snowing) do you know where your mutandine are?

  Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 19:13 in family, funny, sicilian, nonna, family story

  You may be asking yourself WTF is mutandine? If you are asking this question, I am guessing you don't have a Sicilian Nonna. Mutandine or as I pronounce (moo-tun-dee-nee), is basically any undershirt and if you're from any of the outer boroughs you m...

• The Other Brooklyn

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 02:00 in brooklyn, queens, sicily, story, sicilian, nonna, family story

       I am from Queens, (let this be clear) but when my grandparents came here from Sicily, they first settled in Brooklyn, in Bushwick to be exact. And Rocco went to Bushwick High School when it wasn't cool to live in Bushwick. Very not cool. I re...

• SWISS CHARD FROM THE YARD AND MORE PANELLE

  Posted on Thursday July 23rd, 2009 at 02:00 in Local, recipe, vegan, vegetarian, vegetable, sicilian, rocco, swiss chard, nonna, dairy free, panelle

      The swiss chard I got as an infant plant from Rooftop Farms was really ready to go. The last chard recipe I made was simply sauteed with a runny egg on top. The chard itself is not how I remember eating chard, so I referred to Rocco, who is th...

• ZUCCHINI AND MORE ZUCCHINI

  Posted on Sunday July 12th, 2009 at 02:00 in Local, zucchini, recipe, pasta, rocco, nonna, entree, woodside csa

       I have been eating a lot of zucchini, and its just the start of the season, so I need to start getting creative. My go to is either Zucchini Stew or Pasta with Zucchini. Yesterday, I had the most unbelievable Zucchini Puree from a little cafe...

• I GOTTA THE SUGAH...

  Posted on Monday May 18th, 2009 at 14:00 in funny, nonna, family story

  Nonna always tells me, "Jen, I gotta the sugah." She is saying she has "the sugar," pronounced shoo-guh, meaning she has diabetes. Nonna doesn't have diabetes, but in her off-kilter Sicilian mind filled with hypochondriac worry she does have "the sug...