New Book on Positano

 

POSITANO The AMALFI COAST COOKBOOK

TRAVEL GUIDE

by Daniel Bellino Zwicke

                                                           Is COMING FEBRUARY 2021

Positano The Amalfi Coast, it's one of the World's Great Travel destinations, and Ultimate Dream Vacation anywhere. It's beauty is unmatched anywhere on Earth, with the gem like town Positano leading the way, people just love it, and travel from the furthest corners of the Earth to spend some precious time there. Yes boys and girls, Ladies & Gentlemen, it’s here. Positano The Amalfi Coast Cookbook / Travel Guide is the first book on this beloved area to combine stories, recipes, and travel guide to one of the World's most cherished travel destinations, all in one place. This book. The book is like no other ever written on Positano and the Amalfi Coast of Southern Ital Anyone who gets it, will see that it’s one of the best Italian Cookbooks ever published on the specific region and cuisines of Naples and the Amalfi Coast. There are lots of great recipes that I have collected and developed over a 35 year period of going to the beautiful island of Capri, Positano, Napoli, and the Amalfi Coast of Southern Italy, which most people have just recently discovered in the past 15 years or so, I made my first of many wonderful trips way back in the Summer of 1985. I’ve been going ever since, and have stayed in and explored almost every inch of this one of the World’s most beautiful areas, and in particular, the food, the people, and the natural beauty of the Amalfi Coast, the surround area and islands.Yes I have a wealth of knowledge that you will not get and most other cookbooks or travel guides of the area. Did you say travel guide you say? Yes, this book is like no other ever written on the Amalfi Coast in that is a cookbook and travel guide, with true stories of Naples, Capri, and the Amalfi Coast written by me. Why both a cookbook slash travel guide. Well, I love cooking and I love travel, and I am, if I must say so myself, well versed on both. I worked in the restaurant and wine business in New York for more than 30 years, cooking for 10 years, and then as a wine director specializing in Italian Wine. I got to know and become friendly with hundreds of Italian people who make wine and own wine estates all over Italy. Yes my knowledge of wine, food, cooking, writing Italian Cookbooks, and Italy and World Travel are quite extensive, and I bring this experience to you within the front and back cover of this book, Positano – The Amalfi Coast Cookbook / Travel Guide.This book first started out as a travel guide of Positano and the Amalfi Coast with Naples and Capri. Yes a travel guide, with essays as well as having 30 or so recipes of the best loved most popular dishes of Naples and the Amalfi Coast. Somehow as books often do, it morphed into something else. It became more of a cookbook than a travel guide, but never-the-less, a travel guide as well, not only in the traditional travel guide sense of chapters on specific places, and info on the best hotels, and restaurants in Naples, on the islands, and all around the coast. So, info in the traditional sense, but a great deal of wonderful info and little known secrets translated in the stories I tell of my frequent trips and all the eating, chatting, maneuvering around and all sorts of little tidbits for you to divulge.There’s no pictures you say. Yes this is true, no pictures other than the beautiful cover (“I think so”). No I don’t do pictures in my books but stories that people seem to like quite a bit, “my storytelling of food, experiences, travels, and what-not.” If you want pictures though, you are in luck. I’ve created a companion website to this book, Positano-Amalfi-Coast,com, and it has all the gorgeous pictures of Positano, Naples, Capri, and the whole of the Amalfi Coast that you could ever want, they’re on my website, so use it in conjunction with this book.Why the recipes. I love food, especially Italian Food, my specialty, and I love the food of this area, and I want to tell you something.

Valentines Day 2021

 

YES ! SOMETHING BIG is COMING !!!!

AFTER ONE of The WORST YEARS of YOUR LIFE

SOMETHING WONDERFUL WILL BE HERE SOON

It's POSITANO !!!!

POSITANO The AMALFI COAST COOKBOOK / TRAVEL GUIDE

Is COMING For VALENTINES DAY 2021

Yes FEBRUARY 14, 2021

POSITANO The AMALFI COAST COOKBOOK / TRAVEL GUIDE

by Bestselling Cookbook Author Daniel Bellino Zwicke

Will be Available on AMAZON.com on February 12, 2021

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Chickpea Soup Recipe from New Cookbook Positano The Amalfi Coast Cookbook

 

 

PASTA e CECI

I just heard that Chickpeas are the Hot New Food Item of 2020 ... "New" ? You're kidding? The Romans were eating Ceci (Chickpeas) over 2,000 years ago, and Chickpeas have been eaten by various cultures much longer than that. Chickpeas have been consume in the Middle East for more than 7,500 years, so it's quite clear they didn't just fall off the Turnip Truck the other day. 

I myself have been eating Pasta Ceci, a southern Italian dish that can be either a soup or a pasta, depending on whether you make it soupy (with more liquid) or not. Either way it's great, they love it in Naples and all over the Amalfi Coast, in Puglia, and Sicily as well. 

PASTA CECI  - Recipe

   Chickpeas & Pasta

Pasta e Ceci is a mainstay of the Amalfi Coast and Neapolitan Cuisine. There are many different versions of this soup. Some call for a lot more tomatoes than others, while some use less tomato, as with this recipe here. Some people puree some of the chickpeas, while others don’t. Some cook the pasta in the soup, while others cook the pasta in water, then add to the soup after cooking it in the water. Most make the soup vegetarian, but if you like to you can add some Pancetta or Sausage to this soup.

This recipe was Excerpted from Bestselling Italian Cookbook author Daniel Bellino-Zwicke's new forthcoming book, POSITANO - The AMALFI COAST COOKBOOK - Travel Guide (January 2021) from Broadway Fifth Press, New York NY ...

Ingredients :

8 ounces Dry Chickpeas 

1 small onion

3 cloves Garlic, peeled and left whole

Olive Oil

1 small Onion, peeled and chopped 

2 Bay Leaves

2 sprigs Fresh Rosemary

1 large Carrot, peeled and cut into 3 pieces

8 ounces short Maccheroni Pasta - Ditalini or whatever short maccheroni you like

Water

½ teaspoon each of Salt and Red Pepper Flakes

6 whole Plum Tomatoes, chopped

¼ cup grated Pecorino Romano

Soak the Chickpeas in water for 6 hours, or overnight. 

Drain the chickpeas and wash over cold running water.

Place the chickpeas in a large pot. Add water to cover the beans, with water 2” above the beans. Add the carrot and 1 clove of garlic to the pot.

Turn the heat on to high, until the water just starts to boil. Once it is boiling, lower the heat so the water is cooking at a low simmer.

After the chickpeas have been cooking for 1 hour, take a few out of the pot and eat them, to test if they are done cooking or if they need to cook for a little while longer. The Chickpeas should start getting soft enough to eat, yet still have a little bit of a firm bite to them.

Add  about 6 tablespoons of olive oil to a large frying pan with 2 cloves of Garlic and 2 Rosemary Sprigs. Cook on low heat for 3 minutes. 

Add the onion and cook on low heat for 5 minutes.

Remove the garlic and rosemary from the pan and discard.

Add the onions to the pan and cook on low heat for 3 minutes. Add the salt and red pepper and cook for 2 minutes more. 

Add the tomatoes and cook on high heat for 2 minutes.

Lower the heat and cook for 5 minutes, as you stir with a wooden spoon.

Once the beans are finished cooking, remove ⅓ of the chickpeas and pass through a food mill , or puree in a food-processor with a  half-cup of the bean cooking liquid. 

Put the pureed chickpeas in the pot with the tomatoes and cook on low-medium heat for 8 minutes. 

Remove the carrots from the pot and chop fine. Put back into the pot.

Add the contents of the pan with the tomatoes into the pot of whole chickpeas. Cook on low heat for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

As the chickpeas are simmering, cook your maccheroni pasta in a pot with boiling salted water. 

Cook the pasta according to the directions on the package.  Once pasta has cooking, drain in a colander, and reserve a cup and a half of the pasta cooking water.

Add the pasta to the pot with the chickpeas, and mix everything together. 

Try and determine the consistency of the Pasta Ceci at this point. It should be soupy , but not too watery and not too tight (dry). If it is too tight add as much as the pasta cooking water as you want, to get it to the consistency you like.

Place in bowls, drizzle a little olive oil over the top, and serve with grated Pecorino on the side.

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From the Author :  I'd like to thank everyone who has obtained anyone of my books and for your many kind words about some of the joys the recipes and stories within have pleased you. It's truly an honor for me for each and every book that anyone obtains of mine and I thank each and everyone of you. 

 

 

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PATI'S MEXICAN TABLE

 

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Her dishes are not blanketed with cheese, or heavy and fried, or based on complex sauces. Nor are they necessarily highly spicy. Surprising in their simplicity and freshness, they incorporate produce and grains. Most important, they fit perfectly into an everyday family cooking schedule and use just a handful of ingredients, most of which are already in your pantry. Many are homey specialties that Pati learned from her mother and grandmother, some are creative spins on classics, while others are not well known outside of Mexico.

Dishes like Chicken à la Trash (it’s delicious!), a one-pot meal that Pati gleaned from a Mexican restaurant cook; Mexican Meatballs with Mint and Chipotle; Sweet and Salty Salmon; and Mexican-Style Pasta can revitalize your daily repertoire. You’ll find plenty of vegetarian fare, from Classic Avocado Soup, to Divorced Eggs (with red and green salsa), to Oaxaca-Style Mushroom and Cheese Quesadillas.

 

 

 

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Mastering the Art of French Cooking is for both seasoned cooks and beginners who love good food and long to reproduce at home the savory delights of the classic cuisine, from the historic Gallic masterpieces to the seemingly artless perfection of a dish of spring-green peas. This beautiful book, with more than 100 instructive illustrations, is revolutionary in its approach because:

 

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Since there has never been a book as instructive and as workable as Mastering the Art of French Cooking, the techniques learned here can be applied to recipes in all other French cookbooks, making them infinitely more usable. In compiling the secrets of famous cordons bleus, the authors have produced a magnificent volume that is sure to find the place of honor in every kitchen in America. 

 

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Bolognese Sauce. You gotta just love it. It’s one of the greatest things ever. Some say it's the Greatest Dish of All, oh-so-tasty and soul satisfying. Do you know it? Have you ever tasted the Real Thing? Well here it is, in all its glory and wonderfulness that is a properly made Bolognese, rich, lush, and fantastic, it’s Bolognese! OK, this is My Bolognese, or should I say, "My Famous Bolognese," The Secret Recipe. It’s the one that Chef Pasquale showed me how to make, way back in 1985. I taught my cousins Joe and Tony and my friends Pat P. and Jimmy S, and not many other people in this world until now. So here it is Danny’s Famous Bolognese. It’s a winner and I absolutely Guarantee it will more than please everyone and anyone you feed it to. When you know how to make Bolognese, it will change your life. For once you know how to make Bolognese, You're a King of Men ... Bolognese is really that good. When you make one for someone your status and esteem is instantly elevated, that's Bolognese. And not just Bolognese but some of Italian-Amerca's favorite dishes as well. This book is the perfect starter Italian Cookbook as well as the one-and-only source for Danny's Secret Bolognese. The book is condensed down to give the best most essential recipes of the great Italian Repertoire of Foods ... Some Recipes include; Lasagna, Meatballs, Tomato Sauce, Asparagus Parmigiano, Oregano Chicken, Fettuccine Alfredo, Stuffed Zucchini, Marinara, and of course Danny's Famous Bolognese, one of the World's Great Recipes ever, we're sure you'll agree. Danny Bolognese is a Pen Name for this The RAGU BOLOGNESE Cookbook by BEST SELLING ITALIAN COOKBOOK Author Daniel Bellino-Zwicke .. Daniel has been a Food Restaurant & Wine Professional for more than 30 years working in such esteemed New York City Restaurants as; Da Silvano, Del Posto, Barbetta, and John's of 12th Street .. Daniel has a fine pedigree in the World of Italian Food & Wine working as a cook, Chef, and Wine Director of some of New York's mostly highly renowned Italian Restaurants. Daniel created and operated America's First Ever Venetian Wine Bar / Restaurant with the opening of his highly esteemed restaurant BAR CICHETTI where Daniel was; Chef, Wine Director, and Managing Partner. Daniel is one of America's foremost authorities of Italian Wine .. He lives and writes in New York's Greenwich Village and is currently working on a book about Chianti, the wine, the region, the food and peoples.