Category: Nanny’s Italian Kitchen

When the holidays come to an end and all of the decorations are put away, the cooking, baking and eating are done, there is always a sense of sadness. Another year gone by. What did I accomplish in the year past? Will I stick to my resolutions? Thankfully I’m still here and kicking! Accomplishing My…

Christmas is two weeks away and I usually have my immediate and extended family over for Christmas Eve.  We all look forward to it. It’s the one time of the year where we all celebrate together.  I think the headcount is around 30 this year.  However, there is still some family drama which I wish…

This week I went shopping for a new car and boy let me tell you it was exhausting and enlightening. There are so many different cars to choose from, not only which brand but the options each level comes with.  Expensive…to say the least.  I thought maybe I would look for an American made car,…

Italian-Americans eat a lot of food on Thanksgiving, but not as much as we used to when I was growing up.  There were at least five courses…starting with an appetizer, pasta dish, turkey and all the sides, fruits and nuts, and then dessert with espresso.  Usually we started with an antipasto which consisted of all…

The children of today have it easy and also they have it hard.  That is to say, they have all this new technology that they use at school and at home which helps them educationally as well as creatively. They can find out anything they need to know on the Internet. However, it’s hard on…

In today’s world you can purchase a costume complete and with no creativity for Halloween in Party City, department stores and online, i.e. Oriental Trading or HalloweenCostumes.com.  The prices for these costumes are outrageous.  An infant costume can start at $35 and go as high as $100.  So over-inflated; but that’s because people buy it…

Growing up in East Harlem you could find a great pizzeria practically on every block.  For that matter, you could find a great Italian bakery on every block too!  There was Patsy’s, Louie’s and Ernie’s, Andy’s, Coppola’s, just to name a few.  Brooklyn also had some excellent pizza parlors as we used to call them. …

I have to admit I was pretty stumped on what to write about this week.  So I decided since I’m always recording videos of food, why not write about it.  As soon as I started, everything came flooding back to me. When I was growing up you could pretty much tell what day of the…

Rock and Roll started  in the 1950’s and I remember all of the songs started then and in the early 1960’s.  It was so different from the music of today.  There were so many wonderful songs created by artists that have since passed on and some amazingly still here.  When Rock and Roll first started,…

Growing up in East Harlem there were always hangouts where young people would congregate.  Not only were there candy stores, luncheonettes like Mangini’s, The Sugar Bowl and Char-ko-lette , the local neighborhood Jefferson Park, but we also had the Harlem House. The Harlem House was located on 116th Street, between First and Second Avenues.  It…