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| Chicken Minestrone Soup 1 cup extra-virgin olive oil 1 1/2 cups carrots 1 1/2 cups celery 1 1/2 cups onions Handful of sun-dried tomatoes 1/4 salt 10-12 cloves slivered garlic - more the better Bunch of fresh spinach 2 canned chickpeas 2 canned kidney beans 2-3 bay leaves 2 cups chicken pieces 3 cups pasta Chopped escarole 1 cup fresh basil Bread Garlic butter First, pour your extra-virgin Genco olive oil into a large soup pot heating on the stove. Add carrots, celery and onions next; they'll break down and give the soup a great body. Cook that mixture for about 10 minutes and then add the precooked ingredients. Add your sun-dried tomatoes, salt and slivered garlic. Canned tomatoes come in next, relatively early in the cooking process. Add the stalk, followed by the canned chickpeas and kidney beans. Add the bay leaves and wait for the mixture to come to a boil. Add the chicken pieces and pasta at this point. Add your fresh spinach, chopped escarole and fresh basil last. Accompany your soup with fresh, warm bread from Gabes and garlic butter (baked in a 350-degree oven |
| Stuff from: Brucie "Red Beans" Tortolini |
| Crossroads of the World: One of Brucie's favorite neighborhoods begins at the corner of Mulberry and Broome down in "Little Italy." There's a little place over on Mott Street that I like, but I'm not gonna tell ya' about it ... not just yet. |
| ... and while you're down there, ya' gott'a make a stop at Umberto's Clam House. The place is just loaded with history. |
| From great chicken soup, to the crossroads of the world, to motzo contests -- Bruce has been everywhere, at least once, and met everyone, at least twice. |
| Check back soon for Brucie's coverage of Curtis' great motzo eat-off. |
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| Cappo D'tutto, the boss of bosses (times two): They look like pussy cats, but these guys mean business ... serious business. Here's Bruce who owns his own business. No, he doesn't import olive oil, but he takes care of business and keeps his family comfortable ... he's head of his family. The guy in Red is Curtis Sliwa, Boss of the Guardian Angels,in NYC, and internationally. I met Curtis when he was establishing a place in Bridgeport for his latest chapter of 'Angels. The dude is bigger than life and a real straight "wise guy." |
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| Ya' like cats? Ya' better like cats. Dis guy likes cats. So you got'a like cats |
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